Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor - Episode 103: DuckTales” reboot done after just 3 seasons

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Drew Taylor talks about the worst kept secret in television animation (i.e., That Disney ceased production of its popular “DuckTales” series over a year ago). Then Jim Hill looks back at when Walt Disney Animation Studios seriously toyed with setting 1973’s “Robin Hood” in the Deep South, rather than in Merrie Olde England Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fine-Tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.
0:06.0	I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording the show on December 2nd, 2020.
0:13.4	85 years ago today, Mark Davis was hired as an apprentice animator at Disney Studio.
0:19.8	Never heard of him.
0:20.8	Never heard of him.
0:21.5	No, I'm kidding. You know, I've been thinking a lot about Mark lately. It was 20 years ago this January that we lost him.
0:31.0	And of course, you know, we've seen a couple of great books come out about his life.
0:35.3	We had a Mark Davis, Walt Disney's Renaissance man back in October of 2014 and then of course
0:41.7	that amazing two volume set Mark Davis's in his own words imagining
0:46.4	the Disney theme parks which came out in September last year.
0:50.2	Amazon currently has copies of the Mark Davis, Walt Disney's Renaissance man,
0:56.0	the use copies going for 72 bucks true.
0:58.0	Where is a...
0:59.0	What, really?
1:00.0	Yep, a brand new copy that you have to paint 94, whereas you can get a brand new copy of Mark Davis in his own words for 79, 79,
1:10.8	which is half of what that two volume set was going for this fall.
1:15.2	Worth every penny I think.
1:16.8	Well no no no and what kills me though is I want to say a week ago
1:20.7	Amazon was running a Black Friday Cyber Monday thing where I think you had to have a coupon, but you can actually get Mark Davidson's an award for just $55.
1:30.0	Wow. It's a wonderful book. I mean, it's no art of Pixar's onward.
1:35.0	What is, Jim? What is?
1:38.0	Which again, going for just $17.99.
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