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Disney's Epic Mickey
Become Mickey Mouse as he travels through the Cartoon Wasteland full of rejected and forgotten cartoon characters. Battle fierce robots called "Beetleworx," anamotronic blotlings, and Mickey's older half brother, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Armed with a magical paintbrush, Mickey must stop the Phantom Blot who will stop at nothing to rule the Cartoon Wasteland, earn back his half-brother's trust, and save the Cartoon Wasteland from total devastation Are "you" up for the job?
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138 pages, Paperback
First published October 12, 2010
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November 22, 2024Epic Mickey
Yen Sid finishes his completion of a place for forgotten characters. Now all the have to do is make it their own. After he leaves, a curious little mouse-on the other side of the mirror- pays him a visit and on examination discovers this land is a theme park. So, he decides to add his own addition-a statue of himself-. The bigger he makes it the more the pain starts to grow into a blob creature. Mickey is able to erase it -so he thinks- with paint thinner. He escapes back to his side of the mirror, but Yen Sid discovers the mess he made of his creation.
Years later, Mickey wakes up to find the Blob staring down at him from the ceiling. He drags him through the mirror and puts him on Yen Sid’s work table. As they struggle, the Blob pulls him into a vortex and into “Wasteland”. Then everything goes black. When he comes too, he’s strapped down to a operating table in a laboratory. A Mad Doctor tells him he plans to take his heart. He frees himself before a device nearly sucks out his heart. The Blob shows up again, but Mickey is able to scare him off with a paintbrush. He shots up and out the skylight. The Doctor leaves through a trap door. Mickey gets the heck out of there as three machines close in on him.
Oswald isn’t happy to see Mickey. He believes he took the life that was supposed to be his. He isn’t happy that the doctor wants Mickey’s heart and decides to keep an eye on him. Mickey’s battling the machinery in the lab when something splinters. An unseen helper tosses a wrench allowing him to smash the approaching machine. The creature’s name is Gus the Gremlin and Mickey’s freed him. Mickey finds out there in Dark Beauty Castle in Wasteland. Gus tells him the Blob that brought him there is the Phantom Blob-a smaller version of the Blob-. He’s one of the helpers of the Blob and the Dr. won’t stop until he gets his heart.
Gus gives him some tips about the paintbrush (paint) will let him repair things and turn enemies to friends. If he holds it in his left hand it’ll let him erase things. While trying to escape, Mickey comes in contact with a seer-one of the Blob’s minions that do his spying-. It resembles an eyeball and comes from the Blob’s body. They come to a door but Gus stops Mickey. They’re staring down at Wasteland. He instead leads him to a projection screen. Mickey runs toward the screen and leaps.
He ends up in a two-dimentional word on a steam boat. Ahead he sees another screen and now he’s back in the 3-D world of color again. Gus tells him they are in Gremlin Village. They know it as “Small World”. Gus tells him there are many portal (screens) there. Once, the thinner deleted there bridges they had to find ways to travel. Gus tells him Oswald is the one to speak with-and they see him-. As they go after him, Mickey is surprised how damaged the land is. It’s not long before the Clock Tower’s mechanical arm almost flattens Mickey to a pulp.
The Clock Tower is beginning to make the song stop. It crushes Gus’s house. Mickey uses his paint to erase the clock tower’s fist (by using thinner). Mickey finds a record player in the tower and uses the thinner again to make the music stop and the clocks gears. But then the tower starts to crumble. HHe makes it out just in time. Gus is sad because the Clock Tower used to be one of them. That is until the song got stuck in his head and drove him crazy!
After Mickey fixes Gus’s house, they head to Mean Street. Once there, Mickey is reunited with his old friend Horace. Mickey can’t quite remember him, but Horace invites him to his detective shop. Mickey sees another Horace and Horace tells him there are multiple versions of characters and attractions. Some that got discarded but just ended up there. He tells them Oswald might be found in Os Land. In OsLand, Mickey is surprised to find out Oswald was the first actor and the first to be forgotten because of him. Oswald isn’t there so Gus takes him to another place he could be… When they get there there’s tons of real world items -that are huge- with his image on them. Oswald calls it “Mickey Junk Mountain” and he’s built a fortress there.
