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LOS ANGELES – Della Duck knows how to make an entrance, as she has proven on the animated Disney Channel series “DuckTales.”

She crash-landed on the moon in Saturday’s episode, an accident that ends up costing her a leg.

But the intrepid Della quickly fashioned a prosthetic limb from her wrecked spacecraft and carried on.

This photo provided by Disney shows a scene from
This photo provided by Disney shows a scene from "What Ever Happened to Della Duck?!" in an episode of the animated series "DuckTales" that airs Saturday, March 9, 2019, on Disney Channel. (Disney Channel via AP)

The makers of “DuckTales” said they want Della to be a spunky, appealing character who happens to be an amputee but isn’t defined by it. Della is now one of the few TV characters with a disability who’s part of a children’s series.

As the series has it, Della is Donald Duck’s twin sister and long-lost mom to Huey, Dewey and Louie. She was seen briefly last season on “DuckTales.”

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