<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 4, 2009, at 1:26 PM, John Chadwick wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If you're talking strictly merchandise, yeah it's hard to find, but not completely absent. I have a Scrooge sweatshirt from a few years back that I cherish as well as a pin commemorating a Beagle Boys' anniversary, and of course a treasured signed and numbered Carl Barks lithograph I bought in an Art of Disney shop (although items like that are getting very scarce).<div><br></div><div>Still I do find pleasure in the occasional presence of Barks influence in the parks. One of my favorites is the Cornelius Coot statue in Mickey's Toontown Fair at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Sometimes, I even relate the tale of how he founded Duckburg when I visit with newbies. And if you're really lucky you might just run into the miser himself. (I was going to attach a picture of me with Scrooge, but I guess attachments aren't allowed.)<br><div><div>On Apr 4, 2009, at 7:04 AM, Martin Andrew wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="#606420"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas:contacts" name="Sn"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place" downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalamp.com/"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas:contacts" name="GivenName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName" downloadurl="http://www.microsoft.com"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; ">For the DCML digest<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; ">From various friends and family visits to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on">Disneyland</st1:place><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Disney World it appears<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st2:sn w:st="on">Disney</st2:sn><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has very little support for anything to do with the characters created by Carl Barks. I don’t know if<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st2:sn w:st="on">Disney</st2:sn><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have a ‘wasn’t invented here’ syndrome but I for one would purchase Scrooge McDuck, Beagle Boys, Junior Woodchucks and Gyro Gearloose merchandise. I still wear my Scrooge McDuck gold tie pin I bought in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on">Disneyland</st1:place><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in 1995, even if it is a little worse for wear after going through an industrial clothes dryer. If the theme parks don’t support the characters how can a publisher garner support for the titles and vice versa. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; ">I would purchase a silk Carl Barks or Don Rosa Scrooge McDuck tie and a Beagle Boys one with the correct colours. I have worn my Italian Scrooge McDuck tie, wrong colours and all, to various prestigious university conferences, seminars and functions, a parliamentary function, and business conferences since 2002 around the world and have had nothing but compliments. I just believe this is a market being missed out on.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><st1:personname w:st="on"><st2:givenname w:st="on"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Martin</span></font></st2:givenname><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st2:sn w:st="on">Andrew</st2:sn></span></st1:personname><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br><a href="http://nafsk.se/mailman/listinfo/dcml" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://nafsk.se/mailman/listinfo/dcml</a></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Visit Cartoon Character Hall of Fame at <a href="http://www.toonhalloffame.com">http://www.toonhalloffame.com</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://www.supercreepers.com">www.supercreepers.com</a></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Visit Cartoon Character Hall of Fame at <a href="http://www.toonhalloffame.com">http://www.toonhalloffame.com</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://www.supercreepers.com">www.supercreepers.com</a></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>