Disney Buys Marvel For $4 Billion

[kup]

What happened when WB bought DC:

[i_amtrunks]

Guess Disney did not like all those Marvel movies cutting into their own movie sales.

And since Disney is too lazy to try and do anything clever with their competition, they fell to their only backup plan...buy them out.

[Vector Prime]

I have also been told that Disney have huge shares in ViVid Entertainment, which is very large pornography company!

Really?

I find that one hard to believe, considering the wholesome nature of Disney....

But yeah, should be interesting now that Disney owns Marvel.... Hannah Montana guess starring in the next Marvel movie perhaps? lol

[Lord_Zed]

The reason they bought Marvel is because they know the appeal Marvels characters have, They paid an absolute fortune for Marvel considering it's current worth. I doubt they would have paid as much as they did if they didn't believe in what Marvel were doing, And I doubt very much they'll want to mess around with them much, beyond the inevitable Mickey Mouse as Spiderman etc etc spin of comics.

Really?

I find that one hard to believe, considering the wholesome nature of Disney....

Sure wholesome as long as you forget that they were founded by a racist who was the dark prince of holywood. And Mickey Mouse was a complete jerk back in the old days, pulling cat's tails and generally making a nuisance of himself.

[heroic_decepticon]

And since Disney is too lazy to try and do anything clever with their competition, they fell to their only backup plan...buy them out.

Yup, just like Disney buying out Pixar when their animated movies could not match up to Pixars in terms of appeal and money making.

Actually, the Pixar purchase (which was through Disney shares), made Steve Jobs to largest shareholder of Disney. Clearly the man is onto something... e-comics downloadable onto iPhones maybe?

[Sam]

I only hope that the family-friendly policy of Disney does not negative impact the Marvel characters - mature themes can be used tell interesting, powerful, and meaningful stories. "Family-friendly" isn't always "best".

[GoktimusPrime]

I wonder if Disney will allow Hasbro to keep the licence for making Marvel toys or if Disney will instead choose to make Marvel toys themselves. I haven't been a huge fan of Hasbro's Marvel toys so I wouldn't really care if they kept or lost their licence.

[kup]

I hope Disney does a Death's Head toy!


Yeah I know, dreaming..

[Lord_Zed]

I didn't think Disney had a toy division, they license there stuff out to other companies.

I would miss the GI Joe scale Marvel figures if Hasbro lost the Marvel license, having action figures from multiple universes the same scale rocks, not a fan of the TF x-over ones though.

I think whatever minute slim chance there is Hasbro would make a Death Head figure, would be reducted by half again from Disney, as there's always the minute chance that Hasbro may one day realise Deaths Head was in Transformers there top boys brand atm.

[heroic_decepticon]

I think ToyBiz should lose the Marvel licence if anything....
(99% terrible figures with a few gems)