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Considering Avengers has about $750,000,000 (probably near $800,000,000 tomorrow
), I would assume Disney would buy the rights.
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That depends on what is considered usage of the characters. Captain America and Wolverine and a few others come out for meet and greets at specific times.The way I understood it was Disney couldn't use the characters Universal is using/have under contract until that contract is up. So no Hulk, Spiderman, Dr. Doom or X-men(just no Storm maybe?)? But Ironman, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye should all be free not to mention Vision, Dare Devil, ***********, Black Panter, War Machine maybe Wolverine and Beast and the rest of the X-men since the X-men ride is Storms? So there are a lot of unused characters and that isn't even a quarter of them thats just the main ones most people know.
Doesn't that infer that the Avengers are off limits since Captain America is being used as a costumed character on a regular basis?After such 2 year period, MCA’s exclusive rights will be subject to “shrinkage” or “expansion” as follows:
1. If no action is taken by MCA, such exclusivity shall be limited as follows:
i. East of The Mississippi - any other theme park is limited to using characters not currently being used by MCA at the time such other license is granted. [For purpose of this subsection and subsection iv, a character is “being used by MCA” if (x) it or another character of the same “family” (e.g., any member of THE FANTASTIC FOUR, THE AVENGERS or villains associated with a hero being used) is more than an incidental element of an attraction, is presented as a costumed character, or is more than an incidental element of the theming of a retail store or food facility; and, (y) in addition, if such character or another character from the same “family” is an element in any MCA marketing during the previous year. Any character who is only used as a costume character will not be considered to be “being used by MCA” unless it appears as more than an incidental element in MCA’s marketing.]
I'm trying to figure out what Marvel character name would be censored by the boards?
Doesn't that infer that the Avengers are off limits since Captain America is being used as a costumed character on a regular basis?
they censored "quick silver" for some reason put the two words into one ***********?Thats his name all one word and they censor it?
Not gonna happen. Disney did not buy Marvel for theme park attractions...they bought the company for the film and distribution rights mainly. Just because Disney has Marvel now...which is a joke in my opinion...Universal and Marvel had contracts in place LONG before Disney ever thought of buying the company. Disney has to abide by the terms of the existing contracts unless they offer Universal some insane amount of money to buy the character theme park rights back...that aint gonna happen.I am sure Disney's is working on getting control of all of their characters from Universal. They know that the Marvel characters are hot now and want to profit from them. Seriously, Universal has not done a good job marketing those characters. Right now they are only interested in pushing Harry Potter. Disney is going to make some serious money from The Avengers movie and they will probably use allot of that money to not only get the characters back from Universal but also try to secure the movie rights.
Not gonna happen. Disney did not buy Marvel for theme park attractions...they bought the company for the film and distribution rights mainly. Just because Disney has Marvel now...which is a joke in my opinion...Universal and Marvel had contracts in place LONG before Disney ever thought of buying the company. Disney has to abide by the terms of the existing contracts unless they offer Universal some insane amount of money to buy the character theme park rights back...that aint gonna happen.
Movie rights and theme park character rights are two different animals entirely. Disney can do what they want with/for the movie rights but they can't touch the theme park rights in Orlando.
Not gonna happen. Disney did not buy Marvel for theme park attractions...they bought the company for the film and distribution rights mainly. Just because Disney has Marvel now...which is a joke in my opinion...Universal and Marvel had contracts in place LONG before Disney ever thought of buying the company. Disney has to abide by the terms of the existing contracts unless they offer Universal some insane amount of money to buy the character theme park rights back...that aint gonna happen.
Movie rights and theme park character rights are two different animals entirely. Disney can do what they want with/for the movie rights but they can't touch the theme park rights in Orlando.
Thats funny because they have less movie rights then ride rights. All the spinoff characters are owned by film studios that own the main character they came from.
After reading most of that posted contract it looks like as long as USO keeps the marvel section open and running and features it in 20% of their advertizing they can maintain the contract forever. They have to BUILD new parks every so often or lose that ability, I'm not sure if they have more than 1 or 2 of these places. So possibly we could see a Marvel theme park in Europe, Asia, or South America, but in America (the US) we would be limited to relatively small mini-parks and such, all away from Orlando.
So I hope they expand the IoA area. Sucks that USO is so land locked. While I appreciated the classic comic/Popeye stuff, I would probably prefer more Marvel stuff, just like Harry Potter could extend into the Jurassic Park area.
Here is it. Contract Link
Part III says the contract is valid in perpetuity unless Universal fails to meet certain standards.
What makes you think Universal wont try to capitalize on the success of this film too? I would be willing to bet that after the opening weekend they have a group of people getting together to discuss it.There is only 1 Islands of Adventure but there are also Universal Studios parks in Hollywood, Singapore and Japan.
Right now, 2 of those parks are gearing up for a Harry Potter expansion. So Marvel would be a ways off if they build there at all.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you give an example?
It sounds like no other park can use any characters from any FAMILY USO is using. Since they have the Hulk that definitely includes Marvel's Thor since he is an Avenger. I didn't see anything that stated USO could only use a certain set of pre-defined characters either, just no one Marvel itself contracted a third party for.