<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">L. Schulte wrote:<BR>
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>I once received a reply from Gladstone Publishing about locating a rack of <BR>
>their comic books in the mall Disney Stores. They said the Disney store <BR>
>people were dead set against any comic books in their stores! It was <BR>
>unclear why,but there was no way even the high-priced large albums would be <BR>
>allowed in a Disney Store. Curious: it is impossible to find anything <BR>
>about Duck Tales or Uncle Scrooge in a Disney store here in America. Even <BR>
>Donald himself and the nephews are rarely found.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Calisto MT" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">It's the same case for me here! I remember, a few years ago, seeing a DuckTales cel hanging there, but that was about as close to Scrooge-related merchandise I had seen.<BR>
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Even in Disney World is Scrooge merchandise hard to come across. About four years ago, when I was there, I bought a small Scrooge plush toy (I was ten at the time, I believe), which was the only merchandise I had seen throughout the entire park.<BR>
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To top it all off, it was thrown in the bin with the really obscure, minor characters from various Disney films. Argh!</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Calisto MT" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">-- <BR>
Dane Martin<BR>
"I don't know from alliteration <BR>
or simile, but if you lazy little <BR>
loafers don't get to school, <BR>
I'll peel you like spuds!"<BR>
-- Donald Duck (Rosa)</FONT></HTML>