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Not a word was said among any of my peers. Several of them are pretty big Marvel fans, too. I had to ask them, and they were clueless. After pondering what was happening, they said it didn't really matter at all. When I brought up the Marvel area at Islands they generally responded with the gist of "Oh, so what? That area's awesome, who cares about the parent company"

Sounds like it doesn't matter that much to people. They're not going to walk into the Marvel area, think "HEY THIS IS DISNEY", and leave the park to go down I4...

And more importantly, nothing is being altered or closing in the guest experience for Marvel Super Hero Island. That's what's very important for us theme park fans - Spider-Man, Fearfall, and Hulk aren't going anywhere for the forseeable future.

 

[JT3000]

I just wanted to comment on how I find it amusing that many Disney fans are mocking Universal because they now have to pay royalties to their competitor, fees they were already paying, while simultaneously downplaying (or completely ignoring) the fact that Universal's exclusive rights are going to keep Disney from using their new $4 billion property in some of their own parks. Also, unless they manage to find a loophole in the Universal-Marvel contract, it never expires.

Which situation would you rather be in?

 

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I just wanted to comment on how I find it amusing that many Disney fans are mocking Universal because they now have to pay royalties to their competitor, fees they were already paying, while simultaneously downplaying (or completely ignoring) the fact that Universal's exclusive rights are going to keep Disney from using their new $4 billion property in some of their own parks. Also, unless they manage to find a loophole in the Universal-Marvel contract, it never expires.

Which situation would you rather be in?

Quoted for truth. :sohappy:

 

[agent86]

I guess the fact that my school(Virginia Tech)'s paper wrote about it today means we all have to get out more, huh!?:lol:

Here's a newsflash... Plenty of places "wrote about it" within a day or two of it happening, otherwise none of us would even know about in order to be discussing it. :hammer:

That doesn't make it "significant news" in your school's paper or anywhere else. Here in our sheltered, Disney fan site, there are numerous threads about it. But again, this is a Disney fan site. In the outside world, it's not big news.

Here's something you can try... Go to Yahoo news and see if it's mentioned anywhere on the page. Then check specifically under "entertainment" news on Yahoo. Nope, nothing there either (even when you click on "more stories"). Then check the "most viewed", "most emailed" and "most popular" news stories. That comes up dry too. Then go to MSN and do the same thing. You'll find the same results...zero about the Disney/Marvel deal. Then go to Google news. Nothing on the front page. Click on the "entertainment" link and Voila! There it is (finally)! The eighth story down (between a review of the movie "Extract" and a story about Cate Blanchett hitting her head). Yep, really "big news" that "everyone is talking about". :hammer::hammer:

 

[agent86]

Wow I even checked the Orlando Sentinel's website, thinking that of all places, it would at least be a major story there. Nope! It's just a footnote under the "business" section on that site, and not even one of the top ones at that. :lol: