will there free entry to universal now?

[dizfanz]

With Disney purchasing Marvel, does a Disney Theme Park entry pass entitle us to go over to Universal and jump on the Spider Man and Hulk rides

 

[sjms71]

OH, how I wish. I just meassured DS 9 yesterday and he is finally tall enough to go on the Hulk coaster.

 

[Endeavour105]

With Disney purchasing Marvel, does a Disney Theme Park entry pass entitle us to go over to Universal and jump on the Spider Man and Hulk rides

Are you serious?!?!?!

But, if you are and to answer your question - Absolutley NOT!.

 

[Mrs. Charming]

Ha, I wish!

 

[dizfanz]

Are you serious?!?!?!

But, if you are and to answer your question - Absolutley NOT!.

I beg to differ. Look at it as a foreign embassy. Technically, it is that country's soil in another country, right? So those rides are Disney's now in a competing theme park.

Just think of it as a big reason to buy a Hopper Pass.

 

[MarkinNM]

Universal is "renting" the Marvel characters, Universal OWN the park/rides, so in a word, UGH NO.....

 

[doconeill]

I beg to differ. Look at it as a foreign embassy. Technically, it is that country's soil in another country, right? So those rides are Disney's now in a competing theme park.

Just think of it as a big reason to buy a Hopper Pass.

It's absolutely nothing like that...

Universal has the rights to the characters they are using (and perhaps more) under contract. The terms of the contract do not change because Disney gets paid instead of Marvel (although Marvel will likely be kept as a division and thus still realize the income).

Now, when the contract expires, they are free to negotiate new terms...but I don't think free access to the park will ever be part of that deal.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I agree absolutely with doconeill.

My thoughts on this are that when the licenses of Hulk, Spidey, etc., expire Disney's negotiations will be such that they will probably end up with an ownership share of Universal Studios.

Right now Universal is in very big trouble anyway. The following is from yesterday's (8/31) Orlando Sentinel.

Spielberg is standing between the resort and an April 1, 2010, deadline to refinance $1 billion worth of debt. The reason? Beginning next June, Spielberg, who has held a consulting contract with Universal for more than two decades, can at any time demand a buyout that would cost the resort hundreds of millions of dollars. And the contract is written so that Universal is obligated to pay Spielberg his money before it pays anyone else

But reaching an agreement may not be easy. Some of Universal's bondholders privately fear the talks could be undermined by hard feelings remaining from a distribution deal between Spielberg and Universal's movie studio that collapsed earlier this year. Spielberg wound up signing a distribution agreement with the Walt Disney Co. instead.

Click here for the entire article.

 

[dizfanz]

Y'all have heard of sarcasm, right?

 

[PIRATEGIRL007]

Y'all have heard of sarcasm, right?

It's ok, some of us got it.

 

[Scrappy_Tink]

I wish they'd bring the FOTL Passes with your room keys for people staying on site, like at Universal. That would be awesome!!

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I wish they'd bring the FOTL Passes with your room keys for people staying on site, like at Universal. That would be awesome!!

Problem with this is considering only the Disney owned and operated locations, both rental and DVC, there are over 30,000 rooms on site. With an average of three people per room this would mean 90,000 people with FOTL access per day (or an average of 22,500 per park per day).