Gyro's First Invention

[halvor.sandven@dnb.no]

Hello!

I just re-read Rosa's story 'Gyro First Invention' in WDC 324, after
having read it in the Norwegian weekly earlier. It was great reading it
in its original language, and this is a really good story which
interacts very good with several of Barks classics. I liked the idea of
using Gyro to get Scrooge's money out, as using the toy-train would be a
much too slow method. However, there are some minor things I like to
point out, and I did this after having read it the first time also, but
never got a good explanation for these things, but now as more people
have read the story, I try again:

Using the think-box to make Little Helper intelligent was another nice
idea, and if I'm not mistaken, the think-box also worked on Gyro
himself, making him even more brilliant than he was before his little
accident. His inventions were not very successful up to this point. This
makes me wonder that maybe it's not completely correct to say that
Little Helper was his first success, but rather the think-box, as it was
this invention that made the creation of the helper possible, and also
most likely boosted Gyro's own intellect.

Another thing, when reading Bark's story about the think-box (a story
later in time than this one), I get the impression that Donald doesn't
really know Gyro at this point, only by reputation. Donald thinks Gyro's
a nut, and he doesn't want his nephews to help him. Isn't this a bit
strange, considering that Donald knows at this time that Gyro helped
Scrooge with his big problem, and that he really is brilliant?

The next thing is Gyro's appearance. In the first Gyro-stories by Barks,
his hair is quite different. It's longer, and cut in another way. In
Rosa's story Gyro has the appearance of later stories. Why is this so?
Wouldn't it be more natural that his hair was longer in Rosa's story? 

I don't want to give the impression that I didn't like this story,
because I did! I loved it and had great pleasure reading it. These
things I've mentioned here are all minor points.

On a side-note, speaking of Gyro's hear; I just re-read the
Fallberg/Murry-story 'The Moon-Blot Plot' from WDC 246-248, first
published in 1961. This story also contains Gyro, and in the first
chapter we see Gyro as he first appeared, with the long hair, but when
chapter 2 begins he suddenly has got a haircut, looking more like he did
in Barks later stories. When we see him in silhouette, we still can see
his longer hair. Strange indeed!

Halvor

On a side-note, speaking of Gyro's hear; I just re-read the
Fallberg/Murry-story 'The Moon-Blot Plot' from WDC 246-248, first
published in 1961. This story also contains Gyro, and in the first
chapter we see Gyro as he first appeared, with the long hair, but when
chapter 2 begins he suddenly has got a haircut, looking more like he did
in Barks later stories. When we see him in silhouette, we still can see
his longer hair. Strange indeed!

Halvor



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