The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire

> Mattel is looking over its various intellectual properties and imagining a Scrooge McDuck–sized swimming pool of cash.

Pah, these small reporters with their small ambitions! Scrooge McDuck didn't have a "pool of cash", he had a whole silo-sized building filled with cash, and the "pool" that he used to swim in was merely the visible surface of it: https://www.duckipedia.de/images/archive/d/d3/20230517100725...

Also Scrooge’s cash was in the form of gold coins that appreciate in value as commodity gold does. If it were a silo full of fiat currency it would be depreciating with inflation!

Something I realized later was that gold is much denser than ducks. So Scrooge could not have dived into his silo of gold without injuries equivalent to diving onto a sidewalk. Ehh, it was still a great visual.