In the end, Mickey realizes his mentor has been watching over him the entire time, when the adversarial Spot is revealed as the pupil of Yen Sid's eye. After Mickey paints his way out of the map, the show concludes with a pair of big production numbers set in Hawaii and New Orleans. His nemesis throughout the story is an amusing and stubbornly unfinished portion of the map named Spot.įrom here, a series of choreographed set pieces starring a succession of Disney characters leap from itinerary stops made during Mickey's journey through the magic map.
Before long, a paintbrush-wielding Mickey is absorbed into the world of the animated painterly map (an ingeniously disguised LED screen spanning the width of the stage, along with a trapdoor to initiate the shrinking effects). Trouble ensues when the mapmakers quit for the day, leaving a curious Mickey alone in the studio with a nearly complete map capable of taking dreamers to any place imaginable. The story begins with Mickey once again in the studio of Yen Sid, as a team of mapmakers puts the finishing touches on an enormous map using giant paintbrushes.
