The first 27 (out of 65) episodes of Ducktales is now out in a 3 DVD set. Unfortunately, it doesn't contain the pilot, but I'll probably snag it anyway. I remember talking about Ducktales with Don Rosa (probably the most famous $crooge artist after Carl Barks), back on the old Compuserve Comics forum. Basically he admitted that, while they didn't get $crooge at all right according to his lights (the real $crooge McDuck lived in his money-bin and would never waste money on a mansion). the shows were enjoyable in their own right. He liked to think of them as a TV show broadcast in Duckburg, based loosely on $crooge McDuck and completely unauthorized.
What I'm really hoping is that this portends a release of Darkwing Duck on DVD in the near future. I was right when I reasoned that DangerMouse would soon be followed by Count Duckula, so I've got my fingers crossed.