The Money Bin

The Money Bin is a large storage building where Scrooge McDuck houses his three cubic acres of cash. Scrooge has a great affection for his money, and his favorite hobby is to dive and swim around in the money in his bin. The building and the surrounding lot are full of booby traps, burglar alarms and other contraptions to fight off Scrooge's countless uninvited guests, like panhandlers, beggars, door-to-door salesmen and, most importantly, crooks who try to break into the Bin (most often the Beagle Boys). It was originally featured in the Uncle Scrooge comic book stories created by Carl Barks. It has also been featured in many of Scrooge's animated appearances, such as Scrooge McDuck and Money, Sport Goofy in Soccermania, and DuckTales.
==Background==
250px|thumb|left|The heavily guarded entrance to Scrooge's money Bin in Carl Barks' The Big Bin on Killmotor Hill.
As shown in Don Rosa's 1994 comic The Invader of Fort Duckburg, the Money Bin was built shortly after Scrooge moved to Duckburg. In the DuckTales episode "Once Upon a Dime", Scrooge reveals that he built the bin because he had entered the diamond market and could no longer sleep at night because all the money he was storing under his mattress raised his bed too close to the ceiling, necessitating a more suitable storage facility for his money. Scrooge's favorite pastime is to dive off a springboard into his money and swim through it.
The traditional location of the Money Bin is on top of Killmotor Hill. The money bin sits atop Futterman's Fault, a fault line which would prove catastrophic in the event of an earthquake. In the 2017 reboot series, the bin was moved to a secluded island location off the coast of Duckburg. It also features a boardroom where Scrooge meets with his executives and two basements floors. The first known as the McDuck Archive and the second is Gyro Gearloose's underwater lab.
==Design==
===Dan Shane's floor plans===
The 2001 story "The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin" contains two pages with detailed plans for the Money Bin. These drawings were done by Dan Shanehttp://www.perunamaa.net/donrosa/interview_shane.shtml.
;Basement
*A large room, with doors leading to all the other rooms in this floor
**Employee Coal Donation Bin
**Existing Well
**Furnace
**Stairs going up to the Ground Floor
*Generator Room
**Main Generator
**Backup Generator
**Redundant Backup Generator
**Backup Redundant Backup Generator
*Pump Room
**Skunk Oil Vat Room (see Fall-Away Floor in the Ground Floor) (this room is located behind a locked door)
**Storage and Intruder Trap Workshop
;Ground floor, with various traps
*A welcome mat at the entrance (which is ironic, considering the quantity of traps in this floor)
*Carpet tacks
*Bear traps
*Cannon
*Electrified flooring
*Free range spiders and snakes
*Acid pool
*Mines
*Fall-Away Floor, which causes "guests" to fall on the Skunk Oil Vat Room in the Basement
*Chute Exit and Ash Can (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
*Guard post, between the employee stairs, the private elevator and a locked gate which is the only access to the rest of the floor
*Employee stairs, leading up and down
*Private elevator
;Second Floor — Bullion Bins
*A corridor, leading to all rooms in this floor
*A room with gold bars
*A room with silver bars
*A room with platinum bars
*A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
*Guard post, in the same place as in the Ground Floor
*Note: This floor is inaccessible through the employee stairs, because they are walled
*Private elevator
;Third Floor — Precious Gems Cribs
*A corridor, leading to all rooms
*Fifteen rooms, each with one type of gem: Rubies, Sapphires, Star Sapphires, Jade, Turquoise, Fire Opals, Black Opals, Amber, Topaz, Emeralds, Pearls, Black Pearls, Diamonds (Big), Diamonds (Bigger) and Diamonds (Really Huge)
*A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
*Guard post, in the same place as in the Ground Floor
*Note: This floor is inaccessible through the employee stairs, because they are walled
*Private elevator
;Fourth Floor — Important Documents
*A corridor, leading to all rooms in this floor
**The corridor contains a larger segment with file clerks
*A room with slightly used carbon paper
*A room with half used pencils
*A room with contracts
*A room with stocks and bonds
*A room with deeds
*Two toilets
*A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
*Employee stairs, leading up and down
*Note: This floor is not accessible through the elevator, because the elevator is walled
;Fifth Floor — Communications
*A corridor, leading to all rooms in this floor
*Mail Room
