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Disney Buys Marvel For $4B
whisper_jeff writes "Disney has announced they will be purchasing Marvel. 'Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today.'"
Woooo, time for some more G rated comic movies.... *sigh*
It was a nice run while you had it, Enjoy doing princess disney stories forever more now.
oogly boogly!
Does this mean that we can expect to see unending series of cash-in sequels, like Spiderman 3, Fantastic Four 3, Iron Man 2, X-Men 4, etc?!? Oh wait...
"Oh shit - there goes the planet."
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Epic Fail.
Maybe we can get a retcon. Marvel does it all the time anyhow...
Marvel... The company that sued NCsoft for making a game in which superheroes could be constructed because some of them could be made to look like Marvel characters? And then it turned out that the most egregious violators were actually Marvel employees?
Sounds like a good fit to me, I'm sure the companies will be really happy with each other.
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Finally...
Those clashes between Marvel characters and DC Comics ones got boring so now it's time for:
Daisy vs Wolverine
Pinocchio vs Spiderman
Cinderella vs Juggernaut
If they film any of those I am soo going to see this..
An obvious brand extension: Hey, Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman can both sing, right? Kidding aside, Disney execs would be well-served to remember that "with great power, comes great responsibility."
They could have bought DC Comics.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance3 -- Donald vs. Wolverine
Now we get to look forward to Donald Duck and Howard the Duck crossovers.
All I can say is, if this opens the door for a sequel to Marvel vs. Capcom 2 including all of the famous Disney characters I am all for it. It would be a lot of fun to whoop some Mickey Mouse or Snow White azz with characters from the Marvel roster. You know you want to, just admit it.
Universal uses Marvel trademarks in one of their Theme Park (Universal's Island of Adventure) in Central Florida. Will Universal continue to pay for these Likeness rights when they are to a rival company?
Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world
that's a stupid strategy. what a dumb idea. It reminds me of Mr Burns - "Strawberry - hit a home run!"
We've finally given up thinking of our own ideas and as soon as existing licensing deals run out we are going to squeeze the Marvel universe for everything we can get out of it, by giving it the "Disney" treatment".
Although... Pixar doing Marvel comics? Could be good.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Doctor Strange against the Beagle Boys !
And Donald Duck will go rafting with wolverine...
And of course "Moovies": Xmens the clueless episode !!!
And Marvel theamed movies will always end "cute"
Somehow this does not seem a good news
Or at least not very interested in mainstream American costumed super-hero books. Otherwise I'd be dying inside right now. I feel that way every time EA buys up another studio.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
venom versus goofy
the lion king iii: a wolverine in the pridelands
those were the easy ones
now mash up marvel with pixar
oy vey
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
....the more power they have in influencing government policy and society's attitudes towards [insert controversial issue here]. The lobbyists already own Congress.
This is a Bad Thing.
-Copyright law #69:Whenever Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain,copyrights get extended by 25 years.
Does this mean that Beauty and the Beast ][ will have Kelsey Grammar as the voice?
Thought comic books were expensive now? Wait until Disney ups the price to help recover some of that 4 billion.
Wonder how this will affect the licensing for the Comic Book area at Universal Orlando long term. It's ALL Marvel, including the "Hulk" roller coaster.
I suppose it'll just continue for a while though, the whole thing is pretty incestous.
Thank god Batman is DC comics.
DC Comics is part of Time Warner. So is Porky Pig.
on my motherboard?
is disney going to extend the copyright and make the kernel driver extend some hundred years past the chips death?
will they only let the driver out every few years and then, its 'back in the vault' ?
maybe I have to find another ethernet chip vendor now..
--
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Those clashes between Marvel characters and DC Comics ones got boring so now it's time for:
Daisy vs Wolverine
Pinocchio vs Spiderman
Cinderella vs Juggernaut
You have a point about Daisy Duck, but for the other two, Fables is DC, not Marvel.
