Random minifig of the day: dis009

Me and my sister got a bunch of the figures from the first Disney series, but we never got this one. Wound up getting a Daisy in 71040.

9 years since the first Disney CMF!?

It's Katie Ledecky!

I wish I'd gotten more of the first Disney series. I only got 71012, 71012-6, 71012-13, 71012-14, and 71012-18.

Hmm. Maybe if we added a bomber-jacket torso, https://brickset.com/minifigs/cty1482's prosthetic leg, and an irrational hatred of fish...

It’s not a bad minifigure, but the colours don’t exactly pop like they do on the Disney Castle one.

One of the last ones I opened. I lowkey dislike the toon figs from that series. The headsculpts weren't great and they had less printed detail than a 2000 town fig, let alone a CMF! Idk what they could have done, but having both headsculpts used for a genderswapped character was just not doing it for me. I'd much rather Daisy was replaced with Goofy or something.

@Crux said:
"Hmm. Maybe if we added a bomber-jacket torso, https://brickset.com/minifigs/cty1482's prosthetic leg, and an irrational hatred of fish..."

If only there was an aviator cap-white hair combo that would fit. Della's been done dirty

@Binnekamp said:
"One of the last ones I opened. I lowkey dislike the toon figs from that series. The headsculpts weren't great and they had less printed detail than a 2000 town fig, let alone a CMF! Idk what they could have done, but having both headsculpts used for a genderswapped character was just not doing it for me. I'd much rather Daisy was replaced with Goofy or something.

@Crux said:
"Hmm. Maybe if we added a bomber-jacket torso, https://brickset.com/minifigs/cty1482's prosthetic leg, and an irrational hatred of fish..."

If only there was an aviator cap-white hair combo that would fit. Della's been done dirty"

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=bb0015c

There is this, made for those abominable Homemaker-figures. Size-wise it might be a fit, although the colour's not the best match.

Charlie Crow and Sandy Seagull from the Fabuland-line have aviator-caps that might fit, but they're grafted to their skulls and I have it on good authority that it takes a significant amount of force to pry those things loose.

But yes, the main takeaway here is that we need, if not an entire DuckTales theme, then at the very least a Della Duck minifigure. Get on this, TLG and Disney.

I couldn’t actually tell you what the physical differences between Donald and Daisy really were but there’s something about this minifig that doesn’t look like Daisy but Donald in drag

@Binnekamp said:
"One of the last ones I opened. I lowkey dislike the toon figs from that series. The headsculpts weren't great and they had less printed detail than a 2000 town fig, let alone a CMF! Idk what they could have done, but having both headsculpts used for a genderswapped character was just not doing it for me. I'd much rather Daisy was replaced with Goofy or something."

The problem here is that, being a licensed wave, and based on an older IP, it becomes difficult to maintain gender parity if you just start dismissing characters like Daisy and Minnie for being too similar in design to Donald and Mickey (plus then you get into related issues like having Chip and Dale in the same wave vs splitting them between consecutive waves). Disney did have better balance because they were able to step outside of the core characters and do all-female pairings like Ariel/Ursula and Anna/Elsa, where Looney Tunes and Muppets were really scraping to get even a few female characters in their fairly small waves. Still, if you consider that Mickey and Donald are pretty much required for a Disney CMF wave, you basically have to figure out ways to get their girlfriends in the mix or explain why they’re never going to happen.

@Brickalili said:
"I couldn’t actually tell you what the physical differences between Donald and Daisy really were but there’s something about this minifig that doesn’t look like Daisy but Donald in drag"

Daisy has frills on the upper sides of her head that her bow sits on, while this head sculpt just has Donald's smoothly rounded upper skull curve.

There's also the fact that Donald is generally portrayed as kind of an idiot, so the baseline head sculpt has his beak lolling open and the flats where his eye prints go kind of set to be looking down his beak. These roughly go together to make the sculpt hint at the intended idiot nature of Donald. Daisy isn't generally portrayed as a Donald-style idiot, so the minor idiot-face hints just look out of place for her.

@gearwheel said:
" @Brickalili said:
"I couldn’t actually tell you what the physical differences between Donald and Daisy really were but there’s something about this minifig that doesn’t look like Daisy but Donald in drag"

Daisy has frills on the upper sides of her head that her bow sits on, while this head sculpt just has Donald's smoothly rounded upper skull curve.

There's also the fact that Donald is generally portrayed as kind of an idiot, so the baseline head sculpt has his beak lolling open and the flats where his eye prints go kind of set to be looking down his beak. These roughly go together to make the sculpt hint at the intended idiot nature of Donald. Daisy isn't generally portrayed as a Donald-style idiot, so the minor idiot-face hints just look out of place for her."

Indeed, she’s usually portrayed as being mad.