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ILLUMINA's PARADISE wrote: [It's not Merlin's hat its the Sorcerer Hat].

It belongs to Mickey's Master Yen Sid (Disney backwords) from Disney's Fantasia (originally), Epic Mickey, and the Kingdom Hearts sereis. The hat does indeed belong to the Sorcerer from Fantasia. Adam and Eddy confirmed that.

In the Disney Fantasia interpretation of the story, they used the hat as a plot device to show the apprentice using the Master's power (without proper training). If I recall, the other Disney interpretation (the 2010 movie "Sorcerer's Apprentice"), also incorporates the poem, but does not use the hat. The original poem itself does not use a hat, or any other prop, to signify the Sorcerers Power that the apprentice inappropriately uses.

I think OUaT used the hat, as it is something that many people recognize, to point us to the story. But I wouldn't be surprised if they use this as one place to spin the story. Of course, if they were to incorporate the original material, somebody (possibly Henry?) is going to have to animate a broom and then be unable to stop it. Done right, that could be worth a couple of laughs.

I think the relationship of the Sorcerer's hat to Merlin comes from a couple of places:



In the Disney interpretation of the Sword in the Stone, Merlin has a similar hat.

In the Disney 2010 movie, the sorcerer, to which Nicholas Cage's character was the apprentice, was Merlin

As fans of OUaT, there is a large group of us that would love to see a Camelot arc, and this would be a great tie in to achieve that

