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**** The name "Glomgold" definitely suggests Dutch/Boer ancestry, as does the fact that he lives in South Africa. ''[[Duck Tales]]'' changed this, either for simplicity's sake, or because it was a bit... problematic to incorporate an Afrikaner into a children's cartoon in the late 1980s without wading into the hot-button issue of apartheid. |
**** The name "Glomgold" definitely suggests Dutch/Boer ancestry, as does the fact that he lives in South Africa. ''[[Duck Tales]]'' changed this, either for simplicity's sake, or because it was a bit... problematic to incorporate an Afrikaner into a children's cartoon in the late 1980s without wading into the hot-button issue of apartheid. |
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* It's only referenced a couple of times, but why does Scrooge maintain a private zoo? We hardly ever see him there unless it involves his unicorn, and it's gotta be a huge drain of money to maintain it and not open it up to the public. I know he's a nature-lover in the vein of Roosevelt but it doesn't gel with the rest of his character. |
* It's only referenced a couple of times, but why does Scrooge maintain a private zoo? We hardly ever see him there unless it involves his unicorn, and it's gotta be a huge drain of money to maintain it and not open it up to the public. I know he's a nature-lover in the vein of Roosevelt but it doesn't gel with the rest of his character. |
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** [[WMG|Breeding program for the animals he discovers, so he can sell them as exotic pets to millionaires.]] |
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*** In the Dutch languague version of the catching of the unicorn, that zoo is open to the public, but the entrance fees are sky-high, further private zoos are status symbols,for the rich and mighty, so he might need the zoo to compete with Glomgold and/or Rockerduck. |
*** In the Dutch languague version of the catching of the unicorn, that zoo is open to the public, but the entrance fees are sky-high, further private zoos are status symbols,for the rich and mighty, so he might need the zoo to compete with Glomgold and/or Rockerduck. |
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** He might also view the zoo as the "living creatures department" of his treasure collection. After all, a such extremely rare animals like the unicorn are ''highly valuable'', just like the Golden Fleece or the crown of Genghis Khan. (Although granted, the original Barks comic suggests that Scrooge follows a quite [[Gotta Catch Them All|completist]] approach concerning his zoo, which means it contains not only rare, but also very common animals.) |
** He might also view the zoo as the "living creatures department" of his treasure collection. After all, a such extremely rare animals like the unicorn are ''highly valuable'', just like the Golden Fleece or the crown of Genghis Khan. (Although granted, the original Barks comic suggests that Scrooge follows a quite [[Gotta Catch Them All|completist]] approach concerning his zoo, which means it contains not only rare, but also very common animals.) |
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