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[John Nesky]

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

[Radix]

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.

[Zest]

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?

[Jason Bakker]

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

[mark]

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.

[Radix]

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

I smell a Wolverine/Scrooge McDuck crossover.

[Strong]

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

i was really worried for a second there.

[Alevice]

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

[pgil]

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

Life will go on.

[Saker]

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

[moi]

I smell a Wolverine/Scrooge McDuck crossover.

I think that would be awesome

[Μarkham]

Darkwing Duck wouldn't be bad, either.

[battlerager]

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

[Ajene]

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  .

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

[Renton]

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.

[Melly]

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

[rrrowdy]

a movie with a larch slowly shaking in the wind with 10 minute shots from weird angles

Sounds better than "Wolverine" already!

[Squiggly_P]

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...

[LazyWaffle]

Riveting tale, sibling.

But seriously, I never knew about that. Interestings.

[dEnamed]

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.