In every color cartoon from the last 50 years Donald's coat has been blue, now suddenly they have him in a black coat... did the animators run out of money to buy color? Or are the animators from North Korea and only see things in black and white?
shareBecause Donald Duck wore a black coat at the time of his greatest glory and the creators of Duck Tales sometimes make efforts to restore Donald's former glory.
The last 50 years when you say that Donald wore blue only go back to 1969.
Note that Huey, Dewey, and Louie are the protagonists of both Duck Tales shows, and they go on adventures with Uncle Donald and Uncle Scrooge.
When did Huey, Dewey, and Louie first go on adventures with Donald and Scrooge?
In the great Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comic books by Carl Barks in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
And what was the usual color of Donald Duck's coat in those comic books? Black.
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Why does Webby call Donald duck one of the greatest adventures of all time in "Woo-Ooo!"?
Because the adventures of Donald, Scrooge, and the boys in the Carl Barks stories were some of the greatest adventure stories in all of comic books. Carl Barks made Donald Duck one of the greatest adventure heroes of all time. (The adventures of Donald and Scrooge were one of the inspirations for Indiana Jones).
And the creators of Duck Tales 2017 are trying to return Donald Duck to some of his former glory as one of the greatest adventurers of all time, as can be seen for example in "The Shadow War". So naturally they want to restore Donald's appearance to that of his glory days by changing the color of his coat back to black.
Not sure I would say the Carl Barks comics are his glory days. It does explain why they have decided to use black for him, but it still doesn't look like it should. When he was in his first cartoon in 1934 it was blue... it has pretty much been blue all the time except for those Carl Barks comics which I still have no clue as to why Disney didn't force them to be blue instead of black given the amount of control they exert over their intellectual property.
Makes me wonder if Barks even knew what color to use or if the blue ink was expensive so they tried to make it cheaper with black...