Bog Easy is a location from the video-game Epic Mickey (2010) it is the home of the game's Haunted Mansion analogue, Lonesome Manor.
Description[]
Bog Easy is a location found in the Wasteland, a twisted Disneyland which was made to serve as a home for forgotten and unused cartoon characters. Due to a flooding of paint-thinner, Bog Easy was turned into a bayou of thinner which was lethal to cartoon characters and substances. It is based off of New Orleans Square from Disneyland although it would come to incorporate in elements from the former/defunct attraction Splash Mountain found in Frontierland in Walt Disney World and Critter Country in Disneyland.
Locations[]
Old Town[]
Old Town is all that is explorable of Bog Easy's exteriors in Epic Mickey, it is the most traditional depiction of New Orleans Square of the locations found in Bog Easy.
Lonesome Manor[]
Main Article: Lonesome Manor
Lonesome Manor is a home to the spirits of Bog Easy, named for the Lonesome Ghosts who inhabit it. It is a counterpart to the Haunted Mansion and resembles multiple different versions of the ride combined into a single location.
New Town[]
New Town is a setting introduced in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, being a new neighbourhood built in Bog Easy. New Town is inspired by the unused concept of Edison Square made for Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A. and incorporates more elements from Pirates of the Caribbean and Splash Mountain into its design.
Residents[]
- The Lonesome Ghosts:
- Animatronic Donald: A sentient audio-animatronic made from discarded scraps by the Mad Doctor and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to replicate Donald Duck due to Oswald being jealous of his successor Mickey's friends. He lives in a houseboat made to withstand thinner which is located in the bogs.
- Toons:
- Louis the Cow:
- Bertrand the Dog:
- Florence the Goat:
- Millicent the Cow:
- Metairie the Goat:
- Gilda the Goat (cow in sequel):
Disney Tributes[]
Epic Mickey[]
- The location bares similarities to the Devil's Bayou from the film The Rescuers.
- The entrance to the easy from Mean Street is made to resemble the gates of the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland.
- Multiple counterparts to locations from New Orleans Square can be found. This includes the Disney Gallery, the Blue Bayou restaurant, and the shop Baton Rouge which is used as a shot in the game.
- The sunken steamboat found in the game resembles the Mark Twain Riverboat from the Rivers of America.
- The shack belonging to the character of Louis resembles a shack from the Blue Bayou in Pirates of the Caribbean.
- The Lonesome Ghost Gilbert's fishing mission mirrors a shot from the Lonesome Ghosts cartoon.
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two[]
New Town[]
- New Town was based off of Lafitte's Landing and the Blue Bayou from Pirates of the Caribbean.
- The distillery tanks found in New Town are made to resemble moonshine tanks from Splash Mountain.
- A figurehead of the crocodile from Peter Pan appears overhead the entrance to the boat-house. This is modelled after a figure from the defunct Hook's Tavern which was relocated to outside of Peter Pan's Flight in Fantasyland of Walt Disney World.
- Recreations of animatronics from the attractions America Sings and Splash Mountain/Song of the South are found throughout New Town. This includes a band of gators, singing bullfrogs, and Br'er Gator.
- The caravan near the entrance to New Town is based off of floats from the Princess and the Frog (2008).
Old Town[]
- The statues in the graveyard outside of Lonesome Manor all represent different characters from the Haunted Mansion. Namely the Hitchhiking Ghosts and the Beating-Heart Bride.
- Graves and plaques found throughout Old Town recycle designs from the Pet Cemetery.
- The lanterns which light the town are taken from the Blue Bayou restaurant.