Editing Donald Duck universe (section)

===Money Bin===
The '''Money Bin''' is the building where [[Scrooge McDuck]] stores the portions of his money he earned by himself. Carl Barks invented the "money swim" in his story ''[[A Financial Fable]]'' (1950), followed by the "Money Bin" in the story ''Terror of the Beagle Boys'' (1951).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barks |first=Carl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YM0koT-ENLsC&dq=%22money+bin%22+Scrooge&pg=PR38 |title=Carl Barks: Conversations |date=2003 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-501-1 |pages=xxxviii |language=en}}</ref> In Barks' earlier stories, interchangeably with the name Money Bin, the building's official name was the '''McDuck Building''', which was only used on [[facade]] signs. Eventually however, the name was discontinued in the later stories by Barks and subsequent writers and artists.

While the first stories showing the Bin treated it as if it had just been built, later continuity established that Scrooge had built the Money Bin in 1902 after having traveled around the world to make his fortune, mostly through prospecting and the establishment of various businesses. Scrooge's favorite [[pastime]] is to dive off a [[springboard]] into his money and swim through it. In most comic books stories, Scrooge lives at the Money Bin in his private quarters on the top floor, with the rooms often filled with large amounts of money. Because of Scrooge's [[frugality]] he has at times even made his own furniture and architecture out of his money; like using moneybags as chairs or using stacked paper bills as stairs to reach high places. The Money Bin also has a worry room in which Scrooge paces around in circles, which has caused a circular depression in the floor, to worry and ponder about hardships that has befallen him. The worry room was first mentioned in Carl Barks' story ''[[The Secret of Atlantis]]'' (''[[Uncle Scrooge]]'' #5, 1954).

The traditional location of the Money Bin is on top of Killmotor Hill which in turn lies atop a [[fault line]] which would prove catastrophic in the event of an [[earthquake]], and this earthquake occurred in the story ''[[Land Beneath the Ground!]]'' (1956) by Carl Barks.

The Money Bin is the victim of repeated assaults by Scrooge's enemies who try to steal his money, such as the [[Beagle Boys]], who are after the bulk of Scrooge's money, and [[Magica DeSpell]], who is after Scrooge's "[[Number One Dime]]", the first [[Dime (United States coin)|dime]] Scrooge ever earned. To protect against these attempted break-ins, Scrooge has installed the greatest [[security system]] in the world, which includes [[Gizmoduck]] in the ''DuckTales'' TV-Series, to thwart any thought of even trying to intrude onto the premises.

Barks defined the volume of money contained inside as "three cubic acres", but the exact meaning of a "cubic acre" left to the reader to interpret, since an [[acre]] is a measure of [[area]], not [[length]]. Taken literally, a [[cube (algebra)|cubic]] acre would be a 6-[[dimension]]al space of 82,653,950,016,000&nbsp;ft<sup>6</sup>, i.e. feet to the sixth power. Taken as an acre that is raised to a cube with each side an acre, it would be around 9 091 379&nbsp;ft<sup>3</sup>. A series of blueprints created for the Scrooge McDuck story "[[The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin]]" by [[Don Rosa]] state that the Money Bin is approximately {{convert|127|ft|m}} tall, and {{convert|120|ft|m}} wide. In the story, said blueprints are accredited to an architect named Frank Lloyd Drake, who is based on the real-life architect [[Frank Lloyd Wright]].

The Money Bin also contains various valuable artifacts like the [[Golden Fleece]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++12-02|title=The Golden Fleecing|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02|archive-date=November 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105022445/http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++12-02|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Crown of [[Genghis Khan]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++14-02&redirected=1|title=The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan!|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02}}</ref> the Crown of the [[Maya peoples|Mayas]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++44-01|title=Crown of the Mayas|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02}}</ref> the Candy-Striped Ruby<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++41-02&redirected=1|title=The Status Seeker|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02}}</ref> and the Goose Egg Nugget.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS++456-02&redirected=1|title=Back to the Klondike|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02}}</ref> According to Carl Barks' story ''[[The Fabulous Philosopher's Stone]]'' (Uncle Scrooge #10, 1955) Scrooge also owned the [[Philosopher's Stone]] at one point, but it was later confiscated by the International Money Council as it could devastate the economy because of its capability to turn base metals into gold.

The [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] names for "the Money Bin" are ''Pengetanken'' and ''Pengebingen'', respectively, and these have become a regular word in these languages for a large amount of money or cash.<ref>[http://www.nrk.no/programmer/radioarkiv/sann_er_livet/2706708.html Vår tids eventyr] ("Our time's adventure") nrk.no May 6, 2003 {{in lang|no}}</ref>

Russell W. Belk mentions the Money Bin in ''Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth'', where he remarks that Scrooge's "childish fascination with money", where he takes pleasure in diving and swimming in the Money Bin, might account for Scrooge not being portrayed as a villain.<ref>The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 14, No. 1. (Jun., 1987), pp. 26-42.</ref> Penelope Fritzer in the article ''Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron'' considers it possible for the Money Bin to symbolize the entire Disney empire.<ref>The Journal for the Liberal Art and Sciences, Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron, Penelope Fritzer, Florida Atlantic University</ref>

The Money Bin in the [[DuckTales (2017 TV series)|''DuckTales'' 2017 reboot]] is given a total redesign. Here it is depicted as a large tower situated on an island in the waters near Duckburg, connected to the city via a bridge, and visible directly from Scrooge's bedroom window. It is perceived as a costly architectural fancy by Scrooge's board of directors, though Scrooge candidly claimed its deranged staff being let go would cause a larger danger. Aside from storing his money, this incarnation of the Money Bin (somewhat emptier due to Scrooge's costly search for the lost [[Della Duck]]) also serves as the corporate headquarters of McDuck Industries and the location of Gyro Gearloose's lab.