that $crooge snowglobe

[Ola Martinsson]

Is there somewhere a picture on the web on this snowglobe ?

Ola in dark cloudy Stockholm

> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:05:37 -0500
> From: "Don Rosa" <donrosa at iglou.com>
> Subject: that $crooge snowglobe
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> 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.
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