and Kung-Fu, populated by Disney ducks and drenched in bouncy music by Michael Giacchino. It’s some sort of pulpy hybrid of Magnum P.I. But in 1996, he was somewhere else, too – a new video game from the newly formed Disney Interactive that may be one of the strangest concepts Disney ever had: Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow.Ĭold Shadow is literally unlike any other Disney property in that it has never had a follow-up of any kind. Where was Donald? Playing second banana to Mickey and starring in the ill-fated show Quack Pack, a series that only proved hip modernization suited neither Donald nor his nephews. Even his uncle Scrooge McDuck became a household name by starring in the runaway hit series DuckTales.
Goofy found success with his TV show Goof Troop, which gave him a fresh comedic partner in his hip, young son Max and updated his iconic slapstick by framing it in modern-day suburbia.
That would have been unthinkable in both characters’ golden age. Consider his peers Mickey Mouse was able to introduce himself to an entire new generation with three new short features between 19, plus a startling cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit that gave him a real conversation with Bugs Bunny. Donald Duck received about the worst treatment of the three main Disney characters in the 1980s and 1990s.
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