Marvel superheroes for sale at Downtown Disney
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 Captain America's at Walt Disney World. (AP photo) The reality of Disney’s acquisition of the Marvel superheroes hit home on a weekend visit to a Downtown Disney store: It was the first time I had noticed a prominent display of the crime-fighting comic-book characters mixed with the standard Disney fare.
One wall of Downtown Disney’s D-Street was displaying items such as Captain America T-shirts, Spider-Man toy vehicles and action figures of The Thing and others.
They were grouped with Stars Wars merchandise and T-shirts for Disney’s upcoming Tron movie so it wasn’t as though they were next to stuffed Simbas or Snow White princess dolls.
Still, it was a bit jarring: Superheroes still bring Islands of Adventure to my mind, not the more cuddly House of Mouse.
(Incidentally: $30-plus for a Tron T-shirt. Does Tron have that big a fan base? Or maybe Disney has high hopes for the new film?)
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