It is a Disneyland like you’ve never seen before, and it can only be found in the upcoming release of “Epic Mickey” a new video game for the Nintendo Wii.
Warren Spector, the creative director of the game for Disney Interactive Studios, said the premise is of a Disneyland long forgotten. The game features many long unseen Disney cartoon characters, and some new looks for some classic ones.
Spector took a tour of Disneyland and talked about how the game designers spent many hours at the park, including riding the attractions, while developing the concept.
“I wanted to bring back a more mischievous Mickey,” Spector said of the use of the famous mouse as both the hero in the game, and the instigator of its premise.
The game also features Oswald the Rabbit, the first cartoon character used in a film produced by Walt Disney.
Disney lost the rights to Oswald decades ago in a dispute with the films’ distributor. That loss led to the creation of Mickey Mouse by Walt Disney while on a train trip home after that loss.
Fans of the theme park will be able to spot many of the park’s lands and attractions, and even past video games in this new one. But don’t expect them to look exactly the same as they do in real life as this game is a “through-the- looking-glass” adventure.
“We mashed together all four Haunted Mansions from all the parks, as they’re all different,” Spector said.
Fans of “its a small world” will even be able to do something about the song that plays over and over in the attraction, according to Spector, which he first rode at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
The game also features a look inside Walt Disney’s fabled apartment above the fire station on Main Street U.S.A. Click here to learn more about that.
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