#clockenspiel

[beepsparks]

It’s a Small World brainworms have been going feral lately so here’s my fav clock tower blorbo blushing

[that-one-cake]

Guess who finally got time to make the Glockenspiel hc post?

I DID MUTHAFU‐

He/Him

Oddly calm

Knows there are other versions of him and is chill with it

The dolls are his scary little children

Vandals will be squished

Has arms but they're always retracted

Very soft voice, always sounds like he's whispering but you can actually hear him

Knows Wasteland exists

Has to deal with annoying children

Sometimes interacts with guests but it's very rare

German accent

Diznee Land/World are same person, different body

Annoys maintenance

If he could walk someone would be punted

Has been to Wasteland and shot The Blot with a gløck once

Where he got the gun is anyone's guess

Would kill for some oil

"Can you NOT?"

Loves Christmas

Grumpy during the morning

Very docile, would give head pats if it wouldn't squish you

Good at reading lullabies

Not bothered by the song as he is either spaced out or he forgets hearing is a thing

Old man energy

Has met the other versions of him at some point, likes the Paris version's design

At night, he lets the dolls roam

Knows the existence of magic but won't tell anyone.

Has listened to The Stupendium once, loved it.

Introverted and doesn't talk much unless you're sad and need old man advice

"Welcome to the happiest cruis‐ Okay this is getting old."

Got punched by the Epic Mickey clocktower in a dream once

Will not admit it, but likes nesting dolls and nobody knows why

Sensitive about his face

Will sic his scary doll children on you if you're caught vandalizing

Consciousness disappeared at some point and he somehow got stuck in Tokyo's Glockenspiel for the weekend

Even more clock puns then humanly possible

Would give out hugs if he wasn't so tall

"Who in the world is Clockenspiel??"

Charming <3

Will squish you if you start talking with brainrot

Dreams of mechanical fields with steam punk creatures everywhere

Gets very morbid if you let him ramble

"Tick tock on the clock, time is important and I have a glock."

Has read fanfiction before and immediately regretted it (he missed some CRUCIAL tags)

Very loveable, Kiss him ❤️

Can open his face and store things in there. Once hid a doll up there, it was never seen again.

Aight Das all, imma do the Paris Glockenspiel for funsies EVENTUALLY

[maestro-of-clockwork]

I’ve asked you about Glockenspiel, how about your opinion on the clock tower from Epic Mickey? (My boy Clockenspiel), I love him but hes also a bit terrifying!

I love his design! It's markedly grittier than the real Glockenspiel, and fittingly so for the game's themes and atmosphere. My favourite part of the Clock Tower is that he is in an object form of limbo: between functionality and utter decay.

The Clock Tower is a machine that, despite much of his body and mind becoming corroded by the thinner, refuses to break down completely. It's interesting to think that it's because of his sheer will to live that he continues to function...

That said, I also enjoy how demented his faces look! I see myself in them.

[beepsparks]

Good morning... for some reason I had a dream where the Clock Tower from Epic Mickey (or Clockenspiel as I call him, also he was a mix of different humanoid designs so he had legs btw) fought some giant robots... but by being helpful. My man lives for the "kill them with kindness" life, did I mention this man basically got flinged and highly damaged and YET this man still got up and managed to quite literally kill another robot like ten times his size with kindness

Good for him (and me) I guess that dream probably would've turned into a nightmare if Clockenspiel didn't step in and win it all in probably one of the funniest ways imaginable

[beepsparks]

Uhh some sketches of my friend @moonlitva ‘s humanization design of Clockenspiel, I don’t usually post physical sketches but I thought these just look nice enough and should be shown elsewhere

Kinda cringe text sorry

(OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED I MESSED UP A HAND ON THE 3RD DRAWING IM GOING TO FLIP OVER A TABLE)

[beepsparks]

Clock Tower doodles yayy!! Plus some headcanons because I am NOT Finishing that ref sheet of him no matter how hard I try 😭🙏 (its too difficult)

[beepsparks]

I was gonna do a ref for Clockenspiel (name me and my friends gave the Epic Mickey Clock Tower to differentiate between the real Glockenspiel at Disney parks and the EM one because we like them both) but I never got around to fully finishing it (also because I would probably over-complicate it) so heres the art for it because I didn’t want it to go to waste.

