So, who is Xandra? Is that the warrior-goddess-type with the bow & arrow? Is she a character you all recognize from some other show?
Yes, and no. She was created for this show, it seems.
BTW, tons of new screenshots here, including one with an apparently corporeal Clinton Coot meeting Donald, José and Panchito, and Humphrey the Bear from the classic Donald Duck cartoons.
Boy, this looks really interesting and encouraging to my fan's heart. I like the look of everything. I like the Aracuan bird reading a comic book hidden in a book. I like the episode titles. Bring it on!
Donald, sitting outside a burned-down house. This is from the first episode, so I wonder if this is Donald's house, and it burning down is the reason he decides to go to South America. Just a theory, though.
Yes, and no. She was created for this show, it seems.
BTW, tons of new screenshots here, including one with an apparently corporeal Clinton Coot meeting Donald, José and Panchito, and Humphrey the Bear from the classic Donald Duck cartoons.
All fantastic stuff! …so digging into the backlog, apparently this person was contacted by one of the makers of the show, who made them promise not to leak full episodes online to create hype? Aside from the somewhat dismaying fact that we live in a world where creators have to ask nicely for fans not to commit copyright infringement as a personal favor, this suggests that the show will get an official, grand U.S. release. So yay.
Could you link to the post that said that? I can't seem to find it.
So, looking through the screenshots of the show, I found this:
Featuring what appears to be Gladstone!
I noticed that, but didn't think it was Gladstone; I think it's that lookalike that Donald hires to date Daisy in the 1946 animated short, "Donald's Double Trouble".
So, looking through the screenshots of the show, I found this:
Featuring what appears to be Gladstone!
I noticed that, but didn't think it was Gladstone; I think it's that lookalike that Donald hires to date Daisy in the 1946 animated short, "Donald's Double Trouble".
Yup, it's gotta be the Double Trouble guy: same clothes, and beak-adjacent eyes, and no visible curly hair. He and Gladstone do both have spats, though!
So wait, have you all already found the references to the content of "Legend of the Three Caballeros" on the Disney Wiki? Here, for instance, are the paragraphs on Clinton Coot's page referring to LTC:
In the series, Donald Duck inherits Clinton's old adventurer cabana at the New Quackmore Institute of Art, Culture and Science, a college that Coot helped establish. This inheritance is also split with Panchito Pistoles and Jose Carioca, who are descendants of Coot's friends, who together called themselves the Three Caballeros.
When exploring the number of artifacts in the old house, they unwittingly summon Xandra, the Goddess of Adventure and get pulled into a great conflict between good and evil, with the cabana becoming their headquarters. Later in the season, Clinton appears as a ghost to help his descendant. <end quotation>
I first found the LTC reference on the page for the Aracuan bird:
The Aracuan Bird, nicknamed Ari, is a supporting character in the series, serving as the handyman that maintains Clinton Coot's adventuring cabana.
I noticed that, but didn't think it was Gladstone; I think it's that lookalike that Donald hires to date Daisy in the 1946 animated short, "Donald's Double Trouble".
Yup, it's gotta be the Double Trouble guy: same clothes, and beak-adjacent eyes, and no visible curly hair. He and Gladstone do both have spats, though!
You are indeed right, it is not Gladstone, I sent a message to the person who's been posting all the screenshots to ask. I don't know if he's the Double Trouble guy, though, I didn't ask. I also now know the evil wizard's name and why AMJ are there, as well as the main villain of the show, but I don't want to reveal too many spoilers. Oh, and the bear is not, unfortunately, Humphrey, although they do resemble each other.
In the series, Donald Duck inherits Clinton's old adventurer cabana at the New Quackmore Institute of Art, Culture and Science, a college that Coot helped establish. This inheritance is also split with Panchito Pistoles and Jose Carioca, who are descendants of Coot's friends, who together called themselves the Three Caballeros.
