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Thinner Disaster

The Thinner Bottle falls into the Forgotten World

The Thinner Disaster is a major plot point in Epic Mickey. It was accidentally caused by Mickey Mouse after dropping a bottle of thinner into the world. It was the dawn of the Blot and his Blotlings. It brought despair and ruins over all of the Cartoon Wasteland.

Story[]

Thinner disaster in progress

Mickey Mouse accidentally creating the Thinner Disaster.

After traveling through the mirror, out of curiosity, enters Sorcerer Yen Sid's workshop through a mirror in his house and discovers the model of the land Yen Sid created and the tool used to create it, the magic paintbrush. Fiddling with the brush and some paint to make a self-portrait, Mickey accidentally creates the Blot. Panicking, Mickey quickly tries to erase the Blot by throwing thinner onto it, but spills more paint on the model in the process. Upon seeing Yen Sid approaching, Mickey quickly tries to clean up the mess, but in his haste, spills thinner onto the paint spillage as he flees back to his house, while the Blot, having survived Mickey's attempt to destroy it, enters through a portal created by the paint/thinner mixture (taking the Jug -the bottle of thinner- with him) and takes control of the ruined world from its first resident, Oswald ("The world I had created was ravaged - a wasteland").

In the game there are four times the Thinner Disaster is mentioned. The first time is when Mickey enters Mean Street, the second time the Thinner Disaster is mentioned is in Mickeyjunk Mountain, when Mickey discovers that Oswald runs the Wasteland, the third time is when Mickey meets Oswald, this time the disaster is not technically mentioned, Oswald drops a bottle of Thinner to the floor and suddenly Mickey remembers that he caused the Thinner Disaster. The fourth and last time the disaster is mentioned by Mickey when Oswald offers a restart in their friendship relation, and when Mickey was going to shake his hand with Oswald's, he confesses he caused the Thinner Disaster. However, by the end of the game, a rain of magical Paint falls all over the Wasteland, destroying the Thinner and restoring the kingdom and its citizens to beauty and prominence.

Trivia[]

  • Japanese copies of the game reanimate the sequence in which the Thinner Disaster occurs. Rather than having a thinner tsunami engulf Mean Street, the shattering jug would instead emit thinner essence throughout Wasteland, thinning the paint from buildings such as Dark Beauty Castle. This was most likely done in response to the 3.11 tsunami that had occurred months prior to the game's release in Japan.
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