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It's just a huge company that already owns a million tv and radio stations and movie studios, and have retained the iconography that founder Walt Disney created (like Mickey Mouse) as their corporate identity.
Whatever it once meant, died with Walt Disney and that was over 250 years ago.
Now it's just a very powerful company that makes money off that old brand recognition it had when it was a company dedicated to family entertainment.
It's like that Afleck insurance, they have a memorable talking duck in their branding and commercials, but their business actually has nothing to do with talking ducks.
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Oh, Donald would murder him. I love Howard, but Donald is full of rage.
Donald vs. Daffy would be the real match up, because Daffy would fight dirty.
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He wasn't doing that before? What have I been reading?
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"oh no it's i-ron mann!"
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I would expect Marvel to operate fairly independently since they've shown a good (recent) track record. But there will be times when certain films and projects are reviewed by the corporation writing the checks - inevitably making it a less nimble, autonomous production company.
Pixar avoided that due to the strength of Lasseter, the demands of the deal giving them their own creative control and their creative vision (left to their own corporate devices Disney would NOT have voted for a film about an old man with balloons tied to his house). Marvel's been recently led by savvy people, but hasn't exactly had a long history of a strong coordinated vision.
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1) Agreed. For evidence, look at the Henson company.
2) otoh, maybe the Mouse could stop Marvel from doing a crossover EVERY DAMN YEAR.
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Is Dalton too old?
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Those types of licensing deals don't abruptly end without significant financial or legal ramifications.
Their other parks are another matter.
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At first I was all pissed that Marvel had been bought up by a giant corporate conglomerate, grrr consolidation of media under corporate tyranny. Then I remembered their previous owners were Proctor & Gamble.
Yeah.
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But in the mean time, the Pixar deal worked well for them. I've even heard it described as Pixar buying Disney for -$7.4B. Pixar got even more massive exposure, Steve Jobs got the biggest share of Disney and a BOD seat, Lasseter became Disney's Chief Creative Officer and Catmull became head of Disney Animation. And I'm not sure that anybody here has taken a proper survey of A&E, History, Biography or Lifetime to see if it has been stereotypically "Disnified".
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DC Comics has been owned by a major media distributor (Warner Bros.) for ages. In a lot of ways, that has been a good deal and allowed DC to do more than they could have independently. The counter-argument to that, of course, is Smallville....
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And we're all out of bubblegum.
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I'm just waiting for Disney buy Hasbro to bring these beauties to the States.
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