The brooms are besom brooms with brown handles and yellow bristles. They have been animated by magic, and have sprouted thin, brown arms and four-fingered hands as a result. Their bristles are their "legs". The brooms are constantly seen carrying one brown bucket of water in each hand. Each bucket has a silver handle and two silver hoops around them.
In the segment, The Sorcerer's Apprentice one broom is brought to life by Mickey Mouse. He had done the spell in order for the broom to do his work, instead. The plan goes by smoothly until Mickey falls asleep and wakes up hours later once the tower is flooded. Mickey tries to stop the broom, albeit to no avail. Mickey then grabs an axe and chops the broom into pieces. From the two halves, as well as the scattered splinters, an entire army of water-carrying brooms arises, and the entire room is soon filled with water. Eventually, Mickey's mentor Yen Sid comes and ends the chaos.
In the television series House of Mouse, the brooms make cameos along with many other Disney characters. In the show, the brooms work at the club as its janitors as well as its means of extinguishing fires and are frequently seen sweeping with modern brooms as a joke. In the episode "Donald's Lamp Trade", one of the brooms (taking a role similar to Magic Carpet when he follows Aladdin in the Cave of Wonders) follows Donald and they end up walling off of Pride Rock and go flying.
A modernized version of the Magic Brooms appear. Besides the brooms, mops, sponges and spray cans join in on attempting to "clean" Dave Stutler's lab. Unlike previous incarnations where they pay no heed to the apprentice and mindlessly fulfill what they have been asked, the cleaning products in this version are mischievous and downright antagonistic with a spray can spraying Dave in the face when he attempts to stop them. They all cease moving once Balthazar Blake arrives to stop them.
The mops were brought to life again at the climax of the film to help Dave activate the Tesla coils to defeat Morgan le Fay.
In the short, three magic brooms sweep up the broken pieces of the camera and Goofy picks them up and the camera gets fixed by Fix-It Felix Jr. using his Magic Hammer. The brooms then join in the group photo.
The brooms appear in the Fantasia-based transition stages and in the ending credits animation chasing a Blotling. They also serve as the inspiration for the Sweeper Blotlings. A lifeless broom can be seen in Yen Sid's studies during the opening. The Magic Brooms reappear in the sequel, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.
The Magic Brooms appear in Disney Infinity as enemies, however, several seem to aid Sorcerer Mickey as one of his attacks. In the 3DS version, they appear as cameos on the game board moving space turning them into coin spaces.
A Magic Broom is the Universe icon for Fantasia. Mickey also talks about working on Fantasia and his mistake with the Brooms. A Magic Broom decoration can be purchased at Scrooge's Store for 3,000 Star Coins, though it's categorized under Mickey & Friends instead of Fantasia. During Minnie's quest Very Magical Minnie, when the Player asks Minnie what she was doing with a spellbook and chooses to ask if Mickey caused another broom mishap, Minnie replies that Mickey learned his lesson the first time.
Three Magic Brooms were part of the Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf attraction. Another Magic Broom was added as a playable character (the second of the Fantasia collection after Chernabog) that can be unlocked if all the pins in the Disney Supportive Stars collection are collected.
At Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway an illustration of the Magic Broom appears on Yen Sid's spell book next to the ropes and magic hat display in Mickey Through the Ears museum.
In Mickey's PhilharMagic, when Donald accidentally loses the sorcerer hat, he journeys off into different Disney films including Fantasia where the brooms splash the water in the buckets onto Donald eventually leading him to The Little Mermaid. This attraction also shows two exclusive broom variations: a tiny broom with a single normal-sized bucket (which Donald took so the broom wouldn't splash him), and an enormous broom with a single and equally giant bucket (which it used to flood over Donald after it got him to return the tiny broom's bucket).
In Tokyo DisneySea's version of Fantasmic!, they appear marching on the Sorcerer's Hat stage during the Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence opening the show.
