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The Thinner Ocean is a partially scrapped part of Wasteland in Epic Mickey. Although the larger idea for the area was scrapped, it lives on through bits and pieces of other worlds. As the name suggests, it is a large body of water that surrounds Wasteland polluted by Thinner after the Thinner Disaster.
Role in the series[]
Description[]
The Thinner Ocean is a sea composed entirely of Thinner that surrounds the Wasteland, presumably created by the Thinner Disaster. It is very likely that, before the Thinner Disaster, there was a normal water ocean or possibly even a Paint ocean, which was then turned into the Thinner Ocean. The color of the Thinner Ocean has varied throughout the concepts; in some early drafts, it was even not green like normal Thinner (presumably because the developers had not decided yet that the thinner would be green in the final version). Some concepts depicted Tomorrow City as an area built upon a massive boat travelling on the Thinner Ocean, reminiscent of Noah's Ark.
Other concepts featured sea-type Beetleworx, and showed Dark Beauty Castle and the Jug as being located on two very small islands of the Thinner Ocean. These concepts, and two others, also featured the Jug Pump, a complex machinery built by Oswald and the Mad Doctor soon after the Thinner Disaster struck in order to suck the entire Thinner Ocean into the Jug.
Inhabitants[]
In early drafts, the Thinner was not obligatorily fatal. In these versions, Ursula (or a probably rejected design for her) was supposed to live inside of the Jug (full of Thinner).
In the current version, it seems that only mechanical creatures like Animatronic Tick-Tock the Crocodile or inert objects like the Jolly Roger can even be in contact with the Thinner Ocean (if the sea seen in the Tortooga level is actually part of the Thinner Ocean, which remains unconfirmed). Despite this however, in Epic Mickey 2, Bog Easy has normal, seemingly non-animatronic alligators able to swim without any trouble in the thinner. (despite the Bog not being "connected" towards the Thinner Ocean itself).
In the Final Cut[]
The Jolly Roger sailing on the Thinner Ocean
Despite not appearing entirely, it seems that the Thinner Ocean still exists in the current version of Epic Mickey and it's sequel. While it wasn't as big a part of the game as it was originally, it was still present in some areas. The most notable appearances are surrounding Pirates of the Wasteland, Tomorrow City, Mickeyjunk Mountain. It is unknown how it was contained in these areas alone, though it may be due to other areas being on landmasses so high above sea level that the ocean is not visible.
Places where the Thinner Ocean can be seen[]
Trivia[]
- In some endings, specifically both of Hook's endings, you can see the ocean was reverted to Paint. In the sequel, it's reverted back to Thinner, judging by how Mickey bounces off of it like other thinner hazards. Presumably this was because of the Mad Doctor's Guardian Siphons causing the ocean to become polluted by thinner once more.