**Non-Canceled Stamps Reclamation Bin
**Erased-Address Envelope Reclamation Bin
**Eraser Dust Reclamation Bin
*A room with the Switchboard
*Wireless Room
*A room with the Mailbag Carrier Recovery Station
*Two toilets
*A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
*Employee stairs, leading up and down
*Note: This floor is not accessible through the elevator, because the elevator is walled
;Fifth Floor — Communications
*A large room with tables, each table having a Ticker-Tape Placement (TYP)
*Two toilets
*A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
*Employee stairs, leading up and down
*Note: This floor is not accessible through the elevator, because the elevator is walled
;Sixth to Tenth Floors
*These are unpartitioned areas, similar to the fifth floor, that allow for numerous employee desks and file cabinets
*These floors and not shown in the project, but presumably they also have this, like the previous floors:
**Two toilets
**A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
**Employee stairs, leading up and down
**The elevator is probably walled
;Eleventh Floor — Executive Office
*An entrance room
**Employee stairs, leading down only
**Private elevator (last stop)
**Very hard chairs
**Another toilet
*Storage Room
*Worry Room
*Assay Lab
*Library
*Armory
*Scrooge's office
*Spiral stairs, leading up to the Twelfth Floor
**Scrooge's desk and chair
**Trap Door, leading to the Intruder Ejection Chute (the intruder passes through all the floors, exits through the Exit Chute at the Ground Floor, and lands in the Ash Can outside the building)
**Number One Dime display
**Map of the world
**Ticker-Tape
**A toilet
**Vault Door, leading to the Cash Vault
*The Cash Vault, which is a huge single room, containing money all the way from the Eleventh Floor to the Ground Floor
**Platform
**Ladder
**Depth Gauge
**A hatch in the roof
**See also the Secret Entrance in the Twelfth Floor
;Twelfth Floor — Private Quarters
*Living Room
**Dollar sign carpet
**Couches and sofas
*Bin Defense Control Room
*Utility Closet
*Pigeon Roost
*Kitchen
*Bath
*Bedroom
**Drapes
**Closet
**Secret Entrance to Cash Vault
*Study
*Trophy Room
*Spiral stairs, leading down to the Eleventh Floor
*Elevator Service Room
;Thirteenth Floor
*Coin Hopper for Master Bath Shower
===Other design elements===
*In "The Trouble with Dimes" (1951) by Carl Barks, the Petty Cash Vault is a separate room with millions of coins, accessible from Scrooge's office.
*In "Statuesque Spendthrifts" (1952) by Carl Barks, the Petty Cash Safe is a room above the main storage that holds three cubic acres of money. There is a mechanism to lift the floor of the Petty Cash Safe, revealing the money below.
==Gallery==
The Money Bin on DuckTales.jpg|The Money Bin as it appeared on DuckTales
The Money Bin in Soccermania.jpg|The Money Bin as it appeared in Sport Goofy in Soccermania
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BeagleBin.jpg
Petty Cash Vault.png|Petty Cash Vault in "The Trouble with Dimes"
Petty Cash Safe.jpg|Petty Cash Safe in "Statuesque Spendthrifts"
The Money Bin in the DuckTales movie.jpg|The Money Bin in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
ducktales-disneyscreencaps.com-5862.jpg|The Money Bin after being taken over by Dijon in the movie.
Money bin.jpg|The Money Bin in an Italian comic
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Moneybin.PNG|The Money Bin under attack in DuckTales: Scrooge's Loot
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DT2017 Money Bin 1.jpg|The Bin in the reboot series
DT2017 Money Bin 2.jpg
The Money Bin in Legend of the Three Caballeros.jpg
Money Bin Disney Infinity.png|The Money Bin in Disney Infinity
DT2017 Money Bin playset 1.png|Money Bin playset
DT2017 Money Bin playset 2.png
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==Trivia==
*Flintheart Glomgold, too, has a Money Bin, located in South Africa. Flintheart's Money Bin is similar to Scrooge's, but it has a pound symbol (£) instead of a dollar sign. It, along with Glomgold himself, first appeared in the 1956 comic book story "The Second-Richest Duck" by Carl Barks.
*The reason Scrooge stores all his money in the Money Bin is because he doesn't trust banks.
*In the DuckTales reboot, it is mentioned that Scrooge spends $15,000,000 a year for protection against magic on the security of the bin, as apparently, he has acquired a long list of vengeance curses (most likely from several treasures he's raided), much to the confusion of his board.
*In DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, when Dijon wished for Scrooge's fortune. A Giant "D" was on the bin resembling a dollar sign.
==References==
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