What is with that hand out yo gimme some money gesture, is that like Disney animationās version of a T-pose or what
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Hands complete a gesture and you need to know what the inside of a characters hand looks like. These are character model sheets after all.
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jfc they even have the Rip Taylor genie from Treasure of the Lost Lamp in there
When did cartoons get so good at pandering to me
Is this gonna become Duck Tales: Unlimited?
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OK, Iām pretty impressed but still waiting for some Paperinik cameo.
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Canāt help but notice the conspicuous lack of Khan, Baloo, and Louie there. Wonder if Disney has some weird rules about not using stuff from the jungle book to not dilute the live action branding?
Also wondering how much any of this is an attempt at backdoor pilot a few shows.
Who would voice them?
Kinda disappointed I came here to say is that the fuqqin Sea Duck I see and Kit is right there on a character sheet.
Oh lol, I posted that thing in the Sleazy thread instead of thinking of coming to the Ducktales thread where Sleazy had already posted it.
This is really ambitious as hell and it makes me feel so many weird things! Iām actually behind on the episodesāI havenāt even gotten to the first Darkwing one yet. Because, tbh, I still think the showās ambition and desire to dazzle with both unexpected twists and mind-blowing references most often wins out over just interesting, good storytelling. It seems like the showās primarily tweaked to generate the drooling among 30-something Disney Afternoon kids I see on Twitter. Iām one of those kids. And i feel weird about being pandered to that hard. And the pandering hasnāt always worked for me, at least not up to the point in the show that Iāve watched.
So on the one hand, all of this wow-factor makes me kinda wary. On the other, of course, Iām squealing with joy and know that given the opportunity, Iād probably be trying to jam as much of this in as possible.
So here are all the thoughts that are spewing out of my diseased brain:
Itās weird to me that Goofy is clearly Goof Troop Goofy but thereās no Max on the poster.
If Donald and Goofy are revealed to be longtime friends, will Mickey also finally make his way into the Duckverse? Or is Mickey still too sacred for something as base as an adventure cartoon? Can Mouseton and Duckburg coexist on TV?
Ludwig von Drake is the director of SHUSH? Tbh, feels like a waste of my favorite Disney duck.
People whose brains break that Pluto and Goofy exist in the same world are going to die of a collective aneurysm if they donāt scale up the Rescue Rangers (which I guess they wonāt since the Ranger Plane still appears to be a milk carton and a glove).
Also, really kinda wild how relative to the ducks, the Rescue Rangers and Goofy donāt seem all that different from their original character models.
Kit Cloudkicker rocking Baloo proportions is messing with my shit.
New Darkwing duds look weird (why the buttons if itās not a suit? and the cape connects to them?). New Gosalyn design is killer, though.
Hope they get Tim Curry back for Taurus Bulba.
Hope they pay real homage to Ducktales '87 and make every single episode featuring Bubbaāthe better part of a season, ideallyāan absolute slog.
Frank Angones said that they havenāt revealed all the characters yet. Bonkers confirmed for Smash??? The big question is do they introduce him as a movie star or as a movie-star-turned-cop or just a cop?
Despite all this ambition, Iām going to say theyāre cowards until they bring in Bonkers D. Bobcat.
Bet Matt and Frank are working on an episode where the Neutrinos visit from Dimension X.
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Yeah, iirc, Disney was sued by the estate of Louis Prima for hiring Jim Cummings to do a Louis Prima impression for Louie in TaleSpin.
Oh, yep, just looked it up. Disney settled out of court and Louie hasnāt shown up in anything animated since: http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2016/03/14/was-talespin-sued-over-the-voice-of-king-louie/ ā One can still hope Baloo, Rebecca (honestly, want her more than anyone in the cast), Khan, and Wildcat show up somehow.
Wonder if they worked with Primaās estate w/r/t Walkenās role in the Favreau Jungle Book.
As for who would voice them, though, the answer is probably Jim Cummings. If Ed Gilbertās estate doesnāt object, I bet Cummings can do a mean Baloo, and I wouldnāt be surprised if heās got a Shere Khan impression up his sleeve.
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Oh, just looked this up too. Angones said on Tumblr:
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Mickey can only cross into other universes as a literal king with a keyblade, and we donāt want Ducktales getting sucked into the KH vortex (even though it mildly did already thanks to Scrooge and now Chip and Dale).
If the showrunners were just a little bit younger, KH would definitely intrude in some form eventually.
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So they let a studio make a mickey cartoon that proabably has the most tude the mouse has had in ages but they wonāt let him even appear on a fairly safe cartoon? Conglomerate Icons are weird.
I just binged season 2 this weekend. This show is a lot of fun now that it got out of itās establishing phase and can start growing around all its elements.
For anyone more involved with the duckverse, are there actual ducks there and do they look at them like how we look at monkeys and other primates? Just less advanced reflections of themselves? I only thought about this when I saw seagulls on Donaldās boat.
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More stray thoughts:
Daisy Duck often looks different, but theyāre riffing on one of my favorite styles sheās ever sported. Thatās cool.
I love Jaime Camil something fierce, but I really miss Cummings doing Don Karnage
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I feel like I can picture in my mind a real duck from an episode of Darkwing Duck, but the image in my head might be coming from somewhere else.
Iām pretty sure thereās never been a moment in any of the cartoons where they really comment on their animalness.
Though maybe there was something in Don Rosaās Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck that references other birds in a weird way? Or I might just be thinking how weird it was to actually see a baby hatch from an egg.
The woman who managed Glomgoldās business in his absence mentions sheās from Mouseton.
This has already gotten a nod through the mention of Scroogeās favorite ice cream (although itās technically a reference to the theme parks Scroogeās fondness for sea salt ice cream debuted in KH2).
Webby was amazed to see a dog wearing a tie in the street in one of the early episodes so probably. Then again Webbyās easily amazed.
Fuck, this means so much now. Like, TWEWY is Ducktales canon. Have they gone to Tokyo in any of the new series episodes? Because if Shibuya exists there, but TWEWY is a separate world ala every world in KH, thenā¦
Also like this means that Twilight Town either exists in the actual Ducktales world, or that Scrooge has access to the Gummi and can travel across worlds. This puts him, in KH terms, on equal footing with Xehanort, Ansem the Wise, and of course Mickey and Sora. DOES SCROOGE HAVE A KEYBLADE?!?
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I just started season 3 and while still very entertaining Iām already missing the structure from season 2 where almost every episode was adding or building up to the reveal of Della Ducks status and the results of the villains machinations. At three episodes in there isnāt much in the way of connective tissue. Iām watching on youtube so I dunno if itās in production order or airing order.
Wait, what? Something may be chopping things up strangely (like how some places sell Steven Universe as seven seasons, though so far there are just five), because weāre only partway through season two still.
So far the season-two airing order is close to the intended continuity order. The one exception is āFriendship Hates Magic!ā, which belongs after āWhat Ever Happened To Della Duck?!ā.
Digital Streaming options has them in 12 episode blocks which are listed as seasons which as an anime watcher feels about the usual length of a season these days. Block 2 had a constant flow of its plot threads involving Della and DeSpell. Block 3 is feeling far more episodic again at least for the first 4 eps. Not to say they are disposable but it doesnāt have that same āgotta watch the next episodeā feel from the second block.
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