that $crooge snowglobe

[Don Rosa]

Since people were guessing as to whether the theme played on this new
$crooge snowglobe was the Donald Duck theme (as the ad states) or the
"Ducktales" theme (as one would expect), I'm happy to report that it's the
1930's DD theme (even though that's inappropriate in its own way). In fact,
this is one of the most "Barksian" $crooge figurines in my collection of
many hundreds. It's gorgeous. It features $crooge frolicking in a pile of
coins on his desk, and the desk and surrounding floor is beautifully adorned
with many details of coins, bills, money bags, ingots, not to mention
woodwork details and carved "$"s and even an old ticker tape machine below a
clear bell-jar. There's even such extreme detailing as an old style
(naturally) phone sitting off its cradle so no calls will disturb $crooge as
he has his fun. It's straight out of the 1950's and so cluttered with detail
that it looks like something *I* would draw. And I'm happy to see more items
made in the cheaper resin style which looks much nicer than the more
expensive ceramic method or any other method. The only drawback is that it
IS a snowglobe to help sales in the "coll-eech-tibles" market of American
buyers who want Disney snowglobes even if they don't recognize or understand
the character featured. ("Oh, isn't that adorable -- must be a character
coming up in LION KING IV.") And even though I thought "Ducktales" was an
excellent TV show, since I thought of it as a counterfeit $crooge I did
*not* like its influence on the few $crooge items being made, and I'm happy
to see that it's far enough in the past now that its theme tune was not
automatically used on this gorgeous new figurine.
I don't know why I'm waxing eloquent with a merchandise review -- I guess
it's just that I am a $crooge collector, and yet there have been *very few*
really good Barks-style $crooge items ever made for the general market since
the first one in 1956 (a tiny Hagen-Renaker ceramic), and this latest one is
one of the best.