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This is the place to post your ideas on a revamped Talespin series. This is just for fun. Here are my ideas once again just for review.

Wildcat: The theme song would intro with a Charlie Chapman musical number and then play into a circus type theme. Wildcat would bumble and bump his way through chaotic sleuth adventures and mysteries that Molly would take him on when he babysat her. Through some odd stroke of luck they would always pull through and solve the problem. Every show would end with Molly saying, "Wildcat you saved the day!" Wildcat's reply, "I did?"

Kit Cloudkicker: Kit's series would be four years into the future. We could follow him and the Jungle Aces lives through their first jobs and the awkward teenage moments. Can you envision Ernie on his first date or Kit receiving his pilot’s license? Comic relief! The group would work as extras down on the docks and constantly over hearing or bumping into Don Karnage's men, bad guys, Trader Moe, or Shere Khan's plots. Molly could join up with them sometimes or have resources that the Jungle Aces do not have access to. (Molly could have a knack for dead languages, interrupt maps and hieroglyphics?) They would save Cape Suzette a few times. Most of the time they would be trying to dance around danger from being in the wrong place at the wrong time with an occasional treasure hunt.

Don Karnage: There are quite a few fans of the Plundering Wonder out there. I am afraid that my idea for his show does not do him justice and is pretty lame. He is such a comical character that I could see him and his crew doing some slapstick routines. They are constantly failing at their plundering expeditions. You hate to see the hero of the show keep loosing so may be every once in a while Don Karnage could taste sweet victory. He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day!

1 - Looks like a wild mix of the Inspector Gadget and Mindy & Buttons cartoons. But actualy Wildcat is a lot smarter than Inspector Gadget.

2 - Probably it won't be very different from the original TaleSpin series. Kit will just take Baloo's place of the main character. But it would be cool if Ace London would give way to Kit as a new young test pilot (I think Ace london is not a perfect test pilot - one singe insult to him - and his nerves are damaged for a long time!). It would be cool to see Kit piloting first supersonic jet fighters. And later he can even follow the steps of Yuri Gagarin - from a single-engined jet fighter to a twenty-engined hypersonic rocket . . .

3 - Quite a few? Every third TaleSpin fan in the USSR/Former Eastern Block i've met is a fan of Don Karnage. Possibly the best plot for him is a mix of comical situations and adventures. About fail and success - he should fail the plundering expeditions and always have success in treasurehunting.

The more bizarre decision would be to put the TaleSpin characters into different times and places. I've had some ideas of Becky being a successful buisnesswoman in moderntime Romania, Don Karnage being the president of the re-established DDR in the 2017 year and Kit Cloudkicker as an airforce marshal in the 1960-s.

1. [/quote]But actualy Wildcat is a lot smarter than Inspector Gadget.[/quote]

I have often wondered if Wildcat doesn't just play dumb. The Mindy and Buttons/Inspector Gadget was kind of what I had in mind. Wildcat has to have someone to make him do things. I don't see Wildcat going on an adventure or solving a mystery of his own accord. He would be more content to sit at home and play with his wrench. This is where hyperactive Molly comes in. (By the way I will be posting a new gamebook focusing on her this next week. It will be short but it will be my first. I am currently working on a more complicated one with Rebecca and Baloo.)

2. I love your idea of Kit being a test pilot!

3. You had a much better story idea than I did.
A futuristic Talespin?

I believe that a show based on Don Karnage would be the best "spin off" they could make. For a few reasons : he's outside of the "Higher for hire" gang, he's a great character, very special, and has a whole "piratish" universe around him not much explored in the series.

A shame that the only "pirate" animated series Disney plans to do is a < 3 years old toddler one, based on Peter Pan (which is an already overused franchise nowadays...) Shame on them, I'm sure that our idea would have had more success.

I love the idea to put Kit's show four years in the future! I like to imagine what the characters would be like as they get older and how their lives would change. The possibilities for story lines are endless! My story outline I posted a few months ago takes place four years in the future, so you know I like the idea! I also really like the idea of making Molly an asset to the Aces; I feel her character was a little under-utilized in the original series. Some TS fans seem to dislike her, which is unfortunate, because I think she could have been developed into a very entertaining and competent character. (In other words, she could do more than just provide the "cute" factor for the show and making Rebecca a more sympathetic character.)


Yeah, that would be very cool!



I agree here as well! I think that if he were to take a "vacation" to another city where there's a greater, more evil villain, he could oppose that villain, thereby making him a kind of de facto hero.


As much as I like Kit, I'd have to agree. Though I suppose Kit and Karnage could cross paths occasionally... I mean, why not?