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Disney's buying spree

AnonusAnonus
edited 2014-11-25 18:11:23 in General
I know that prior to October 30, 2012, it looked like Lucasfilm would have to be pried from its namesake's cold, dead hands, but the Disney-Lucasfilm deal seems to have made business-ignorant nerds decide that Disney was this hungry beast with infinite money that is on the prowl to buy Nintendo, Hasbro, Time Warner, et al.

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  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    These people do know that literally the only mega-merger they've ever done was the Capital Cities/ABC acquisition, right?
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Disney overpaid, but they got it

    yeah baby they got it

    I'm your venus, I'm your fire
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    They say that like it's a bad thing.

    All I'm seeing is Mario, Rainbow Dash and Cadpig in the next Kingdom Hearts game. 
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Odradek said:

    Disney overpaid, but they got it


    yeah baby they got it

    I'm your venus, I'm your fire
    I laughed because I'm a dork
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Yarrun XIX said:

    They say that like it's a bad thing.


    All I'm seeing is Mario, Rainbow Dash and Cadpig in the next Kingdom Hearts game. 
    One of the interesting things about 101 Dalmatians: The Series is that, for all its faults, it could have potentially opened the door to more One Hundred and One Dalmatians worldbuilding and stuff

    it's what fanfic is for I guess
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Odradek said:

    Disney overpaid, but they got it


    yeah baby they got it

    I'm your venus, I'm your fire
    image

    (derived from this)
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    The machinations of how corporations work is not a subject of common knowledge.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I dunno, I'd think these people would notice a pattern (they bought Pixar in order to keep the relationship intact, Marvel and Lucasfilm were relatively affordable owners of top-tier IP - by contrast, 21st Century Fox's failed bid for Time Warner valued that company at $78 billion)
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Most people don't pay as much attention as you do; at least not enough to notice patterns like that.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Also, they're all small enough to easily integrate into the Disney empire.
  • AnonusAnonus
    edited 2014-11-25 23:16:08
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Central Avenue said:

    Most people don't pay as much attention as you do; at least not enough to notice patterns like that.

    True

    But I do find it interesting that we're so starved for real mega-mergers (e.g. Time-Warner, Viacom-Paramount, Disney-CapCities, Time Warner-Turner, Viacom-CBS, AOL-Time Warner, NBC-Universal) that Disney-Marvel and Disney-Lucasfilm are considered such now.
  • AnonusAnonus
    edited 2014-11-25 23:17:24
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Alternately: most of those involve far less shit that nerds care about, so they don't go OMG MONOPOLY over them
  • AlduinAlduin
    On the other hand, Disney's acquisition of Marvel made it possible for Ultron to make a Pinocchio reference in the new trailer
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