If there’s one word that sums up the overarching theme of the upcoming DuckTales season 3, it’s legacy. That comes from DuckTales co-executive producer Frank Angones who half jokingly says that it’s taken them two years, “to get to where the original DuckTales started, which is family going on big globe-trotting adventures.”
For fans of the original ’80s cartoon that may sound strange but family is hugely important to the new DuckTales, so much so that the team behind the series has taken their time to carefully develop the huge extended Duck family. At the start it was just Scrooge going on adventures by himself but over the first two seasons the cast slowly but delightfully bonded together. There have even been some additions to the extended family, including Magica De Spell’s niece Lena, the triplets mom Della, and Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera aka Gizmoduck!
With these bonds set in place Angones says that the characters now all have a shared goal but that doesn’t mean everything will be easy going, especially for the kids of the family. They’ll be faced with the question of “what do you want to be when you grow up?” and how they inherit the legacy of adventure in the family.
“They’ve gone along on Scrooge’s adventures, but now we’re going to try to put them in the driver’s seat a little bit more,” explains Angones. “They’re going to find that, “oh, this isn’t as fun as I thought it might be,” or “this is a little bit more difficult. And we certainly weren’t expecting a decades-long multinational conspiracy. But why not?”
