Where do you see Ludwig Von Drake in the titles? I cannot find him.
It would be extremely cool if they would make Magica appearances rare but memorable. Like a very very scary sorcière...
"Recurring guest voices include Lin-Manuel Miranda as Gizmoduck, aka Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera, Allison Janney as Goldie O’Gilt, Margo Martindale as the villainous Ma Beagle, Paul F. Tompkins as Gladstone Gander, Kimiko Glenn as the well-traveled teen Lena, Jim Rash as mad scientist Gyro Gearloose, Josh Brener as tech billionaire Mark Beaks, Keith Ferguson as Scrooge’s archenemy Flintheart Glomgold, Eric Bauza as the Beagle Boys, and Corey Burton as Ludwig Von Drake. Earlier this week we got a sneak peek at some of these characters and we could not be more excited."
Indeed, the accent could have been done better. Though it makes sense that it's not perfect, since her voice actress Sonia Scotti is from Bari, rather than Naples. Anyway, it's still better than a Magica with a Russian accent.
Indeed, the accent could have been done better. Though it makes sense that it's not perfect, since her voice actress Sonia Scotti is from Bari, rather than Naples. Anyway, it's still better than a Magica with a Russian accent.
That might actually make sense…… Could be that she's not from Naples, and only moved there when she discovered her ritual had to be performed on Mount Vesuvius. If so, she could attempt to take on a local accent to blend in, without actually being very good at it.
Indeed, the accent could have been done better. Though it makes sense that it's not perfect, since her voice actress Sonia Scotti is from Bari, rather than Naples. Anyway, it's still better than a Magica with a Russian accent.
That might actually make sense…… Could be that she's not from Naples, and only moved there when she discovered her ritual had to be performed on Mount Vesuvius. If so, she could attempt to take on a local accent to blend in, without actually being very good at it.
So, you really like trying to fit everything into a single continuity, eh?
At any rate, if I remember correctly the original series didn't have Magica living near the actual Mount Vesuvius in Italy, but rather in a fictional island which just happens to be called "Mount Vesuvius" but doesn't look like the real thing at all:
Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Jun 15, 2017 12:38:05 GMT
Do we know anything at all about Jumpsuit Ninja Lady and the Tinhat Wolf Brothers? Reviewing the trailer, they seem to work together. They are important enough that they merit several appearances in the intro. I think I know the answer to this, but are they original creations or based on characters that appeared somewhere else?
Also, it does seem that "mad scientist Gyro" creates a Li'l Bulb that goes rogue at some point ... isn't that Li'l Bulb in the cybersuit menacing the good guys? There's a scene in the beginning on the intro that shows Gyro looking horrified as his invention seemingly goes out of control ... that's be an interesting twist.
No idea about "the well-traveled teen Lena". But for some reason I keep seeing images of a Dickie Duck-type character when I hear that description.
EDIT: And Angones did confirm that that's Ol' Number One and not some random dime in the intro, and denied any inspiration from Rosa's "The Coin". I agree the dime is poorly rendered, emblazoned with a large "10 Cents" rather than a head or tails image.
EDIT 2: Magica actually lived on a mountain carved in the image of her face in the original series? How tacky and clichéd! Hilarious.
No idea about "the well-traveled teen Lena". But for some reason I keep seeing images of a Dickie Duck-type character when I hear that description.
Yes, I had the same thought. Perhaps it's a way of getting a Dickie-like character into the cast, with a better name and without an origin that raises questions.
EDIT: And Angones did confirm that that's Ol' Number One and not some random dime in the intro, and denied any inspiration from Rosa's "The Coin". I agree the dime is poorly rendered, emblazoned with a large "10 Cents" rather than a head or tails image.
