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Disney Digs Deep Into Marvel's Sack Of Obscure Superheros
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Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
I’ve heard from a good source, the voices in my head, that Disney is going to put Marvel meet and greets in every resort and have the Hulk welcome you to the buses at MCO. It is also going to force every marvel product to carry the Disney tag ahead of the Marvel Logo.
I’ve also been able to work out by reading a blog by someone Im sure is in the know, that Disney will smash Universal, so that by getting rid of the competition it can ease back on all the expense of trying to improve things as they are very popular as it is and to waste money adding and changing things if there is no competition would be irresponsible to shareholders and erode management bonuses
,Just wait, law enforcement will prove me right.
I’ve also been able to work out by reading a blog by someone Im sure is in the know, that Disney will smash Universal, so that by getting rid of the competition it can ease back on all the expense of trying to improve things as they are very popular as it is and to waste money adding and changing things if there is no competition would be irresponsible to shareholders and erode management bonuses
,Just wait, law enforcement will prove me right.
So right, and yet so wrong at the same time. :sohappy:
jakeman
Well-Known Member
Why don't you let Steve and the others do their job as they see fit?
I'm pretty sure they don't need you to tell them where things should go in their own forums.
Phonedave
Well-Known Member
I think we need to see Ravage in Tomorrowland, he would be perfect to hang out with push.
I think thats about as obscure a Marvel character I can dig up off the top of my head, seing as I have not bough a comic in 20 years (when I used to spend waaaaaay to much money on them - still have them as a matter of fact)
-dave
I think thats about as obscure a Marvel character I can dig up off the top of my head, seing as I have not bough a comic in 20 years (when I used to spend waaaaaay to much money on them - still have them as a matter of fact)
-dave
puntagordabob
Well-Known Member
Sigh...Marvel characters invading MK just seems so Magic-Less to me.
DHS, certainly would be a different story....
DHS, certainly would be a different story....
SMRT-1
Active Member
must be a slow day for peeping toms of the walt disney company :lol:
JimboJones123
Well-Known Member
I feel very much the same way about the Muppets. For Disneyland, it is just fine, but Magic Kingdom at WDW, they seem VERY out of place.
EPCOT Explorer
New Member
I agree, too.
Theoritically, I don't want anything else in DL, even ST and IJA. It's supposed to be DISNEY only. the only reason they get the pass, is the superior theming and execution of story.
Marvel is REALLY pushing it, though. Hope it does not happen. DHS, would be better.
WDW Vacationer
Active Member
It was interesting to see a Marvel X-Men DVD with Disney movies at BJs today...
GymLeaderPhil
Well-Known Member
They've been on ABC Family I believe for quite some time prior to the deal as well.
wickedfan07
Member
I really don't think you have to worry about Marvel comics-based attractions being built inside Disneyland or the Magic Kingdom. If an attraction ever comes about I would think you'd see it built in Hollywood Studios or California Adventure's Hollywood area. I don't think Disney would blindly place Marvel characters in the Magic Kingdom when there are far better places to put them. DHS makes much more sense because (1) comics are a form of entertainment and (2) the park could use an additional attraction.
As for Star Tours and Indiana Jones in Disneyland...I really don't see the problem. Have you ever been to DL? Have you seen how those attractions fit into the stories of their respective lands? As for non-Disney stories being told inside the gates of MK or DL, I don't see a problem with it as long as Disney's storytelling standards are retained in the attraction and in the area the attracxtion is located. If it's a good story, let's tell it! Who cares if Disney originated it? I really don't see any issue with having Star Tours or Indiana Jones in DL. If it weren't for our studios park, they'd probably be in our MK, too. (And the GMR would be rather out of place in Future World, too, which would probably send a bunch of people over the edge.)
EPCOT Explorer
New Member
I'm not too worried, either. If anything, it will be in the foreign parks, especially Shanghai.
Never been to DL, but you said exactly why they DO fit.(bolded them) :lol: I don't have any problem with them, really, but philosophically, MK Parks are Disney only, as Walt started out with.
