30 years ago, Disney thrilled children around the world with DuckTales, an animated adventure series that followed the cantankerous millionaire Scrooge McDuck and his excitable nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie. Now,  executive producer Matt Youngberg and co-producer/story editor Francisco Angones are rebooting the beloved cartoon, in in doing so, they've pulled together a cast that's as passionate about the original as they are.

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"We want it to be done right, done by people who know and love the source material and want to bring it back," Youngberg told CBR at Comic-Con International in San Diego. "The generation that grew up loving DuckTales is now us. Now, the people who are creating things want to recreate the things that they loved as children, and want to bring it to a new audience of children, and feel the love that we felt as kids. That was really important for us as we got into refreshing DuckTales: What is it that we loved about the original series? And how can we infuse the show with that, but then give it a contemporary voice so that a new audience can come along and enjoy that too."

Let's meet the cast behind DuckTales and see how their rebooted flock stacks up to the original series' incarnations.

Scrooge McDuck

Fans flipped out when a playful theme song video revealed Doctor Who's David Tennant would voice the Scottish fussbudget at DuckTales' center. "There's a reason that he's so beloved by so many people -- because he's so good," Youngberg said of Tennant. "It was really important to us to find an actor who could live up to the legacy of Alan Young (who voiced the character since the 1980s, but passed last year), but also put a new spin on it as well. It was also really important for us to find an authentic Scottish actor. And as soon as we said, 'We want to go to someone Scottish,' we knew exactly who we wanted to go to."

"The thing about David, he brings such earnestness,"Angones added. "He's not afraid to go big and broad and cartoony. But he also just scratches the layer. He's willing to make a cartoon character three-dimensional and really dig deep. We're impossibly lucky to have him."

Huey, Dewey, and Louie

One major change has been the distinguishing of the trouble-attracting triplets form one another. On the original series, Huey Dewey, and Louie were interchangeable, save for their red, blue and green -- but otherwise identical -- outfits. Now, each has a distinct character, voice and look.

"This time, the nephews have their own personalities," Ben Schwartz, who plays Dewey, assured us. "Frank and Matt and all the writers had this great idea that, even though they're triplets, they came out one second before each other." So birth order tropes come into play.

"Huey, because he's the oldest by like fifteen seconds, he's the most responsible, logical one," Communit's Danny Pudi, who plays the firstborn fledgling explained. "He loves a plan. He loves a map. He likes family t-shirts. That's Huey. He's a good Junior Woodchuck. He's a scout. He's tightly wound, a little bit. Which in some ways creates a nice, natural conflict with some of the other brothers."

"The second one is me, Dewey, who came out in the middle," Schwartz said with a broad smile. "I'm the explorer. I'm almost like the Leroy Jenkins of the group... He jumps into anything. He's always ready for excitement. He's in for the adventure!"

The youngest brother Louie is voiced by Bobby Moynihan, who sadly did not make it to Comic-Con. But Schwartz offered on his behalf, "Louie is kind of like a laid back who would rather sit back and make a million bucks if he could just watch TV the entire time."

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Webigail "Webby" Vanderquack

In the '80s series, Webby was most often a pest, dragging along her dolly, and nagging the adventure-thirsty triplets. Of course, that Webby would never work for a 2017 reboot, so Youngberg and Angones took a page from another Disney property, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and turned Webby into a fangirl who gets to be a part of the adventures she's spent years dreaming about.

Unlike the triplets, Webby is well-versed in the adventures of Scrooge and their uncle Donald Duck. But Kate Micucci, who gives the giddy fangirl voice, explains there's more to the chipper duckling than that. "She's a badass chick," Micucci declared.

"She looks up to them," the Garfunkel and Oates star said of the triplets. "She is so excited to be around them. But at the same time, she definitely holds her own. As the season goes on, the fandom isn't as important as being among the dudes."

"And she's one of the gang now," Micucci noted, assuring that her Webby would be a regular on the show instead of popping into the occasional episode like her predecessor. "She's just a freakin' badass duck, who has really adventurous ideas and isn't afraid to go for them"

Mrs. Beakley

Grandmother to Webby, Mrs. Betina Beakley was Scrooge's loyal but often frazzled maid, and nanny to the triplets in the original series. Frequently scolding the boys, she was a a bit of a wet blanket. But Toks Olagundoye, who voices the new Mrs. Beakley, says that's enough of that. This incarnation is one part nanny, and one part bodyguard, as you can probably decipher from her more steely design.

"She's a bit of a badass," the English actress said of her character. "She really does take charge, take care of business, takes no nonsense. But they've written her in a way where I'm still able to have fun with her and make her funny."

Olagundoye admitted she never watched the '80s cartoon like the rest of the cast had, but she had a geek out moment of her own to share, thanks to Tennant's involvement in the series. "I do get David's voice in my head a lot (in the recording booth), which is fantastic," she confessed. "A little intimidating, because I'm a Whovian and he's my favorite Doctor."

She admitted to geeking out a bit when first meeting Tennant backstage at Comic-Con, and then mused, "I like to say Mrs. Beakley is as close to being a Companion as I'll ever get, and I'll take it."

Launchpad McQuack

Not much has changed in Launchpad's look, and according to Beck Bennett, who gives him voice in the rebooted series, not much has changed in the character either. "His voice is kind of just like a sweet, dim, mildly bro-y," Bennett said, "But sweet, confidant and wrong all the time. It was really fun to play a character that's just exuberant, so confident... and not very smart."

He did allow one change, "He doesn’t have a New York accent." But otherwise, Bennett assures us this is the Launchpad DuckTales fans know and love.

You can get a peek of this feather family in the DuckTales clip below:

Look for more from our interviews with the cast and creators of DuckTales coming soon.

DuckTales will premiere on Disney XD on Saturday, August 12, with new episodes hitting on Saturday, September 23. Each episode will also be available in the Disney XD app, and XD VOD on these same dates.