Arrived at work this morning and started checking the news and what do I find?  Big news… Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion.  That’s right… BILLION.  I have to admit, I have mixed feelings about this one.  For being a Disney shareholder, I think it is an excellent move.  Marvel has a lot of characters and properties.  All of them vastly different from Disney properties and so I think the merging is definitely complimentary.

But as a fan of Marvel, not sure what I would think.  But I do think Disney is a different beast than it was 10 years ago.  Their acquisition of Pixar has left me impressed.  Pixar continues to do things the way they have always done, but at the same time, they have been able to influence a lot of things at Disney.  Hopefully that will be the same for Marvel.

So I look forward to walking down Main Street USA and being greeted by Spider-man, Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk and all them fine characters.  Should be a grand day!  (A day that is a long ways off because of Universal’s claim, but still… sometime in the future.)

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