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The
Uncrashable Hindentanic
History has lots of disasters involving travel. This show
has an episode modeled after one of those disasters, the Hindenburg
blimp crash of 1937 in which a German dirigible using hydrogen gas crashed
while trying to land, killing 36 people.
While there are no deaths here since it’s from a show with a
light-hearted tone, it has a disaster tone to it with anything that can go
wrong on a blimp going wrong.
Scrooge,
having made a profit on everything his rival Flintheart Glomgold
challenges him to sell, is tasked to make a profit on a notorious dirigible, the
Uncrashable Hindentanic. Its reputation
alone threatens Scrooge’s chances of the investment being successful, but he
pushes on despite what’s against him.
He
and his staff attract a lot of attention to the dirigible. The many
passengers with their own quirks and side plots emulate the feel of
transportation used to fit the needs of various passengers. There’s an old-age movie star striving for
her big comeback despite her acting not being good. A patient awaits a beak
transplant. An astronomer who spots “billions and billions” of anything. A
scientist transports bees for the Queen of England. A director films
the entire trip. These passengers are all
distinctive who each liven things up and make the environment of the Hindentanic
fresh and alive with different things to follow. They’re one of the reasons what happens is so
exciting to watch.
Another reason for this involves the different ways things go wrong. Some are a result of Scrooge’s attempts to be
cheap and safe like getting a scatterbrained captain as the pilot. He happens
to be the same crazy captain who took him through the Bermuda Triangle. It turns out to be a problem when he’s easily
fooled by Flintheart to abandon his post with the steering wheel. Flintheart can now wreak havoc any way he can to ensure Scrooge doesn’t make a profit. Thanks to him, the propellers are cut,
the ship sales into a meteor shower, and those bees fly loose.
While a lot of disastrous things unfold, it
actually keeps everything interesting.
They shake up the setting and the way others interact in it, making you
wonder how the protagonists will solve the problems. It honestly wouldn’t be as exciting if mostly
good things happened during the trip.
Sure enough as Scrooge and the others scramble to set everything right,
things are kept exciting. The dirigible is flipped, a fire rages in the lobby, Launchpad tries to fix the
propeller from the outside, and the dirigible crashes onto an iceberg when all
attempts fall flat.
Scrooge ultimately
loses his blimp, yet he amazingly still wins his bet with Flintheart since the
footage of the disaster caught on film can make a great movie when put
together. It may seem a little too
convenient for the disaster to turn out this well. Admittedly though, it's not as
convenient as that same captain suddenly appearing at the iceberg with a ship
back to Duckburg. I suppose you can
chalk this up as a fascinating way for Scrooge to find sales benefits in
anything, including disasters, even if it was somewhat of a lucky outcome.
As it stands, this episode is one of the
show’s most exciting. It's a creative premise based on a noteworthy travel
disaster with a variety of characters and challenges keeping audiences
entertained throughout the ride.
One thing though: since both Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley are
part of the Hindentanic staff, where was Webby during all this and who was
looking after her?
A
The Ranking
- Duck in the Iron Mask
- The Uncrashable Hindentanic
- Dime Enough for Luck
- Duck to the Future
- Launchpad’s First Crash
- Jungle Duck
The next DuckTales review follows Scrooge try to get into a high class club despite the fact that he outranks it.
Next time on MC Toon Reviews is the third Hilda episode, "The Bird Parade."
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