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Disney's Darkwing Duck and the Robot Planets
Darkwing Duck, the famous secret agent, must overcome the plan of the evil scientist, Bushroot, to obtain Darkwing's gas gun with his robot plants
- GenresSuperheroesChildrens
47 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1991
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April 29, 2021
I have a lot of nostalgia for this book - as someone who did own this book as a kid - and reading this book brings me nothing but fuzzy nostalgic feelings, like a big warm ball of sunshine wrapped in a book full of really energetic duck drawings. The drawings are all really good and I love how eloquently they set up a punchline in the opening act of this book as the thing to take down the Saturday Morning level bad guy. The whole "loud music can harm plants" thing strangely never came up in the show as a method to defeat Bushroot when it's a punchline that works, so I'm glad that it's coming up here.
However! As an adult writing a review for a book that was created in 1991, I'm only giving it four stars out of five because, even as a kid, it really bugged me that Bushroot, the plant-themed supervillain whose special power is that he has full control over plants and plant monsters, has to create robots that LOOK like plants in order to fight Darkwing Duck.
Bushroot is adding an extra, unnecessary step to this evil plan. He doesn't need to build the robots and fine-tune them to make them look like realistic plants. He can just make the plants. I've seen him do it all the time in the cartoon. Bushroot may be a mad scientist but the show establishes that he's a botanist and probably doesn't actually know anything about robotics.
...that being said, I realize that "Darkwing Duck and the Plants" is an incredibly lame book title and they definitely added that "Robot" adjective to spice things up.
Bushroot also just knows the location of Darkwing Duck's house (which, in the show, it's established that none of the villains know where Darkwing Duck lives because he assumes a civilian identity when he's not on the job) and Darkwing Duck never takes off his disguise even he's at home with his daughter Gosalyn but this is going into some really nitpicky nitpicks that only losers like me would notice - and let's be real, if you're buying this book now, you're probably a stickler for Darkwing Duck lore too - and it's pretty obvious that the book is going for a lighter tone anyways. I'm just noting these little lore discrepancies for completionist's sake.
Great book, would honestly make a great addition to a Darkwing Duck fan's collection with its cute drawings and incredible use of cartoon posing, but I have to dock a star for Bushroot being out of character. I just have to defend a character that I own the action figure and a limited edition vinylmation to.
However! As an adult writing a review for a book that was created in 1991, I'm only giving it four stars out of five because, even as a kid, it really bugged me that Bushroot, the plant-themed supervillain whose special power is that he has full control over plants and plant monsters, has to create robots that LOOK like plants in order to fight Darkwing Duck.
Bushroot is adding an extra, unnecessary step to this evil plan. He doesn't need to build the robots and fine-tune them to make them look like realistic plants. He can just make the plants. I've seen him do it all the time in the cartoon. Bushroot may be a mad scientist but the show establishes that he's a botanist and probably doesn't actually know anything about robotics.
...that being said, I realize that "Darkwing Duck and the Plants" is an incredibly lame book title and they definitely added that "Robot" adjective to spice things up.
Bushroot also just knows the location of Darkwing Duck's house (which, in the show, it's established that none of the villains know where Darkwing Duck lives because he assumes a civilian identity when he's not on the job) and Darkwing Duck never takes off his disguise even he's at home with his daughter Gosalyn but this is going into some really nitpicky nitpicks that only losers like me would notice - and let's be real, if you're buying this book now, you're probably a stickler for Darkwing Duck lore too - and it's pretty obvious that the book is going for a lighter tone anyways. I'm just noting these little lore discrepancies for completionist's sake.
Great book, would honestly make a great addition to a Darkwing Duck fan's collection with its cute drawings and incredible use of cartoon posing, but I have to dock a star for Bushroot being out of character. I just have to defend a character that I own the action figure and a limited edition vinylmation to.
May 16, 2021
I love this show when i was little. I was on a nostalgic kick and bought a bunch of books based on 80s cartoons, and spent part of a day reading them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1vK...
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