Mickey Mouse in nordic countries?

[jonas]

Why do nordic Disney comics say that Mickey lives in Duckburg? When they never meet. This is my first post here and it was this that interesser me the most right now. I have grown up and still live in Norway. I have always thought How does Mickey live in Duckburg when there Are no ducks, goose and other anthrophmorphic birds in Mickey Mouse comics. So when i heard about the american Mouseton and the Italias topplinia i decided that he lives in another city. But why has egmont made Mickey live in Duckburg?

[jonas]

I must admit that it’s sad How little life it is in this forum when it is a forum in english the lingua franca.

[crazycatlord]

During decades, in the Portuguese/Brazilian comics Mickey also lived in Duckburg; and I think that makes more sense to Mickey and Donald living both in Duckburg and rarely meeting each other (very common in a big city) than the opposite - living in different towns (in some versions, in different coasts of USA) and very frequently to meet each other (or characters by the other "universe") by pure chance (like in many stories, specially from Paul Murray; and, of course, a zillion of Brazilian stories).

[The bigger "loose end" in the "Mickey living in Duckburg" thing is the absence of chief O'Hara in most stories involving the police department in the "Duck Universe"]

[Spectrus]

Mar 31, 2022 15:46:34 GMT jonas said:

Why do nordic Disney comics say that Mickey lives in Duckburg? When they never meet. This is my first post here and it was this that interesser me the most right now. I have grown up and still live in Norway. I have always thought How does Mickey live in Duckburg when there Are no ducks, goose and other anthrophmorphic birds in Mickey Mouse comics. So when i heard about the american Mouseton and the Italias topplinia i decided that he lives in another city. But why has egmont made Mickey live in Duckburg?

I think part of it is down to the fact that Duckburg was better defined. It's handled like that in the German translation of the original comics - everything is "Entenhausen".

[Mesterius]

The answer is simply "tradition" for a lot of countries. Mickey has lived in Duckburg for many decades in various European countries. I can't imagine them suddenly changing it now.

[jonas]

Of course we couldn’t just Move Mickey’s town/city from Duckburg to his own town now.

[Daniel Maline]

Among the realm of the Egmont publishing house it is about a simplification of the universe in which multiple locations are bundled and localized into one fictitious place (Entenhausen, Duckstad, Andeby, Ankeborg, Ankkalinna etc.). Presumably this end result has been reached fairly independently in different countries because there are local differences in the degree of localizations. And since then, it has been continued for years as a tradition that is hard to change once when it is once settled.