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Okay, now onto the topic. I have heard awhile back that Walt Disney did not like Donald Duck.
Do you know if that is true? If it is true, do you know why he didn't like Donald?
Hey! My thread title's alliterated
Okay, now onto the topic. I have heard awhile back that Walt Disney did not like Donald Duck.
Do you know if that is true? If it is true, do you know why he didn't like Donald?
Last edited by Disney Wrassler; 02-10-2007 at 08:21 PM.
I think the main problem wasn't that he disliked the duck, it's more that the public liked him a bit too much and was pushing Mickey out of popularity.
-Tim
Ooohhh. Good point.
Ick, I don't like Donald very much.
No words, My tears won't make any room for more,
And it don't hurt, like anything I've ever felt before, this is
No broken heart,
No familiar scars,
This territory goes uncharted...
The book, Walt Disney, Triumph of the American Imagination talks about him disliking Goofy, but never mentions a dislike of Donald. Now it does say that after Snow White, Walt was not as interested in the shorts anymore, but made them mostly because he had contracts to make them.
I've heard too many extremely positive tape recordings of Walt talking about Donald...and also talking about Clarence "Ducky" Nash...to believe he didn't like the Donald character.
Not to mention all those wonderful "Wonderful World of Color" live action/animation intros with Walt* and Donald.
*Trivia on all those Donald/Walt segments: The close-up shots of Walt's hands were actually the hands of Disney Legend Bill Justice...who borrowed and wore Walt's ring for those close-up shots.
like stitch is doing now!it's more that the public liked him a bit too much and was pushing Mickey out of popularity.
DISNEYROYALTY
it's Mickey who doesn't like Donald - Mickey runs the place, and he definitely does all he can to push Donald to the back ground.
Why? he's jealous becaue Donald's HUGE!! More than the rodent ever will be.
a friend of Walt.
Well it seems to me now ... as a Donald lover ... that Donald is the least represented out of the "Fab Five" ... and maybe Pluto.
You've obviously got Mickey and Minnie at the top (as it should be). Goofy is also EVERYWHERE. Then you've got characters like the Pooh characters and Stitch and Buzz that have kind of taken over.
Go and try to find a sweat shirt, shirt, sticker, anything with JUST Donald on it. You won't find it, at least at Disneyland. At WDW Kristi found me ALOT of cool Donald exclusive stuff that you just can't find here.
Which sucks.
I agree. I love Donald and finding Donald stuff is nearly impossible.Originally Posted by sir clinksalot
But, hey, if Disney wants to save me a few bucks heck I'm cool with that.
Donald is among my favorites. Actually, all the ducks are.
*Proud owner of a gold Scrooge McDuck pocket watch!*
-Tim
Walt Disney liked Donald because he could be everything Mickey wasn't--hot-tempered, vain, irascible and pompous--and that opened a floodgate of potential new storylines and scenarios. As Donald was being established as a major character, the well was already running dry on Mickey. Certainly, Mickey was still extremely popular with the public, but the Disney Studio was running out of story ideas for him, basically because he was too nice. Animators were limited with what they could do with Mickey. They couldn't put him in the antagonistic roles that Donald was born to play.
It's interesting to see how Mickey evolved as a character. In his very early cartoons (Galloping Gaucho, Plane Crazy, even Steamboat Willie) he was more of a prankster and a bit of a scoundrel. As his popularity took off, however, he became more of an everyman and less prone to questionable behavior, because that's what the public wanted.
Melonballer, you're correct in pointing out Disney's disdain for Goofy. Neal Gabler doesn't really expound on it in his book, but he has said that Disney probably regarded the slapstick nature of the Goofy cartoons as a throwback to the early days of Alice, Oswald and the first Mickey shorts--a style of animation that Disney had long since moved away from. Walt was never one to repeat himself. "You can't top pigs with pigs" was his famous philosophy. Also, by the time Goofy was reaching his peak in popularity during the late '40's and early '50's, Disney regarded short cartoons in general as "busy work" for his animators, something to keep them occupied between more ambitious projects. So, maybe it wasn't that he disliked Goofy so much as he was indifferent to him because Disney had bigger fish to fry.
Last edited by disneytim; 02-11-2007 at 10:40 AM.
I love Scrooge too! I recommend that you read Don Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck"
This stuff about Walt and Goofy is interesting
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