asianway
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This reads like some garbage trade youd hear on sports radio as the trade deadline approaches
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Marvel at WDW
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asianway
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Have you opened a comic book lately? Most every character has slowly morphed to adopt the MCU look in the comics.
Wendy Pleakley
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The focus here is on Marvel, but will something like The Simpsons theme park rights come into play when the Disney/Fox merger is complete?
Presumably the licensing fee for the Simpsons is much higher than for Marvel, meaning Disney might be willing to waive those fees in exchange for Marvel.
Presumably the licensing fee for the Simpsons is much higher than for Marvel, meaning Disney might be willing to waive those fees in exchange for Marvel.
The contract was said to be around 20 years and again, Simpson’s can’t compare to Marvel. Especially in 10 years when contract is over.
NormC
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There is no expiration on the Marvel contract. I am not sure of the details on the Simpsons.
Simpsons is around 20 years as I said.
Only 15 years to go!!!
Yep so about the length of relevance for Simpsons at this point.
You're saying they won't be popular for half as long as they already have been?
TechRavingMad
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BlackPanther wasn't a founding member of the Avengers.
He didn't join until the 60's (one of the round of first recruits) http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Avengers_members
Wendy Pleakley
Well-Known Member
The Simpsons have been consistently popular for 20+ years. Even if the show ends tomorrow, there will be nostalgia for them for many years to come.
Not that it matters, Universal tends to replace aging attractions much more frequently than Disney. If Disney operated Universal Studios, I suspect we'd still be riding Back to the Future.
Not that it matters, Universal tends to replace aging attractions much more frequently than Disney. If Disney operated Universal Studios, I suspect we'd still be riding Back to the Future.
My mistake. He's been a member since 1968.
TechRavingMad
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Disney has plenty of lawyers and money that if they wanted a way out they would find it. I don't think they are looking for an end run though.
My hope is that with the recently approved acquisition of Fox that they can effectively give Universal other licenses that will be just as valuable to Universal as Marvel currently is to them (since they can't really expand their usage either).
Properties like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Family Guy, Futurama, Goosebumps, Ice Age, Planet of the Apes, Simpsons, and X-Files all make more sense being owned and used by Universal/Comcast than Marvel does. I'm sure there are others.
So my dream resolution would be Disney agrees to sell some or all of those properties to Universal, at a very favorable price, in return for voiding that current Marvel contract. It makes sense from a business perspective too. Those properties would probably never get used by Disney but Universal could rake money in on them. And they fit way better in a universal park then anything Disney would ever do.
Then of course the completion of the dream would be a 5th gate, Marvel Universe, an entire park dedicated to Marvel!
My hope is that with the recently approved acquisition of Fox that they can effectively give Universal other licenses that will be just as valuable to Universal as Marvel currently is to them (since they can't really expand their usage either).
Properties like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Family Guy, Futurama, Goosebumps, Ice Age, Planet of the Apes, Simpsons, and X-Files all make more sense being owned and used by Universal/Comcast than Marvel does. I'm sure there are others.
So my dream resolution would be Disney agrees to sell some or all of those properties to Universal, at a very favorable price, in return for voiding that current Marvel contract. It makes sense from a business perspective too. Those properties would probably never get used by Disney but Universal could rake money in on them. And they fit way better in a universal park then anything Disney would ever do.
Then of course the completion of the dream would be a 5th gate, Marvel Universe, an entire park dedicated to Marvel!
So does Comcast. There is no "way out".
TechRavingMad
New Member
Are you a commercial contract lawyer with a few billion dollars to spend?
If not, that's you're uninformed opinion.
Granted, my initial statement is also my opinion, but I do deal with corporate legal agreements every day as part of my employment, and they are never as air-tight as people would like them to be. I've yet to find one that money and lawyers can't find a way around. And in my reading of the contract I see several ways Disney could leverage it in their favor, but it wouldn't be cheap and it would require arbitration/lawsuits. Which is why I said if Disney wanted to they could find a way to end run it. There's always outs or manipulations that can happen when it comes to legal agreements. It's just a matter of if they want to pay for them. A threat of legal action, and the cost that it entails is often enough motivation for a company to take a deal.
Comcast's war chest is 60% of Disney's. They couldn't keep up if it came to it.
Not popular enough at that point to deal with buying rights from Disney to renew IMO.
That’s my informed opinion. With respect.
You do have a lot of opinions.
Don’t we all?