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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 31, 2009 13:56:19 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 31, 2009 14:14:58 GMT
Now I can't think that this is going to be good news for Marvel.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 31, 2009 14:40:40 GMT
FUCK! NO!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 31, 2009 14:48:22 GMT
I remember years ago there was talk of Disney sniffing around Marvel but nothing materialised then.
Boom Studios licensed deal looks to be fucked at the end of whatever term they agreed, which is a shame as The Muppet Show comic book has been the best licensed book I have ever read.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 31, 2009 14:53:38 GMT
WHAT?!
This gets worse and worse.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 31, 2009 14:57:27 GMT
Well I can't imagine Disney licensing out the books elsewhere if they have their own publishing arm now in house as it were.
Andy
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Post by Gav on Aug 31, 2009 15:12:16 GMT
As long as Essential Sub-Mariner still comes out, I don't care! Hooray!
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Post by Benn on Aug 31, 2009 15:24:11 GMT
And all of a sudden, I don't want to see a Rocket Raccoon relaunch.
Although, imagine the fun of dancing with Deaths Head at Disneyland.
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Post by legios on Aug 31, 2009 18:21:38 GMT
This saddens me. The great rolling ameboid bolb that is Disney absorbs something else in its path.
Karl
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Post by Hero on Aug 31, 2009 19:23:06 GMT
I didn't think things were that economically bad that one had to buy out the other to stay afloat.
Like with film companies, its usually the reason to merge (Columbia buys Tristar, Sony buys Columbia/Tristar etc) if you get me.
I can't beleive it though. This could be a dream...
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 31, 2009 19:37:03 GMT
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Post by legios on Aug 31, 2009 20:33:03 GMT
Acquisition isn't always a matter of simple survival. Sometimes it is - the demise of Takatoku for example. But sometimes it is simply about the idea that you can grab another company that is doing something that you aren't and then leverage its abilities alongside your own - the way that the AOL-TimeWarner composite monster creature was supposed to work.
I suspect we have a little of that going on here. The other thing that strikes me is that if I were Disney (a horrible prospect but nevertheless) I would be after Marvel's core business - the IP Licensing farm that is Marvel Characters - much more than peripheral things like comics publishing.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 31, 2009 20:46:47 GMT
I didn't think things were that economically bad that one had to buy out the other to stay afloat. Like with film companies, its usually the reason to merge (Columbia buys Tristar, Sony buys Columbia/Tristar etc) if you get me. I can't beleive it though. This could be a dream... Marvel aren't in any financial trouble Ken. They are a publicly traded company and these things happen all the time. It isn't a sign of any problems. Disney have no properties to aim at young boys. Marvel have a slew of them. Andy |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 1, 2009 8:45:09 GMT
A question - who currently has the Disney master toy licence ? I'll take a punt it isn't Hasbro who make the Marvel toys.
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 1, 2009 20:17:29 GMT
If I remember correctly, Character Options makes the Disney Princess line, Mattel makes Cars and Hasbro made Toy Story figures up until this year when Mattel took over. Wall-E toys were made by some bunch I've never heard of. V-tech makes some of the electronic gubbins... Disney toys seem to come from all over, to be honest.
-Nick
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Post by jameso on Sept 1, 2009 22:56:45 GMT
I don't really understand what this actually means. I don't think most of the internet does either.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2009 23:01:38 GMT
Disney seems to buying into quite a few things at the moment. First it was their ESPN arm that brought up Setanta and now this. Any guesses at which pies they will have their fingers in next?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 2, 2009 9:48:34 GMT
The usually reliable Guardian newspaper, when reporting the deal, referred to Marvel as : "used to be a comic company."
Tells you something about how mainstream comics actually are when a major UK newspaper doesn't know that one of the Big Two comic companies actually still makes comics!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 2, 2009 9:52:10 GMT
The Guardian publishes a column of corrections every day. That's how reliable they are.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 2, 2009 9:54:49 GMT
The Guardian publishes a column of corrections every day. That's how reliable they are. Yip, as all quality newspapera should. -Ralph |
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Post by Nigel on Sept 2, 2009 10:29:21 GMT
Hmm. I need some time to digest this news. I don't know what to make of it.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2009 22:15:39 GMT
-Ralph
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