Comments on: The total value of all your mines, mills, money bins, and so fourth is one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents!

The total value of all your mines, mills, money bins, and so fourth is one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents!

JBennett — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:42:10 -0800

A miniature of Scrooge McDuck's money bin. (in the words of the model maker) This is a set of images documenting a model of the world's richest duck's money bin, built by me, using blueprints created by the great Don Rosa and Dan Shane.And remember Carl Barks - the mind behind the idea of a man storing all his money in a giant concrete bin.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:53:44 -0800

Quite obsessive. I think my cats would confuse the second photo for a litterbox, though.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:54:58 -0800

Oh GOD earworm alert!!!

By: tepidmonkey

tepidmonkey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:55:07 -0800

This is such a weird thing for someone to make. I love it.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:59:25 -0800

hehe those blueprints are awesome. I wanna break out my elementary school fortress plans.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:09:08 -0800

Ah, but can you swim in it?

By: interrobang

interrobang — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:10:32 -0800

Here's a moneybin-centric episode on youtube.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:10:38 -0800

It's only a model.

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:25:36 -0800

Is this more secure that Al Gore's Lock Box?

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:25:43 -0800

*than*

By: brautigan

brautigan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:25:52 -0800

Me—I'm different! Everybody hates me, and I hate everybody!" Haha! It's me, Scrooge McBrautigan

By: SassHat

SassHat — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:26:12 -0800

There is nothing more I wanted as a child than a moneybin of my own. I still want it, only now I realize the laws of physics would prevent me from swan diving into it from twenty feet.

By: starman

starman — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:33:23 -0800

It's only a model. On second thought, let's not go to the money bin. 'Tis a silly place.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:36:59 -0800

Scrooger McDuck was Wilbur from Mr. Ed. That is all.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:41:26 -0800

Here's a moneybin-centric episode on youtube. Dude, what the fuck. If he used banks he'd get interest and his money would be insured. That talking duck cartoon has taxed the limits of my disbelief suspension.

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:56:05 -0800

Time to pull out this awesome comment from XQUZYPHYR.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:09:37 -0800

...only now I realize the laws of physics would prevent me from swan diving into it from twenty feet. No, you could dive just fine.

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:16:13 -0800

I am an exciting person.

By: CCBC

CCBC — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:19:20 -0800

That is an awesome model!

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:37:41 -0800

Oh... my... GOD, that XQUZYPHR comment is the greatest thing I've ever read. just brilliant.

By: quin

quin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:49:06 -0800

That was a pretty fucking great comment on XQUZYPHYR's part. This model is pretty cool as well. I think I may need to build my next house using the giant block design.

By: Tube

Tube — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:34:25 -0800

It looks like the Kaaba.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:50:05 -0800

Looking over the schematic diagram of the bin, what occurs to me is how strange it is to see two floors devoted to gatling guns, acid pools and assorted death traps. No one steals from McDuck. Also, he has separate receptacles to collect for reuse uncanceled stamps, erased envelopes and eraser dust. To fuss about saving pennies when one has squijillions indicates mania. about_time: I have it on good authority that Flintheart Glomgold now has more money that Scrooge. Unfortunately this might be true, since it's well-known that Glomgold is Haliburton's largest avian investor.

By: misha

misha — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:02:48 -0800

what occurs to me is how strange it is to see two floors devoted to gatling guns, acid pools and assorted death traps. No one steals from McDuck. See how good it works?

By: painquale

painquale — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:22:56 -0800

Oh MAN! This is great, and especially timely. That McDuck family tree that was FPP'ed about a month ago provoked me into getting my hands on a copy of Don Rosa's The Life of Times of Scrooge McDuck, and I read it last night. What a great character story. I've been inspired all day to be tougher than the toughies, sharper than the sharpies, and to make my money square. This model even has the worry room! I love it.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:40:03 -0800

dgaicun: "...If he used banks he'd get interest and his money would be insured. That talking duck cartoon has taxed the limits of my disbelief suspension." Speaking as a veteran competitor for Marvel No-Prizes (I never won one but I often competed) allow me to explain to you Dgaicun why he had all that wealth outside of banks. Elementary. That vault did not represent the entirety of his wealth. It was simply the wealth he opted to remove from circulation, and probably truly represented a very small fraction (say less than ten percent) of his entire net worth. There are multiple explanations for why any rational duck would keep a portion of wealth out of economic circulation. First, he didn't trust banks. Scrooge didn't trust anything really, so it is plausible to assume that he would hold a percentage of his wealth outside any bank but his own, so that if all the banks in the world folded overnight (like say during a depression such as one the canon source material indicates he lived through) he'd still be high and dry with his own personal reserve. Think of his vault as his equivalent of keeping a stash of money inside a mattress.. In fact perhaps the vault began as his mattress, until it became too big for him to sleep on. Secondly, governments and/or financial institutions may have asked him to not circulate all his money at the same time, so that he wouldn't tax their reserves and resources. There would be economic reasons for this, just as there's reasons why governments pay farmers not to sell their grain. Doesn't seem to make sense but on paper, it does. Thirdly, if you have that much money, it'd be fun to use a part of it to occasionally dive into, just for grins. You could even afford to have a research and development dept figure out a way where you could do that which didn't disrupt the laws of physics. Fourthly, uhm... it's a comic book? Not even a Marvel comic come to think of it.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:03:18 -0800

and probably truly represented a very small fraction (say less than ten percent) of his entire net worth. In the linked cartoon the earthquake destroyed the vault and he said he lost everything.

By: RTQP

RTQP — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:16:29 -0800

the creator definitely reminds me of a duck.

By: maus

maus — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:01:31 -0800

In the linked cartoon the earthquake destroyed the vault and he said he lost everything. The blueprints for the bin indicate that there is a large storage area for documentation, deeds, etc. With the bin gone, he has no proof of his largesse. Plus, that's a totally different money bin, and therefore a totally different alternate universe McDuck. I would please you, sir, to specify if we are talking about the Comic Book Canon, the Cartoon Canon, or the NES Game Canon here.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:51:06 -0800

I'm referring of course to the cannon canon. ===BOOM!=== *cough* *cough* *cough*

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:14:57 -0800

Cool post, great comments. Best of the Webfooted.