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Epic Mickey is a 2010 Wii video-game based on the Mickey Mouse & Friends franchise, developed by Junction Point Studios and released by Disney Interactive Studios. The game and its sequel, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, features elements of the Jungle Cruise and Adventureland.

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The game is set in, "The Wasteland", a twisted reflection of Disney made by the wizard Yen Sid to harbour forgotten and scrapped cartoon characters. However, after being created, the world was flooded by paint-thinner due to an accident in Yen Sid's lab caused by a troublesome Mickey Mouse. Years later, the Thinner Disaster's sentient creation, "The Shadow Blot" drags Mickey into the Wasteland in hopes of stealing his heart to escape, forcing Mickey to fight the blot's forces and save the Wasteland from the villain while teaming up with Walt Disney's older creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

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One of the Wastelands areas is, "Ventureland", based on Adventureland with visible influence from the Jungle Cruise, Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, Peter Pan, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Jungle Book, Jungle Rhythm (1929), and the Swiss Family Treehouse. Included in Ventureland's geography is a building visibly based on the Disneyland Jungle Cruise's boathouse, where Mickey can find Gentleman Starkey and Mister Smee. Ventureland also has a shop called the Tiki Hut, run by one, "Tiki Sam", a greedy shopkeep whose name is a reference to the Jungle Cruise character, "Trader Sam". Also in the area is The Hut Shop, based on Bengal Barbecue, and in the second game there is a boat ride which includes the Jungle River Boats and animatronic elephant obstacles (with a pin referencing the Skipper joke, "They Have their Trunks On".

Also inspired by the Jungle Cruise is the, "Jungle Boat Ride" in Gremlin Village, an area overall themed around It's a Small World and Roald Dahl's 1943 Disney book, "The Gremlins". This area features artwork, scenery, animatronic hippos and giraffes mimicking the Jungle Cruise and jungle themed portions of It's a Small World. Within the game's Haunted Mansion analogue, "Lonesome Manor", one of the three Stretching Room portraits portrays a Jungle Cruise reminiscent tableau. Based on the Haunted Mansion's Quicksand Men portrait, the game's portrait displays colonial explorers in pith helmets, sinking into piranha infested waters (the man on top baring a resemblance to the Lost Safari leader and Shrunken Ned).

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