Marvel shareholders OK Disney acquisition
SOURCE: Marvel Entertainment, Inc.

9:36a ET December 31, 2009 (MarketWatch)
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Marvel Entertainment Inc. said Thursday that its shareholders at a special meeting approved the company's deal to be acquired by Walt Disney Co. . Marvel, which owns such popular comic-book icons as Spider-Man, Iron Man and X-Men, said it expects the deal, which is valued at about $4.3 billion based on Disney's closing price Wednesday, will be completed after the market closes Thursday.


9:25a ET December 31, 2009 (Business Wire)
Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL), a global character-based entertainment and licensing company founded in 1939, announced that at a special meeting held this morning, Marvel stockholders approved the adoption of the Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into by Marvel and The Walt Disney Company ("Disney"), which provides for a merger in which Marvel will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney. Marvel anticipates that the merger, which, based on the closing price of Disney's common stock on December 30, 2009, has an estimated value of approximately $4.3 billion, will be completed today after the close of the market.

The completion of the merger is subject to satisfaction of remaining conditions disclosed in the definitive proxy statement/prospectus filed by Disney with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424 on December 2, 2009.

Too bad WDW can't import the Spiderman ride from Islands of Adventure.

Mouseketeer Tina wrote:Disney should just buy Universal period. Universal gets a new owner about as often as we have elections (both, presidential and mid-term ). Disney should be next in line for when another time of transition comes to Universal properties.

yes, it would be great to just get a bus at the hotel to the Universal parks!

the one time we did go to both on the same trip, we stayed at a Best Western near Universal i think it was that has service to Disney parks. it was definitely a letdown after staying on property the only good thing about it was a Don Pablo's across the street (a 4-lane divided highway, NO FUN), and there was a Pirate's Cove mini-golf down the street that we went to on our last day.