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The Mechanical Arm is the very first obstacle Mickey faces in Epic Mickey, within the Mad Doctor's Lab. Resembling a Swiss army knife, the Mad Doctor used it as an attempt to extract Mickey's Heart.
The Mechanical Arm has one eye (blue when docile and red when hostile), a large metallic claw hand and wields various sharp utensils, from scissors, a corkscrew, a chainsaw, and finally a plunger under the manipulation of the Mad Doctor. Unlike most enemies, the design is unique to this game.
In Epic Mickey[]
After capturing Mickey, the Mad Doctor uses the machine to try and remove his heart. Fortunately, Mickey escaped his bonds and tried to confront the Mad Doctor, who then used a hatch to escape.
Oswald attempted to follow after the Mad Doctor to escape from Mickey, but he broke a lever on the main controls that manipulated the Mechanical Arm and it overloaded. This caused the Mechanical Arm to go haywire, furiously grabbing and clipping for Oswald with its scissors, corkscrew, chainsaw, and metallic claw before he barely managed to escape. The Mechanical Arm then turned its attention back to Mickey and attempted to kill him, but with the help of Gremlin Gus, the machine was shut down when the control panels were destroyed.
When Mickey returns to the lab to defeat the Blot, the only thing remaining of the Mechanical Arm is its eye. The rest of its body was presumably washed away by the overflowing Thinner in the room.
In Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, the Mechanical Arm has the same role as the original game though some aspects of it's design have been redesigned like its eye.
Attacks[]
The Mechanical Arm attacks Mickey with its corkscrew if he is in its line of sight. It was noted that the Arm never used its large, metallic claw when fighting Mickey, but only used it when attempting to crush Gremlin Gus.
Trivia[]
- According to the novelization of Epic Mickey, Mickey thought of the Mechanical Arm as "a jackknife on steroids."
- In Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, the Mechanical Arm's eye has been repurposed as a security device in some parts of Wasteland like Rainbow Falls and the Floatyard.
- It is impossible to die from the Mechanical Arm, as it can only knock Mickey back.
- The mechanical arm's blue eye can only be seen in cutscenes, with the red eye being fixed while in gameplay.
- The opening cutscene featuring the arm is noticeably shorten down for the Japanese version, liking due to the scene being too violent.
- According to early cinematics, a supposed cage for Gus was attached to the mechanical arm. although this version was modified shortly before the final release of the game, It can be seen on this spot from IGN, released on Sept. 3rd 2010.
- In Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, Decker's crane now has similar pieces to the Mechanical Arm (mainly the Jack Knife and Drill arm of it) which could suggest the Mad Doctor helped build it. This element of construction also applies to the trebuchet that Gremlin Calvin is found on.
Gallery[]
Mechanical Arm Gallery
A collection of images relating to Mechanical Arm
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