Disney buys Marvel for 4B!

In what is probably the greatest entertainment coup of this century "The House of the Mouse" will acquire The House of Marvel for a whopping $4B!

I had actually 'signed off' for the day but when I saw the tweet from Marvel's official Twitter page I went "Whoa."

I don't know if this means anything to anyoen reading this post but for a comicbook / animation / fantasy geek like me this kind of news ranks right up there with the discovery of Penicillin!

You see this means that my top 2 idols for imagination and storytelling - the great Walt Disney and the incredible Stan Lee - are finally united in one awesome, possibilities-filled universe! Not since the tandem of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas has there even been a Hollywood match of these proportions taken place.

The possibilities are endless - Spiderman meets Mickey Mouse! Donald Duck can finally square off with Howard the Duck [yes the Lucasian flop was actually a Marvel character!], and the X-Men can now team up with Buzz Lightyear and his Star Command!

Throw in Pixar into the mix and...AND... omigosh! Oh. My. Gawrsh!!!!

I must calm down.

This is just great news. Great news indeed!

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