SV: Re: Cornhoot

[Olaf Solstrand]

Quoting "Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr." <sigvald at duckburg.dk>:

> Statue? Compared to the original statue used in Don Rosa's stories this is
> just a little miniature - it would certainly have been much more impressive
> if it had been a full size copy.

A slight correction: The Cornelius Coot statue was first used by Carl Barks, 
not Don Rosa, thus the "original statue" will be the one(s) from "Statuesque 
Spendthrifts".

Also, keep in mind:

1. The original statues was built by the then two richest men in the world, and 
they were so expensive that the second-richest man in the world spent all his 
money building statues. And even though we all have put lots of money into the 
Disney corporation, I don't think they have a fortune even close to the wealth 
of the Maharaja of Howduyustan.

2. When Carl Barks or Don Rosa want to build an enormous statue, they can do 
that in... I don't know, maybe a few hours. And all it costs them is a few 
extra pennies in ink. To build something like that in real life... well, let's 
just say that both the expenses, the work needed, the time the building takes 
and the difficulty increases proportionally with the size of the statue.


Naturally, I agree with you that a full size copy would be MUCH, MUCH, MUCH 
more impressive - but why see the negative side of everything? Personally, I 
was VERY positively surprised seeing that a Disney themepark actually *have* a 
Cornelius Coot-statue! And I would be so even if they *had* misspelled his 
name! Concidering that the Disney coorporation never cared much about comics, I 
see this as a tribute to the man who *was* Walt Disney to many of us - Carl 
Barks. So why mutter because the statue is not fifty meters high? I'm very 
pleased to see a Carl Barks background character honoured in this way in Walt 
Disney World, and don't see any reasons to use this occation for grumbling. 
Three cheers to Carl Barks, and three cheers to Cornelius Coot - they both 
founded Duckburg, and this statue (yes, I call it a statue despites its size) 
is a tribute to both of them.


Olaf the Blue