Marvel has been going downhill for a long time. So much so that I consider this deal to be part of a natural progression. Between poor writing and poor management, I haven't seen anything good from Marvel Comics since the late 90s, or maybe early 00s. Some of their movies have been good, some have been horrid. I know "continuity" is optional at best, but you can only "re-imagine" a plot so many times before it becomes complete drivel.
This deal will ruin Marvel like old mayonnaise ruins a dog crap sandwich.
--Not to be worried, Pitr fix.
I feel I'm on pretty solid ground predicting that all the Marvel stuff at Universal Orlando will last for *at least as long* as the terms specified in the original contracts between Universal and Marvel. Those terms are probably long enough to more than pay off the rollercoaster. If, at the end of the contract, Universal isn't ready to tear down that particular coaster and replace it with something newer, they can always rename the coaster, and remove the "Hulk" visual elements from the coaster.
I hate Fox and Rupurt Murdoch, but they were the ones to push the envelope with media. It's too bad Fox didn't have the foresight to buy properties like Marvel so that the seriously adult themes in comics can be fully developed.
Best regards.
... But doesn't Universal Pictures own the rights to many Marvel comic book movie properties? How's that going to work?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Pressure from Disney caused no end of problems and weird artwork for Howard the Duck comics over the years. At least there's one silver lining to be found.
Not the movie, the Marvel character. Now Howard the Duck will finally be able to admit he's from the same universe as Donald. My inner geek is sated!
Daffy Duck vs Donald Duck.
Free Martian Whores!
As a fan of Marvel characters (Wolverine being my favorite) I'm deeply saddened by this turn of events. I guarantee Disney won't be able to keep their hands off the properties, and will end up ruining them.
Which made me wonder why Disney would need an semiconductor manufacturing company? Especially one without a fab.
Yes, that's right - not all slashdotters care about comics. /me defends his geek card against the ensuing calls to surrender it
Wait for The Incredibles 2 at any moment now.
The good, the evil and the vacuum tubes.
They're a good fit from the standpoint that each company comes up with A Character and then proceeds to flog it for thirty years, squeezing every possible nickel out of it. Their characters never die (and when Marvel characters do, you can bet that if they're first-stringers it was done for sales and they won't stay that way for long).
Outside of Pixar, The Black Hole and Tron, Disney hasn't done much of interest to me - at least not in the sense in which they're being compared to Marvel.
Marvel is very good at the super hero thing - so good, in fact, that their business practices (rotating talent around books, no perma-death for major characters, etc) drove me over to DC's Vertigo books and independent comics with static, unchanging creative teams.
I've been out of the target demos of both companies for almost two decades, and while I'll keep a casually interested eye on the acquisition to see how (or if) things change on Marvel's end, I really doubt this will have an impact on the comics I buy.
How about the trend towards "Young ___" ?
Young Cindarella: "Juggy, you're ruining my flower garden!"
Young Juggernaut: "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
X-Men on Ice (Man)
I'm just going to repeat what pretty much everyone is saying; f*ck Disney and RIP Marvel
Very sad day...... But bookies should start putting odds on who gets the axe 1st...... Even Odds: Punisher (excessive violence) X-Force (Go back to the no kill Mutants) All the heroines having to dress up (I'm gonna be saddened by that the most) Tony Stark having to give up drinking and womanizing in Iron Man 2 (heh) So the next Incredible Hulk movie will have Mickey mouse calming the Hulk down and trying to reach a solution through talks..............
I wouldn't worry about this news very much. Disney owns a massive empire of entertainment companies that produce programming for all age groups.
They own Miramax Films and ESPN. They own Pixar. Not everything in their network is Disney-branded and dumbed down for children. Besides, Marvel didn't have any problem dumbing down their products for children before now. Maybe with Disney in the picture, they'll do a better job on Saturday mornings.
Coming to Saturday Morning TV on a channel near you soon;
Baby Superheroes!
