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Quote from user: Thomps2525Back on topic, in what year did the Donald Duck "Shellfish Motives" story first appear?
Again, I really wish IDW would print the issue and year a story was first published. I'm sure they're not trying to pretend these are brand new, IDW-commissioned stories, so it seems like a strange omission.

Shellfish Motives (http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++132-AP) is from 1956. As a side note I'd like to point out that this is the first Disney comic Scarpa both wrote and drew.

Well, I said the dictaphone, telephones, automobiles, airplane and television camera all seemed to be from the 1950s. Thank you, Clapton. What does everyone think of more recent stories which show Donald and Scrooge using modern-day computers? Donald always wears the same clothes and drives that same car with the 313 license plate and it seems odd to me when I see him typing on a computer keyboard or watching a flat-screen tv. It's as though part of him is in the present day and part of him is stuck in the '50s. I guess what I'm asking is: Do we want to see modern inventions (such as iPads, Smart Cars and DVD players) in Donald Duck stories or would we prefer seeing only the Carl-Barks-era automobiles and telephones and appliances? The combination of old and new in the same story can be jarring!

Quote from user: Thomps2525Well, I said the dictaphone, telephones, automobiles, airplane and television camera all seemed to be from the 1950s. Thank you, Clapton. What does everyone think of more recent stories which show Donald and Scrooge using modern-day computers? Donald always wears the same clothes and drives that same car with the 313 license plate and it seems odd to me when I see him typing on a computer keyboard or watching a flat-screen tv. It's as though part of him is in the present day and part of him is stuck in the '50s. I guess what I'm asking is: Do we want to see modern inventions (such as iPads, Smart Cars and DVD players) in Donald Duck stories or would we prefer seeing only the Carl-Barks-era automobiles and telephones and appliances? The combination of old and new in the same story can be jarring!
Well, even in the 50's it wasn't actually normal for a grown man who wasn't in uniform to wear a sailor suit! That's just part of the Donald design that is a holdover from his Silly Symphony roots as an anthropomorphized duck who of course wears a sailor suit because duck. You have a better argument with the car, I suppose, as being a 50's (or earlier) artifact. There is in fact a Duck story (not published in the USA) which supplies a whole origin story for the car, explaining Donald's longterm attachment to it!

I myself prefer, as Rosa does, to keep the Ducks in a certain historical time period in my head canon. However, that doesn't keep me from enjoying stories including technology or other aspects of later time periods. If those stories become "real" to me (part of my head canon), I just mentally blip over the cell phone. And I enjoy many stories which do not become part of my head canon. I do not think it would be wise or feasible to have everyone keep the Ducks in the 1950's. It will be interesting to see what the new DuckTales does with this. If you want them to go on Lost World adventures, there's an advantage to setting the stories in the past (as was the case with TaleSpin).

As Jonathan says, stories which draw attention to some contemporary element in order to prove their with-it-ness are never great stories, and stories which get too trendy date themselves badly. If you're not going to go the Rosa route and set the stories firmly in the past, it's probably better in general to go for a "timeless" feel and not focus on any clearly datable element. Give Donald a smartphone, but don't make the story revolve around it.

The real problem with smartphones, of course, is that they go some way towards dethroning the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook. Not clear that the Guidebook can ever be as magical to children raised with smartphones as it was to me!

From liquor to cell phones, Pete has changed quite a bit in the last 90 years. From 1920 to 1933, Prohibition was in effect in the United States. It was illegal to manufacture, transport or sell liquor.....but yet it was not illegal to drink liquor. "Bootleg Pete" first appeared in a 1925 Alice short. (Bootlegging is another word for "liquor smuggling.") He later became known as Peg-Leg Pete. Eventually the peg-leg disappeared and he was called Black Pete. For a time, when critics decided that the Black Pete name could be interpreted as being racist, he was Big Bad Pete. On the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse series, he's simply Pete.
So what ringtone does Pete have on his cell phone? Perhaps "Steamboat Bill, steamin' down the Mississippi"?

Anyone who has a sense of humor and who has a lot of time to waste will enjoy reading the thousands of entries on the Uncyclopedia site. It's a satire of Wikipedia and it's hilarious! Here is a portion of the entry for Scrooge McDuck:
"When McDuck had acquired his first billion dollars in 1972, he bought a steep hill in Disneyland and built on top of it a gigantic concrete colossus called the Money Bin, in which he stored all of his possessions in small coins. He did so because of his habit of swimming in money. The fortress hill became the headquarters of his financial empire, and he began with his plan to conquer the world through greed and corpulence. McDuck's financial empire, named (imaginatively) 'McDuck Corporation', is based on gambling, extortion and an outrageous Scottish accent."
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

in the latest Italian stories I've read, they have a everything-proof, solar-charged tablet with the Guide digitalized inside
also, in Italy is still common to see cars such as this https://i.imgur.com/Qvc7GoH.jpg going around, so for Donald, who isn't the duck usually swimming in money, keeping his old working car doesn't seem weird at all.

Liked the references to Taxi in Shellfish Motives.
Just got done re-watching the series so it was fresh on my mind.