It's good to see that the Number One Dime is shown to be silver rather than golden (unlike most of Scrooge's coin in the show, unfortunately). I can even see why they avoided to draw a head or tails image to simplify its design... but since they bothered to write "10 Cents", they could have bothered to write "One Dime" instead, which is the correct form and would have taken the same amount of work. I haven't read the last entries of Angones' Tumblr, but I see that I was not the only one who thought of "The Coin" as a possible inspiration (even though it was a wrong guess).
I can even see why they avoided to draw a head or tails image to simplify its design...
Why not a dime with a duck head and the words "one dime" at the bottom? Would have looked better, in my opinion. A minor point, considering all the other issues we've discussed, but still. The Ducks being constantly chased by quasi-supernatural villains like horned monsters, mummies, giant lobsters and the Pirate Ghost of Buzz Buzzard gives the intro a Scooby-Doo type vibe ... not sure if that was intentional.
Good news re: Von Drake, but I'm not surprised ... he's the only character who's made an appearance in all the recent animated Duck shows ... DuckTales '87, Quack Pack, and the Mickey Mouse Shorts. And he gets to keep his original voice actor, like Donald (the only two who have that distinction in this show).
EDIT: Rewatching the trailer, it appears the TinHat Wolf Brothers are also associates of Glomgold's. So I wonder if they, and the Jumpsuit Ninja Lady, are all Glomgold lackeys of some sort?
Why not a dime with a duck head and the words "one dime" at the bottom? Would have looked better, in my opinion. A minor point, considering all the other issues we've discussed, but still.
I wouldn't have liked a dime with a duck head, since it would suggest the show is set in a parallel world, while I like to think of the duck universe as being set in the real world, meaning the currency used has to be real. What I meant is that I can understand that they would simplify the desing of the coins (though I would prefer to see the details, like Rosa and some other authors do), but I don't understand the point of changing "One Dime" to "10 Cents".
And hopefully the supernatural element will be used with moderation.
Why not a dime with a duck head and the words "one dime" at the bottom? Would have looked better, in my opinion. A minor point, considering all the other issues we've discussed, but still.
I wouldn't have liked a dime with a duck head, since it would suggest the show is set in a parallel world, while I like to think of the duck universe as being set in the real world, meaning the currency used has to be real. What I meant is that I can understand that they would simplify the desing of the coins (though I would prefer to see the details, like Rosa and some other authors do), but I don't understand the point of changing "One Dime" to "10 Cents".
And hopefully the supernatural element will be used with moderation.
So, the front of the 1870s 0r 1880s US dime should have had "Lady Liberty" seated (Seated Liberty dime), with the back (reverse) having a laurel wreath with "one dime" written in its centre. A "duck head" perhaps showing Cornelius Coot (famous American explorer and founder of Duckburg) would have indicated a parallel universe, which would be alright with me (but, perhaps not terribly likely, as Calisota seems to have a tremendously large "dogfaced population". So, it may be deduced that USA was likely to have a similar "racial configuration".
I wouldn't have liked a dime with a duck head, since it would suggest the show is set in a parallel world, while I like to think of the duck universe as being set in the real world, meaning the currency used has to be real. What I meant is that I can understand that they would simplify the desing of the coins (though I would prefer to see the details, like Rosa and some other authors do), but I don't understand the point of changing "One Dime" to "10 Cents".
And hopefully the supernatural element will be used with moderation.
So, the front of the 1870s 0r 1880s US dime should have had "Lady Liberty" seated (Seated Liberty dime), with the back (reverse) having a laurel wreath with "one dime" written in its centre. A "duck head" perhaps showing Cornelius Coot (famous American explorer and founder of Duckburg) would have indicated a parallel universe, which would be alright with me (but, perhaps not terribly likely, as Calisota seems to have a tremendously large "dogfaced population". So, it may be deduced that USA was likely to have a similar "racial configuration".