All your favourite superheroes portrayed as squeaky voiced, gooey eyed, 4 year-olds. Enjoy their warm hearted adventures as The Baby Fantastic Four encounter a mean-ol' cat in Grandpa's back yard. Thrill as Spiderbaby gets into high jinx on the nursery ceiling! Be dumbfounded as Baby Hulk throws a tantrum!
Oh yes. Can't wait.
Moderator gets a -1, whoosh.
I want to see Snow White vs Hulk. When that woman starts singing Led Zeppelin and the forest creatures start attacking, damn that is something freaky scary! I think the hulk would even turn a new color... yellow!
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
Now that Disney is buying Marvel, Disney's marketing department will consume their IP and digest it into other forms. Soon you'll be seeing marvel-themed toys, then marvel-themed sitcoms!
Oh wait, that's how it is already. Except Marvel's media tends to be more serious.
Except that wasn't the end; the end is when you go to the dollar store and buy marvel-branded plastic sandwich baggies. You can't get lower than that.
...where there is no fighting, and instead everyone gets fuzzy-wuzzy happy feelings for miles around.
Don't even get me started on the crossovers Deadpool's forced to endure.
/me retches quietly in a corner.
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
Disney has always been a diversified company. For years the highest grossing movie made under the Disney umbrella was "Pretty Woman." "Good Morning, Vietnam," "The Golden Girls," and "Home Improvement" are all Disney properties. So are Pixar, ESPN and a line of cruise ships. ABC was one of the first television networks to embrace internet broadcasting; practically all their shows are available online at no cost. They're not anti-innovation.
Disney has long been in the comic book business, with a history going back to the fifties. Now, to be certain, their content has never been superhero oriented, but they're no strangers to the world of periodical publishing. The kneejerk reaction is that Marvel's going to be ruined because DIsney is synonymous with sanitized, milquetoast family entertainment.
At its core, however, Disney is a media company. The lions share of their business is in movies, television and music: three segments that are in a tremendous upheaval right now. The past five years have seen amazing changes in the way we get our entertainment. iPods and iPhones, torrents and DVRs were marginal technologies just earlier this decade. Imagine what's going to change in the next five. This is much less a creative acquisition than it is a business decision.
should have been tagged 'endofanera'
Why is the price in hex?
Lesser known deal - Microsoft owns Halo, and they licensed Marvel to do the comics side of it. Isn't DIsney partially owned/controlled by Steve Jobs?
Of course, the Mickey MOuse Master Chief series .... *shudder*.
Look for new copyright legislation is any marvel copyrights are due to expire soon.
If Disney buys toho we can see an update of this classic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAVwUb9hg4Y
A Human Right
What about the Incredible Hulk Coaster at Universal Orlando? OR the other themed rides there?
This is making for soem very strange bedfellows!
pending committee review
I'm actually glad now that I never allowed myself to become a comic book collector; I'd be extremely depressed now. Disney will likely ruin Marvel.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Now we can rest assured that the Marvel characters will never fall into the public domain and live as part of the Disney brand for the rest of time.
no
I have already written a complaint letter to the SEC and my congressmen and WhiteHouse. I STRONGLY URGE YOU ALL TO DO THE SAME!!! The SEC is supposed to stop companies from creating monopolies, and buying out competitors for no reason other than getting more money out of the public. The general public benefits much more from having these two companies competing with each other. Please take action instead of just complaining about it here. Just buying your competition in Un-American, and bad for the marketplace in general. Disney and Marvel both should have to innovate and compete like the rest of us.
You just need to realize which modifier is modifying what:
It may look like:
quality (branded content)
But really they mean:
(quality branded) content
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
now Mickey Mouse can team up with Spider-Man and become an honorary Avenger.
Imagine the Disney Mickey Mouse characters in Marvel super hero costumes as part of some Cartoon movie spoof on Marvel's Avengers or something?
I guess Disney and Pixar movies will have Marvel characters in them now, followed by more merchandising and video games than ever before. Marvel vs. Disney fighting movies, Kingdom Hearts sequels will have not only Disney but Marvel characters in them.
