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Disney buys Marvel: who benefits?

House of Mouse usurps the House of Ideas - we break down the multimedia deal of the decade

Words: on August 31, 2009
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  • pastycaucasian - September 2, 2009 5:20 p.m.

    They better not destroy any of the Marvel characters by putting them with dumb ideas.

  • venomman01 - September 2, 2009 6:02 a.m.

    There was mortal combat vs. dc universe i never got it so i dont know how it turned out.

  • MrJameson458 - September 2, 2009 3:31 a.m.

    im just hoping for no restrictions on series like marvel zombies, although seeing disney characters getting eaten sounds pretty good to me lol.

  • HardNoks - September 2, 2009 3:11 a.m.

    this is pure insanity

  • Solstice - September 2, 2009 12:54 a.m.

    For the people that played KH, it wasn't all bad, right? So, maybe you thought it it haywire at first. But it sold over a million copies. You can't be sure about Marvel and Disney coing together won't be all bad. ReCAPTCHA: wreathe the

  • DARK_SIDE - September 2, 2009 12:13 a.m.

    I don't know how to feel about this whole thing. Though if Disney changes Marvel any more than slightly and make things suck, i'll go carzy and kill Mickey

  • linkganon - September 1, 2009 11:15 p.m.

    okay, i say that nobody will benefit since disney may soften up the characters from marvel, just as they did with final fantasy when it was kindom of hearts. on that 08 hulk movie, they might have changed those car doors from the police car into 2 stuffed bears or something along the lines of that. one pro may be disney (HOPEFULLY) doesn't like tobey maguire, nor Kristen Dunst and replaces them with REAL actors for the next spider man movie. when tobey talks all i hear is mumble, mumble, mumble. RAISE YOUR VOICE ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!! i also have to ask, will stan lee have anything to do with the comics still or does disney have 100% control and so marvel comics is technically no more. and i hope they hire the guys who made the previous comics.

  • mcb172 - September 1, 2009 10:34 p.m.

    greaaaat now were gonna get to see iron-man shoot rainbows outta his hands................

  • devildog18 - September 1, 2009 10:06 p.m.

    Though on the inside, i'll only be 100% happy about this is Disney lets Marvel have Deadpool shove a grenade up Zac Efron's @ss p.s. Disney owns Pulp Fiction? Nice!

  • gatornation1254 - September 1, 2009 9:51 p.m.

    Have they been in talks for a while?

  • lovinmyps3 - September 1, 2009 9:24 p.m.

    This makes me a little less worried about what will happen to Marvel. I personally don't wanna see a Marvel Disney crossover but it will probabley happen and there's nothing we can do about it. And I find it funny how Chris' desk and Brett's desk seem to have morphed to make this. Haha

  • Russianred90 - September 1, 2009 8:46 p.m.

    eh idc im more of a DC guy anyway lol but i have a feeling marvels not gonna be doin to great in the next few years

  • Glides - September 1, 2009 8:05 p.m.

    No...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Why the HELL did this HAPPEN? Well, Marvel is officially the worst comic book company on this ENTIRE planet. Disney SUCKS! S-U-C-K-S. Soon we're going have have crap like High School Marvel (with Spider-Man and Spider-Woman as the main parts), and Hannah Magneto. Probably. Hell, I'm not even a big comic book guy, but this is TOO much.

  • Fizzmonkey - September 1, 2009 7:42 p.m.

    The only good thing tht seems to be coming out of this is possibilities for kingdom hearts. Besides tht im scared...

  • NotBraze - September 1, 2009 7:30 p.m.

    @ crumbdunky We'll just have to agree to disagree over the quality/artistry that Disney displays and about Walt Disney the person. However, what you cannot argue is that Disney is the king of marketing. Will Disney water-down Marvel's content? I doubt it. They've proven that they can handle other properties with respect (i.e. Pixar). Will there be some crap along with the good? I'm sure there will be, but there's always growing pains. Will Disney milk the property for all it's worth? You had better believe it! Fact is, Disney can make any crap make money. That's why the direct to DVD sequals lasted so long (thank God they've finally stopped). So with Disney backing them Marvel will get more money to do more cool things. It's as simple as that. I'm fairly confident in saying that Disney will not mess with Marvel's development process (Iger himself said "If it's not broke, don't fix it") but what they will do is give Marvel the means to do stuff they were unable to in the past. This does mean you'll see a lot of cheap merchandise and other such non-sense (picture Mickey with a Siderman Costume). But that's not the meat of what Marvel does and it can largely be ignored. Marvel will still be Marvel, it will just be payed for by Disney.

  • Csheroe - September 1, 2009 6:37 p.m.

    I wonder if baby Iron Man will be on the disney channel. Or shit like that.

  • Stryk - September 1, 2009 6:02 p.m.

    lol 11 months ago I predicted this and still failed to buy Marvel stock!

  • Stryk - September 1, 2009 6:01 p.m.

    What we as marvel fans have to ask is what does Disney plan to do with Marvel's grittier characters like Punisher, Wolverine, Deadpool, etc. I wouldn't expect them to totally do away with them, especially Wolverine, but are they going to be toned down? And what about the MAX comics? I ask this because I seem to recall that Disney acquired the company that had the company that made Farscape. Shortly after Farscape was no more.

  • JeanBaptisteEmanuelZorg - September 1, 2009 5:23 p.m.

    Aug 31,2009= 9/11 for nerds

  • PS360Rulez - September 1, 2009 4:54 p.m.

    noobeater im not talkin football like soccer. I love soccer but im talkin NFL.

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