Eventually, after the war was over, the fortress was sold via auction by the army that used it, and the highest bidder was: Mickey Mouse. Mickey refurbished the fortress into a clubhouse, and that is the story of the Clubhouse itself.
- Also explains any character differences; it's not actually the characters we know.
- As well as how they're able to breathe in space.
This also explains why everyone is able to pick up on the random songs that are written throughout the show, despite not having ample time to fully learn them, if any at all. If this is all in Mickey's head, and he spontaneously comes up with the song, than all of his imagined characters would immediately know it as well.
This also explains the lack of sense in the world's physics, the fact that Pete is sometimes bad/sometimes good, and that the Clubhouse seems to be omnipotent. The "challenges" Mickey goes through are his brain trying to keep himself active by forcing him to think. Toodle always has a perfect set of Mousketools for the challenge because the challenges were planned ahead of time, even if Mickey's in-universe self (or his conscious self) is unaware of it. The clubhouse is his unconscious mind trying to keep Mickey going through the coma and prevent mental activity from stopping altogether. The times when the Cloubhouse stops working (like the aforementioned Kansas City Mickey episode), are instances where Mickey is on the verge of becoming braindead, and you can notice that these problems tend to take longer, or require more effort to solve than most of his other challenges.
The entire show is Mickey fighting in his subconscious to stay alive, using the clubhouse and his imagined characters, likely based off of his real life friends, as mechanisms with which to fight his way free from the coma.
- What on Earth are you talking about? The world of Disney has always had those elements. There's absolutely no evidence for any of this. No, not even if Mickey is on drugs or in a Dying Dream or hallucinating. When was there ever one hint in the series that there was a "real reality"? There's also no evidence that he is specifically in a coma. If this were the case he could be in a Dying Dream for all we know and we would be none the wiser. Then again, dream/drug/hallucination theories are inherently lazy and there's no real point to any of them besides making the series dark and depressing without a satisfying ending for no reason. Sure, it's not the first time it's happened but does it have to happen EVERY. SINGLE. TIME?
- Yes.
- What on Earth are you talking about? The world of Disney has always had those elements. There's absolutely no evidence for any of this. No, not even if Mickey is on drugs or in a Dying Dream or hallucinating. When was there ever one hint in the series that there was a "real reality"? There's also no evidence that he is specifically in a coma. If this were the case he could be in a Dying Dream for all we know and we would be none the wiser. Then again, dream/drug/hallucination theories are inherently lazy and there's no real point to any of them besides making the series dark and depressing without a satisfying ending for no reason. Sure, it's not the first time it's happened but does it have to happen EVERY. SINGLE. TIME?