Maybe the Red Hulk will turn out to be Peg Leg Pete or one of the Beagle Boys?
Darkwing Duck will follow Howard the Duck to the Marvel Universe and get his own Marvel comic book.
In the Marvel universe a few of the alternative Earths will be Disney Earths now.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
"Like the toupee on a fading fame
The final whistle in a losing game
Thick lipstick on a five year old girl
It makes you think it's a plastic world
A plastic world and we're all plastic too
Just a couple of different faces in a dead man's queue
The world is turning Disney and there's nothing you can do
You're trying to walk like giants
but you're wearing Pluto's shoes
And the answers fall easier from the barrel of a gun
Than it does from the lips of the beautiful and the dumb
The world won't end in darkness, it'll end in family fun
With Coca Cola clouds behind a Big Mac sun "
Surely this must be a sign of the Apocalypse...?
Perhaps Marvel will help Disney with their "anti-two parent home" rage. Disney has always HATED two parent families.
Don't believe me?
Where are Donald's nephews parents?
Ariel's mother?
Goofey's Wife?
Scrooge's Parents?
Mickey's?
Miney's?
That little brat from Tailspin?
Jasmine?
I mean holy crap they hate parents apparently they are either dead or MIA!
Marvel has plenty of Parents, Kids, Grandkids, hell whole genetic lineages running through the ages.
Perhaps, just maybe, Disney will learn from Marvel... we can hope some day for an answer to the anti-parent obsession the Disney corp has...
Stop teh h8 Disney! Stop teh h8! :)
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
You do know Disney owns a PLETHORA of media companies. Many of which do some pretty gruesome stuff.
Jefe, do you know what a plethora is?
Bow-ties are cool.
Imagine Wolverine sharing the parade with Mickey at Disney Land...
Young Cinderella: "Juggy, you're ruining my flower garden!"
That's what she said!
they both are trash.
As he web slings around town he shouts "AHH-HOO-HOO-WEEE".
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
Will be sporting a new pair of ears very soon.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
Daily? Weekly?
Looks to me that Disney is buying Marvel just once, not habitually. Perhaps the headline should be "Disney Bought Marvel" or "Disney Will Buy Marvel Tomorrow".
Utilizing the synergization of benchmark e-solutions to pre-workaround action items!
Can't wait to see the new "Marvel Babies" series. Baby Spiderman and Baby Wolverine in wacky preschool misadventures.
Could be worse, though. George Lucas could have bought 'em.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
What happened to Tim Burton's Batman is now going to happen to Spidey. Well. Ces't la vie, it was nice while it lasted.
I gotta look on both sides of this issue. 1) I'm disappointed - the movies have been great lately, especially out of Marvel Studios. I pray they keep that creative genius constant - don't fire anyone. 2) On the flip side, I can't think of anyone who I'd rather have building a brand new theme park with nothing but Marvel Characters. Universal did a decent job, but if anyone has the money, guts, space, and Imagineering to pull off a truly twenty-first century full sensory experience that's pure Marvel, Disney would be my first hope. I hear they were thinking of putting together a new park in Orlando/Kissimmee anyway. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Finally, I can have my Hannah Montana versus Wolverine crossover!
Would this have any effect on the licensing of the Marvel characters to the Universal Studios Theme Parks? Seeing as how Disney is in direct competition with Universal in the theme park business, I think it might. The Islands of Adventure park is literally half Marvel.
Kitty Pride vs The Heartless
Time to switch your Spiderman subscription to Spawn before the Cinderella crossover series starts.
That's a lot of dried milk!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I stop reading xmen or any marvel comic when they changed the gritty dirty ink artwork into the pokemon clean cut manga style. Not all manga is bad, there are several styles out there but they picked up the worst for the storyline and characters. It really bugs the hell out of me when they turn mature complex characters into teens or even kids like Ironman.
Some more information on the deal.
