Epic Mickey - even more details from the NY Comic-Con panel

- Spector’s first job was making Mickey Mouse a hero in the vein of Nintendo legends Mario and Link
- Spector’s second job was to tell the tale of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
- Spector is honored to bring Oswald to the console screen
- Epic Mickey is the first time Oswald ever had a voice of any kind
- Oswald’s voice is performed by Frank Welker
- Spector hopes Oswald will be launched into commercial success once more, and would love to see an Oswald plush.
- the idea of the DigiComics and graphic novel is to let the player know what’s going on inside the head of the characters
- Tales of the Wasteland will be a prequel anthology of six stories inspired by Oswald’s life
- all of the stories take place before Mickey inadvertently releases the Phantom Blot on the Wasteland
- Oswald and the Mad Doctor had a great relationship at one point
- ‘Clocktower Cleaners’ is a send-up of the Disney classic short ‘Clock Cleaners.’
- ‘Oswald the Lucky Duck’ is where Oswald decides he could be more popular if he wasn’t a rabbit, so he attempts to become other things such as a Lucky Duck, a Lucky Stiff, etc.
- one of the stories is based on the beloved (and defunct) Adventurer’s Club at Walt Disney World
- the free iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app for the DigiComics will be released within 10 days
- the map of the Wasteland will be mostly grayed out, but lands will be progressively unlocked on a week by week basis leading up to the November 30 launch of Epic Mickey
- graphic novel will follow the prequel Tales of the Wasteland anthology will be released alongside the game on November 30th
- Spector says that a really good gamer can get through Epic Mickey in 15 hours
- Yen Sid does appear once more in the game
- lots of hidden rooms, secrets and Mickey heads to find
- E-tickets serve as currency
- music written by ‘Pushing Daisies’ composer Jim Dooley
- Spector auditioned about twelve different people for the music
- in an earlier concept of the game, the ‘real world’ characters were in the Wasteland in a ’save Mickey’s friends’-type storyline, but since the characters currently exist in the ‘real world,’ they cannot be forgotten or discarded and thus don’t belong in the Wasteland
- John Lasseter provided two vital elements to the game, but declined to say what they were at this time

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