Credits for humanization go to my friend @moonlitva !

My art in this is kinda eh but who cares. I drew digitally over actual sketches I did in my sketchbook anyway so they look a bit wonky but whatever.

[beepsparks]

I cannot contain my excitement. My precious boy. In HD. With MORE content. CLOCK TOWER FANS REJOICE WE ARE EATING TONIGHT

[beepsparks]

GOOD LORD I think it’s finally done. I have. Designed my own.. “humanization” (he’s robotic) of the Clock Tower. With a bunch of headcanons and stuff about him on the side. I have plenty of more headcanons but I thought this would have more specifically anatomy facts about him. I think he’s adorable, hehe.

[beepsparks]

I had. A cute and silly thought. The boy is now a dragon. I don’t exactly know how to dragon-ify characters and this is my first time but I think he looks adorable!

(Btw you can’t see them but he has very very little wings that he can just barely fly with, they were just kinda made that way. Not his fault 😔)

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THIS TOOK SO LONG TO DRAW IDK WHAT POSSESSED ME BUT I ACTUALLY DECIDED TO SHADE FOR ONCE. I’m so proud of it though, the Clock Tower (my boy Clockenspiel) is my fav character in Epic Mickey and also my favorite boss.

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Sad how despite the clock tower having 3 pieces of unused dialogue, not a single one of them is a “Hickory Dickory Dock” joke. (Btw almost all of his dialogue is a time or clock pun of some kind.) Even if it would be unused the joke was RIGHT THERE. MICKEY MOUSE is fighting a CLOCK TOWER it would be so funny if he made that joke.

[beepsparks]

They’re part of the “talking clocks that scared children in the 2010s” club

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Clock Tower headcanons because yes (feel free to use these for your own hcs for him I don’t mind)

This is gonna be long. Brace yourselves (also a lot of these are gonna involve the dolls in the attraction and theres gonna be MAD angst so uh beware. TW for mentions of (doll) child death I guess?) oh and im prob gonna be calling him Clockenspiel throughout this post as my design of him uses that name.

• He behaves like a father to the dolls in the ride. The animals in the ride are considered pets, too. (And last time I checked there’s approximately 240 doll children and 60 animals on the actual its a small world so idk?? Could be wrong)

• Clockenspiel’s mental state affects those of the dolls. If he’s normal, the dolls will be, too. However, when he’s gone insane, the dolls will act more strangely too.

• This also makes me imagine when Clockenspiel has COMPLETELY gone mad and the bossfight happens, (if there was singing in the game), the dolls would gather around atop parts of the arena like alley cats stalking a mouse (ha.) and sing.

• Clockenspiel has control over the attraction. Sure, gremlins and people can mess with parts of it, but the overall functions and mechanics are under his control. (So yes, he can suddenly turn off every light except one to bring a spotlight on you.)

• “Can a clock tower need therapy?” YES. The thinner disaster and being abandoned for presumably decades (plus the song getting stuck at a point an playing nonstop according to the junior novel for Epic Mickey) degraded Clockenspiel’s mental health BIG TIME. More on this later.

• Theres plenty of reasons why Clockenspiel completely lost his mind once Mickey entered the area for his bossfight, but a possible reason in my headcanons is a mix of several things; If Mickey destroyed any dolls (aka his technical CHILDREN) on his way to reaching him (making him reasonably PISSED), perhaps he knew Mickey was just gonna leave through the projector screen once he reached Clockenspiel (which would probably cause a reaction like “you people left me abandoned for SO, SO LONG. And finally, when I see another toon again, all you want to do is LEAVE? Just like that? AGAIN?!”), maybe his security protocols triggered, maybe he just snapped at the moment Mickey walked in, etc…

• In the paint route, Clockenspiel is alive, and back to his usual, friendly, gentle-giant self, but he’s still struggling with the trauma and mental issues he got. Bottles of thinner stress him out, he cannot be left alone at night during closing time or else he’ll get REALLY, REALLY anxious and stressed (so someone has to stay with him for the night so he can actually “sleep” or just generally relax and not lose his mind all paranoid about being abandoned again), he’s trying to recover though, be nice to him.

