Disney’s blockbuster $4 billion purchase of Marvel

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:49 pm

Not good.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32645353/ns ... media_biz/

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:27 pm

Gawd, I remember when comic books were the way to escape from the Disneyfication of everything else! There go Marvel Comics into the PC saccharin sweet corporate toilet!

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:25 pm

This is just... terrible!
IMO, Disney went from good to... evil.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:45 pm

I can just see it, the X-Men/Fantastic Four meet the Jonas Bros./Hanna Montana and they merge! Aaaah, gag, choke! Shoot me!

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:48 pm

tunnelcat wrote:I can just see it, the X-Men/Fantastic Four meet the Jonas Bros./Hanna Montana and they merge! Aaaah, gag, choke! Shoot me!

I yelled out loud when I read this.

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:33 pm

So it now looks like I will have to start paying royalties for my nick, we all know how anal Disney is about those things.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:23 pm

Oy, next up ... Wolverine get's webshooters...

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:15 pm

Just grate

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:16 am

Sapphire Wolf wrote:This is just... terrible!
IMO, Disney went from good to... evil.

geez dude, where you been? welcome to 15 years ago.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:44 am

oh nice. now wolverine will become captain wuss with spoons for talons.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:30 am

lol, shades of \"Mystery Men\"!

and as Marvel owned DC as well, we're left with DarkHorse for any real comics. ... not that, that is a BAD thing.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:46 am

DC is owned by Warner.

Gekko71 · Post by **Gekko71** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:04 am

I'n not sure I agree folks.

Disney's product is all aimed at young kids, Marvel's target market is far older and more worldly in their outlook. Disney paid 4 billion for their IP portfolio, the last thing I would see them doing is getting involved in the day-to-day running of Marvel - it's just not in their best interest.

They bought Marvel to plug a gap in their product offering (a pretty big gap at that). Why undermine your hard work and money spent by screwing around with Marvel, somthing that is far from broken?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:08 am

Gekko, don't forget that Disney bought ABC Network. They aren't for kids only. They're a large media conglomerate. It's not the company that Walt founded all those years ago. It hasn't since the early 70's when the company split.

TigerRaptor · Post by **TigerRaptor** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:52 am

I'm afraid Marvel lost its mind a while ago. Look at what happened to Wolverine.

Sllik · Post by **Sllik** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:59 pm

There's still more hope for the future than some might think. The fact that they're revisiting Tron and vamping it up massively is worth mentioning. Disney's already been coming out with quite a bit more racy things in the past few years, though usually through secondary or tertiary labels. They just try to make sure that anything with the blatantly-obvious Disney stamp of approval is considered worthy of mainstream audiences, preferably families.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:45 pm

Did everyone now know that Touchstone pictures (makes of quite a few R and PG-13 films) has been owned by Disney for over 20 years? Touchstone is only one of MANY groups that Disney either owns or has controlling interest in.

Naturally, Disney only actually puts the \"Disney\" name/logo/association on the stuff that is supposedly \"Family Friendly\".

It's all just business, folks.

Zantor · Post by **Zantor** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:50 pm

Disney has gone from decent to corporate. They're just not the same. This news really is disturbing.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:57 pm

TechPro wrote:
It's all just business, folks.

funny, I think Rockefeller said the same thing.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:00 pm

Oh, THAT'S why Disney bought Marvel, to try and get a young male audience. They were worried about having to many girly programs! But will it work?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090831/ap_ ... ertainment

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:50 pm

well it might help if they didn't have bands like the jonas' brothers.

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