I wish Ducktales had done at least one musical episode before it ended…maybe it’s just the theatre kid in me but honestly I think it would have been a hit!! And plus a soundtrack for us to enjoy for all time! I have no clue what it would have been about or what songs would have been written…but I still think it would have been wonderful!!
Herocross Donald Duck Patisserie Figure Set Review
Herocross combined two of my favorite things, Disney ducks and desserts, with their newly released Donald Duck Patisserie figure set.
This box set of figures has many of our favorite ducks including what could be the very first appearance of Della Duck as an officially licensed figure.
Our good friends at Herocross sent over the box set of figures for us to review and showcase on the blog.
Packaging
The packaging for this figure set is cute and fancy as it resembles an elegantly wrapped pink and white striped present complete with bow. The top of the box features all of the duck figures in the Donald Duck Patisserie set.
The side of the box features a picture of all of the delicious desserts that our favorite Disney ducks get to enjoy.
Inside the box are twelve individual blind boxes that will include all twelve of the figures in the Donald Duck Patisserie set. The front of the blind boxes features a picture of one of the Daisy Duck figures.
The sides of the blind boxes display the figures that could be included in the box. You will not get any duplicate figures in your box set of Donald Duck Patisserie figures.
There is a rare variant figure that is randomly inserted into box sets of these figures. Only one out of every six box sets will have the variant figure.
This figure is Donald and Daisy Duck with a heart shaped Palmier. The variant figure will replace one of the other twelve figures in the base set. I was not lucky enough to get the variant figure in my box set, but you can see a picture of the figure below.
Figures
The following figures are included in the Donald Duck Patisserie set:
1. They have a system set up where once a fortnight they go round each others houses [children and Pluto included] and take turns cooking. The system varies depending on commitment, but as a general rule it’s all to the Mouse's on Friday evening, then Donalds at some point during the following week [usually either a Wednesday or Thursday as they’re the two days the triplets are less likely to have something on] and finally all to Goofy’s on the Saturday.
2. Adding onto the above, Mickey and Minnie usually work together, one cooking, one playing hostess. Donald and Daisy tend to work together as well - they simply go to Donald's for convenience because not only is his houses bigger the triplets don’t have to move around - as for Goofy it depends on what age Max is at to if he is a hindrance or a help. In older mode Max will help his dad cook and take on the more hostess role. In the younger version he’ll largely just get under everyone's feet and try-to-help-but-not-really-manage-it like kids do.
3. They’re known - as you imagine - for being a team. You mess with one of them you mess with all of them. Goofy tends to get this the most, because most toons/people assume that he’s the weak link so they try to get to him in order to get to Mickey/Donald. The rest of the SS are aware of this and are very quick at identifying someone trying this and they will intervene.
Donald is the best at this because usually all he has to do is yell “Hey!” and march towards the offending toon/human and they will usually scarper. Even grown Human [I.E. us] men are a little nervous at taking on Donald Duck because he is just that unpredictable and he’s strong. Ridiculously strong. He also has a mean right hook that no one is particularly keen to be on the receiving end of.
Mickey isn’t as headstrong and impulsive as Donald and his favoured techniques change depending on if he’s dealing with a Toon or a Human. Toons - depending on the circumstances he’ll either anvil them, punch them or just simply call them out on what they’re doing. He’s more wary than Donald is at the idea of hitting a Human, so his favoured technique there is simply to remind them that Disney has no issues suing the offended for harassment and that tends to scare them off. To be totally honest as well, it does hardly get to that point though. For some reason the mere sight of Mickey Mouse heading towards them/appearing at there side saying “Is everything alright fellas?” tends to stop Humans in there tracks. It’s amazing to witness, it’s a bit like a magic trick.
Just to clarify this doesn’t happen very often. Mickey, Donald and Goofy once sat down and worked it out. Approximately once every three years?
This isn’t to say Goofy can’t take care of himself. Toons, he can deal with quite easily. Again anvilling them pretty much always works. Either that or Goofy uses his skills in physical comedy to run away or outwit them. He can confuse a toon by teleporting himself around the area that they’re in, duplicating himself or simply doing something that’s SO illogical -even for a toon - that the other toons mind ends up breaking and they run off to the Looney Bin.
Minnie and Daisy don’t step in as often as Mickey and Donald - mainly because they’re often doing other things to the boys so aren't always there - but on the rare occasions it’s happened near them they’ll take similar steps to there respective husbands. Daisy will get angry and kick up SUCH a fuss that other passers by will come and find out what's going on, Minnie will either do the same as Daisy - it’s amazing what a high-pitched female scream can do to get people’s attention - or she’ll go over and intervene herself via reminding the perpetrator that Disney has no issue suing them.