The entrance is blocked by playing cards. The Ace of Spades tells Mickey he needs to prove he’s worthy to see Oswald by completing a challenge. Mickey figures it’s saving a damsel-and he’s right-. Only there’s no drawbridge and the lake is full of crocodiles. So, he leaps into the water, using their heads as stepping stones. Inside the castle, there are platforms built inside the walls that retract within seconds of landing on them. He reaches the top of the tower only to find the damsel on the other side of the tower.
She sends a trail of floating hearts and he hops on one, rescues her, and they sail out of the tower. After this, Mickey is grudgingly given permission to see Oswald. When meeting Oswald, Mickey realizes that *the dream* he had about spilling the thinner wasn’t a dream and all this is his fault. Oswald accuses him of being the reason he doesn’t have a heart. Mickey accuses Oswald of kidnapping him. Gus says they both want the same thing (Mickey gone). Oswald says he can take a rocket from “Tommorrow City” but he first has to find the parts to fix it-The Doctor has sabatauged it-.
The Doctor’s friends are guarding the pieces. Peteronic in Tomorrow City. Captain Hook has one and another is hidden in Lonesome Manor. He will give them the rocket plans after they have all the pieces. There’s some background. Oswald had a girlfriend whose name was Ortensia. He meet her when they first came to Wasteland. The Dr and he use to be friends and they created others. Until he turned to the Blot’s side. He and Ortensia were going to capture the Blot in a jug-the same one that ended up there- but while he was able to capture him, Ortensia jumped in front of him to rescue him and ended up a statue.
They come face to face with the mechanical Pete who attacks with thinner. Petetronic uses this assault to make the platforms underneath them vanish. While, Mickey throws paint at him to turn him into an ally and to slow him down. It works. Pete asks if there’s something he can help Mickey with. Mickey asks for the disk he’s guarding and he gladly turns it over. Gus tho warns him they won’t all be this easy to turn to friends. Some will have to be vanquished.
In Ventureland, they find Smee crying. He and Hook are no longer mates now that he’s turning his crew into animatronics. Now they’re only loyal to him and have chased off the other crew. Smee says if only they could defeat Hook. Mickey says they’ll handle it and Smee says he’s on the Jolly Roger by Skull Rock. Mickey is able to sneak unto the boat by paiting a rope ladder, but is almost blown off by a cannon ball. Mickey defeats Hook (whose in a barrel) by using the thinner to create a hole in the ship. Underneath is the crocodile. They find the mechincal part in a treasure box on the top of the ship.
When they get back to Osland’s fortress, they feel shaking and find Osland fighting off one of the blot’s creations coming up the side of the tower. Oswald is impressed that Mickey found all the pieces and allows him to help him defeat the blot creatures. After this, he apologizes to Mickey but Mickey feels guilty seeing the jug and realizing that he’s the one that made Wasteland the way it is. He confides this to Oswald who gets upset all over again and tries to fight him. But jumping up and down cracks the cork and the Blot is released.
The Blot snatches up Gus and Oswald and Mickey realizes what it wants. If he’s going to save them he has to give the Blot his heart. Mickey gives up his heart and the Blot absorbs it into itself and drops Gus and Oswald. He flies over Dark Beauty castle and begins to take all the color from Wasteland into himself. Gus realizes that with Mickey’s heart he can now get into Mickey’s world and destroy it and the Doctor will control Wasteland.
So, they finish the rocket and go after the Blot-as more of his creatures form-. They end up crashing the rocket into the castle. Almost destroying the statue that is Oswald’s love. Mickey again apologizes but Oswald tells him he didn’t mean to cause any of this and he’s made mistakes himself. Mickey is about to reach for Oswald’s hand when the Bot pulls him into him. Mickey leaps in after. Mickey locates his heart in one of the chambers and uses his paint to get rid of the tenacles holding it prisoner. The heart falls into Oswald’s hands. For a second he holds it longingly but then returns it to Mickey.
