I do not know what the frak that is, but I need it, and all related merchandise, in my life. It's like the answer to a question I never knew existed.

This is rad, but it will terrify the suits at the Mouse. I don't see it happening in this current form... But yes, completely awesome.

COULD be a Kingdom Hearts spin-off...

I'll admit that I'm a fan of the old Disney cartoons (though not Mickey). I like them better than Looney Toons, and any opportunity to bring back the classic characters, even reimagined, is awesome. If I get new Donald and Goofy, I'm a happy camper.

Looks interesting, except that the game play says "paint your way through levels using the Wii Remote", doing things like drawing and erasing "whole parts of levels" (From Kotaku). The concept of the lesser characters of the Disney realm revolting sounds like a good idea, but I don't particularly want to "paint," I want to fight!

That's fabulous. It should be bigger than just a game. If only disney had the balls to explore that in other mediums...

This is what us grown ups are looking forward to! It's about time we see the other side of Mickey and his troops. There should really be a category of Mickey, the child friendly image and the oh-yeah-it's-so-cool-to-be-different image. If they release this video game, I'm gonna take a break from WoW for sure.

Interesting, but steampunk is kind of annoying as a genre. When it's done well, it's awesome. When it's done poorly, it's pathetic.

Ummmm, Epic Mickey iks only its codename for now, people have guessed that it might be Kingdom Hearts 3, but i find that a bit unlikely due to the fact that thats alot of disney world thats riding the raped mechanical monstro.

Is it just me, or does the top picture remind anyone else of...um...Ater-way Orld-way?

seeing that of goofy makes me want to rush out and aquire the thing for finaly Disney done in a new style that fits it.twisted and a little evil

Yes.

The best part of this concept art is that it isn't focusing on the characters so much as a twisted version of the PARKS.

I cannot tell you how long I've wanted a videogame based on the Disey parks. Maybe as you proceed through the levels, you can unlock virtual ride throughs of the rides. That would be definition of awesome.

COULD BE...Kingdom Hearts III?

Epic Mickey? More like Steampunk Willie.

Stuff...of...nightmares!!!! For some reason, zombie robot Goofy scares the crap out of me.

Does look potentially interesting, though...the devastated Disney World is gorgeous!

@Aeon:
"Steampunk Willie" is a GENIUS title, and since all we're seeing is old-timey characters, that could be dead on.

this looks AMAZING, but much like Freddy vs Jason vs Ash, the lost Superman 2000 pitch, all the cool ideas Alan Moore had for a Kingdom Come-style masterpiece, and my fantasies about who would win in a fight between Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch, i'm afraid this is one of those things that's just WAY too cool to actually happen.

WTF? Is that a hybrid of one of the Seven Dwarves and the caterpillar from "A Bug's Life" that i see?

Man, I think Disney's films - with the ecxeption of TRON (and Legacy, it seems) - are horrible, and this looks awesome. I could see this becoming an MMO, or a much wider game universe. Imagine how that would go down...

"Now Susie, you've been watching The Little Mermaid since you were six; now that you're twelve, how'd you like to be her - except not really her, but some fucked up steam-powered gigantic version of her - in a crumbling hellscape of industrial decay and monstrosity?"

awesome

That's HOT!

OH GOD STEAMPUNK KINGDOM HEARTS SET 50 YEARS AFTER KINGDOM HEARTS 2?!?!?! YES PLEASE!

This will be incredibly epic if...
1. It is not for the Wii, but for the 360 and PS3.
Shit will get too complicated, and graphics would be balls on the Wii.
2. LET ME RUN AROUND AFTER I BEAT THE GAME GOD DAMN.

It should also be known that this game is being created by Warren Spector, the guy who did Deus Ex. So that just adds a whole new level of awesome to this.

Fuck and yes. My life is now complete.

Holy fuck yes!

Amazing!
For how sickeningly sweet and rubbed in our faces the tradtional Disney characters have been, they are so very underused.
Retarded as it sounds, I was pleased to have my daughter watching the Dora derivative Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, because at least the characters were actually "doing" something besides acting as logos. What was the last real Mickey short, Runaway Brain? Never saw it, but monster Mickey was a fun change of pace from their constant fear of perverting their perfect babies.

Strange change for Disney, for years considered the cheesiest PC sellouts, removing " offensive" material from old films, and far off of the pop culture radar. Consider these bizzare facts:

1) Apparantly Disney kicked the most ass at Comic-con. Wtf?
2) I got Pinnochio on Blu-Ray. Rather than editing out the smoking scenes(there are tons!!) like they have years ago, there's a simple message before the film letting kids know that shit ain't healthy. Which is fine, since when this film was made, kids smoking was only bad because grown ups were supposed to do it.
3) A return to 2-D with a fairy tale. A black princess. My girlfriend is so damned happy since she had to pretend to be Pocshontas as a kid.
4) Allegedly no more cheap DVD sequels
5) When they bought Pixar, instead of crushing their souls, they brought their guys into the fold, so they're helping fix what's broken in Disney animation.
6) The fact that Kingdom Hearts happened was out of character and a pleasant surprise.
7) Have I mentioned DISNEY won at comi-con?
8) As far as their own 3-D films, Bolt was not fantastic, but was leaps ahead of their first few efforts
9) Speaking of 3-D, rereleasing cult classic Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D? Neat.
10) High Quality licensed Japanese merchandise. Japan knows how to honor this stuff even better than the high-end Disney Store product. Medicom's vinyl and Kubricks really smash the ball into love park and obscureville. The fact that a Mickey/Optimus mashup exists breaks my mind.