However, they DO work, and this is my own odd little opinion. :lol:
protiius
Member
marvel will never come to mk...however, if it came to dhs i would be very happy! lucas, henson and pixar joined by a marvel land would make for a perfect dhs for me (not that i can see it happening in the near future/ever)...
btw, who owns the rights to dc? would be interesting to see universal pick up the rights to this...
wickedfan07
Member
I wonder if things would have stayed that way if Walt had lived longer. He was obviously not against outside influence as far as attraction/exhibit sponsorship was concerned. I wonder if he would have eventually allowed outside stories and characters in. I mean, Disneyland as a whole was not created in a vacuum, and most elements of that park are not Disney-created, like the inspiration for the Jungle Cruise or the American West. It's the way it's designed and presented that makes it Disneyland. By extension, if there was a story to be told, Walt may have told it, even if he or his company didn't create it originally. It's the Imagineering that makes it what it is.
Something interesting to think about, I think.
EPCOT Explorer
New Member
I wonder if things would ahve stayed that way if Walt had lived longer. He was obviously not against outside influence as far as attraction/exhibit sponsorship was concerned. I wonder if he would have eventually allowed outside stories and characters in. I mean, Disneyland as a whole was not created in a vacuum, and most elements of that park are not Disney-created, like the inspiration for the Jugnel Cruise or the American West. It;s the way it designed and presented that makes it Disneyland. By extension, if there was a story to be told, Walt may have told it, even if he or his company didn't create it originally. It's the Imagineering that makes it what it is.
Something interesting to think about, I think.
EX-ACT-LY. :lol: Something I have been trying to verbalize for a while.
In my opinion, that's what Disney (as a whole!) needs to go back to! Making things that are everyday into something DISNEY by putting that flair, that style and that quality into them.
Pixie Dust, Pirates, and Princesses are not the only things that can be Disney, and they need to move out of that crutch and do something unique, but with the same quality. That would really be returning to a long departed area for them. I don't think we have seen it since EPCOT Center.
wickedfan07
Member
Oh man, I just read my post over, and wow do I need to proofread what my stupid fingers type! :lol: But anyway...
I happened to be reading The Imagineering field Guide to Disneyland earlier today. In the New Orleans Square chapter, the author notes that the land contains two of the most difinitive Disney attractions of all time: HM and PotC. I think at that point I stopped reading and thought, "Well have we had any attractions like those since the sixties?" When you think about it, few attractions in Disney parks today match the sensitivity to design that those attractions have. I don't know what the differences in design practice between 1967 and today are, but there is a big difference, very often a lacking, in the depth of attractions created more recently as opposed to those thought of as "the classics."
I know there are talented people working in Imagineering. I know there are talented people working in Animation. I know there are talented people working in the Studio. The ability and the desire is there. Disney just needs to believe that it's Disney again, and not some pixie dust-pumping machine. I think the attitude is the defining factor, not the ability.
As applied to Marvel, Disney can do this right, but they have to let themselves.
JimboJones123
Well-Known Member
I wonder if things would have stayed that way if Walt had lived longer. He was obviously not against outside influence as far as attraction/exhibit sponsorship was concerned. I wonder if he would have eventually allowed outside stories and characters in. I mean, Disneyland as a whole was not created in a vacuum, and most elements of that park are not Disney-created, like the inspiration for the Jungle Cruise or the American West. It's the way it's designed and presented that makes it Disneyland. By extension, if there was a story to be told, Walt may have told it, even if he or his company didn't create it originally. It's the Imagineering that makes it what it is.
Something interesting to think about, I think.
Don't forget all the Grimm, Anderson, Barrie, Carroll, Verne, Milne, and many more that had established franchises that Walt swooped in and slapped his sticker on as well. There would be no Disney World if Walt had not swooped in and taken the public domain Grimm story of Snow White and adapted it.
I still do not like outside movie franchises in MK, but again, Disneyland is a whole different ballgame. They have had Circus Days there, Roger Rabbit(kinda Disneyish, but just as much WB to viewers), Indy, Star Tours, and many other outside franchises making a presence. I do wish MK could be Muppetless and Marvelless.
Actually, Rafiki's Planet Watch could be replaced with Kermit's Easy Being Green Greenhouse and could be pretty kickass if they actually produced a show and added a ride or two.
Since the Muppets produce 1-2 web videos a month now, how hard would it really be to replace Muppetvision 3-D at DHS with a quality show?
I sure as heck do not see any Ponyo at MK, but that was one of the best Disney distributed films in a long time.
_Scar
Active Member
DAMN. Forgot about him. Apparently I don't know my X-Men rules
I shall redeem myself. Meet:
Razorback
Shanna the She-Devil
& my personal favorite
Power Man