When the heart is returned the walls were dissolved and they find Gus. Gus was holding a remote when he got swallowed up. He comes up with a plan to use it to set off fireworks and destroy the Blot. This means that they can all be destroyed. Mickey decides to stay-even tho he can now leave- and finish it. When the Blot blows up everything is restored. Mickey is back in Yen Sid’s castle and Oswald has his girl back.
My Thoughts:
Something drew me to this book, I had it a long time on a (flash) drive and I didn’t even realize it. Maybe the cover. Maybe it was the fact that when I saw this game on Amazon, I immediately wanted it, but up until now the only system it was available on was Wii. Surprise (surprise) now it’s available for PlayStation.
Sometimes, I also have play throughs of certain games that I either had in the past and will look at and reminisce over. Or it might be a game I heard about and want to get in the future. The thing about me and games is I like to get games but I much rather watch someone else play them and I think this is because I’m not a patient game player. The guys in my family can play games and beat them in no time and I’ll still be struggling through a level OVER and OVER and OVER! The Epic Mickey Complete Game Walkthrough was on my You Tube watch list before I even realized I had the book.
I think this was an interesting *interpretation*. I did try to look at the play through of the game to see how it stacked up to the story. And it was very close up until after the Dr. has Mickey on the table. That’s where this book and the game kind of part ways. I did like what it did with the twisted version of the Magic Kingdom (Wasteland). Such as the Small World Clock that went mad from hearing that song over and over. That was clever! It was also clever to have the transformation from world to world be jumping from one projector to the next. But what I would say that if you the patience -and the interest- is to just look at the walkthrough because a story like this can only give you so much. This game is so charming visutally that you’d be cheating yourself just to go by what’s in this book.
Rating: 7
Yen Sid finishes his completion of a place for forgotten characters. Now all the have to do is make it their own. After he leaves, a curious little mouse-on the other side of the mirror- pays him a visit and on examination discovers this land is a theme park. So, he decides to add his own addition-a statue of himself-. The bigger he makes it the more the pain starts to grow into a blob creature. Mickey is able to erase it -so he thinks- with paint thinner. He escapes back to his side of the mirror, but Yen Sid discovers the mess he made of his creation.
Years later, Mickey wakes up to find the Blob staring down at him from the ceiling. He drags him through the mirror and puts him on Yen Sid’s work table. As they struggle, the Blob pulls him into a vortex and into “Wasteland”. Then everything goes black. When he comes too, he’s strapped down to a operating table in a laboratory. A Mad Doctor tells him he plans to take his heart. He frees himself before a device nearly sucks out his heart. The Blob shows up again, but Mickey is able to scare him off with a paintbrush. He shots up and out the skylight. The Doctor leaves through a trap door. Mickey gets the heck out of there as three machines close in on him.
Oswald isn’t happy to see Mickey. He believes he took the life that was supposed to be his. He isn’t happy that the doctor wants Mickey’s heart and decides to keep an eye on him. Mickey’s battling the machinery in the lab when something splinters. An unseen helper tosses a wrench allowing him to smash the approaching machine. The creature’s name is Gus the Gremlin and Mickey’s freed him. Mickey finds out there in Dark Beauty Castle in Wasteland. Gus tells him the Blob that brought him there is the Phantom Blob-a smaller version of the Blob-. He’s one of the helpers of the Blob and the Dr. won’t stop until he gets his heart.
Gus gives him some tips about the paintbrush (paint) will let him repair things and turn enemies to friends. If he holds it in his left hand it’ll let him erase things. While trying to escape, Mickey comes in contact with a seer-one of the Blob’s minions that do his spying-. It resembles an eyeball and comes from the Blob’s body. They come to a door but Gus stops Mickey. They’re staring down at Wasteland. He instead leads him to a projection screen. Mickey runs toward the screen and leaps.
He ends up in a two-dimentional word on a steam boat. Ahead he sees another screen and now he’s back in the 3-D world of color again. Gus tells him they are in Gremlin Village. They know it as “Small World”. Gus tells him there are many portal (screens) there. Once, the thinner deleted there bridges they had to find ways to travel. Gus tells him Oswald is the one to speak with-and they see him-. As they go after him, Mickey is surprised how damaged the land is. It’s not long before the Clock Tower’s mechanical arm almost flattens Mickey to a pulp.