The long and short of it is that this sounds a lot like the Disney/Pixar relationship.
Also, the idea of Marvel and Pixar talking to each other and being excited about the talks really interests me.
As has been suggested by others, this will change Marvel. Rather than paint smiley faces on Silver Surfer and the rest, it might just make it darker; more characters might have to become gay, and doing story lines never conceived by mortal man.
But other things might happen too, if they're smart.
Remember that AOL/Time-Warner owns Bugs Bunny and friends, despite their legendary acceptance and self-identification, yet AOL never though to theme itself with the characters: how blind can these folks be?
So while this might be an attempt to buy the bigger names, many of them will go unused. One thing's certain: it's gonna be interesting!
--- For a good time mail uce@ftc.gov
Soon at your local shop: Winnie the Blob, with Tony Stark as a very twisted Christopher Robin...
It is as if a million nerd voices cried out all at once and then went suddenly silent...as sobbing and whimpering emerges from the basements of America.
"Disney Buys Marvel For $4B" - That's 75 in decimal. But 75 of what?
Claus
My spider sense is tingling. Something bad is about to happen.
Truth, Just Us, And Hatred For All Mankind!
What's Wolverine going to do now? Tickle his enemies to death?
I don't really give a shit about this merger. I can only hope they bring back Wanda the Scarlet Witch (the 60's version with the tight outfit, long gloves, go-go boots, big hair and a lot of makeup).
http://fsb.zedge.net/content/9/9/5/8/1-2487054-9958-t.jpg Found using google! Imagine a crossover with Howard, the Duck with Donald Duck!
...posted for a while.
Here's a link...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4OYGjUrdllo/SKZDW56FpYI/AAAAAAAAGLA/zHFGEjuqpPk/s400/WolvieMickey.jpg
Fox News potentially getting it' hands on the Captain America property!?!
Nonono. That must be prevented at all costs.
Sam Raimi decides to bring the Fantastic Four into Spidey 4 for a big crossover storyline.
SR: "Who will we cast to play Spiderman's red-headed girlfriend? I know. Kirsten Dunst!"
---
SR: "Who will we cast to play Spiderman's blonde haired love interest?"
Is Ron Howard available?
No... he's in Rumania directing "Apollo Splashdown"
SR: "Then get someone else in the Howard family. I must those famous Howard hair genes playing Gwen Stacy"
---
SR:"We need to recast Alicia Masters. Tim Story really messed up casting that part for the FF movies. I just don't see Kerry Washington as Ben Grimm's girlfriend. Get me Miley Cyrus' agent. Get her in here to read for the Alicia Masters role...."
Who cares? Super hero animation is stuck on TV, poorly done, and not scripted nearly as well as the comic books from which they spring
We haven't gotten much further than Casey Kasem doing his, zoinks, Robin voice.
Even though live action comic book adaptations are still inferior to the original product, the old campy Batman and Robin series is still superior to the animation that is going on now.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
certainly not as good as the new batman movies, but pretty good for a comic book movie.
Bring back the old version of slashdot.
I'm salivating over the thought of Howard the Duck vs. Scrooge McDuck! Or maybe a team-up with the two of them! Somebody call Don Rosa!
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
That's a dark fucking day. Disney is the rot at the heart of America. I can totally tell the difference in other properties Disney has bought (look at what's been done with the Muppets since they bought). They had a good run, though.
Now watching X-Men: Evolution on Hulu.com, best cartoon ever.
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
Wow. It's like rule 34, but for fan fiction.
No existe.
is a Mickey Mouse operation.
"Marvel, you just celebrated 70 years of publishing comics, what are you going to do now?"
"Weâ(TM)re going to Disneyland! Waitâ¦noâ¦that wasnâ(TM)t a legally binding sales agreementâ¦noooooooâ¦."
Unfortunately, the real Howard the Duck is no longer at Marvel comics. He's been replaced by a clone! (Heh.)
