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First track from Disney’s Chilling, Thrilling, Sounds of the Haunted House. It reminds me of the audio tape that came with The Berenstein Bears and The Spooky Old Tree.
Download the album in it’s entirety at Forbidden Crypts.
via Iconfactory.
Disney to acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4B - MarketWatch
This is crazy.
Pros
- Disney distributes Miyazaki films and does an excellent job
- Marvel turds will be a lot more polished.
- Disney has excellent theme parks and I found the Universal Studios Marvel Adventure Island to be a horrible use of the property (essentially the Marvel elements are limited to some giant 2D representations of Marvel characters, slapped on some generic rides.)
Cons
- Marvel turds will be a lot more polished.
- I haven’t been impressed with the way Disney handles the Jim Henson properties (Sesame Street, Muppets). I always preferred Muppets to Disney and at the Disney World parks they are given second status. I feel like they approach it as they are good enough to exploit but are writing them into the history books as a second–class citizen to Mickey & Co.
- DC is a Time–Warner property, Marvel to be a Disney Property. That takes the two biggest comic properties and puts them in the hands of giant big media corporations. Comic book shops get (a little) less interesting.
- Marvel is now in the legal hands of the people that want extend copyright to infinity… and beyond!
via Hub Comics, my friendly neighborhood comic book shop
