Stories about future Duckburg

[Scroogerello]

What stories do you know where we get to see future versions of the Duckburg characters? I know there was the episode "Duck to The Future" from the original DuckTales series, and there's also Carlos Mota's "A World Without Scrooge", where Donald and the nephews travel to a future where Scrooge has lost his empire to the Beagle Boys. And there's also this short Dutch story ( inducks.org/story.php?c=H+94108 ), where a time-traveling Donald meets his nephews and Gladstone and Daisy (who are now an elderly married couple). I always enjoy reading these stories where we learn what became of the Duckburg characters in the distant future. Do any of you know more of these type of stories?

[Scrooge MacDuck]

There's that story whose name I forget (it was published in an issue of Uncle Scrooge Adventures) where Scrooge travels to a post-apocalyptic future where an A.I. duplicate of him has taken over Duckburg. We get to see the older, but still quite spry, version of the original flesh-and-blood Scrooge, who leads the inevitable band of plucky rebels. But, of course, the ending of the story implies that the info Scrooge brings back from his trip in time is such that he'll avert that whole timeline anyway. 

Can't not mention Don Rosa's Whatever Happened to Uncle Scrooge? drawing, either, obviously. 

There's also, of course, this story; in English it was printed only in Walt Disney Treasures #2, but it's all about a potential vision of Duckburg's future and quite neat too. 

[deb]

inducks.org/story.php?c=D+96259
"The Once and Future Donald", where future Donald and present Donald change places.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Mar 1, 2019 23:43:43 GMT deb said:

inducks.org/story.php?c=D+96259
"The Once and Future Donald", where future Donald and present Donald change places.

Unless I'm mistaken, though, it's about Donald swapping places with a descendant of his — functionally a "future Donald", but only in the same sense that Pirate Scrooge is "past Scrooge", y'know. It's not quite the same. 

[deb]

Mar 1, 2019 23:47:22 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Mar 1, 2019 23:43:43 GMT deb said:

inducks.org/story.php?c=D+96259
"The Once and Future Donald", where future Donald and present Donald change places.

Unless I'm mistaken, though, it's about Donald swapping places with a descendant of his — functionally a "future Donald", but only in the same sense that Pirate Scrooge is "past Scrooge", y'know. It's not quite the same. 

True, but you do get to see a lot of future Duckburg.  And Donald's descendant sure ACTS like the current Donald, so maybe it's a bit lazy on the author's part, but it's still a fun story. 

[Matilda]

The McGreals/Rota Little Helper Lost shows us Duckburg 500 years in the future, when there's a big "Gyro Gearloose Museum of Science and Technology" as well as flying saucer-ish personal vehicles. (Also, there's serious agriculture taking place in Antarctica.) It's a wonderful, largely wordless story. I'm hoping it will show up in a Fantagraphics Disney Masters Rota volume, one of these years! 

[TheMidgetMoose]

Mar 1, 2019 23:19:43 GMT Scroogerello said:

And there's also this short Dutch story ( inducks.org/story.php?c=H+94108 ), where a time-traveling Donald meets his nephews and Gladstone and Daisy (who are now an elderly married couple).

I've never read this story, so I need to ask if Daisy and Gladstone are married because Donald disappeared from the timeline thanks to his time-traveling or just because that is what will happen in the future. I have a feeling it is the former, but I'd like to know for sure.

As for future Duckburgs, I guess Quack Pack kind of qualifies. I think one of the episodes had a reference to HDL being old enough to drive, which would make them at least 15, which also seems to place it in the "future" of the typical story where they seem more around 11. In the same vein, there is also "Lucky Number", a classic Donald Duck cartoon. It also has HDL as being old enough to drive. They work at a gas station Donald apparently owns. Of course, I'm sure you already know of Don Rosa's "Hey Daisy, whatever happened to Uncle Scrooge?" drawing (https://inducks.org/story.php?c=GC+HD++77B) I'm pretty sure it's unofficial and unapproved by Disney, but I think some Rosa fans see it as canonical.

