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AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (http://kotaku.com/5349341/disney-buys-marvel-for-4-billion)

Aha this sounds like a bad april fools joke.

Well I don't really care about artistic intergrity as the buyer company has alerady proven it can manage some more adult oriented stuff. But I'm a bit worried seing them put their monopolistic hands everywhere.

I don't think there are many Marvel comics that I don't hate anyway so it wouldn't matter much to me what they end up sticking their dicks into. I can't remember if Marvel owns any other labels that I do care about, though.

Emma Frost and all the other "Skimpys" are gonna look real funny when Disney is done retouching them to fit into the palette.

Coming soon: Wolverine: A New Adventure

(http://www.freepsychicnetwork.com/Animal_Spirit_Guide/images/wolverine.jpg)

Mickey Mouse and Ghost Rider vs Jaffar and Thanos extravaganza

Oh. My. God.  :epileptic:

Is it safe to kiss Marvel vs. Capcom 3 good-bye now?

Isn't it already bad enough that disney sold-out a long time ago? Giving up what made them awesome and special just for money...Smooth, crappy shading on animated characters...3d mickey mouse for toddlers???...They don't make shorts like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fouOtd50gOU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fouOtd50gOU) anymore.

The last movie they made that I liked was Emperor's new groove.

Fuck, I miss old cartoons.

I'm going to cry my bird eyes out now.

See as how Jazmine becomes Storm's successor!

IIRC, as part of the deal with Pixar, John Lasseter got them to agree to recreate their 2d animation studio, basically because he was pissed off that they tried to blame what was simply shit work on 'archaic' animation technology and believes that 2d animation still has a lot to offer. Hopefully that means they'll be making awesome 2d animation again at some point.

PICTURE THIS:

Wolverine showing up in the next Kingdom Hearts.

 :handshakeL: :laughter: :handshakeR:

omgwhatepicfailohnoes. sadface.

Oh no, what's going to happen with Japanese Spiderman? :whome:

I don't think Marvel has anything to do with japanese spiderman. o.o

Haha, I wonder what my brother will say about it.

Okay, question: Should I create a game box-art competition about this?

yeah- they're doing the princess and the frog, which looks pretty good so far.

and i don't think disney is going to eff up marvel that badly. i think they'll still let them be marvel.

Guys. Remember Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

No Disney mashup will ever be as good as that. It's too late. Modern day Disney cannot pull off a mashup like that without making a big deal over the fact that it's a mashup, which will ruin it. When I first watched Roger Rabbit, I was too young to even know that Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse were owned by different companies, but Roger Rabbit did not dwell on it aside from the fantastic piano scene, and instead focused on a truly interesting story.

(I would love to be proven wrong.)

I want this to happen:
(http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/08/31/mickey-mouse-wolverine.jpg)

Speaking of fantastic animation: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2263043366719734101

I wonder what will happen to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure.....this cant be good...

Oh no, Marvel-based movies will be shitty and boring now. Oh wait...

Wasn't Roger Rabbit a Warner Brothers movie?
...And the piano scene was between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, right?

No and no. The movie was started when Disney purchased the rights to make a movie based on the book, and the piano scene was between Donald Duck and Daffy Duck, who are not the characters I mentioned but one is Disney and the other is Warner Bros.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9f8qUrF6w

Oh, right. I must have been confused by the big WB intro that appears at one point.

And it looks like Mickey and Bugs do appear together in another scene.

I agree, Princess and the Frog looks awesome so far- the voodoo guy looks like my new favorite Disney villain. In any case, I'm not terribly worried about the deal now. It certainly took me by surprise, but hopefully Iger and co. will be smart enough to let Marvel handle its own business, and maybe get some of those awesome artists to do some half-decent Disney comics. Could you imagine a Joe Quesada version of The Incredibles?

On the plus side, Warren Spector at the fore of a game set deep in one of Marvel's universes? Potentially... awesome!

So all the Marvel charcters will be added to the different Disney lands and those of you that watch television (so not me) will have to watch a couple of hundred commercials for the new DisneyMarvel channel (which will be in the air soon).

I have no worries, I have not read a Marvel comic for years and I haven't seen a good Disney movie/cartoon since...well it's been some years.

I wonder if Disney characters will start turning up in the Marvelverse.

I smell a Wolverine/Scrooge McDuck crossover.

luckily, they're going to keep the marvel area at universal studios.

i was really worried for a second there.

new show: X-Babies, starring Puperine, Monoclops, Breeze among others.

So? Disney owns ESPN, ABC, and Mirimax. Anyone seen Pulp Fiction? That's owned by Disney.

Life will go on.

i don't think this would make a huge change , let's wait and see what's next !!

I think that would be awesome

Darkwing Duck wouldn't be bad, either.

A Darkwing Duck Marvel comic would have the potential to be fantastic.

I grew up with disney and marvel, I like the older disney works, they got me angry when they remade winnie the pooh >< they got some stupid girl and its 3D I hates them for that  :mockangry:.

Marvel pissed me off when they made Xmen into a movie, the new movie about wolverine was horrible.

Hi.

