See Why Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp Really Want You to Play Disney Infinity 2.0

According to John Vignocchi, executive producer at Disney Interactive Studios, while developing the original version of Disney Infinity, they ran a poll on their social media channels asking fans which characters they'd like to see. "We had an overwhelming number of responses with Stitch as the number one most requested character and Princess Merida as the number two most requested character," he said. "Not a lot has been done with Stitch as a character from a consumer products perspective or from an events perspective around the company, so we were surprised to learn that, and in fact we're delighted to offer our fans the chance to play with these characters."

Disney is certainly more than movies and characters. It includes theme parks and resorts, too. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of It's a Small World, developers decided to work the famous ride into one of the game's power disks. "We decided to pay homage to that and include it inside of Disney Infinity," Vignocchi said. The company is also incorporating the Main Street Electrical Parade into the game. Some of the park highlights are unlocked via power disks, while others are unlocked during game play in the toy box.

You guessed it, Elsa and Anna! Yeah, we were surprised, too, and so were the developers at Disney. As Vignocchi noted, "We were delighted to find that while we had initially thought that our split between boys and girls was going to be 70 percent male and 30 percent female, it actually came closer to about 55 percent male and 45 percent female, and we attribute that to this incredible lineup of strong female characters that we integrated into the game. Even a year after the launch of the film, Elsa is still the number eight highest-selling Disney Infinity figure — even with the launch of the new movies, Marvel superheroes, and the new Disney originals."

"Johnny Depp was heavily involved in the creation of our Jack Sparrow figure that of course came with the Disney Infinity 1.0 starter pack," Vignocchi shared. "It's actually funny. One of our anecdotal stories about Johnny was when we had sent the original prototype of Jack Sparrow over to him to review, he had said that it looked great, but he wanted to make sure that every one of the rings on Jack Sparrow's hand was the appropriate color of the rings that he actually wears in the films. If you actually look at the figure itself, you can see every one of them are painted differently.

"That's part of the magic that I think may get overlooked by people at times and we start thinking about all of the different properties that we have across the Walt Disney company and then of course all the different people that we need to interact with in order to gain approvals on these various figures and how they appear in the game. It's a daunting task, but one that our team loves doing."

None other than the legendary Michael Jackson, aka Captain EO from Epcot. "It will be a difficult one to get clearance on, but one I absolutely want to pursue one day," Vignocchi revealed. "So we've got that one, but of course with the recent acquisitions with Marvel as well as Lucasfilm that just broadens Disney's already impressive catalog of IPs. I mean there's lots of other characters from Marvel, and of course when you start looking at the various universes that Lucasfilm has created over the many years that they've been in business, there's great characters there that would make for compelling and fun game play. So, still a lot of work to do!"