Optimizzy wrote:Most of you misunderstand me. It's disneys underhanded business practices that worry me. And yes, Disney bought Lucasfilm. Not just Star Wars. So they bought a company and branded it as their own. In 10 years kids will assume that Disney was the sole created of all this awesome stuff. It's effective but it's underhanded and I don't really like it. It's a way to gain a monopoly without the legal problems.
Yes, I know they bought Lucas Film, and Lucas Arts and Skywalker Sound, but the thing is neither of those entities, save for Lucas Arts reached a similar kind of brand recognition as Marvel.
When someone says Lucas Film, people go "What's that?" "Oh, they made Star Wars? I thought that was George Lucas. Oh wait, that was his company?".
But if you bring up Marvel, people will go "Oh yes, comics, Spider-Man, X-Men, Avengers, Ironman, ..." and over here some will even say Batman because somehow some people think all SUperheroes are Marvel.
Star Wars was known as its own brand, and not as a property of another brand. That's what I'm getting at.
The only ones to really view one of the companies as being an iconic brand of its own are gamers when referring to LucasArts, and even then it's more along the lines of past glories and not a consistent level of quality. The only reason Disney even bothered with buying Lucasarts and Lucasfilm is to get full control over Star Wars, the rest is just dead weight that came with it.
And by the way, all companies eventually merge everything under one banner, think of DC Comics that folded the Carlton Comics Superheroes into their main comicverse, or more recently with the "New 52" incorporating the Wildstorm characters into the main rooster as DC characters.
But Disney hasn't done that with Marvel and likely will never do that, hell after buying Pixar they put them in charge of all of their animation and still keep them separate because Pixar is widely recognized as being the makers of brilliant animated movies.
There isn't even a hint of Disney in a Marvel Comic at all, I just checked with Amazing Spider-Man 1.5, the legal print only mentions Marvel and its divisions as being the owner and copyright holder.