Disney to buy Marvel in $4bn deal

[Jordan:A]

Disney must make millions a day, hopefully they do buy Marvel

[StefanWolves]

Does this mean the Theme parks in Florida (Islands of Adventure, ect, as mentioned somewhere above) ~ will now be owned by Disney? if so that sucks, because I go their every year at Christmas and the Disney theme park tickets are always sky high compared to the Universal (Marvel ones) ~ which means they'd put the prices up.

This sucks.

[kuzkasate]

Gotta say, that is an AWFULLY dear price. Never realised they were worth this much!

[IceNineKills]

Marvel just made a massive mistake.

Disney will put Hannah Montana in one of the next Spiderman films.

[Mathew]

Does this mean the Theme parks in Florida (Islands of Adventure, ect, as mentioned somewhere above) ~ will now be owned by Disney? if so that sucks, because I go their every year at Christmas and the Disney theme park tickets are always sky high compared to the Universal (Marvel ones) ~ which means they'd put the prices up.

This sucks.

Universal does not = Marvel.
In Islands of Adventure, a section of the theme park is called "Marvel Super Hero Island". All the theming, pictures, rides, stores are ALL drawn by Marvel (Comics). With Disney buying Marvel, that means all merchandise and licensing fees which Universal pay Marvel will now go straight into Disney's back pocket.

Something I have seen on a few sites..

The contract allows Universal to continue using the Marvel trademarks for as long as the attractions are in operation. It also ensures that no other theme park east of the Mississippi River — including Walt Disney World — can develop attractions based on the same characters

Doesn't mean Disneyland in California can't though..

Gotta say, that is an AWFULLY dear price. Never realised they were worth this much!

For 5,000 drawings, it's a lot. It depends on how Disney use the characters as to how good or bad the deal is.

Mavel just made a massive mistake.

Disney will put Hannah Montana in one of the next Spiderman films.

How was it a massive mistake? Wouldn't you sell 5,000 little characters for $4 billion?

[AlexOC]

I used to read Marvel comics

Hope they create some new characters.

[paul4wolves]

I heard that they are going to make it more family friendly , spiderman and xmen are going to be ****

[AlexOC]

So no more killings and action?

Just spiderman reading books.

Aww

[Black_Apalachi]

But I don't want Disney to own Marvel .

I'm guessing Stan Lee & Co. will all be carried over to continue working as is currently?

Btw everyone going on about Marvel characters in Disney theme parks etc, just get those ideas out of you're head now before I find the biggest facepalm on the internet :rolleyes:.

[IceNineKills]

How was it a massive mistake? Wouldn't you sell 5,000 little characters for $4 billion?

Do you want Hannah Montana to star in the next Spiderman film?

And no, If I owned Marvel I wouldn't have done the deal with Disney. In another 30-40 years those 5,000 characters will be worth alot more.