See, what happened was that Steve Gerber was asked by Marvel to do a Spider-man/Howard the Duck crossover, which roughly coincided with a Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck event over in Image Comics-land.
Savage Dragon's creator, Erik Larsen suggested a kind of crossover-in-a-crossover gag, where the two crossover pairs would bump into each other in a darkened room. Surprisingly, Marvel agreed that it was okay.
During the run-up, though, Marvel screwed Steve Gerber over yet again - they had agreed to let him have control over Howard once more, but then smelled money and started up more Howard books without Gerber's consent.
Gerber was furious, and called up Erik and told him. Erik said "Hey, I know what I'd do." and made a suggestion to change things in the Savage Dragon crossover slightly.
In the end, the real Howard (and Beverly) is yanked away from the unseen Spider-man, who leaves with a fake from another universe. Howard and Beverly enter the witness protection program, as "Leonard the Duck" and "Rhonda Martini" and happily retire into the Image Comics universe. Marvel can do whatever they want, but the real Howard is safe from their clutches.
Details can be found in the back pages of the Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck crossover.
Wow. Marvel has sucked at controlling its rights. They fling their lawyers around like idiots with dice. Remember "Marveloution" back when they tried to buy up all the comic book distributors and have their own little "Marvel" stores?
Fail. They were too inept. Bit off more than they could chew. The screwed up the comics industry but good so that it took nearly a decade for everybody to get back on their feet.
Now Disney, on the other hand. . .
They know how to suck the soul out of a property and employ slave labor in China to make toys in a manner only Todd McFarlane could fantasize about! Oh yes indeedy! --The seedy beginnings of Marvel, (Didja know it sprang from the same family publishing um. . , 'empire' from which the classy skin-mag "Hustler" grew? Now you do. You're welcome.), all the way through their never quite taken seriously by 'real' publisher trajectory. . , that's what makes Marvel Marvel.
And that's why Marvel has always felt edgy and honest, (if adolescent and stupid half the time) and all kind of held together with spit and. . , well, staples. It's been run by a long succession of people who don't fit into respectable society and who don't really understand business, --and who had a lot of fun (and a lot of burn-out) as a result. For all its warts, I love Marvel. --While Disney is pretty much an evil entity; It has no character and no soul except the practiced gleaming smile of a charming sociopath. --Hopefully they'll catch whatever Marvel has, get the shakes and die. But I'm not holding my breath on that.
I hope comic shops don't change too much. Comic shops are one of the few paper media outlets which don't feel like they've sold out. (They would have if they could, and heaven knows they've tried, but the truth is, they've never had any capital the rest of the world really wants or understands, and so selling out hasn't been a serious option until these movies started coming out. Until then they had nothing to sell but adolescent power/sex fantasies and the occasional gem tagging along for the ride. If Disney gets its teeth in, do we really think that people like Jeff Smith and Dave Sim could have done their thing?) Hopefully Manga will keep things creepy and weird enough to prevent the grown ups from tidying up.
After all, there's a dark and a light side to everything. Maybe Disney won't screw it up.
Heh. Yeah. . . You gotta have a dream.
-FL
So your question not only makes no sense, it brings into question the intelligence of those who modded your question "Interesting."
Get even bigger.
More $ to buy even more laws restricting fair use.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I have a hard time believing Disney will allow 'PG-13+' animation to come from one of their properties - it's too close to the core.
The Incredibles out-Marveled Marvel.
Wall-E went home with the 2009 Hugo Award for best long form drama. Not to mention a Nebula, an Oscar and a Saturn.
Universal Orlando has Islands of Adventure which has Spiderman, Hulk, and Dr. Doom rides as well as tons of licensed Marvel merchandise in the shops. Disney might wind up getting some of the licensing revenue for that section of the park, but I'd bet Universal has "lifetime" rights to keep the rides. So Disney may not be able to create any Marvel-themed rides in their parks, or at least not based on those three characters.
I have not yet seen any articles addressing how this deal affects the theme parks.
