So my 6yr old has been watching D2 The Mighty Ducks on repeat lately (which I love btw), and the movie of course ends with the team having a bonfire.
I mentioned to my wife that the original ending had the ducks meet the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, where a player tells the team that they were so inspired by their performance during the Goodwill Games, that they decided to name the team after them. I figured it was removed since the Mighty Ducks are now just the Ducks.
I jumped on YouTube to find the clip to share with my wife.. but I couldn’t find it.. I came on this page, and couldn’t find it… wth!! Did I make this up?! Was this a pre-Harambe alternative timeline thing?
Someone please help.. was this a part of the original theatrical release only? Anyone else remember this?
You’re confusing two different movies. The Ducks meet North Stars in the original film and I believe Charlie tells a girl in the third(?) film that they named the NHL Ducks after them.
The Mighty Ducks are back to being Mighty BTW.
Woah when did that happen? ESPN still had them listed as the Anaheim Ducks.
Yeah maybe I mushed together those moments from D1 and D3. I swear that image of the team in front of the stadium and the Anaheim team breaking the news to them feels so real, lol
Nevermind, I guess they didn’t switch the name back. They just brought back the old logos and such.
They’ve been incorporating the old Mighty Ducks imagery more and more since 2018. 2021 or so they really started using it. They even brought back Duck Days at Disneyland.
Paul Kariya makes a cameo in D3. That's the closest the team comes to showing up in the movies.
Follow up, did you happen to watch The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers?
Because they do go to the stadium in season two. It’s possible you’re mixing in this as well.
Yeah I did watch that show, but that memory preceded that.
Recently tried to pull it up to show my son, I was sad to see it was pulled from Disney+ entirely.
This is all correct.
Edit: the stuff about the movies. The real team name isn’t back to mighty ducks. Hopefully soon.
I’ve just been calling them Mighty for years that I didn’t even think about it. I assumed it came back in the early 20s when they brought back the imagery.
I remember that ending was on the novel but not in the movie
Wait really? Huh.. maybe I read the book at some point and then imagined that scene in movie form? 😆
There is a scene that might be what you’re thinking of in the second season of Mighty Ducks Game Changers. I don’t know that they truly discuss the naming of the team there, but the kids do visit the team in Anaheim.
That happens in the D2 novel, not the movie
You must have made that up, D1 ends with Bombay taking a bus to the hockey minor leagues.
Because they met the north stars players who remembered him and said they’d give him a shot in the minors.