Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Super villains everywhere are furious they didn't think of that crime first!<< Curses! Foiled again! - Dr. Thaddeus Sivana
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Not to get too far off topic, but comics are the only reading material I still won't purchase on any electronic device. I still need that tactile feeling of paging through and looking at the artwork.
Originally Posted By fkurucz ^^After staring at a screen all day long at work, the last thing I want to do is read off of a kindle, nook or iPad.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^The Kindle really isn't a screen, unless you have a Fire. Nook and iPad I agree with though.
Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp Love reading on my Kindle, it's just like reading a paper book. Which is why we both have that, and not an iPad in sight.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USiaeXzYkOE&feature=plcp&context=C409bd88VDvjVQa1PpcFPTeNpJIx7HvY5ra0ILZPxGaoNH2neJV8w%3D" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...eJV8w%3D</a>
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I posted this in another thread and I will post it here as well. I like the idea of an all solid color for the monrails instead of a color stripe on an all white monorail. Using the interior of the Contemporary Hotel as a back drop was a BAD idea. The Avengers monrail looks awful and even worse when using the Poly as a backdrop! The WDW monorails are a Disney icon. I don't really approve of them used for flashy advertisement. To me it just appears a desperate attempt on the Disney Company's part to impose the promotion of a Disney product which absolutely has nothing to do with WDW, and doesn't enhance WDW in any way. It is just a blatant attempt of "Taylor Swifting". Or when an extremely over-rated movie product that is preceived to be popular with the under 25 demographic is placed where it doesn't belong just to fill an empty slot and make extra money off of teenyboppers who's suburban moms will pay anything to make their kids happy.
Originally Posted By xrayvision I rode on the new Avenvers monorail fwice. It looks fine to me. And, once you're inside the monorail, you cant tell the differemce amyway. I was the only person in line who was excited to see the newly wrapped train. No one else cared and were payimg more attention to me taking pictures of the monorail than they were paying attention to the wrap. But. the new Avemgers monorail debut did make the local mews.
Originally Posted By xrayvision Opps, wrong thread. I thought that this was about the new Avengers monorail. BTW, I think that it's kinda funny that Universal Orlando stores amd Disney Stores are sellimg the same exact Marvel/Avengers merchandise incliding the same toys amd action figures.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <BTW, I think that it's kinda funny that Universal Orlando stores amd Disney Stores are sellimg the same exact Marvel/Avengers merchandise incliding the same toys amd action figures.> Reason #865 that Disney buying Marvel was an odd business decision
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I don't know -- is Disney making money off of Islands of Adventure and the Marvel Island area, and all the merchandise that is being sold there? And, if true -- from a brand and marketing perspective, doesn't it seem a little weird? For both parties?
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance It's only temporary right? Eventually Universal has to give up it's use of the Marvel characters, don't they?
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 I do want to clarify something that Jim assumed which has now been proven wrong by the media. Disney owns the rights to Hulk/Iron Man/Captain America and the rest of the Avengers. Starting with the Avengers, they will get any profit these characters make. Eventually the other characters will get back in Disney's control as well, in fact earlier this year they received control of Punisher and are currently developing a TV series based on the character...
Originally Posted By dshyates Universal has the rights to the characters that they currently use in IOA "in perpetuity". Which means as long as they want to use them they have the rights.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 But ds, they have to pay an annual fee to continue to use the characters right? I thought "in perpetuity" meant you continued to pay license fees.
Originally Posted By dshyates Yes, they are still paying a fee. But I would think that as long as Universal can lock up Disney's use of the characters at WDW they will gladly pay the fee. Plus the cost of rethemeing the entire Marvel Superhero Island and all of it's attractions including their signature attraction The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman would make it worth their while to just pay the fee.
