My childhood like many was during a time where cartoons where heavily trying to appeal to a wide variety of audiences and with so many classic cartoons loosing there popularity they began to try and do a different approach to each of them . In the 80's and early 90's a lot of them went with making the older characters kids (will discuss in a later post) and Disney decided to do similar but making spin offs of there characters in there own world situations.
Disney decided in the 80's to do many spin offs of there characters and was also a way to introduce newer characters as well. Eventually Disney over did it everyone except Mickey mouse had a spin off even spin off characters had spin offs. Regardless of this All of them were great unique takes on these classic trademark characters and some of them became hugely successful. Each on had there own interesting take and they all started really With Duck Tales. Disney From what I assumed decided to look at the concept of making a spin off series based on there popular characters and from my opinion they decided to take the most famed character Donald Duck and there popular Christmas character Scrooge mcduck and created a alternate reality where Scrooge McDuck and Donald raise the there nephews Hughie, Louie and Dewey.
However wanting to promote there lesser known characters (and new ones) they decided to take Donald out of the series and make him more of a reoccurring guest role. The Idea is that Donald Being a Sailor(or at least dressed like one all the time) was on military duties and couldn't look after the boys. The concept is set in Duckburg and modern day, instead of the Dickens based past. Scrooge is still a Billionaire (and the richest in the world). The Boys were represented as being mischievous at first , looking for acceptance and a adult/ father figure missing in there life. The boy eventually change the heart of there uncle Scrooge and developed a close relationship with him.
The series was a huge success even airing in the soviet union at the time. it spawned theatrical movies (one which I believe was one of the first movies I ever saw in theatres), Video games, comic books, toys etc...Even another spin off with there character Launchpad McQuack in Darkwing Duck. Eventually by the near end of the 90's appeared another spin off Quack Pack where Donald had returned home and assuming retired, the boys are teenagers.
I wanted to share all of them here at once but seeing that there is many of them ,each deserve there own detail summary or review I will discuss each of them over the next few weekends.
