Hmmm... sounds familiar.
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EPCOT New Play Pavilion to replace Epcot's Wonders of Life
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Hmmm... sounds familiar.
They'll likely announce this at D23 then put it on
DoleWhipDrea
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An Avengers E should have opened at a park by Endgame. It's amazing how they drag their feet on these things...
They kind of announced it… then backtracked.
ctrlaltdel
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yeah didn't chapek directly say in March that Poppins and Quinjet were on hold until cash was better?
doctornick
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How would that have worked with the Uni contract? Pretty much by definition, anyone who is an "Avenger" can't be used in WDW; would it just have been a ride and mission without those characters?
Pass. Maybe they were too bullish and that’s a reason it didn’t happen. Hence the “no more Epcot Marvel” mantra from above.
DreamfinderGuy
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Does this mean we're now safe from more EPCOT Marvel as a whole, god willing?
Haymarket2008
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I’m glad wiser heads prevailed. Well…..they were a little too late with what took over Energy. But the full blown Avengers ride would have stuck out even more than Guardians does. Yeesh.
The Black Knight will be in the UK pavilion and Blade will be in the new Romania pavilion.
TheEPCOTHistorian
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- In the Parks
- Yes
It honestly wouldn't be worth it for them. As a competitor, they know how vital Marvel would be to Disney's success. Selling it to Disney would be Universal shooting itself the foot, essentially providing easy success for their competition. At the moment, they're holding a large part of their biggest competition's potential success at bay.
raymusiccity
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Imagineers have put the finishing touches on a resurrected concept! They're done 'rethinking/reworking some the physical elements of the experience. Some photo realistic concepts have been leaked!
Coaster Lover
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- In the Parks
- No
To add to this, unless they were going to build a while 5th gate around Marvel, I'm not sure the ROI would be worth the cost it would take to buy the rights from Uni. I mean, even if the cost to buy the rights alone was reasonable, Uni would still want some sort of compensation in the deal to use to retheme the current Super Hero island and that alone could be justified at a few hundred million. So for Disney to spend hundreds of millions for Uni to retheme and hundreds if millions more for whatever they would ultimately build, the juice has got to be worth the squeeze. I do wonder if Uni would be more open to a deal which would allow WDW to not have the entire catalog, but utilize characters that Uni is not already utilizing (in a significant manner) like AntMan, Black Panther, and Captain Marvel (none of the "Main line" Avengers) possibly in exchange for the rights to some of the scarier Fox owned properties that Disney (likely) has no intention of using (like Alien, Predators, or 28 Days Later).
TheEPCOTHistorian
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- In the Parks
- Yes
That's the ticket though. The contract also has the clause that states Disney can't use characters represented in Superhero Island... Universal added Black Panther to a mural relatively quickly and have added different merch to the shops with newer characters. They know what they're doing.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
mural's and merch don't give Universal the rights to a character. The list of characters they have the rights to was set at the time the contact was made.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
Universal is also paying a bargain basement price for the Marvel rights. If they re-themed they would likely have to pay a lot more for something that is no where near as popular as Marvel is right now.
Minion Island
danlb_2000
Premium Member
they are already building that in Studios.