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Disney Character Costumes

2011-02-21T13:30:00.000-08:00

Disney character costumes bring back childhood memories and the days of trick ere treating. They are not just for children, which is part of the magic of the Disney character costumes. Today’s children’s characters are fun and stimulating, but even adults want to be reminded that life is not all just about work and responsibility. Disney costumes that portray Disney characters bring out the child in everybody, adults and children alike.

Disney character costumes for children bring innocent bliss to the experience of dressing up as a favorite character. The Disney character collection of princesses, heroes and Disney characters is so complete there is one to encounter any preference. Your little girl can dress up as one of the classic beauties or may rather to be a mouse. A little boy can discover a selection of Disney character costumes that transform him into a superhero, Peter Pan or Pinocchio to name just a few choices.

Costumes that are obtainable are designed for infants, toddlers, kids & adults. It is tricky to find a cuter youngster than a one-year old wearing a tutu or a six-year-old dressed like a pirate and prepared to take on the world. But Disney character costumes are designed for grown-up children too.

Disney has a number of teenage Disney characters costumes that are wildly all the rage with the older children. Your little lady can dress like Hannah Montana or the young man in your household may decide that a high school musical character is his absolute choice.

Little ones growing up on the classic Disney character stories obviously choose to dress like one of their favorite Disney characters. By encouraging your youngster to dress in one of the Disney character costumes, you are furthermore encouraging reading and an appreciation of various types of stories from fairy tales to imaginative worlds.

This stimulates the child’s imagination and makes him or her choose to discover further. A Disney character costume is colorful, fun and educational and your child doesn’t even realize it is promoting reading, storytelling and the development of creativity and imagination.

While choosing one of the Disney character costumes, there are several things to keep in mind. They are solidly constructed and will fit well based on size. You ought to select a costume size that will not drag on the ground in order to prevent unintended falls.

Most of the Disney character costumes are ideal for children, because they are light colored which makes them simple to see in a dark room or when trick-or-treating in the evening. The Disney character costumes are also easy to put on and remove.

Adults will find a splendid selection that enables them to find the wild child inside. Just like Peter Pan, some adults just never completely grow up and like to explore their inner child. When invited to a party, it is still fun to twirl into Cinderella or the Mad Hatter.

Furthermore there’s a selection of Disney character costumes that enable adults to become a sexier version of their favorite characters. The Disney costumes are not at all in bad taste, just lots of fun.

Disney character costumes are flawless for so many diverse events. They are ideal to wear on holidays like Halloween, to costume parties, in school plays and at any other community event which requires theatrical production acting or costuming. The costumes are definitely recognizable and are made in various styles depending on the kind of event and the age of the wearer. The Disney character costumes symbolize classic, modern and movie characters that are beloved by all age groups.

If you are like the majority people, you don’t encompass the time to sew costumes. The cost of supplies alone far exceeds the cost of a pre-sewn costume. Disney character costumes are the exact pick when you are set to enter the world of child-like imagination.

Whatever your budget is, you will be sure to find a Disney character costumes that suits your needs. Do remember to act fast as top Disney character costumes sell out very fast!

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Disney $4 billion takeover of Marvel makes my Spidey sense tingle

2009-08-31T11:48:00.000-07:00

David Hinckley
Updated Monday, August 31st 2009, 12:50 PM

Maybe I'm just bitter over not being allowed into Disneyland in the 1960s because my hair was too long.

But I'm nervous about this morning's news that Disney is buying the Marvel Comics universe.
It's not that I dislike Disney animation and characters. I don't. I've been charmed all my life by "Peter Pan," and the core crowd of Mickey, Donald and Goofy have earned their props as pure Americana.

But Marvel has always stood for something else. Where the Disney characters have over some 80 years been the comic establishment, the Marvel folks have been the outsiders, the round pegs in a world of square holes, the spider webs in a world of brooms.

To see them ushered inside the Disney tent, no matter how handsomely they're compensated, stirs what Bob Dylan once called "a restless hungry feeling that don't mean no one no good."
Now I'm sure all sides will assure us repeatedly that this deal won't affect the integrity of the Marvel characters.

Disney will declare, not illogically, that it wouldn't be paying $4 billion for a brand that it intends to change. You don't buy Pepsi-Cola and rename it "Brown Bubble Water."
It's also true that Disney has used subdivisions to market products, like R-rated movies, that it doesn't feel fit the Disney brand.

So maybe the Mouse really doesn't want to swallow the Marvel world. Maybe Disney really will leave creative control to the Marvel people and mostly just use Marvel as an endless source of material for lucrative new geek films.

