DISNEY GULCH (CANYON AREA)
Level Overview
The journey through Rainbow Caverns leads to a rest stop at a place called Disney Gulch. You need the train in the gulch to progress farther but it doesn’t have power. You must figure out how to use the local guardian pool to help collect Battery Spheres to power the train and head towards the Mad Doc’s Laboratory.
LEVEL BREAKDOWN
Challenges
- None
Collectibles
- Bronze Pin (x2)
- Concept Art 40
- Donald Soda Bottle Cap
- Sorcerer’s Apprentice Robes
- When Elephants Fly Pin
Enemies
- Dropwings
- Spatters
Quests
- Finding the Hidden Heroes
- Operation Gremlin Drop
- The Bunny Wranglers (visit 2)
- The Encyclopaedia Wastelandica
- Watch the Skies
- Helping Horace (visit 2)
- Creative Threedom (Second Visit)
- Thanks for the Memories
Things to Do
- Find the Sorcerer’s Apprentice Robes (PS3 & Xbox 360 only)
- Free the Gremlin
- Manipulate the Guardian Pool to get the Battery Sphere under the water tower
- Get the Donald Soda Bottle Cap and concept art
- Thin out the cave for a Bronze Pin
- Use a Guardian to knock the Battery Sphere off the balanced boulder
- Thin out the Saloon supports to get a Bronze Pin
- Paint in the Saloon and retrieve the final Battery Sphere
- Get the When Elephants Fly Pin and take the train to the second part of Disney Gulch
The D.E.C. entrance starts out on the ground level of Disney Gulch, a desert location with a Guardian Pool oasis. You can change the state of the Guardian Pool to Paint or Thinner based on the state of the toon in the area.
OPTIONAL QUEST
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA WASTELANDICA
Right at the start, you can snap a photo for the Encyclopaedia Wastelandica.
CREATIVE THREEDOM
Fifer will be in Disney Gulch for your second visit if you’re working on the second part of the “Creative Threedom” quest.
There is a mine elevator near the beginning, but it is out of service. Oswald can give it some juice and it will work like new.
You’ll find a red chest at the top of the elevator that needs to be painted.
Sorcerer’s Apprentice Robes
(PS3 & Xbox 360 only)
The red chest at the top of the elevator contains the robes for the Sorcerer’s Apprentice Costume.
If you entered Disney Gulch from the Night on Bald Mountain projector (the Angel side of Rainbow Caverns), you will begin in the northeast corner instead.
Back on the ground floor, a huge boulder is being pushed into the air by a geyser underneath. Thin out the wooden boards sealing up a ledge above. The height of the boulder is linked to how many other geysers in the area you have painted in.
Hop up on the boulder, climb to the ledge, and rescue the trapped Gremlin.
OPTIONAL QUESTS
FINDING THE HIDDEN HEROES
There is a hidden Mickey next to the alcove with the trapped Gremlin.
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA WASTELANDICA
Near the Night on Bald Mountain projector entrance, you’ll find a Picture Spot.
THE BUNNY WRANGLERS (VISIT 2)
If you return later, you can find a pipe for the Bunny Children near the elevator.
OPERATION GREMLIN DROP
Rescue the Gremlin on the ledge above the floating boulder.
The middle of the area has a wooden water tower with one of the Battery Spheres inside the base. You have to change the state of the Guardian Pool from its starting Paint state to neutral or Thinner state to topple the tower.
Guardian Pools change to Thinner if you start thinning objects in the area. Thin out all nearby cacti and the skulls on the ground until the Guardian Pool changes states.
When you have thinned enough objects, the Guardian Pool switches to neutral or Thinner. In its neutral state you can thin out the supports yourself, or change the Guardian Pool to Thinner and it will collapse the tower. When the tower falls over, it opens the way to the Battery Sphere.
Before you can retrieve the sphere, you must change the state of the Guardian Pool back to neutral or Paint if you switched the pool all the way to Thinner.. Reverse all your hard work from before, and paint the cacti.
With the pool back to neutral or Paint, you can grab the Battery Sphere and drag it over to the receptacle near the train. You can leave now if you want to, but the second area of Disney Gulch gets easier if you collect more spheres. You’ll also get a special pin if you return all three spheres.
Head over to the end of the train and paint in the missing platform above the last car.
Climb up unto the train cars and pipes above to get over to the platform you painted. On this platform, Oswald offers to toss Mickey into the air.
From here, you can take a long leap over to the tilted water tower.
OPTIONAL QUESTS
WATCH THE SKIES
When Oswald tosses Mickey into the air above the train cars, you can collect the Donald Soda Bottle Cap.
FINDING THE HIDDEN HEROES
Look for a hidden Mickey as a cactus along the wall under the crashed water tower.
Concept Art 40
Climb up the broken water tower to find the concept art at the top.
Head over to the ledge opposite the train by using the stack of crates at the bottom. At the top of the ledge, turn around to thin out a secret cave.
If you don’t already have a Guardian circling you, paint or thin objects all around the area until one of the Guardian Pools becomes active and Guardians appear. Take the Guardians and fire them at the Spatter on top of the rock until you knock it off.
Collect the Battery Sphere that falls off the balanced rock to the ground below.
Drag the sphere over to the receptacle just as you did before.
The Saloon doors are locked. Paint the thinned-out toon on the Saloon exterior, where you find that the doors are locked. To open it up, Paint all the thinned-out toons. The doors swing open and allow you to find the last Battery Sphere.
Bronze Pin
A red chest with a Bronze Pin is in the thinned-out cave above the stack of crates.
Push the Battery Sphere out of the Saloon and off the edge to the ground below.
Bronze Pin
Return to the Saloon now that you have done some renovations. The wall on the left has cracked open, and Oswald can open the blue chest that contains a Bronze Pin.
Fall off the deck and look below the Saloon. The deck is being held up by wooden supports that you can thin out.
Thinning out the supports causes the deck of the Saloon to crash, opening up a secret compartment upstairs.
Track down the last Battery Sphere that you tossed out of the Saloon and bring it to the receptacle. Now that you’ve returned all the spheres, the train has full power and ejects a red chest.
When you have collected everything in the area, take the train to the next part of Disney Gulch, the entrance to the Mad Doc’s Laboratory.
OPTIONAL QUEST
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
If you’ve chosen to help Rigger Greene in Moody’s “Thanks for the Memories” quest, take a picture of the Disney Gulch train.
When Elephants Fly Pin
After you return all three Battery Spheres, the train ejects a red chest that contains the When Elephants Fly Pin.