Anyhow, I'm glad that you opened this thread, as I lately have pondered myself what the future of our favorite Duckburgians (Duckburgers?) will be. I'll be excited to see what kind of future the stories in this thread point to.

[crazycatlord]

"Return to Duckburg Place" counts?

"O Casamento do Pato Donald" has also some elements of that, but not much (and it is a dream).

[xanderares]

"La nuova Storia e Gloria della Dinastia dei Paperi" saga show the ducks future from the MegaDuckburg of the 2117 to the space colony in the 2617.

[Scroogerello]

Mar 2, 2019 2:14:01 GMT TheMidgetMoose said:

Mar 1, 2019 23:19:43 GMT Scroogerello said:

And there's also this short Dutch story ( inducks.org/story.php?c=H+94108 ), where a time-traveling Donald meets his nephews and Gladstone and Daisy (who are now an elderly married couple).

I've never read this story, so I need to ask if Daisy and Gladstone are married because Donald disappeared from the timeline thanks to his time-traveling or just because that is what will happen in the future. I have a feeling it is the former, but I'd like to know for sure.

You're right; similar to what happened in "Duck to the Future", Gladstone and Daisy are married because Donald has disappeared from the timeline when he traveled to the future. In the story, Future-Daisy often laments to Future-Gladstone, how much better a husband Donald would have been. 

[That Duckfan]

The futuristic Paperinik New Adventures stories are set in the far-flung future year of 2020, according to my copies. This story has Gus Goose dreaming that he slept for 400 years, while this story sees Donald transported one million years into the future. In Tales of a Tail Coat, we follow a cursed coat that has been in the Mouse family for generations, with a short epilogue to Mickey's future descendant, while in this story we meet the descendants of Mickey and the Phantom Blot in the year 7,000.

[xanderares]

Paperinik e l'aiuto dal futuro (I PK 45-2) where Duck Avenger is brought in the year 3415 to defeat the cyborgs of the descendants of Scrooge (Paperhon) and Rockerduck (Rockius).
Paperinik e il futuro imperfetto (I PK 114-1) where Duck Avenger travels to the future thanka to a timemachine create by Gyro, a future ruled by the cruel computer called Multivac and Duckburg is terrorized by a kind of "police" in effigy of the avenger.
Paperinik e la new generation (I PK 123-1) where Donald to escape from Uncle Scrooge accidentally ends up in the future and there he discovers that Duck Avenger has been replaced by three young heroes, his nephews who formed a team of Duck Avengers.

[muggyruglugg]

Don Rosa wasn't the only one who did a "Whatever happened to Uncle Scrooge" drawing.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Not to get too off-topic, and I've mentioned this before, but one of the things I hated about that "Duck to the Future" episode of DuckTales '87 was that Donald was completely missing from the future, and was not even mentioned. I get that they didn't want him to be a regular on this show, but a storyline like this requires that his status be clarified. Is he still in the Navy twenty-odd years later? As Scrooge's main heir, he should have been running or at least playing a part in running McDuck Enterprises. (In the same vein, it's inexcusable that the show implied that Scrooge was an only child. Were did Donald, and for that matter HD&L standing right next to him, come from then?).

Posted by muggyruglugg

Don Rosa wasn't the only one who did a "Whatever happened to Uncle Scrooge" drawing.

And he never meant for it to be canonical. In fact, he resents that some fans consider it so. That's why that, and "Return to Duckburg Place", don't count as depictions of future Duckburg in my book.

[TheMidgetMoose]

Mar 2, 2019 21:49:03 GMT muggyruglugg said:

Don Rosa wasn't the only one who did a "Whatever happened to Uncle Scrooge" drawing.

You're right, I just brought his up because I know that some fans take it to be canonical. That's not to say it is, I just thought it was worthy of mention. Also, I do believe that Rosa does believe that Scrooge died in 1967. He even hinted at it in "The Richest Duck in the World", which he set in 1947, where he has Scrooge saying, "Why, I feel like I have a good 20 years of work left in me!"