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.
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 the most neglected and reviled of the Disney Theme Parks, so it falls under both "forgotten", AND "unloved".
Why is there not going to be an Epic Mickey 3 anytime soon? Not just because Disney closed the studio that made the games, but everyone knows and loves Oswald now. He's out of Wasteland!
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!
Why does the Mad Doctor have such a knack for singing everything he says? He was able to do it in the cartoon he debuted in!
Why are the citizens so apathetic? They don't feel obligated to help someone who hasn't bothered to remember them while climbing up in the world, and think that the villain's victories are a forgone conclusion.
In this game, paint thinner is green and can kill any toon. Sounds awfully similar to the Dip from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, doesn't it? The Dip said to be made of turpentine, acetone, and benzene in the movie — all ingredients in paint thinner!
Isn't the offer the Mad Doctor give to Mickey awfully familiar? He asks for his brush so that he can escape Wasteland in exchange of saving his friends. It's the same offer the Shadow Blot gives Mickey in the prequel. Just that instead of the brush, the Blot asked for his heart and Mickey had to accept the offer. Not this time though. Because Mickey is not alone like before.
Oswald mention that any character in Wasteland wishes for a heart. Why? With a heart you can leave Wasteland. Hardly anyone would actually like to be forgotten and live in Crapsack World after all.
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... 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 Audience-Alienating EraWalter Lantz put him through in the 30's). Uncle Walt, we love you, man, but..... what the Hell?!
Where's Fannie, Oswald's rabbit girlfriend... probably killed in the Thinner disaster. Dammit Mickey!
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 have 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.
Some cartoon characters are shown to have families. Now, imagine only the parent remains popular or only the kid. Also consider how they don't seem to be aware that Wasteland exists, so as far as they know their loved ones just disappeared without a trace.
Mickey is forced to give up his Heart in order to save Oswald and Gus from the Blot. Since a Heart is what allows characters to be remembered, then Mickey was forced to sacrifice his fame and popularity, and everyone in the Cartoon World forgot he existed for a while.
All Oswald wants is to be loved by audiences around the world, right? Well...healready is.
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?
If Oswald The Lucky Rabbit has been relatively popular in Japan, then what's he doing in a world for completely forgotten characters?
Why isn't there a black and white Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, etc. if black and white versions of characters are left behind by their color versions?
Most likely because they are still too popular and still too recognizable as the characters to be there.
What Happened to the Original Shadow Blot? he was set to appear (his hooded version takes the place of Mad Doctor in early versions of the intro) and is still pretty much a forgotten about character.
If Alice's Hedge maze was destroyed, why are there card soldiers working as Oswald's minions in Mickeyjunk Mountain?
If One can broadcast themselves to the cartoon world, why doesn't anyone do this to gain their recognition and therefore their hearts?
Where the hell did Pete Pan, Petetronic, Small Pete, and any other associated Pete come from? Pete isn't forgotten, and even his Pegleg incarnation has gotten a credible base with roles in recent movies and shorts. If any Pete were going to appear shouldn't it have been his Bear incarnation from the really early disney shorts?
Why are the Alice Comedies excluded from this game?
◊, which features Mickey meeting Oswald, was drawn by Walt Disney decades before this game was released.