The Clock Tower is beginning to make the song stop. It crushes Gus’s house. Mickey uses his paint to erase the clock tower’s fist (by using thinner). Mickey finds a record player in the tower and uses the thinner again to make the music stop and the clocks gears. But then the tower starts to crumble. HHe makes it out just in time. Gus is sad because the Clock Tower used to be one of them. That is until the song got stuck in his head and drove him crazy!
After Mickey fixes Gus’s house, they head to Mean Street. Once there, Mickey is reunited with his old friend Horace. Mickey can’t quite remember him, but Horace invites him to his detective shop. Mickey sees another Horace and Horace tells him there are multiple versions of characters and attractions. Some that got discarded but just ended up there. He tells them Oswald might be found in Os Land. In OsLand, Mickey is surprised to find out Oswald was the first actor and the first to be forgotten because of him. Oswald isn’t there so Gus takes him to another place he could be… When they get there there’s tons of real world items -that are huge- with his image on them. Oswald calls it “Mickey Junk Mountain” and he’s built a fortress there.
The entrance is blocked by playing cards. The Ace of Spades tells Mickey he needs to prove he’s worthy to see Oswald by completing a challenge. Mickey figures it’s saving a damsel-and he’s right-. Only there’s no drawbridge and the lake is full of crocodiles. So, he leaps into the water, using their heads as stepping stones. Inside the castle, there are platforms built inside the walls that retract within seconds of landing on them. He reaches the top of the tower only to find the damsel on the other side of the tower.
She sends a trail of floating hearts and he hops on one, rescues her, and they sail out of the tower. After this, Mickey is grudgingly given permission to see Oswald. When meeting Oswald, Mickey realizes that *the dream* he had about spilling the thinner wasn’t a dream and all this is his fault. Oswald accuses him of being the reason he doesn’t have a heart. Mickey accuses Oswald of kidnapping him. Gus says they both want the same thing (Mickey gone). Oswald says he can take a rocket from “Tommorrow City” but he first has to find the parts to fix it-The Doctor has sabatauged it-.
The Doctor’s friends are guarding the pieces. Peteronic in Tomorrow City. Captain Hook has one and another is hidden in Lonesome Manor. He will give them the rocket plans after they have all the pieces. There’s some background. Oswald had a girlfriend whose name was Ortensia. He meet her when they first came to Wasteland. The Dr and he use to be friends and they created others. Until he turned to the Blot’s side. He and Ortensia were going to capture the Blot in a jug-the same one that ended up there- but while he was able to capture him, Ortensia jumped in front of him to rescue him and ended up a statue.
They come face to face with the mechanical Pete who attacks with thinner. Petetronic uses this assault to make the platforms underneath them vanish. While, Mickey throws paint at him to turn him into an ally and to slow him down. It works. Pete asks if there’s something he can help Mickey with. Mickey asks for the disk he’s guarding and he gladly turns it over. Gus tho warns him they won’t all be this easy to turn to friends. Some will have to be vanquished.
In Ventureland, they find Smee crying. He and Hook are no longer mates now that he’s turning his crew into animatronics. Now they’re only loyal to him and have chased off the other crew. Smee says if only they could defeat Hook. Mickey says they’ll handle it and Smee says he’s on the Jolly Roger by Skull Rock. Mickey is able to sneak unto the boat by paiting a rope ladder, but is almost blown off by a cannon ball. Mickey defeats Hook (whose in a barrel) by using the thinner to create a hole in the ship. Underneath is the crocodile. They find the mechincal part in a treasure box on the top of the ship.
When they get back to Osland’s fortress, they feel shaking and find Osland fighting off one of the blot’s creations coming up the side of the tower. Oswald is impressed that Mickey found all the pieces and allows him to help him defeat the blot creatures. After this, he apologizes to Mickey but Mickey feels guilty seeing the jug and realizing that he’s the one that made Wasteland the way it is. He confides this to Oswald who gets upset all over again and tries to fight him. But jumping up and down cracks the cork and the Blot is released.
