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80s and 90s kids was the Talespin cartoon world a post humanity Earth?

Slayven

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I wasn't born when the show was originally on the air but recently been watching it, I have to admit the setting is interesting. The world surface seems to be mostly water and petrol fuel seems plentiful and efficient enough to keep huge fortresses in the air.

I was thinking maybe it is an earth where humanity wiped itself it out or maybe got wiped out when the glaciers melted. And maybe animals got uplifted and replicated humanity culture society.
 
Boy

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Dang it, now I'm gonna have the TaleSpin song stuck in my head all day.
 
RecRoulette

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Just figured it was Jungle Book adjacent. Humans were there but just never in the show.
 
Canucked

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This is what mutants are fighting against in X-Men right now. The Tale Spun future.
 
Musubi

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I'm just reminded how fucking awful the Talespin game was. like who thought the upside down plane mechanic was a good idea?
 
RedVejigante

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Even if it took the death of humanity, it would have been worth it for the ascension of Don Karnage.
 
Combichristoffersen

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Musubi said:
I'm just reminded how fucking awful the Talespin game was. like who thought the upside down plane mechanic was a good idea?
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That game is fucking garbage. I played it on NES as a kid and couldn't even beat the first level because the gameplay was so shit. Bought the Disney Afternoon Collection on PS4 and I still can't beat the first level because the game plays like ass. Awful game.
 
Man God

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The pitch meeting must have been wild.

"I'm gonna take the characters from Jungle Book"

Like Mogwi?

"No, fuck that guy, he's boring. Like Baloo and the tiger."

Ok, I'm listening.

"Take them and put them in a cross between Wings and Casablanca..."
 
Musubi

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Combichristoffersen said:
That game is fucking garbage. I played it on NES as a kid and couldn't even beat the first level because the gameplay was so shit. Bought the Disney Afternoon Collection on PS4 and I still can't beat the first level because the game plays like ass. Awful game.
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My experience exactly. I bought that PS4 collection as well and was like "Surely, I can figure this out as a 33 year old adult" and just... nope.
 
KDR_11k

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No, just like Duckburg isn't.

Here's a question though: Do Darkwing Duck and Phantomias exist in the same world?
 
Ashodin

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Slayven said:
I wasn't born when the show was originally on the air but recently been watching it, I have to admit the setting is interesting. The world surface seems to be mostly water and petrol fuel seems plentiful and efficient enough to keep huge fortresses in the air.

I was thinking maybe it is an earth where humanity wiped itself it out or maybe got wiped out when the glaciers melted. And maybe animals got uplifted and replicated humanity culture society.
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I just want an animated rendition of the Legend of the Chaos God fam
 
RedVejigante

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Honestly, I think as a kid I was more shook by the world of Rescue Rangers, a show wherein the human police were apparantly so inept that it fell on the tiny shoulder of sentient rodents to solve cold cases...
 
Ashodin

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Slayven said:
I wasn't born when the show was originally on the air but recently been watching it, I have to admit the setting is interesting. The world surface seems to be mostly water and petrol fuel seems plentiful and efficient enough to keep huge fortresses in the air.

I was thinking maybe it is an earth where humanity wiped itself it out or maybe got wiped out when the glaciers melted. And maybe animals got uplifted and replicated humanity culture society.
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it's also gonna blow your mind to realize TaleSpin is canonically 50 years earlier than Goof Troop or Ducktales
 
Dali

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RedVejigante said:
Honestly, I think as a kid I was more shook by the world of Rescue Rangers, a show wherein the human police were apparantly so inept that it fell on the tiny shoulder of sentient rodents to solve cold cases...
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I don't remember much about RR but weren't they mostly taking cases from other animals... involving animals?
 
Tavernade

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I just want an animated rendition of the Legend of the Chaos God fam
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If only they hadn't cancelled Ducktales we coulda had it! I think they even threw in a reference to it somewhere in the last season.

I did a big rewatch of Disney Afternoon shows awhile back, after graduation college, and found that out of all them Tailspin was the most consistently great. I adored it. Then I watched Porco Rosso for the first time this year and was like "oh hey it's Tailspin!"

So no I don't think it's post apocalyptic earth with uplifted animals so much as it's an idealised golden age of aviation but with the Jungle Book cast to sell it better to consumers/networks.
 
Kasai

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I grew up with all of the 80s-90s stuff: Darkwing Duck, the original Ducktales, Gargoyles. But I don't actually remember Talespin. I remember Rescue Rangers even, but I only really remember the bear in a jacket next to a plane from a VHS tape I never watched.

That said, from what I got in the new Ducktales, its just an alternate reality where animals became sentient instead of apes.
 
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