Epic Mickey, also known as Epic Mickey Junior Novel, is a novelization of the video game by the same name. It follows Mickey's adventures in Wasteland as he tries to return home and fix the mistakes he has made. The book was written by Carla Jablonski and based on the script and story from Warren Spector and Junction Point.
Description from Publisher[]
When Mickey Mouse accidentally ravages a colorful world made for forgotten toons, chaos ensues! A monster known as the Blot comes to life and begins sucking the land dry of precious ink, threatening to destroy everything in this cartoon world called Wasteland. Armed with a magical brush that lets him repair-or erase- anything he sees, Mickey must fix the mistakes he has made. But the Blot is not the only trouble Mickey faces. He meets his long-lost half brother, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who blames Mickey for not only causing the disaster in Wasteland, but for the loss of his love, Ortensia. After making new friends, battling new enemies, and journeying through a land of adventure and magic, will Mickey be able to save Wasteland, gain his half-brother's trust, and get back home? Or will this devastated world be lost forever?
Difference from Game[]
- The Mechanical arm is split into two separate machines. One is stealing Mickey's heart with a plunger and is dubbed the “Plunger Machine." And the other chases Mickey with razor-sharp pincers that are described to look like “monstrous lobster claws.”
- Eventually the “Plunger Machine” was able to capture Mickey and almost take his heart again for the second time.
- Mickey frees Gus from his cage, just like how it was planned in early versions of the game.
- Mickey was able to destroy The Mechanical Arm with Gus’s wrench instead of his paintbrush. And instead of hitting three machines that help control the arm, Mickey hits the machine straight up.
- Instead of Gus guessing that the droplets that were coming out of Mickey were him soaking the Blot, it was in fact Mickey who was the first person to figure it out.
- Instead of Mickey and Gus going to the courtyard of Dark Beauty Castle, they instead go to a broken-down ballroom.
- The Clocktower lives inside Gremlin Village
- Mickey manages to defeat the Clocktower by thinning the record player that was on top of the Clocktower. Instead of either painting or thinning out the arms.
- Instead of Meeting Horace in the Detective Agency in Mean Street. Horace instead suddenly approaches Mickey and Gus.
- The “establish Oswald” cutscene is swapped around to be in Ostown instead of MickeyJunk Mountain.
- Mickey realizes early on that he was the one who caused the Thinner Disaster.
- Instead of Mickey doing three projector trials to meet Oswald, he only does one, which was the projector of Oh What a Knight.
- Oswald's sanctuary is really different than the one in the game, describing the room as being filled with old film reels and projectors, two comfy chairs, a leather chair, a sofa, and a giant desk.
- There is an original scene that never appears in the game, where it shows Oswald in the aftermath of meeting Mickey and Gus. Showing his point and perspective and how he truly feels, mourning and wishing Ortensia were here to help him, and overall reflecting on his life and friends in Wasteland.
- Gus is heavily involved in the boss battle with the Peteronic and helps fly Mickey so he’s able to reach a platform to fight him.
- The book mentions a pearl-handle sword that Smee really wants, which was never mentioned in the game.
- Animatronic Hook, in the novel, is shown to have an upper half that appears to be a toon and a bottom half that is an animatronic.
- After the Mad Doctor reveals himself to be an animatronic. Instead of Gus sneaking away from the scene to find the part they need for the Moonliner Rocket. It was Mickey instead while Gus distracted the Mad Doctor.
- After mickey declines his offer to give his heart to the Blot, Gus and Oswald start to turn blue instead of having a grayish tone like what was shown in one of the game's cutscenes.
- The statue of Ortensia is hidden in a small room of the Mad Doctor's lab.
- Instead of Mickey seeing the aftermath of his adventure in his home from his mirror, he instead looks over a mirror in Yen-Sid's lab and witnesses all the paint raining into Wasteland. Overall, Yen-Sid never kicks Mickey out of his study.
- Instead of only Oswald and Ortensia meeting Mickey via mirror, Gremlin Gus joins them as well.
Trivia[]
- The book leaves out certain parts of the story and also mixes up some of the events in the game. For instance, Gus's house is smashed by the Clock Tower instead of being Thinned out.
- Gremlin Gus's physical description is slightly different than the one in the game. Giving him a yellow nose instead of orange.
- The book shows a lot of moments of Gremlin Gus engaging and helping Mickey in regards to combat and fighting alongside him, which might be loosely inspired by the early Co-op idea of Gus being a player 2 for the first game.
- Unlike the game version, Mickey is able to recognize and is familiar with the Disney parks and recognizes what each location in Wasteland was inspired by.
- The novelization goes into detail on how a toon feels when they don't have a heart, describing the feeling as hollow, abandoned, and empty.
- This is the only adaptation that never references or mentions the Blot Spirits.
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