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." Carl Sagan
This will just insure that it remains lurching forward, arms extended, and sniffing at potential sources of new brains for generations to come. Let them and Disney both die. But what do I know? I've been reading Heavy Metal for thirty years.
Maybe so where the hard core are concerned, but their properties can still be processed for mass consumption.
Twinstiq, game news
Amazing, Incredible, Fantastic, Uncanny, Spectacular, EXCELSIOR!!!
He can hear for 10 miles and has adamantium teeths
I mean holy crap they hate parents apparently they are either dead or MIA!
Character animation at the highest level is an extraordinarily rare talent. It takes a long time, it eats up a lot of money:
hermonir: What is the animation quota? How much final character animation does an animator produce in a week?
aorrelle: Four feet per week - about three seconds. Working for Pixar
Characters who contribute nothing essential to the story are cut.
Disney characters aren't bound by canon but by the needs of the story.
Mickey can be the innocent of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. He can be equally adept playing mind games with The Phantom Blot on the daily comic pages.
DC and Marvel blow things up every ten years or so when continuity has become a trap. It doesn't always work out they way they plan.
Readers remain loyal to the dearly departed.
The classic Disney tale is a "coming of age" story:
Pinocchio can have the life of a boy or the immortality of the puppet.
He can't have both.
The decision is the most important he will ever make and it is essential that it make it on his own.
That is why the parent or guide or guardian must be removed from the picture.
I'm trying to imagine how the "Berserker Quack" will work, and it ain't pretty...
You laugh, but I'd buy the comic, and the day may come when sales projections become irresistible.
That ain't liver; that's beef kidney!
At least for the Howard the Duck info. If there are any late mods reading this. Much appreciated.
Now we can, at last, have the much anticipated Mary Poppins / Wolverine smackdown.
Zhey vurr ein German inwention you insensitive Klodd.
I know, but all the Germans on Star Trek were Nazis, so nobody on Star Trek ever claimed anything was German.
Well, except for that one guy who felt that the Nazis had been really quite good at what they did, and decided to re-shape an alien society in their image (down to the most minute details) because it seemed the most effective way to get them to be productive and also what could possibly go wrong?
Bow-ties are cool.
Unfortunately I am at work so do not have time to read through the thread to see if this has been mentioned with any seriousness, but whatabout MAX? Disney has a history of not being affiliated with anything overly violent or "adult". I don't see most of Marvel's comics changing too much, if at all, as a result of this acquisition - sureley Disney wouldn't want to mess with a good thing. Or at least a relatively decent thing depending on the writer, artist, editor, etc. But the MAX imprint has a history of being more adult - more violent, more swear words, the occasional nudity (though I might be confusing MAX with Vertigo on this part). Now I am not one who thinks a comic can't be adult or good without violence, nudity, etc. but it is refreshing once in a while, to be honest. It feels more gritty and realistic once in a while. Does anybody know of any examples where Disney acquired a company and the company all of a sudden changed their content? Though the majority of Disney now is pap (in my opinion) they have made great things in the past. I have fond memories of their movies from when I was growing up, and the series Gargoyles remains to this day one of my favourite cartoon series. I don't like this acquisition but as long as the stories and characters don't change drastically or in such a way that lessens my perceived quality of them I will still continue to read Marvel. Ah, who am I kidding, I'll still keep reading even if everything does change for the worse, just so I can complain about it. Though I must say, as mentioned in a recent Something Positive strip, I would love to see a Spider-Ham/Darkwing Duck crossover come out of this.
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I have already written a complaint letter to the SEC and my congressmen and WhiteHouse. I STRONGLY URGE YOU ALL TO DO THE SAME!!! The SEC is supposed to stop companies from creating monopolies, and buying out competitors for no reason other than getting more money out of the public. The general public benefits much more from having these two companies competing with each other. Please take action instead of just complaining about it here. Just buying your competition in Un-American, and bad for the marketplace in general. Disney and Marvel both should have to innovate and compete like the rest of us.