Marvel at WDW

[lazyboy97o]

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.

Disney can barely justify the cost of a Marvel attraction alone. They cannot justify the cost of Marvel attractions plus the cost of killing the contract.

 

[Goofyernmost]

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.

I wish I could find a problem with that being the case. Sure would beat the hell out of the Simpson ride.

 

[nor'easter]

Are you a commercial contract lawyer

Yes. And Marni is right.

 

[FettFan]

Limited by space. They can only use Marvel on Superhero Island.

Limited also by what characters they have chosen to use (and their family members). Since they chose the Avengers, they can add an Iron Man ride, e.g.

Basically, the Big Four character families: Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and the Avengers


Cosmic Marvel and minor characters from Marvel Spotlight are all Disney though: Dr. Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Moon Knight, Giant-Size Man-Thing (tee hee), Werewolf For and ROM Spaceknight.

But I doubt ROM will ever appear in the parks, as he's jointly owned by Marvel and Hasbro. "ROM: Spaceknight" was a team-up with Marvel and Parker Brothers back in the 1980s to try and cash in on the popularity of Transformers....and now Parker Brothers is owned by Hasbro.

It's kind of the Disney/Amblin Roger Rabbit situation.


And I'm pretty sure Giant-Size Man-Thing is definitely out thanks to his name alone. (tee hee)

Fun fact....GSMT may well exist in the MCU....as his comic book ex-wife Ellen Brandt was briefly featured as one of the henchmen in Iron Man 3, played by Stephanie Szostak.

 

[smile]

Disney can barely justify the cost of a Marvel attraction alone.

seemingly, some are physically incapable of seeing a forest when confronted by trees

 

[spock8113]

It Marvels me that people haven't gotten tired of some of this already.
Wring out the Marvel Super-hero genre but don't bet the whole theme park on this.