E3 attendees hop on by Disney Games booth to score cool “Epic Mickey 2” swag

Jim Hill

12 years ago

Elliot seems like such a nice dragon when he's rolling
through the Disney theme parks with Pete on his back.

The Pete's Dragon unit as it
appears in the "Dreamlights" iteration of Tokyo Disneyland
Electrical
Parade. Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved

But you send a sweet character like that wander into a weird space like "Disney Epic Mickey" 's Cartoon Wasteland and then let him get mixed up with someone
like that action adventure game's arch-fiend, the Mad Doctor and what happens?
You wind up with a giant animatronic blotworx dragon which is modeled after the Pete's Dragon float that you see in "The Main Street Electrical Parade."

Bringing a rogue robotic parade float of that size under
control is probably more than one Mouse can handle. Which is why I'm sure that
Mickey is happy to have his half brother, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on hand when
he makes his much-anticipated return to the Wasteland in "Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two."

Electronic Entertainment Expo (AKA E3) attendees will be among
the first to get to all-new characters and settings which will be featured in
this highly anticipated video game that's due to hit store shelves on November
18th of this year (Which — for all you Disney trivia buffs out there — will
be Mickey Mouse's 84th birthday). And based on what I've been told by JHM rep
Shelly Valladolid (who's wandering the floor of the Los Angeles Convention
Center as I type this and will be filing stories from this annual video game
and conference for the next three days), "Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power
of Two" is going to allow players into whole new parts of the Wasteland. Take — for example — the Projector Screen
level which will allow Mickey & Oswald to explore Walt Disney Animation
Studios' 1937 Academy Award-winning "Silly Symphony," "The Old
Mill."

As E3 was just getting underway, video game luminary Warren
Spector ( who also serves as the creative director and vice president of Disney
Interactive's Junction Point Studios, the division of The Walt Disney Company which
created the original "Epic Mickey") release this statement:

"I think players are going to be excited by the new areas of
the game being revealed at E3 where they will need to determine who their
friends really are as they team up Mickey Mouse and Oswald to restore balance
in Wasteland."

The Disney Interactive booth (which is located in the
convention center's South Hall at #1001) quickly became a favorite with E3
attendees. And not just because of that cool display of classic Disneyana which
D23: The Official Disney Fan Club had set up there.

"And why was the Disney Interactive booth so popular
with E3 attendees?," you ask. It probably had a lot to do with that cool
piece of "Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two" -related swag that
Disney employees were giving away today. You've heard of Mickey Mouse ears, right?
Well, take a gander at some official Oswald-the-Lucky-Rabbit ears.

Like I said, come on back to JHM later this week for even
more news about what's going on at the Disney Interactive booth at this year's Electronic
Entertainment Expo.