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Recently, I have acquired a lot of TaleSpin merchandise, so I will post them regularly here.
First, here is a very rare french book that I think has never been released outside, and was probably produced in very small quantity.
This one has a strange format (see the photo), larger than A4, which made me unable to scan it entirely. Nevertheless, you'll find the scanned version to download in the TaleSpin comics page.
Quick summary : "Baloo has a delivery to make but Karnage damages the Sea Duck to prevent it. Kit finds a few tricks to help Baloo and make fun of Karnage!"
The book has some very nice art, but there's something I have noticed about the french produced stories : they're awful. Not only are they childish (and that one wins the crown on that side), which makes me believe that the french Disney division dumbed the series down to "fit" the category they thought the series would attract, which means less than 6 years old. (No wonder why the french dubbing and translation of the episodes was such a disaster.)
But also the characters do not absolutely have the same personalities. Of course, considering most of you can't read french, I guess it's not so much a problem ;)
Still, I think it's interesting for the pretty fine art alone :)
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| January 03, 2011 | ||
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Ah Ah  Actually in the story, they say Kit took a magical carpet
that an arab cheik gave to Rebecca one day. And that's the only way to
deliver that crate (I don't think Kit could do that with his
airfoil)Also, it's written that Don Karnage has been sent by Shere Khan, who ordered him to sabotage the delivery...(very realistic, isn't it?) Another recurrent thing from the french books : why do they keep thinking Shere Khan wants to get rid or buy Higher For Hire? If he really wanted to, he had more than enough power to do that in the series... And of course, "poor Baloo" is very SAD and HELPLESS from seeing his plane destroyed by Karnage, and has to rely on the absolutely clever Kit for everything (obviously, Baloo would have reacted EXACTLY like that in the series )The most obvious way to see this is childish is by the fact they keep calling Baloo "Super Baloo" (gah!) Even in the show they never called Baloo that way, it was only the title. I think the guys who did that book never actually watched it. |
| January 03, 2011 | ||
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As for this book. It is AWFUL without even reading it. The pictures
tell the stink. The first logic break is obvious from the second page:
Don Karnage somehow getting into Cape Suzette and using a missile for
no reason whatsoever. Kit has a magic carpet? Then what's the point of
him having his airfoil? So one of Kit's awesome gimmicks is replaced
with a magic carpet? I sometimes call Kit a MIRACLE WORKER; but he's
NO Genie. |
| January 03, 2011 | ||
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I wasn't talking about the comics (the North American comics were
mixed; some were awesome, some were DUDs. Certainly better than the
French comics); I was talking about the hardcover picture books (and
the books with the audio cassettes they sold) that were clearly dumbed
down. In fact; this is why I stated before that TaleSpin's problems
were that it couldn't be sold as a toy show because the audience
target was older. |
| January 03, 2011 | ||
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I know that, but I find the US comics much better nonetheless, they
did respect the characters personalities much better and the stories
had some depth. At least, this puts into perspective how much TaleSpin COULD have been a childish show without any depth, if there hadn't been some genuises behind it... |
| January 03, 2011 | ||
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I should point out that the North American stories written to books
for children are not much better. Even when Disney did picture books
for several of the episodes! In Captains Outrageous; The Jungle Aces
are a lot more polite and sad for Oscar in the picture books compared
to the television episode when they flat out refused Oscar wholesale. |
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