Epic Mickey/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

• Why is the Blot only staying in the Wasteland? It's due to a loophole: the requirement to be in the Wasteland is to be a forgotten character, nobody else knew about the Blot, and Mickey forgot he even did that, so, Yen Sid couldn't remove the Blot, and he wasn't forgotten himself, meaning he can't get in his own creations, meaning that he can't get rid of the Blot because if the Blot isn't remembered, then he can't be destroyed. Mickey being brought into the Wasteland was probably a bad idea for this reason; it means that the Blot will be destroyed because Mickey remembers his mistake, and is going to fix it.
• This image, which features Mickey meeting Oswald, was drawn by Walt Disney decades before this game was released.
  • Wow... Oswald looks pissed...
• A lot of people are asking why the Song of the South animals aren't going to be in the game. Then you remember Splash Mountain and the Film's infamy and constant demand for a home release, and you see why.
• There are no Beetleworx in the World of Gremlins, the only chapter without any. This is most certainly because the Gremlins, being mechanically adept, have dismantled them all.
• Using the French version of Sleeping Beauty Castle was perfect, since Disneyland Paris is hated by the French people, so it falls under "unloved".
• While watching the opening cinematic to Epic Mickey (video released by IGN), I noticed that Mickey's calendar was changing pics, each representing a screenshot from his cartoons, all the way up to The Prince and the Pauper. The image last torn before that was from Mickey's Christmas Carol, which, if I recall correctly, was the first cartoon to have Wayne Allwine voice Mickey Mouse. The image was of Mickey holding Tiny Tim's crutch in sadness, and it made me realize: he's also mourning the loss of Wayne, who passed away in 2009!
  • This one speaks for itself, in the E3 demo one of the quests given in order to get a compass from one of the pirates you have to find his treasure up in the treehouse, there's nothing up there but a teddy bear but the pirate takes it anyway explaining that he named his bear Treasure.

Fridge Horror

• Remember the dip from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?? Remember that shoe melting in a big vat of it? This time you, The Hero, will be wielding the dip...
  • That's right, folks... honest-to-God Video Game Cruelty Potential in a Disney game.
  • Oh, and there are also giant lakes of that dip. Which you can fall into. Yes, it's entirely possible for Mickey to wind up trapped in a pool of thinner, and melt as a result.
• Also for artists, just imagine if you're Walt Disney playing this Video Game. All of the pre-development ideas or early concepts/characters you've ever happened to forget are all alive in this world, each harboring a deep resentment against you for rejecting them.
  • Oswald becomes even more sympathetic when you realize that Walt didn't have to abandon him: if he had just sucked it up and took the budget cut, Oswald might have been just fine (and certainly wouldn't have fallen into the Dork Age Walter Lantz put him through in the 30's). Uncle Walt, we love you, man, but..... what the Hell?!
• When Mickey spilled the Thinner jug on the map, it directly landed on what was once Alice's Curious Labyrinth... no Alice characters show up in the game. Imagine the Gyphon and Mock Turtle slowly melting away...
  • The same principle applies to the Bunny Children, Oswald's 420 adorable children... who can very easily fall into a pool of thinner on Mickeyjunk Mountain (and then melt).
• Oswald's 420 children. Not them directly, but it suddenly gets twisted with horror when you realize that since cats have broods of 3-5 offspring, this means that Ortensia must of had to go through the agony of birth at a bare minimum of 84 times. Then there's also the both physically and mentally exhausting task of raising all of them at once. Well she was Taken for Granite at the time}}, but they seem to be pretty much free to run around and do whatever they want, so she might not having to worry about the raising.

Fridge Logic

• All Oswald wants is to be loved by audiences around the world, right? Well... he already is.
  • Yeah, but he doesn't know that. One can only imagine that he hasn't had an x-ray in a while, so if he had a heart, he wouldn't know it.
• Yen Sid created the Wasteland, only to have Mickey accidentally destroy it. So... why couldn't Yen Sid fix it again in the 90 YEARS between then and now?
  • Probably to teach Mickey a lesson on meddling with someone else's work?
  • Alternately, it could be because the bottle of thinner fell into the world as well, and Yen Sid would be unable to correct the mistakes Mickey made without it.
• If Oswald the Lucky Rabbit has been relatively popular in Japan, then what's he doing in a world for completely forgotten characters?
  • Trying to figure out how to attract the attention of the ±200 other countries.
• I really have to ask this. Why are Smee and Captain Hook in this game? They are far from forgotten! They've appeared in every Kingdom Hearts game (even in the one Peter Pan didn't), and Peter Pan is still a well loved movie, having spawned sequels and remakes of varying quality. So why on earth are they here?
  • Smee is a rejected concept version of the character and Hook is an animatronic.
    • If I'm remembering correctly, he's the original Hook turned into an animatronic.
    • Possibly not: he doesn't get turned back with the rest of the pirates and (if I remember right) doesn't have any paint-parts, suggesting he was an animatronic the whole time.