• In the thinner route, Clockenspiel eventually shuts down, and at a point, dissolves enough with the thinner and sinks to the bottom of the river. Oh, and I haven’t decided on what to choose yet, but either the dolls will scurry off away from the area where Mickey kills him (if the dolls were watching), or the dolls will simultaneously shut down with Clockenspiel.

• The rules of the attraction are his “house rules”, break any of these rules (or just generally be disrespectful and/or rude), and he will NOT be pleased. At all. Seriously, you don’t want a giant clock tower to be mad at you. Just be nice and behave lmao

• I haven’t seen much on Epic Mickey 2 so take this headcanon with a grain of salt, Small World (and Ostown I suppose) is the only area in Wasteland perfectly safe for children, so many who live on Mean Street bring their kids there, making Clockenspiel pretty much a children’s icon for the kids in Wasteland.

• Clockenspiel cares about children, and is actually pretty capable of babysitting (although he WILL judge someone if they’re being a bad parent.), he can even entertain people on his own, playing music (since he could possibly be a giant instrument), playing little games, storytimes… he’ll also teach kids how to sing its a small world, so uh. Sorry if suddenly a toon kid just starts singing it over and over.

• Some people are slightly hesitant to trust him at first, since he’s a huge animatronic with enormous fists that could be considered dangerous, but he’s harmless when theres no danger around or he isn’t crazy.

• He can hold his friends using his hands! He’s very gentle, there’s nothing to be worried about regarding that.

• When being built, once people realized he was sentient, they quickly gave him arms (because it’s only fair to let him have SOME movement besides his head tilting if he’s gonna be alive)

• Clockenspiel used to be far more energetic when he was first built, but had to be taught to be more gentle and careful so he’d stop accidentally scaring people with his more high energy (because y’know, he’s HUGE). Now, hes more soft-spoken, and more careful and precise with every single one of his movements.

• The toon “armor” on his arms can be taken off. But he has to be very careful when doing anything without those parts so he doesn’t damage himself. (Plus he generally prefers to have them on more because they add to his more colorful color palette)

• As implied by the Clocktower Cleaners comic, he is allergic to his own dust.

• You’re lucky he’s so friendly and gentle! In game, theres 3 ceiling props of a sun, and 2 clouds, and whenever the Clock Tower attacks, the props violently bounce. Meaning this man can cause SHOCKWAVES just by hitting his fists on the ground. Good lord.

• He’s good friends with the gremlins. His very tall walls forming the facade help protect Gremlin Village, and the Gremlins help repair Clockenspiel whenever he needs it. And in general they seem to be close. (Which. Hurts a lot now considering in the junior novel, when Mickey destroys the clock tower, the Gremlins simply cheer on Mickey for stopping him from destroying everything with his fists. And the fact they abandoned him for decades but hey. Everyone was kinda fending for themselves.)

Okay I think I’m done. I might edit this whenever though so keep that noted!!

[beepsparks]

Kids in 2010 (and me the first 4 days I learned about Clockenspiel): “What is that. That’s actually kind of scary what is that why is it in my Disney game why is it so scary WHAT IS THAT”

Me the second I beat his boss fight (using paint): “Awe.. you’re not so scaryyy. You’re actually adorable whattt?? Awwwww… he’s so SWEEETTT AAWWW”

Me now: “I don’t care what anyone thinks or says, scary face or not this clock tower is just a sweet gentle giant to me and I will give him the attention and affection he rightfully deserves!!!”

[beepsparks]

Finished a double-sided plush of Clockenspiel/Clock Tower! It took awhile and was pretty tedious at times but overall I think I did a really good job on this one. Hes very cute and soft.