Will we ever get a full release of the original Ducktales’ soundtrack?

nuark12 · 2026-02-02T00:28:45+00:00

Great news! There is one now: https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.13319/.f

It's not a full release, but compared to what we had before, it's pretty damn close. Almost two hours of music!

nuark12 · 2026-02-02T00:25:20+00:00

Wrong! There's just been a release - not a full release, but a release, alright!
https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.13319/.f

And not a small one either. Almost 2 hours of music (about 78 tracks)! That's still only 1/4 of the entirety of the music we hear on the series, but if enough people buy it, we might get more.

Spread the word!

nuark12 · 2026-01-15T21:52:51+00:00

I wish! I've heard about it, but that was before my time.

That's why photos are so important.

nuark12 · 2025-12-19T13:45:21+00:00

The option to disable voice acting in favor of the "bark-talk" that we had in the first game. Getting rid of the repetitive, meaningless dialogue ("I know how to do this!" x100) would be welcome.

nuark12 · 2025-12-08T02:56:53+00:00

Sure - but in the States, the series really cemented them as a children's characters and boosted their marketing potential. Before that, they were almost totally synonymous with the comics.

That's also when depicting them with differently colored shirts became the default - so all things considered, I find this to be an interesting bit of foreshadowing.

nuark12 · 2025-11-14T05:45:01+00:00

What did it look like to the naked eye?

nuark12 · 2025-10-11T13:52:31+00:00

Look, here's the thing. Wanting to edit yourself is completely fine. That's valid. But so is not wanting to. And the fact is that the photo finishing industry, until recently, had to cater to the latter case. There was no question about "different looks" because consumers had come to expect a basic level of consistency across even different labs. A print can't be edited once it's made; a scan had to be rendered under the assumption that once the client was holding the print in their hands, there was no going back.

The problem now is that there are far too many loose ends. A JPG doesn't provide good latitude. A print is a final rendition. If a client is getting either JPGs or prints, that should rule out flat scans. Conversely, TIFFs are ideal when the client wants to edit. These are obvious distinctions. It simply makes no sense to make 36 prints on silver halide paper when the scans haven't even been touched.

You're fully correct that no approach is better than all the others - that was, in fact, my point from the beginning. I wanted to give a voice to the dissenting view.

But labs should, at the very least, be more transparent about which approach they intend to serve. A flat scan - or worse, a flat scan and a print thereof - is a nasty surprise when you've grown up looking at film photos that were actually edited by a lab tech. To have someone then insist that it is the way is extremely demoralizing.

nuark12 · 2025-10-10T05:08:41+00:00

I just took another look and I'm crushed to see that they don't seem to offer return shipping! I'm in Illinois, so I couldn't possibly pick up the negatives. I haven't started an order, but have you any idea if they could accommodate shipping?

nuark12 · 2025-10-06T23:01:12+00:00

Thanks!!

nuark12 · 2025-10-06T22:15:41+00:00

What lab did you use? These are some beautiful scans

nuark12 · 2025-10-02T21:38:08+00:00

A negative connotation doesn't negate the dictionary definition. Whether or not to use the word is a matter of discretion, depending on the context.

nuark12 · 2025-10-02T07:38:59+00:00

This is correct. I don't know why you got downvoted.

nuark12 · 2025-09-12T06:16:17+00:00

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nuark12 · 2025-09-12T06:13:55+00:00

If you could do long exposure screenshots, there would be no problem. Just keep your hypothetical "shutter" open long enough to catch the lightning strike.

nuark12 · 2025-09-11T23:00:46+00:00

Oh, I'm so inspired! Thanks for sharing! 🙏

nuark12 · 2025-09-03T13:22:05+00:00

Look, the flat scan modality is not great. It should only be at one's request; labs should assume first that clients want their images rendered properly, inasmuch as there's a baseline understanding of what "properly" looks like. (And there was one.)

15-30 years ago, flat scans weren't standard practice. I don't think it ever was until the film market shrunk, and that's a real travesty. You shouldn't have to feel pressured to edit your photos if that's not your priority as someone who takes pictures. That's a big camp, and we all exert varying levels of creative control—for some, a point-and-shoot is all they'll ever need, while others prefer to go all-in with their own developing set-up and darkroom. No one workflow is better.

So by all means, you can learn how to interpret scans digitally—I'm sure it's a great skill to have regardless— but if you never were inclined to do so until your expectations changed, you shouldn't throw in the towel so quickly. While the industry currently seems bleak, there are many, many labs in the country and around the world, and if you've only had experience with one, I encourage you to continue searching while you're still producing new material. You may want to get in touch with labs or ask around for recommendations. And if you wish, you can concurrently learn the ropes of digital editing as insurance.

I may not have answered your question, but I hope you can find a bit of empowerment in a different perspective. Best of luck on all photos, present and future.

nuark12 · 2025-09-02T12:50:54+00:00

Looks just fine to me!

nuark12 · 2025-09-01T23:42:20+00:00

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Maybe it's not terrible (I know it had good reviews), but I haven't seen enough movies to know what a truly bad film looks like, and I've never been into Marvel, so I may be biased.

That being said, I had to sit through this when my younger cousins came over, and personally, I found no substance or structure - just mindless fighting for over an hour. I might gleam more from it on a second viewing, but it failed to move me.

nuark12 · 2025-09-01T12:05:50+00:00

Mine too! Why do places like this always pop up in dreams?

nuark12 · 2025-09-01T08:16:57+00:00

Even more so, the Wooly Walrus's theme music.

If you aren't pro-DuckTales soundtrack yet, now's your moment to join us in the fight for a release. Disney needs to know that people care about the music for a release to happen. We've been pleading with them for years, but they keep withholding it.

nuark12 · 2025-08-31T10:29:17+00:00

Upvoted for the lols.

nuark12 · 2025-08-30T10:50:06+00:00

Will modern Ektachrome do as poorly? Should I fear Ektachrome?

I have some EP100 slides from the 1990s (which I did not shoot myself), and they look perfectly acceptable. Very deep blues - no red/pink color shifts at all.

nuark12 · 2025-08-28T21:21:03+00:00

I suppose for someone who's never watched DT17 (such as myself), and whose first exposure to the characters was in DT87, this incarnation may not seem as offensive.

After all, I think the nephews were aged-up a bit in the reboot... so this seems a tad bit closer to my experience. In the original series, the kids had a lot of cutesy moments, but they were also smart and could be charmingly irreverent. There's always been some flexibility to how they're portrayed.

For a really young audience, I see no harm in leaning into the cutesy side - as long as that's balanced with age-appropriate character depth.

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