This is the third use of the name, "Quackmore" in the greater Duck Universe, after Donald's father's first name (the original usage) and Scrooge's butler's last name (don't like that one, but anyway). It's interesting that they have Clinton Coot establish a college; you could argue that Elvira named her son after whomever her father named his college after, so that's a nice little indirect connection (if the name Quackmore must be used so often). I wish they had also used Rosa's idea that Clinton Coot founded the Junior Woodchucks, but with HD&L apparently not in this show, I guess there wasn't much point (unless AM&J are Woodchucks here). EDIT: Okay, so apparently "New Quackmore" is the name of the town where Coot's cabin is located and where the show takes place. Whether it's a suburb of Duckburg I don't know; we do know that Duckburg, Scrooge and the Money Bin appear as cameos, so there must be some relationship.
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jun 26, 2018 17:35:07 GMT
Okay, so one thing is that the idea that New Quackmore is a city near Duckburg actually solves the multiple-Quackmores problem. The college is named for the city, the butler Quackmore's family presumably comes from the English city of Quackmore that New Quackmore is named after, and Donald's dad was named after New Quackmore.
“The character's personalities are different”… welp, that's cryptic.
This is indeed the Three Caballeros' first meeting.
Is Clinton Coot explicitly identified as Donald's great grandfather, or just an ancestor?
I don't see why not. We'll see, it but it wouldn't surprise me if he was. Someone suggested (and it seems plausible to me) that they started with “Donald's great-grandfather” in the first place, and then looked up who that canonically was, hence Clinton Coot's unexpected appearance.
Does Grandma appear at all? Does Scrooge appear beyond the two second cameo, and is Duckburg as a city ever referenced?
I wouldn't hold out my breath for the former, and am not sure about Scrooge, but I should think Duckburg must be referenced if it's established that New Quackmore is “a city near Duckburg”.
(BTW, that "evil wizard" looking like Goosetave Gander is a connection I'm surprised I and apparently no one else on this thread made!)
Eh. In hindsight there is a certain resemblance (face structure, expression, hairstyle), but the beaks are rather different (not that the show seems to care about that too much, I mean goddammit, Clinton Coot is a coot, not a duck, therefore is beak is pointy like Cornelius's), and Goosetave has neither the Salvador-Dali-esque mustache nor the beady purple eyes of Von Sheldrake. The Baron also lacks Goosetave's mole and monocle.
Is Clinton Coot explicitly identified as Donald's great grandfather, or just an ancestor?
I don't see why not. We'll see, it but it wouldn't surprise me if he was. Someone suggested (and it seems plausible to me) that they started with “Donald's great-grandfather” in the first place, and then looked up who that canonically was, hence Clinton Coot's unexpected appearance.
Does Grandma appear at all? Does Scrooge appear beyond the two second cameo, and is Duckburg as a city ever referenced?
I wouldn't hold out my breath for the former, and am not sure about Scrooge, but I should think Duckburg must be referenced if it's established that New Quackmore is “a city near Duckburg”.
(BTW, that "evil wizard" looking like Goosetave Gander is a connection I'm surprised I and apparently no one else on this thread made!)
Eh. In hindsight there is a certain resemblance (face structure, expression, hairstyle), but the beaks are rather different (not that the show seems to care about that too much, I mean goddammit, Clinton Coot is a coot, not a duck, therefore is beak is pointy like Cornelius's), and Goosetave has neither the Salvador-Dali-esque mustache nor the beady purple eyes of Von Sheldrake. The Baron also lacks Goosetave's mole and monocle.
Well, technically, Clinton is a Coot/Duck hybrid, if I am not mistaken (although I may be). So, it would make sense that his beak would be more duck-like than Cornelius's. Although I agree that the show makes him a bit too duck-like. You're right, though, Von Sheldgoose does look rather different than Goosetave, the beak being the most prominent difference.
Last Edit: Jun 26, 2018 19:00:46 GMT by drleevezan