Telescope Room concept art
Yen Sid's Lab is, as the name suggests, the home of the sorcerer Yen Sid. It is a very important location of the entire series, which contains the workshop in which Yen Sid created the Cartoon Wasteland. As with Mickey's House, it was only shown in the first and last cutscenes of Epic Mickey (along with the comic series, Tales of Wasteland, in the "There's a hole in the sky" issue), novel and graphic novel. In Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, however, it is a playable area.
In Epic Mickey[]
In the first game, the Map Room is the only room seen from the lab, and it's only visible in the opening and ending cutscenes. This is when Yen Sid was giving the finishing touches to the model of Wasteland. The staircase leading to the Starry Cliff Tops are also seen.
In Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two[]
In the sequel, the castle becomes a gameplay world in which Mickey has to get the Paintbrush and paint the model of Wasteland. The lab includes the Map Room, the Starry Cliff Tops, the Observatory, and the "Study Room".
Environment[]
Map Room[]
At the entrance is the room where the unpainted Wasteland model rests. Mickey must break the glass containing Yen Sid's hat to bring the Magic Brooms to life, and to get his costume piece (not available in the Wii version of the game). When you follow the brooms upstairs, there will be a deep pit, a locked door, and the mirror that Mickey will have to go through to get to the Brush Realm, where he'll need to get his brush. There is also an entrance to a hallway to the left that the brooms will take (which is most likely the Observatory), which the player is unable to go through.
Observatory[]
After retrieving the Brush, Mickey will seemingly be back at his house, but thinning away the wall behind his TV will reveal that he is actually in Yen Sid's Observatory. This area features an impressively large telescope that Mickey can climb after thinning the base to form a platform, along with paintings of the Brooms and a large thinnable stained glass window. By thinning this window, you can see the Mickey constellation (if Mickey painted in all the stars and comets in the Brush Realm), or a stormy sky (if he didn't). With the brooms flooding the room with water, Mickey has two options: use thinner to simply make them lifeless and stop them from flooding Yen Sid's castle, or just plain ignore them, and carry on with the story. If Mickey thins the brooms and paints in any missing paintings, the water on the floor will drain away revealing two treasure chests. There's also 4 large spheres showing the sun and moon, which Mickey will have to thin the bottoms of and then paint them in again to create platforms in order to make his way to Yen Sid's Study.
Study[]
Here is where Mickey sees a canvas showing half of a treasure chest and half of a golden E-Ticket. He must choose to either paint it in to access the chest or thin it out to reveal the golden E-Ticket. Whichever he does, it forms a long hallway for you to receive your prize, and the wall will then open itself to reveal that its an secret entrance back to the Map Room, where he must paint in the Wasteland model and jump in.
Trivia[]
- In Epic Mickey, Yen Sid's Lab is accessed through Mickey's mirror, but in the second game, it is linked through the TV in Mickey's house. This is due to the fact that Mickey's mirror can no longer reach there because Yen Sid used the brush to change the mirror back to normal (on Mickey's side, that is).
- After obtaining the Paintbrush, when Mickey travels to what is seemingly his room, it is revealed to really be part of Yen Sid's Lab, meaning that Yen Sid has a model of Mickey's house, for unknown reasons.
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