Boy Reporter and small dog

[Orctrader]

[Westfalia Chris]

Blistering barnacles! Jolly good, methinks! And, dare I say, he looks suspiciously like the guy who played the boy reporter in the live-action movie...

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The dog is just luvverly.

[marianas_gamer]

WOW, the second time today that I have seen that dog on the LA forum!!
I must have him  :love:  My collection is not complete without Asta!!
LB

[archangel1]

WOW, the second time today that I have seen that dog on the LA forum!!
I must have him  :love:  My collection is not complete without Asta!!
LB

Wrong detective! Asta belongs to Nick ('The Thin Man') and Nora Charles.  Tintin's dog is Snowy.

[bandit86]

really nice smooth job Colors just Pop right out.

[Heldrak]

WOW, the second time today that I have seen that dog on the LA forum!!
I must have him  :love:  My collection is not complete without Asta!!
LB

Wrong detective! Asta belongs to Nick ('The Thin Man') and Nora Charles.  Tintin's dog is Snowy.

The dog is attributed as Asta on the Copplestone Castings website, possibly to avoid IP infringement issues with Tintin...Since the Nick Charles figure, the Boy Detective (Tintin) figure, and the dog all appear in the same pack, you may make of that what you will...

[twrchtrwyth]

Nice.

[Weird WWII]

Was Tintin a reporter?  I thought he was like a Johnny Quest or something like that.  Watched the HBO cartoon back in the day but can't remember.

Brian

[Plynkes]

Yes, Tintin was supposed to be a reporter. Yet in all the books (23 or 24) he only ever actually does his job once or twice. I wonder why he was never sacked by his editor.

[Argonor]

He probably wrote accounts of his adventures in between  :wink:

Funny thing about names: Snowy is called 'Terry' in the Danish version. I have no clue as to why...

[Plynkes]

After "Le Trésor de Rackham Le Rouge", they have the money from Tournesol's patent on his submarine, plus the treasure itself to set themselves  up in Moulinsart.

Beyond that point nobody ever seems to do any kind of job of work, excepting the professor's tinkering in his shed (and a little 'moonlighting' as astronauts). Haddock seems perfectly content to let them all mooch around at his place. Freed from financial worries they can get on with the serious business of having adventures. This set up was I think deliberate on the part of Georges Remi, so he wouldn't have to keep working Tintin and Haddock's supposed careers into the storylines.

I don't think Tintin ever goes back to work after that point. I imagine there was an off-stage scene where his editor gets a "Take this job and shove it!" speech from our intrepid hero.

[Hammers]

Up to a pint, the Captn is fairly active in his trade. As late as in Land of Black Gold (French: Tintin au pays de l'or noir) he is called up for active service in the merchant marine because of the pending war. After that he seems to have enjoyed his otium cum dignitate as a country gent at Moulinsart (apart from a few samll diversions like a trip to the moon, being abducted by UFOs and participating in a South American revolution).

[Plynkes]

Ah yes but 'Land of Black Gold' is really a pre-war, pre-treasure, pre-Moulinsart story, despite it's current place in the chronology.

It has a wartime theme about German baddies blowing up pipelines and disrupting British oil and such. This was on the drawing board when the Nazi tanks rolled into Brussels. Remi thought it best to shelve it and write something less likely to annoy his new bosses, such as voyages to the North Pole, stories about pirates and treasure hunts and such.

Come liberation he finished it (after changing the direction he was originally going to go with it) and it was published and took its place in the canon where it resides to day.

But the early half still reflects its pre-war origins. Thus we have Haddock still an active sea-captain, and for once we actually see Tintin doing his reporting job. All this really happened before they moved into the big house and gave up working for a living.

[Hammers]

I once did, as an assignment in my Multimedia programming class, a virtual tour (in 2D) of Moulinsart. It was fun piecing the various images of the castle together to figure out the layout. It was however apparent that unless some rather heavy handed reconstruction had taken place between the adventures the whole building must inhabit some sort of Escher-universe.

[Plynkes]

Yes, having been to the real château it was based on at Cheverny, there's no way you could cram all that into the space inside, especially with the two wings lopped off.