You see, Marvel didn't make those movies. Fox did those movies. Fox is still making more movies so that they don't lose the rights to X-Men and Fantastic Four. They can do whatever they want with the names. They can shoot a movie with a larch slowly shaking in the wind with 10 minute shots from weird angles and call it X-Men: Strike of Apocalypse and Marvel wouldn't be able to say a word. Marvel only made Iron Man and the latest Hulk flick.

Sounds like someone was scrapped for cash when they gave Fox the rights.

Sounds better than "Wolverine" already!

Speaking of Roger Rabbit and being pissed off at Disney:

Richard Williams got royally screwed by Disney.  He agreed to direct the animation for Roger Rabbit on the agreement that Disney give him funding and resources to finish his film "The Thief and the Cobbler".  Disney agreed, he made Roger Rabbit, it became a huge success and Willians went back to work on Thief.  He'd been working on it for something like 10 years with a skeleton crew.

Well, the budget he got was ludicrously low, he went over it, they seized the film and locked him out, cut it so that they didn't have to finish any of the expensive scenes, animated a few place-holder scenes and released it straight to video with it cut totally out of order and making little to no sense at all.

Then they stole and reworked several of his characters for Aladdin.  Of course they didn't "steal" them, since they owned them, but you get what I mean.  "Zig-Zag" is basically "Jaffar" with a different voice.  Looks exactly the same.

If you're interested, you can find bootleg copies of "Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Edition" that takes video from the two different releases (one on VHS and one on DVD that is actually cut futher) and includes Williams own workprint stuff including rough unfinished animation and storyboards.  The film was largely completed when they kicked him off, but the remaining scenes would have cost quite a bit of money to produce because he was animating everything.  The backgrounds in a lot of the film are fully hand-animated.  The final set-piece...  what's left of it...  is really amazing to look at and would have been a spectacle of animation had it been finished.  What's there is still pretty impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOq3O1MrzQ

So yeah, that pissed me off and that plus a few other things that Disney has done - firing Chris Sanders, for one - has really made me hate them utterly.

And I work for a FOX distributor, and I hate that company too.  Searchlight is great, tho.  The main studio could stand to learn some stuff from their Searchlight arm.

Edit:  Wait, It was Warner that fucked him with the funding.  Disney stole his characters and refused to fund him after they had agreed to do so.  Warner picked the project up and then fucked him.  I swear Buena Vista released this thing on VHS, tho...  The history of that film is confusing...

Riveting tale, sibling.

But seriously, I never knew about that. Interestings.

Disney kicked up some fuzz here when they threatened Cinemas to not show Titan A.E., otherwise they'd be forbidden to show any Disney Movie at all. Needless to say, Titan A.E. never hit Cinemas here.

OMG Disney ripped off something I'm shocked!

Interestingly, Salvador Dali once went to Disney in an attempt to make an animation with them -- apparently, he was a big fan of Walt Disney -- and in fact all the story boards were done; however, what with World War II and all the company could not afford to finish it. However, they actually recently got around to finishing the entire thing, releasing it a couple of years ago under the name "Destino". Disney is capable of things which aren't entirely and hopelessly money-grabbing... but they are rare.

On the other hand, now The Lion King 3: Rise of the X-Lions can finally be made -- I look forward to Wolverine's song about the circle of life!

I can imagine, Marvel creating a Darkwing Duck comic. I also see a crossover with Donald and Howard, my mind just broke thinking about it.

A new Darkwing Duck comic would complete me.

The internets is already beating the horse to death (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/6122401/Marvel-Disney-mashups-how-the-merger-will-affect-the-characters-you-love.html)

I love how Penny Arcade realised half way through making a comic that it would be a bloody pulp by the time they put it up, so they went with something a bit more clever.

This one is well-done though. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/6122401/Marvel-Disney-mashups-how-the-merger-will-affect-the-characters-you-love.html?image=8)

Not that Titan A.E. was really that good anyway... Some impressive 3D/hand-drawn blend, but other than that it was kinda meh.

I really really really don't like Disney, I find them two faced, Smiley and kid friendly up front, cold, dark and calculating behind. I always enjoyed Warner Bros. stuff more, until Space Jam, then things just got weird.

Hopefully, they'll let Marvel do a Marvel Vs Capcom 3.

Disney vs. Capcom

Yeh, the movie was kinda meh but it was one of the rare occasions where Disney couldn't keep their shady ways secret.

Nostalgia requires me to defend this movie, even though my memories on it are quite hazy. Now that I think about it, it stole a lot from Star Wars, but I wouldn't have recognized that at the time. (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=5920.0)

Isn't that that cartoon where they blow up the Earth and Matt Damon founds a new planet and calls it Bob or Jim or something?

Yes. Yes it was. I think that falls under the "pro" category.  :-*

Titan AE is a fantastic movie if you don't take it seriously.

It's entertaining, yes, but doesn't really get farther than that, and it seemed to WANT to get farther, but failed in doing so.

Also, I trust no corporations.  :noir:

http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=23840&display=photoshop&page=1#entries

Edit: I'm pretty sure that when Walter Elias Disney takes a look at page, he'll go like "Who the fuck is Namor? What have I done?"

Some of these are actually pretty good.