But still, there's this little voice — it sounds a little like Tinker Bell, come to think of it — that says big corporations with valuable, well-established images eventually tend to make all parts of their empire conform to that image.

That at the very least they eventually reshape all parts of the empire to fit the mothership's "corporate management style."

It's not that the X-Men or the Hulk will suddenly sprout mouse ears. The dangers are more subtle — maybe a little shift in emphasis toward marketing, a little less creative experimentation, a little less of the irreverence that made Marvel worth $4 billion in the first place.

In the history of animation and comics, of course, Disney and Marvel haven't really been direct adversaries.

The original gnat buzzing around Disney, back in the 1930s, was Warner Bros., whose animators felt Disney took itself a little too seriously and began a guerrilla satire campaign with the likes of Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny — scruffy characters who clearly enjoyed tweaking Disney as part of their own first-rate comedy.

Marvel's most direct rival, on the other hand, has been DC Comics – which, it's true, is owned these days by another large corporation, Time-Warner. Where DC heroes like Superman and Batman were basically 100% good guys with a few incidental issues, Marvel heroes are neurotic, occasionally slow and, okay, sometimes downright messed up.

In the glow of Spider-Man's movie stardom, it's easy to forget that that even clean-cut all-American Peter Parker has always had a tense private life, has been constantly vilified in the Daily Bugle, and had to wait many years and several movies before he even finally seemed to get the girl.

So they had to work harder to get where they were going, and we often had a lot more fun watching them do it.

For many years, in any case, the comic fan universe reflected a friendly split between Marvel and DC fans, just as the animation fan universe was split between Disney and Warner Bros.
These showdowns were good for everyone. The creators will all tell you that the presence of strong, popular competition pushed them to be better, and that in turn expanded the audience.
The simple point, then, is that we don't only have room for different styles and approaches, we need them.

If everything is gathered under one umbrella, the only thing that gets better is the corporate bottom line. What we don't need is the comic/animation world's version of Microsoft.
Fortunately, technology being what it is, creative urges have plenty of places to spawn these days. The spirit of irreverence isn't going anywhere.

Meanwhile, I'll just hope that little voice in my ear is worried for nothing.

Disney to buy Marvel comics

2009-08-31T09:02:00.000-07:00

Disney to buy Marvel comics

Talk about strange bedfellows. The Walt Disney Co. announced today that it will spend $4 billion to buy Marvel Entertainment -- and the more than 5,000 Marvel characters, including Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Captain America and Fantastic Four.

Disney boss Bob Iger told CNBC that the acquisition was a way to attract more boys. Iger said Disney would not rebrand the Marvel characters as Disney ones, but would find opportunities to mine Marvel characters that are not well known.

Great news. Finally, a chance to see Post-It Note Man, a Spidey wanna-be who is held back from stardom because of inferior adhering powers. Or Octo-Mom, a single parent raising eight kids, working two jobs and stopping alien invaders in her spare time. Or RealFake, who exists in the shadowy netherworld between reality TV shows and real life. Maybe we can add some new X-Men: Scrooge X-McDuck, who can make the historic figures on money come alive.

Or X-Sneezy, a dwarf who can make villains dissolve into fits of sneezing (a good commercial tie in with tissue-makers).

Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment

2009-08-31T08:44:00.000-07:00

by Robin Wauters on August 31, 2009

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced this morning. Under the terms of the agreement and based on last week’s closing price of Disney, Marvel shareholders would receive a total of $30 per share in cash plus approximately 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own.
Based on the closing price of Disney stock on Friday, August 28, the total transaction value is $50 per Marvel share or approximately $4 billion.

Under the deal, which has been approved by the boards of both companies, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its portfolio of over 5,000 Marvel characters. That portfolio includes many familiar names like Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor.

Says Disney CEO Robert A. Iger in a statement: “We believe that adding Marvel to Disney’s unique portfolio of brands provides significant opportunities for long-term growth and value creation.”

Ike Perlmutter, Marvel’s CEO, added: “Disney is the perfect home for Marvel’s fantastic library of characters given its proven ability to expand content creation and licensing businesses. This is an unparalleled opportunity for Marvel to build upon its vibrant brand and character properties by accessing Disney’s tremendous global organization and infrastructure around the world.”

Mr. Perlmutter will oversee the Marvel properties, and will work directly with Disney’s global lines of business to build and further integrate Marvel’s properties.

Marvel stock is surging following the news, up 10+ points at the time of writing (+27%), while Disney’s is down a little (-0,5%).