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Who's Who? Wednesday
January 11, 2012
Gyro Gearloose

Wow, how the year has passed!
First of all I want to thank everyone for
checking out every Days of the Week articles on
a weekly basis. It means the world to us writers
to know you appreciate our hard work. With that
being said my first article of Who's Who
Wednesday a year ago was of my favorite
sidekick, Launchpad McQuack. The reason I chose
Launchpad is because DuckTales was my all time
favorite show and Launchpad was such a crazy
character I could really relate to him. So this
week's article will take us back to Duckburg for
an article about one of Launchpad's close
friends, Gyro Gearloose.
Gyro Gearloose is a genius: he
is a great inventor and comes up with some
amazing gadgets (his greatest invention being
the Gizmo Duck suit), and lets be honest some of
the gadgets don't work, but that all comes with
being a inventor. He can be seen in various
things such as comic books, television shows,
video games, pins, and other merchandise. In
television shows he can be seen in DuckTales and
a few other Disney television specials. In video
games he can be found in DuckTales, Donald Duck:
Goin' Quackers, and also in DuckTales 2.

He lives in the amazingly
popular world of Duckburg. His known family
consists of Newton Gearloose, who is Gyro's
nephew, Ratchet Gearloose, Gyro's grandfather,
and Fulton Gearloose, Gyro's father. He has
great friends he can rely on which include
Launchpad McQuack, Little Helper, Donald Duck,
Scrooge McDuck, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie. His
enemies include Magica De Spell, Flintheart
Glomgold, Emil Eagle, and the Beagle Boys./font>
Over the years Gyro has had
the same outfit, which is a long sleeve shirt,
brown shoes, pants, a vest, spectacles, and a
old school hat. The thing that has changed over
the years is just the colors of all the items.
He seems to go by Professor Ludwig Von Drake's
The Spectrum Song with all the colors he has in
that outfit.

He was created by the
extremely talented Carl Barks. He has been
voiced by two people over the years, Hal Smith
and Will Ryan. Gyro first made his appearance in
the 1952 comic, 'Gladstone's Terrible Secret.'
Gyro used to perform in Disney
on Ice shows, but is now extremely rare if not
retired all together. Someone told me they saw
him at Disneyland last Christmas for a special
party. I would love to see DuckTales get remade
and make a comeback. Can you imagine how much
better of a show it could have been with all the
new technology we have today over what we had in
the late 80's or even early 90's?
I want to give a special thank
you to the man that made this all possible,
Brent Dodge. Thank you for letting me be apart
of this amazing group of writers, every morning
I wake up and read the article for that day, and
it gets my day going. Also thank you for your
friendship, it has been great getting to know
you and your amazing family.
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