GALLERY: THE BROKE-DOWN STEAMPUNK DYSTOPIAN MAGIC KINGDOM OF EPIC MICKEY
I always feel a certain twinge of sadness when art and images leak ahead of official release, and try and keep Offworld clear of speculation (except in exceedingly rare cases), but now that the mecha-zombie-Goofy is officially out of his bottle and can’t be shoved back in, and because they’re such a particularly glorious and exciting spectacle to behold (and seemingly hand-crafted for BB’s own Cory Doctorow), the full story:
Anonymous net-scourer extraordinaire Supererogatory has come up for air with his/her biggest prize in recent memory last night: concept art (above) from Fred Gambino of Epic Mickey, the forthcoming (and now more or less confirmed for the Wii) project from Austin-local studio Junction Point.
The project — a trip through a fantastical dystopian Magic Kingdom — is being headed by former Deus Ex designer Warren Spector, whose studio was acquired by Disney in 2007 (and who explained why this was such a perfect match in an interview with me at the time). The game was first confirmed to exist last December, when similar images were discovered by artist Gary Glover, including the ‘beach attack’ above, with its unbelievable Seven Dwarves tea-cup diggers.
Behind the fold, then, more images from both Gambino and Glover, covering rotted Epcots, foreboding Cinderella castles, terrifying scorpion-like mecha-Country Bears, and more — all of which come with the obvious caveat that they may or may not reflect anything of the current state of the project. Via Fred Gambino [here]
Via Gary Glover [here, here, and here]
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