Ground floor of the Bin

Olaf Solstrand harryklein at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 15 06:01:31 CET 2002


(If this E-mail in any way gives you the feeling that the person who wrote 
it is on drugs, I have a perfect explanation to that, as I got my first kiss 
three and a half hour ago.)

Even as "Forget it!" is a GOOD story, one thing strikes me about it: It does 
not have the same first floor... No, wait, in English the word is "ground 
floor", right?... as in the Money Bin Blueprints. Neither has... well, TONS 
of other Scrooge stories.

What's so funny about this is that the entire ground floor is a paradox. In 
some Scrooge stories, like "Cash Flow" (AR 106) and "The Black Knight" (D 
97346), entering the Money Bin is an impossible quest - passing bear traps, 
trap doors, guns, worms, and even an acid pool.

How can that be possible, when Scrooge himself, his nephews, all of his 
employees and even most of his enemies, like Magica de Spell in "Forget it!" 
(D 2001-095) and "A matter of some gravity" (D 96001) passes through that 
same hallway every day? Every time Donald comes to visit his uncle, he MUST 
have walked the short (or not so short) distance from the door to the 
stairs.


My guess would be that Scrooge - or maybe his sisters - thought of that a 
while after the bin was built, and therefor made easy ways to come through 
the ground floors. Worms etc could easily be placed in cages on normal 
daytime and released when neccessarry, the carpet tacks could easily be 
solved by some really good boots, stronger than the B.B. shoes. The bear 
traps could be pushed aside when not needed (Scrooge obviously always knows 
when the Beagle Boys are nearby, even though he has no windows in his 
office... probably a camera or something Gyro has created for him), and the 
and the gatling guns and the cannon - well, they could simply enough NOT be 
fired, and the electrified flooring must have some kind of "on/off"-button 
anyway. And for the acid pool, there's easy to build a bridge that the Bin 
guard would pull over to the side of the hallway closest to the stairs (I 
hope you understand what I mean) and replace over the acid pool when 
visitors came around. The traps would be easy to put out again when Beagles 
or other scary creatures were coming up Killmotor Hill ("The Beagle has 
landed").

OR maybe this has a MUCH better explanation, which could turn into a GREAT 
story someday (which I will try to write someday if nobody else does. Btw, 
I'm working on a new 12-pager for Egmont now, this time it's a Donald Duck 
story).

Any ideas/thoughts around this?



Olaf Solstrand

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