Drakeborough, I agree with you that Duckburg is in this world, not a parallel world, but I don't think that a duck face on the coin negates that or makes it not "real". To me, when we read a Duck comic, we are viewing events occurring in our world through a "filter" that turns everyone into anthropomorphic beings, even though they are actually all humans. Thus, when Rosa depicts Teddy Roosevelt, he gives him a little black nose, but he's still the same Teddy Roosevelt from our history, not a canine version in a parallel universe. Similarly, if current day celebrities or leaders are depicted in Duck comics, I would want them to be anthropomorphic animals (not necessarily dogfaces, but in accordance with the unwritten rules of Duck comics; so no elephants or giraffes, for example) rather than humans. But it would still be them, with the same histories and personalities. When you pick up a penny in the Duckiverse, it will still have an image of Abraham Lincoln, but that image would have a dognose or a duckbill or some such.
In my view, there are no humans in the Duckiverse. If you or I were to be in one of these stories, we would be anthropomorphic animals of some sort (by odds, depicted with dognoses).
Re: Calisota, I have always thought of it as the Duckiverse's equivalent of California (one of the few deviations from our real universe), so I doubt that the founder of Duckburg (a fictional city within our universe) would be portrayed on national currency. I know Barks depicted Duckburgian consulates abroad, but I have to ignore that since it makes no sense to me; why should a city have its own foreign embassy? But Robb has a point re: it needing to be Lady Liberty (with a duckbill or dognose) on Scrooge's number one dime (if they are sticking to the Rosa timeline, which they probably aren't).
So, the front of the 1870s 0r 1880s US dime should have had "Lady Liberty" seated (Seated Liberty dime), with the back (reverse) having a laurel wreath with "one dime" written in its centre. A "duck head" perhaps showing Cornelius Coot (famous American explorer and founder of Duckburg) would have indicated a parallel universe, which would be alright with me (but, perhaps not terribly likely, as Calisota seems to have a tremendously large "dogfaced population". So, it may be deduced that USA was likely to have a similar "racial configuration".
Drakeborough, I agree with you that Duckburg is in this world, not a parallel world, but I don't think that a duck face on the coin negates that or makes it not "real". To me, when we read a Duck comic, we are viewing events occurring in our world through a "filter" that turns everyone into anthropomorphic beings, even though they are actually all humans. Thus, when Rosa depicts Teddy Roosevelt, he gives him a little black nose, but he's still the same Teddy Roosevelt from our history, not a canine version in a parallel universe. Similarly, if current day celebrities or leaders are depicted in Duck comics, I would want them to be anthropomorphic animals (not necessarily dogfaces, but in accordance with the unwritten rules of Duck comics; so no elephants or giraffes, for example) rather than humans. But it would still be them, with the same histories and personalities. When you pick up a penny in the Duckiverse, it will still have an image of Abraham Lincoln, but that image would have a dognose or a duckbill or some such.
Re: Calisota, I have always thought of it as the Duckiverse's equivalent of California (one of the few deviations from our real universe), so I doubt that the founder of Duckburg (a fictional city within our universe) would be portrayed on national currency. I know Barks depicted Duckburgian consulates abroad, but I have to ignore that since it makes no sense to me; why should a city have its own foreign embassy?
- About the 'elephants and giraffes' bit: well, a couple of comics did feature elephants and rhinos. For instance, the Mayor of Mouseton was an elephant in a couple of French stories.
- The standard theory for explaining the consulate is that Duckburg remained independant from the U.S.A. between Coot's arrival in 1818, and the 'official' founding in 1861 (as per Don Rosa chronology), and, during this time, had already grown rich enough to have foreign ambassadors. It was then integrated into the U.S. with a special treaty that still allowed it to retain some of its old privileges (I think someone compared this situation to Porto Rico somewhere).
Calisota would be more like a protectorate, like The Navajo Nation, which is an independent nation, dependency of USA, who handles their foreign trade and dealinhgs with foreign nations, and their military protection, but The Government of the protectorate is sovereign within its borders, and it has its own laws, courts and police force.
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