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Disney acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc.
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 31 Aug 2009 | Hal Boedeker

Posted on 08/31/2009 6:49:44 AM PDT by relictele

BURBANK, Calif. - Spider-Man and Iron Man have a new boss: The Walt Disney Co.

Disney announced this morning that it is buying Marvel Entertainment -- and the more than 5,000 Marvel characters.

They include X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor.

"This is a great fit for us," Disney boss Bob Iger told CNBC this morning. He said the acquisition was a way to attract more boys.

Disney said the transaction value is $50 per Marvel share -- or about $4 billion. Iger said the acquisition will grow both Disney and Marvel.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acquisition; bigmedia; boycottdisney; clintonistas; comics; disney; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; marvel
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To: hoagy62

I’ll bet $5 that Disney will be sending Thor to Anger Managment Class next week.


21 posted on 08/31/2009 7:02:10 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: GOP_Party_Animal; Red Badger

I swear FReepers are pyschic!


22 posted on 08/31/2009 7:03:34 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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To: relictele

regarding your universal comment.

I wonder if this is some kind of manuver to do a same as.

Remember when Universal opened their park, Disney rushed and opened MGM studioes, now hollywood studios.

Now disney has a “me too” with the marvel heros so it does not matter that universal has spiderman because hollywood studios will have spiderman too. I can see the mass ads now.

Where should a family spend their hard earned money. At one park where the kids only get 1/2 of the menu of characters or at a disney park were all the characters can be found.

Disney is just looking for a generic fit. Also remember disney has essentially ignored boys. It is all princesses and they they throw in pirates as an afterthought.

They have to do SOMETHING to balance out the park or DisneyWorld, and the Disney brand, will turn into a sissified spoiled little girl buy me this daddy buy be that daddy park.


23 posted on 08/31/2009 7:07:36 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: hoagy62

I agree. Fox really messed up Deadpool but Disney will make him sing with teacups.


24 posted on 08/31/2009 7:08:08 AM PDT by discomatic
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
I'm with you...never could understand the hoopla over the recent crop of "gay" superheroes as if it is something new...

It was always understood that Northstar was gay from day one...as far as I know he was Marvel's first gay hero. It really was not a big deal back when Alpha Flight first came out.

25 posted on 08/31/2009 7:08:25 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: longtermmemmory

Is there an echo in here? Read my initial comment :)


26 posted on 08/31/2009 7:11:48 AM PDT by relictele
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

It has been tried and it has always failed.

Hence why Marvel was in such a mess under Stan Lee at the end.

Lee even sold his name.

He was trying to push “digital online” comic books lately. He is about 10 years behind the curve on that dead horse.


27 posted on 08/31/2009 7:12:27 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: relictele
Next up on ESPN: The X-Men X-Games.
28 posted on 08/31/2009 7:12:31 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

I used to read Alpha Flight. Which character are you referring to?


29 posted on 08/31/2009 7:12:54 AM PDT by relictele
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To: relictele

This isn’t about buying a comics publisher, it’s about buying their trademarked characters to license as toys, rides, games, and movies.

And Disney Corp’s empire just got a bit larger. Let’s extend copyright another 50 years so they can own all of America’s pop cultural icons.


30 posted on 08/31/2009 7:13:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: relictele

Stan Lee wrote but didn’t create all of the characters. Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko played bigger roles than just illustrators.


31 posted on 08/31/2009 7:14:33 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: Tainan

Stan doesn’t own anything with Marvel anymore I believe.


32 posted on 08/31/2009 7:14:51 AM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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To: Red Badger

There are already gay superheroes in Marvel unfortunately.


33 posted on 08/31/2009 7:15:26 AM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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To: relictele

don’t give stan lee any ideas for a new super hero...echopost...

(sorry about that, I should have posted to “all”)


34 posted on 08/31/2009 7:15:30 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: a fool in paradise

Oh I agree 100%. I think Disney took a wait-and-see attitude and let others run the risk of producing the first batch of Marvel movies in the CGI era.

Now that these films are dead certs for making a profit Disney is happy to take over.


35 posted on 08/31/2009 7:15:59 AM PDT by relictele
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To: a fool in paradise
There is a certain irony in Disney's perpetual copyrights when so many of Disney's movies were animations and slight modifications of public domain fairy tales. Too bad the great-great...-grandchildren of the Brothers Grimm can't stick their hands out for a multi-billion dollar copyright violation lawsuit.
36 posted on 08/31/2009 7:16:03 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
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To: relictele
Disney announced this morning that it is buying Marvel Entertainment -- and the more than 5,000 Marvel characters.

Ping for later

37 posted on 08/31/2009 7:16:12 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (One man, alone! Betrayed by the country he loves, now its last hope in their final hour of need!)
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To: rom

“Soon we’ll have Spiderman / Hannah Montana crossovers.”

Well, there have already been Spiderman/Obama crossovers. How do you go down from there? Even Spidy/Hannah M is up from THAT.


38 posted on 08/31/2009 7:16:26 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: a fool in paradise
For some reason, this latest Avengers line-up just isn't working for me...


39 posted on 08/31/2009 7:16:31 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: longtermmemmory

Online comics were a bad investment. Because Stan Lee should know as well as anyone, that the money was to be made selling 4 copies of the same physical comic book to the speculators with inflated cover prices.

There is no resale of a digital online comic. Nothing to hang on the wall or get signed either. Without fandom comics in America would’ve been dead along with Big Little Books.


40 posted on 08/31/2009 7:16:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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