This is literally one of those, somebody said on NeoGaf rumours, but the person is pretty adamant he knows this is true...

"Damn, is EM like already near the top of the best selling 3rd party titles for Wii already? Well, of course outside of Just Dance franchise haha.

And considering the sequel, this series is going to be h u g e." link

and then

"

it's been in development for awhile actually" link

And before dismissing the posts based on his tag, best read these / two posts as well. :D

Guess I should have put this in the Nintendo forum lol

if thats true id be pretty shocked i still gotta open up my copy lol.

Well not speaking speculatively, I think it would be pretty clear to think after the huge sales success that is Epic Mickey, that the team and publisher would be looking to expand the franchise. Definitely one of the bigger budget Wii games release in awhile, it is hard to think they probably weren't planning to make it into a series to begin with.  

Also like to take this moment to really congratulate the guys over at Disney as they really took a very risky project and made it into one of the biggest releases of the year.  They put the time, money, and marketing into and well it paid off for them.  Other developers across all systems should be taking notes as sometimes the risk is worth it.

John Harker's been around on gaf for about five years, and he's pretty reliable.

Why would they do that.... the first one was a sales flop after all.....

**cough**

First game sold well, over 2M soon, and will contiune to sell, sequel would be great to have.

fix the camera and make Donald playable and im there!

I wonder when we might see this game come out. I think part of the reason Epic Mickey felt unpolished was because Disney demanded a Christmas holiday release, so around Christmas again is pretty much a lock.

I'd like to believe 2011 would be possible (maybe it is, because their production team was said to be a large one?), though I guess 2012 is most likely. But that's so long from now... well I guess it would be good for them to have more time to polish up the sequel...

looking at the sales, I would say a sequel is very likely, I have yet to play the game, but I'm sure I will soon