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Disney Buys Marvel For $4B

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wolverine-with-mouse-ears dept.

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.'"

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  1. Bye bye marvel... by CRiMSON · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It was a nice run while you had it, Enjoy doing princess disney stories forever more now.

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    1. Re:Bye bye marvel... by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I worked for Disney for 5 years and they're not likely to change a winning formula.

      The beauty of Disney's model is that they sell to six years olds; six year olds with literally no memory and no experience of having seen their product before despite its being over 50 years old. It's as if Disney, as a company, is selling into a market with mass collective amnesia. They never need to innovate.

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    2. Re:Bye bye marvel... by mqduck · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Trust me, Grimms Fairy Tales are much better in their original form

      I don't generally care for Disneyfication of classic stories, but in the case of the Grimm's fairy tales, it's difficult to say that the stories are better or worse left in their original hardcore form.

      The original stories weren't so much supposed to be entertainment as moral and cautionary tales. Back in the day, the message to kids of Little Red Riding Hood was very relevant: don't wander around in the woods by yourself or you'll get eaten by a fucking wolf.

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  2. A good fit by KingSkippus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Batman and Porky Pig by tepples · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thank god Batman is DC comics.

    DC Comics is part of Time Warner. So is Porky Pig.

  4. Re:great! by CodeBuster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, except now Disney-fied and sanitized (look no blood!) to assure parents that little johnny won't be lead astray by those no-good comic books. If you thought that the Comics Code Authority was bad, just wait until Disney sinks their claws into the Marvel brands. I do not see how this can be considered to be good for comics in general and Marvel in particular. In fact, it will probably hasten the decline of American comics in favor of edgier manga and graphic novels coming out of Japan (a trend which was already clearly evident even before this latest deal).

  5. Re:GREAT! by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The great suckage.

    I buy no Disney. They are cultural programming of the lowest order. You want a rotten child? Let them watch Disney channel 2 hours a day.

    If you could contrive propaganda aimed at undermining basic human values, specifically that of respect, you could do no better than to come up with this garbage. It is particularly detrimental to the child / parent relationship - always portrayed as a way to manipulate or deceive the old buffoons.

    Disney is death.

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