Fan Art Friday: DuckTales

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Disney’s DuckTales filled many a child’s weekday afternoon with fun and adventure during the late 80’s. But where did Scrooge McDuck and all his fortune come from?


It was 1947 when Scrooge McDuck made his first appearance in the Donald Duck comic Christmas on Bear Mountain written by Carl Barks as Donald’s uncle on this mother Hortense’s side. But before he was a multiplujillionaire he started out shining shoes as a boy in Glasgow. This is also how he earned his lucky Number One Dime after being tricked by his first customer who paid him with an American coin. What Scrooge didn’t know was that is was part of Scrooge’s father’s plan to teach him a life lesson - that there will always be someone out there ready to cheat you. It worked, leaving Scrooge with life long trust issues about money.



Now How Big Is That Money Bin?


The money bin has been described as three cubic acres but it’s actually a joke from our dear friend Barks because a cubic acre is an impossible unit of measure. Why you ask? Economic historian John Steele Gordon explain it best in the Wall Street Journal in 2005:



An acre is a measure of area (i.e. two dimensions). If you have a ‘cubic acre,’ you would have a four-dimensional space—a three-dimensional space existing in a specific time frame. ... [A]s a child I calculated that a cubic acre would have a side 208.7 feet long (square root of 43,560) and thus a volume of 9,090,972 cubic feet. So Scrooge’s money bin would have been 27,272,916 cubic feet in size, an adequate piggy bank by any measure.”


— John Steele Gordon, Wall Street Journal


Later on, blueprints for the vault were revealed that showed its size to be 127 feet by 120 feet. Scrooge went through several money bin designs before landing on the now iconic one. So how much is in the money bin? According to Barks, Scrooge is worth “one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents.” Yes, that’s a real amount.



What About The Rest Of The Gang?


Well Donald Duck would have been part of the show more if the producers hadn’t wanted to focus on shipping Donald into the Navy and leaving his nephews with Scrooge. Said nephews were identical triplets who could only be told apart by their colorful clothing - Huey always wore red, Dewey doned blue, and Louie was in green. But they weren’t the only youngsters in the household being joined Webby Vanderquack who has the granddaughter of the boy’s nanny, Mrs. Beakley. Let’s not forget the mischievous villains like Magica De Spell, Flintheart Glomgold, and the Beagle Boys. Did you know Ma Beagle was modeled after real life criminal Ma Barker of the Barker-Karpis gang?


If you’re overwhelmed with nostalgia I have some good news. A whole new DuckTales series is headed to a T.V. near you in 2017. That’s right, you soon be able to see all your favorite characters in all new adventures. For now, you can dive into our money bin of DuckTales fan art and take a leisurely swim. Enjoy!















Life is like a hurricane


Here in Duckburg


Racecars, lasers, air-o-planes


Its a duckblur!









Might solve a mystery


Or rewrite history


Ducktales!


Whoo-oo!









Everyday they’re out there makin’


Ducktales!


Whoo-oo!









Tales of daring doodads and


Good lucktales!


Whoo-oo!


Not pony tails or cotton tails


No, Ducktales!












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  1. Who is your favorite Duck Tales character and why?
  2. What would you like to see in future editions of Fan Art Friday?










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Your thoughts on the reboot?