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disney-universes:
Concept art for an early exploration of a possible Epic Mickey 3 from the portfolio of Danny Moll mostly focused around Jungle Book and Robin Hood and bringing Minnie and Ortensia into the adventuring fold.
I’m actually pretty underwhelmed. Epic Mickey’s biggest weakness is that it never used the concept of Wasteland as a realm home to unused concepts, genuine obscurities, and extinct attractions to its full potential. 2 was incredibly short and really lacked any ambition to expand the setting outside “What parts of Disneyland did we miss last time?” and introduced no new forgotten/rejected characters in favor of focusing inward on the established population of male Gremlins (with no introduction of Fifinellas and Widgets), generic animal people, pirate recolors, and characters from super iconic shorts that have no business being forgotten citizens of Wasteland (The Lonesome Ghosts and Three Pigs).
If 3 was gonna just be a four player Kingdom Hearts using Tetsuya Nomura’s table scraps, then good riddance. At the very least, Epic Mickey has the positive legacy of reintroducing Oswald and encouraging Disney to try acknowledging their history in new projects again like the restorations of the Orange Bird (who Warren Spector thought was somebody getting the Aracuan’s name wrong in a Facebook Q&A) and Hatbox Ghost or how Marvel decided to kick off Disney Kingdoms with Museum of the Weird (Which would have been really great to see in Lonesome Manor) and the original Imagination (You could make an entire Epic Mickey game based around Epcot alone, extinct attractions and the city). We probably won’t be going back to the Wasteland ever again, but at least it looks like some things are crawling out of it.
disney-universes:
Concept art for an early exploration of a possible Epic Mickey 3 from the portfolio of Danny Moll mostly focused around Jungle Book and Robin Hood and bringing Minnie and Ortensia into the adventuring fold.
I’m actually pretty underwhelmed. Epic Mickey’s biggest weakness is that it never used the concept of Wasteland as a realm home to unused concepts, genuine obscurities, and extinct attractions to its full potential. 2 was incredibly short and really lacked any ambition to expand the setting outside “What parts of Disneyland did we miss last time?” and introduced no new forgotten/rejected characters in favor of focusing inward on the established population of male Gremlins (with no introduction of Fifinellas and Widgets), generic animal people, pirate recolors, and characters from super iconic shorts that have no business being forgotten citizens of Wasteland (The Lonesome Ghosts and Three Pigs).
If 3 was gonna just be a four player Kingdom Hearts using Tetsuya Nomura’s table scraps, then good riddance. At the very least, Epic Mickey has the positive legacy of reintroducing Oswald and encouraging Disney to try acknowledging their history in new projects again like the restorations of the Orange Bird (who Warren Spector thought was somebody getting the Aracuan’s name wrong in a Facebook Q&A) and Hatbox Ghost or how Marvel decided to kick off Disney Kingdoms with Museum of the Weird (Which would have been really great to see in Lonesome Manor) and the original Imagination (You could make an entire Epic Mickey game based around Epcot alone, extinct attractions and the city). We probably won’t be going back to the Wasteland ever again, but at least it looks like some things are crawling out of it.