The Blot snatches up Gus and Oswald and Mickey realizes what it wants. If he’s going to save them he has to give the Blot his heart. Mickey gives up his heart and the Blot absorbs it into itself and drops Gus and Oswald. He flies over Dark Beauty castle and begins to take all the color from Wasteland into himself. Gus realizes that with Mickey’s heart he can now get into Mickey’s world and destroy it and the Doctor will control Wasteland.
So, they finish the rocket and go after the Blot-as more of his creatures form-. They end up crashing the rocket into the castle. Almost destroying the statue that is Oswald’s love. Mickey again apologizes but Oswald tells him he didn’t mean to cause any of this and he’s made mistakes himself. Mickey is about to reach for Oswald’s hand when the Bot pulls him into him. Mickey leaps in after. Mickey locates his heart in one of the chambers and uses his paint to get rid of the tenacles holding it prisoner. The heart falls into Oswald’s hands. For a second he holds it longingly but then returns it to Mickey.
When the heart is returned the walls were dissolved and they find Gus. Gus was holding a remote when he got swallowed up. He comes up with a plan to use it to set off fireworks and destroy the Blot. This means that they can all be destroyed. Mickey decides to stay-even tho he can now leave- and finish it. When the Blot blows up everything is restored. Mickey is back in Yen Sid’s castle and Oswald has his girl back.
My Thoughts:
Something drew me to this book, I had it a long time on a (flash) drive and I didn’t even realize it. Maybe the cover. Maybe it was the fact that when I saw this game on Amazon, I immediately wanted it, but up until now the only system it was available on was Wii. Surprise (surprise) now it’s available for PlayStation.
Sometimes, I also have play throughs of certain games that I either had in the past and will look at and reminisce over. Or it might be a game I heard about and want to get in the future. The thing about me and games is I like to get games but I much rather watch someone else play them and I think this is because I’m not a patient game player. The guys in my family can play games and beat them in no time and I’ll still be struggling through a level OVER and OVER and OVER! The Epic Mickey Complete Game Walkthrough was on my You Tube watch list before I even realized I had the book.
I think this was an interesting *interpretation*. I did try to look at the play through of the game to see how it stacked up to the story. And it was very close up until after the Dr. has Mickey on the table. That’s where this book and the game kind of part ways. I did like what it did with the twisted version of the Magic Kingdom (Wasteland). Such as the Small World Clock that went mad from hearing that song over and over. That was clever! It was also clever to have the transformation from world to world be jumping from one projector to the next. But what I would say that if you the patience -and the interest- is to just look at the walkthrough because a story like this can only give you so much. This game is so charming visutally that you’d be cheating yourself just to go by what’s in this book.
Rating: 7
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 1, 2016
Well that was kinda weird.
January 23, 2025
I love this game. It occupies a significant portion of my happiest memories playing the Wii with my family and loving every minute of this stressful yet imaginative game. Because I was so young, I didn't have a robust understanding of the history behind the plotline that provides the basis for the game. I was mostly just happy to be playing a fun game with my family. That being said, I love the concept for this storyline. There's a lot of Disney history hidden throughout the storyline not widely known to the public, so it's interesting to see these characters have a new life. It's definitely suited for a younger audience, but I liked it more for the nostalgia and less for the actual writing.
March 17, 2024
A short yet fun retelling of the iconic Wii game.
August 23, 2024
Perhaps, as Yen Sid had always hoped, even brothers.
July 23, 2025
Good book I also have the game, it’s seems like the perfect book for me right now bc it’s about saving Disneyland and I’m going to Disneyland in 17 days, also it’s a shortish book so I will probably be able to finish it before going to Disneyland.
April 6, 2012
A fun little book that tells the Epic Mickey story in an entertaining way. Since we don't have a WII (and won't be getting one anytime soon), this is one way for me to enjoy the story.
This book is clearly written for a younger audience, but fans of the Epic Mickey game, or Disney fans might still enjoy it.
It also contains some great concept art from the game.
This book is clearly written for a younger audience, but fans of the Epic Mickey game, or Disney fans might still enjoy it.
It also contains some great concept art from the game.
January 13, 2025
I remember Epic Mickey coming out when I was a kid, but I never got to buy it. It was fun getting to see the full story written out so I could experience it before the release of the remake game!
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