Railroad shares / old castle / new ideas

[Olaf Solstrand]

Hi! I've just been to www.duckburg.de , where I saw through some of the 
schetches never used in Life of Scrooge (I'm still not sure whether it 
should be Scrooge or $crooge...), and, while reading part 11, I remembered 
one of the things that've always for me been a mystery: The railroad shares 
which Scrooge hides from the McVipers and forgets about - did they ever 
return in a Barks story? I guess they did... If not, why did D.R. put them 
there?

Another story that I've never read is the old castle's secret or whatever 
the title is... I've heard that Scotty, the one that I know from Life of 
Scrooge part 9, is taking part in this story. Is this true? If so, what does 
he do? Can anyone give me a quick summary of what HAPPENS in that story?

I have a feeling that one of the most boring things in the world must be to 
finally finish a Disney story, a huge project you've been working on for 
weeks, and then suddenly have nothing to do... I feel a bit that way now. I 
wanna start on a new story, but I'm not sure what to write about... But I 
have lots of wild ideas... Here are some of them. (I would like comments):

- Hortense McDuck has a lethal disease, Scrooge and the nephews go to 
Scotland, they find out (from the JWGB) that a flower that grows in Ireland 
can save her, they go there and get tricked by a leprecaun, but manages to 
get back in time

- Blackheart Beagle gets his hands on the "hypnotize gun" which Scrooge used 
to get Donald charge a very strong man for some money (the story where 
Donald was hypnotized to be a gorilla) and manages to make it hypnotize 
everybody, not just them with low will-power... or whatever the word is... 
and he uses it in an attempt to finally get his revenge on Scrooge

- Scrooge and the nephews go to Oak Island, Donald finds a record store 
where they sell "The screaming cowboy". He buys it and it turns out it has a 
very special effect on the waves on the ocean...

- One of the nephews have a date with a beautiful duck girl (probably 
Dewey)... this is just a small thought yet, I have no actually plot on what 
will happen...

- Magica De Spell uses an old formula to put herself in Scrooge's place, and 
it works - she gets to Scrooge's office to steal the Dime, but then she 
discovers that by putting herself in Scrooge's place she's lost all her 
magical powers and therefor cannot make herself a which again. Scrooge gets 
magical powers, but he has no idea of how to use it. And everybody starts 
calling Magica "aunt"... and Scrooge goes to Duckburg on a broomstick to get 
his property back, but nobody wants to help him because they think he is an 
evil magician... Could become an interesting story.

- THE CONTINUATION - the Duck twins - Dewey's grandchildren - are told about 
the history of their family in Duckburg 2000-version, and this story tells 
what happened to the ducks after Scrooge died, the boys went to college... 
this would be a gigantic story and would mean as much for me as "life of 
Scrooge" does for Don Rosa, I guess... but it definitely won't be the first 
story I write now, I need to get a name first!

- Scrooge and the nephews go treasure hunting on the Faroe islands. I have 
no clear plot here, but I'm going to the Faroe Islands this summer, so I 
will get hundreds of opportunities to do research on such a story... and 
that would probably make the tale better, if I managed to base it on my own 
experiences...

NOW: Any ideas on what I should do? At least I have to start writing 
SOMETHING... My life got incredibly boring when I no longer has "best of all 
inventions" to work on!

Have a nice weekend!
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