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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:05 am
by GORDON
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:06 pm
by Malcolm
Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its portfolio of over 5,000 Marvel characters. That portfolio includes many familiar names like Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor.
Ike Perlmutter, Marvel’s CEO, added: “Disney is the perfect home for Marvel’s fantastic library of characters...
Are you high? Yeah, when I think Wolverine, I think "family."
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:19 pm
by Leisher
That is huge, huge, huge news.
I'm really curious to see how this affects the comic industry and the movie industry.
Also, Universal Studios just got fucked in the ass by this as half their theme park in Orlando were Marvel based rides.
Speaking of the theme parks, Disney is building a 5th park, nobody knew what the theme would be...I think I can take a guess now...
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:34 pm
by WSGrundy
If it is a comic marvel based theme park that doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Like mentioned in the kid concert thread, Disney seems to be more of parents taking kids there to make them happy and enjoy family time but what little kids read comics?
I don't know anyone(not the biggest sample) under 15 who reads comics and those 15 year olds were just ones I have seen at the store. Any kids at comic cons are just ones with their parents. 15-35 male geek crowd doesn't seem like the type they would want to build a park around.
Of course they though building a park around science and boring the hell out of little kids was a good idea too. Although Epcot is pretty cool IMO.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:04 pm
by GORDON
WSGrundy wrote:Of course they though building a park around science and boring the hell out of little kids was a good idea too. Although Epcot is pretty cool IMO.
I was surprised how much (expensive) beer was available at Epcot, and the resort hotels.
Good luck trying to walk around the lake and drinking 1 beer at every "country."
And I saw some VERY drunk people at the hotel swimming areas.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:46 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:Good luck trying to walk around the lake and drinking 1 beer at every "country."
Sounds like a challenge.
Although, to not passing out, or my wallet, I'm not sure.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:48 pm
by GORDON
The combination of the beer and heat can do a number on you, even if you can afford it. There are approx. 15 "countries," and they all sell a large beer particular to that country. That's my challenge.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:47 pm
by TPRJones
I'm really curious to see how this affects the comic industry and the movie industry.
Soon copiers will be made illegal, because they can be used to copy comic books. But before that Disney will try installing impenetrable copyright protection directly into the comic books. As a smple, here's the first two pages of the upcoming Wolverine / Ducktales crossover:
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:28 pm
by GORDON
Well that certainly keeps the company from losing a sale when you loan the book to a friend.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:22 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:The combination of the beer and heat can do a number on you, even if you can afford it. There are approx. 15 "countries," and they all sell a large beer particular to that country. That's my challenge.
Long as I don't have to pay for any of it, yeah, I'll take that "challenge" any day of the week.
EDIT : Wait, wait, wait. Which countries are these? Are these ones you normally associate w\ good beer? Or are we talking shit beer from some Asian country that thinks pints should taste like pisswater?
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:47 pm
by GORDON
Well, one's Germany. Then there's China.
Canada.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:10 pm
by Malcolm
Bleh. Chinese beer. Probably Tsingtao or some other import.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:21 pm
by GORDON
Exactly.
But they have actual Chinese nationals there serving it, and they are female.
Mmmmm, chinese chicks.
Now that I think about it, I never saw a dude in the national beer carts at EPCOT...
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:44 pm
by Malcolm
The trick to this is starting off w\ the correct countries. By the time I get to China, won't even be tasting that shyte no more.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:57 pm
by Leisher
If memory serves (where that quote from?), a beer a country in Epcot would equal about a case of beer.
Considering I can drink 24 Jack and cokes in an evening and I'm not even remotely a heavy drinker (Golf Wednesdays in the summer and New Year's), I'd say lots of folks could win this challenge.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:31 pm
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote:If memory serves (where that quote from?)
It was Iron Chef last time, & I'm betting it's still Iron Chef this time. I have to have seen most of the ones ported over to the Fine Living Network.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:44 am
by Leisher
I love that fucking show.
Have you seen the one where the challenger's master comes out of the stands to bitch slap him? (He's drunk.)
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:51 am
by Leisher
Back on topic, I saw this quote in an article about the deal:
Another person asked about possible cross pollination between Marvel and Pixar: "We actually have had some conversations internally, and [Pixar's] John Lasseter met with some of the key Marvel creative executives fairly recently and the group got very excited pretty fast," Iger said.
Iger, Disney's CEO, really stresses throughout the press conference that they are not going to pretend they know the characters or how to properly utilize them better than Marvel. However, they want to use their marketing abilities to further promote them.
All the analysis I read on this deal says Disney is the company you want to purchase your company. They're very hands off and do not come in preaching change. The analysts say that's why their mergers and acquisitions are usually so successful.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:21 pm
by TheCatt
That's really something that is a product of Iger. Beforehand, Disney was a very different (and controlling) company, but he understands the value of leaving companies alone.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:07 pm
by GORDON
What's funny is that this month's Maxim has an "oral history" of Marvel, from Stan Lee, Todd Macfarlain, and lots of other peeps telling the story of the company. The last line is Stan Lee wondering why Marvel never got as big as Disney.