Gordon Bombay leads a new batch of misfits in Disney+'s Mighty Ducks: Game Changers trailer
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Emilio Estevez, looking a whole helluva lot like his dad, returns as The Mighty Ducks franchise’s Gordon Bombay in the first trailer for Disney+’s new sequel series. Today, the streamer shared the teaser alongside the announcement that it will premiere this March.
Set in present-day Minnesota, the 10-episode series introduces a new pack of scrappy hockey hopefuls that couldn’t cut it as Ducks, no longer the underdogs they once were. Gilmore Girls’ Lauren Graham co-stars as the mother of one such dunce, who sets out to start a new team with the help of Gordon, now the grizzled proprietor of a local ice-skating rink.
Watch the teaser below:
A group of youngsters that includes Brady Noon, Maxwell Simkins, Swayam Bhatia, and Luke Islam lead the cast, and franchise stalwart Steve Brill is on board as a co-creator and executive producer. No sign of Joshua “Charlie Conway” Jackson yet, but fingers crossed we get a cameo from him and not that kid who grew up to be a crypto billionaire and Jeffrey Epstein associate.
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers premieres on Disney+ on Friday, March 26.
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Is…is Reilly from Letterkenny one of the evil(?) Ducks coaches?
It kinda tracks with the most recent season when he and Jonesy were teaching kids hockey…
So I’m totally on board for the Mighty Ducks / Letterkenny Cinematic Universe.
Fun Fact: Not a lot of people know this, but I’ve never seen The Mighty Ducks.
The first one is decent, the second one is godly, the third one is alright.
I thought I saw it, but that turned out to be Slap Shot.
Hey, you could’ve done worse!
I thought I saw it, but that turned out to be Slap Shot.Eh, close enough.
The second one featured villians from Iceland. ICELAND.Yes, the second one was godly.
I would love to know the thought process that gave us bad guys from Iceland.
Russia was the obvious choice, but in 1992 they had just bailed on communism and we were trying to treat them as good guys for a change. Then there’s Canada, but a bunch of mild-mannered English speakers aren’t good villain material. Outside of those two most Americans probably can’t think of another country that takes hockey seriously, so we ended up with the guys from the place we know has to be cold because it has “Ice” right in the name.
How would you rate the animated series?
It was fine. Not as good as the older DA cartoons, but not horrible.
This is probably the most helpful comment I’ve read on here in a long time.
We know it, its right here on page 6 of that report we have on you. We just tend to skim past it because the really juicy stuff about your freaky sex life is on page 10
I’m still in awe over his use of a Rubber Porky Pig Mask and overalls. Well that and the tub of Crisco.
Yeah the tub of Crisco is crazy to me. Like I can see using the Crisco itself but the tub, completely dry and cleaned out. How does that even work?
You really need to apply the Crisco thoroughly first
I worked at a movie theater when the first two came out (because I’m old). I would go up there on a day off and watch anything and everything, because A: It was free, and B: I had no girlfriend at the time and nothing else to do with my spare time, and I still never saw any of these movies.
That’s like saying you’ve never seen Full House or Saved by the Bell, in that it’s a very common sentiment that makes perfect sense, but a certain demographic will make you feel weird about it. I remember the original one being less good than the Sandlot or that movie where Rick Moranis is a Little League coach with a solar van and a lot better than Rudy or the Big Green. But it’s hard to imagine a reason to watch it as an adult in 2021. Also, I’m only 50% sure that the one with Rick Moranis’ solar van wasn’t actually the Big Green, and in that case I’m comfortable having the same movie in both the “better” and “worse” categories.
I will have you know that Rick Moranis’s solar van was from Honey, I Blew Up The Kid. How dare you disrespect the legacy of genius inventor Wayne Salinski?
Almost certain he had a similar van in (grudgingly Google’s Rick Moranis sports movie from the early 90s) Little Giants. Of course, they only wrote/cast one Rick Moranis character from 1984 until he retired, so the movies kind of bleed together.
no van iirc, but he did have a go cart
Me neither but hit me up if they ever revive Repo Man into a series.
Then you’re missing out!
May be a double post, but…Is Letterkenny’s Reilly one of the evil(?) Ducks coaches?
As much as I like Emilio Estevez, this honestly feels like a retread. None of the kids seem to have any interesting personality besides “we suck at hockey,” and the team seems to be made up of an almost exact copy of the original movie team. Mostly white kids, with the token black guy, token girl, and the fat Latino kid (Was Goldberg supposed to share his actor’s ethnicity, or was he supposed to be Latino? I forget.) playing goalie. Oddly enough, no Fulton expy yet. Who knows, maybe it’ll be halfway decent, but I’m not expecting much.Oh, and why would the guy who played Kid!Bombay be in any way involved in this whatsoever?
Well to tackle you first statement, this trailer was a minute long. How much character development were you expecting?As for kid Bombay, that was a joke written on a website where the writers write jokes. Hope this helps!
(Was Goldberg supposed to share his actor’s ethnicity, or was he supposed to be Latino? I forget.)Well, his name is GoldBERG, his parents owned a Jewish Deli, and the actor is Jewish.
Judiasm is a religion, not an ethnicity. It’s like saying a guy isn’t Caucasian, he’s Catholic.
Judaism is an ethnicity as it is culture with its own language and customs. That’s not to say its impossible to be Hispanic and Jewish. The Jewish dispora went every where after all. However they do tend to be Sephardic (because that is the group that traditionally lived in Spain) and Goldberg is an Ashkenazi name. Given the amount of Yiddish the character used he is probably supposed to the product of Eastern European immigrants.
Glad to see they’re not taking the story too seriously. /s
Can’t wait for season 2 where they face off against the kids from Cobra Kai
Watched the original with my 9 year old over the weekend who was seeing it for the first time. I hadn’t seen it in 20 plus years. It holds up. That mall rollerblading scene was every 90’s kids dream.
It was one of the first things I watched on Disney+ I enjoyed it as much as the first time I saw it decades ago.
Anaheim’s NHL team has now been called the Ducks longer than they were the Mighty Ducks(they gave up the rights to the Mighty Ducks name and logo when Disney sold the team in 2006).
Reilly from Letterkenny! I hope Shoresy shows up as a ref for the big game.
Fuck you Shoresy!
You know that you don’t have to watch or care about this, right? You can just let it come and go, and go about your day. All media does not need to be consumed. Just let it go. Please. Just look away.
But will they win the big game(s)?
seems crazy to not have built this around joshua jackson instead of estevez. lazy even by the standards of a lazy sequel series!
Partly correct. Jackson should be in the Estevez role, but Estevez should be playing the Hans role, and should inexplicably have a vaguely European accent even though he’s still playing the same character.
Cobra Kai this shit! Gordon and Charlie were the aggressors. The Hawks got a raw deal!
I’m so in. We can have nice things sometimes!
If you look close you can see the new team name is the “Don’t Bothers”