Donald Duck celebrates his 70th Birthday!

[nobbie]

Donald Fauntleroy Duck (his full name!) had his screen debut on June 9, 1934:



Happy 70th Birthday to the GREATEST cartoon character ever!

Link: http://www.disney.de/DisneyOnline/donaldduck/

PS: Donald for Chancellor in Germany! ;)

[Munkay]

I fell out of my seat due to laughter when I saw Donald Duck in Kingdom Hearts. I must say I didn't like him until that game!

-Munk

[[wcip]Angel]

You know I never understood the Duck family tree (in spite of having a cartoon map of the family tree), but who is Donald's father, and who is the father to his nephews? Also, if Donald is 70, how old is uncle Scrooge?

[AtomicKitKat]

For whatever strange reason, I never liked the 2 major companies' cartoon ducks. Maybe it's just that their blithering, blathering style reminds me of everything that I strive not to be.

RE the Duck family tree: You also have to consider that Uncle Scrooge is Scottish(as is his rival what's his name) Don't they also have a neice? And is Daisy a relative, in which case, might Donald be guilty of incestual feelings? So many questions!

[Jeunemaitre]

Depending on the genre you're interested in, there was a series of nieces involved in the Disney Duck family tree. According to this page Daisy had three nieces (April, May and June) in the comic book series. I would also like to point out that Daisy is clearly Donald's girlfriend and is not in any other way related (at least there's no proof).

I think the niece you're thinking of is from the Ducktales series where Donald has gone into naval service, and H, D, & L are left with Uncle Scrooge. Here we meet Webigail (Sp?), referred to often as Webby. As far as I can remember she was the daughter or niece of Scrooges housekeeper (Mrs. Beakly, or something such), however, I haven't done any research on this, and am relying on my memory, so I may be wrong here. Scrooge's rival was something-or-other Gladstone, or Goldstone, or... well, something like that.

Now, if only I could remember the name of Scrooge's pilot...

[AtomicKitKat]

Launchpad McQuack. They still show old episodes in the afternoon. :P

The bit about Daisy was just something that struck me as I realised that her last name is Duck as well. :P