11) Finally, G-Force kicks ass!! Okay, not so much. And they seem determined to keep going until every kind of retarded critter has spoken to us and every one of their TV movie quality live action films have been remade. These terrible things make a ton of money though, hopefully this helps encourage risks with trying the cooler stuff.

Not trying to jizz on Disney's tits here, but this game really gives me a twisted boner and made me realize the "Evil Empire" has come quite far since being so easily despicable just a few years ago. Now if they could just stop making Vader dance to Hammer songs at their park...

http://www.incgamers.com/News/17710/epic-mickey-plot-gameplay-rumours

I really, really hope that isn't true.
I don't want to see Disney characters fighting each other!
I want to see them ban together to defeat their goddamn inner demons and defeat darkness and what not.
In the words of the chicken from Dr. Tran, it would be "Retarted Boss" if All the old characters were fighting not to be forgotten, but not other Disney characters!

I want Gargoyles and Darkwarrior Duck in this for ultimate awesome.

Wow. Not sure if it's really steampunk or just really post-apocalyptic cyberpunk, but I love both so... AWESOME. It's like Disney World meets Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! manga. I may need to change my pants. Hell, can we make the actual park like this?!

@Mr Wesley, Waited for a game based on the theme parks? I take it you never played Adventures in the Magic Kingdom on the NES?

Oh and I just realized who the game designer is. It's the guy who did Deus Ex. Holy crap awesome.

I love the dilapidated EPCOT sphere. Although it's amusing that this will be the first Disney property to acknowledge EPCOT in over two decades!

This isn't KH:3. There is no Square characters in sight. Work on Kingdom Hearts 3 hasn't even started yet. This could work as a Wii game though. Think Okami...well the 5 other people that bought that game that is.

@Jedimonkey
I bought Okami for the Wii and it's the only game I really love.

Unless of course "Epic Mickey" can prove to be badass and steampunkified*crosses fingers*

Rockon1885:
The plotline sounds intruiging though I prefer something more disturbing.

Also, I hate the idea of this game play. I had a feeling it would be Wii(and I don't have one), but that idea is the most retarded I ever read.

Painting....PAINTING?!? Have they not learned from ''Mcgee's Grimm'' how repetitive this shit is?

Needs moar grimdark and brownandgray with gaussian blur.

I know most of the people here really like the Steam punk
version of Disney. But I just find this just plain, well creepy. Zombie, Goofy? Reminds me of when they Punk up the Wizard Of Oz or something. Thank You No, I have enough nightmares, lately.

is the whale in the first pic actually carrying that city on its back? these pics have me really interested in seeing the final product. but like a previous poster stated, it will be interesting to see if the disney executives let this go through with its current art direction.

It probably has nothing to do with it but I'm shocked by the similarity to Howard Waldrop's short story "Heirs of the Perisphere". It's about Mickey, Goofy, and Donald theme park robots that get randomly reactivated far in the post-apocalyptic future.

@The Yellow Dart

Cookie Monster would win.

Good move Disney! I also thought it was quite a move forward when they did the colaborations with Bloc28. They made some New Era hats with really twisted Mickey imagery.
It's as if they thought, hey everybody likes a bit of the good ol' disney subversion so it probably best to do it ourselves and make a buck out of it. Of course money inspired but nevertheless pretty cool.

After watching them almost kill Goofy and then having Mickey go all berzerker on everyone in KH2, this does not surprise me in the least.

And it's AWESOME.

After watching them almost kill Goofy and then having Mickey go all berzerker on everyone in KH2, this does not surprise me in the least.

And it's AWESOME.

Why are people comparing this to KH? That game was a shitty button masher. This game will be completely different. Rumor has it that this game has Okami style gameplay.

This is interesting. I have played all KH games and have beaten them in less than 4 days. (Each Game) And I have to say that this is just concept art. The real game isn't going to look anything like this. I considering myself a hardcore gamer spending my days mostly playing Call Of Duty 4, and several other games. I always stay informed with pretty much all gaming criteria. The original Dead Space concept art turned out to be over the limit than what the game shows. I knew that someday Disney would show something like this. It does look like a good game never the less, but not what people are expecting. I cannot wait for this game. But as far as Disney and the ESRB goes, I can safely say that this game will not get past E10. Message me on MySpace to talk to me about this subject. www.myspace.com(slash)wesleyseehorn

Why's everyone thinking this is a Kingdom Hearts game? True that the series broke through a barrier for this kind of imagery...But the style is completely different, not to mention that the producer isn't SquareEnix.

Anyway, I really do hope something like this comes through without any major alterations by Disney suits (cause you know, there's gonna be adjustments in the end for their sake).

But let's see where this goes; it's too soon to tell.

I found this site by accident. was searching for story about mickey, donald and goofy as robots re-activated in a dismal future world in either epic or heavy metal mag. just wondered if anyone remembered the name of the story or which mag it was in.

WOW this game should be good itd be cool to have a disney game thats like REALLY demented. By the way, does anybody know who that is fighting mickey on the cover of game informer?

dang i thout king dom hearts was dark version
dut this i have to have