Wow, that is surprising news.  I also thought Marvel was seeing lots more success on their own, but I'm betting $4B is hard to turn down.  If Disney honors their comment about hands-off approach similar to Pixar, I think we'll see very little impact on the comics - or at least on any existing assets (Maybe they'll leverage distribution to create more comics based on other Disney characters).

We will definitely see an impact on the cartoons and tie to the Disney Channel.  That makes perfect sense given the existing Marvel programming, so I'll buy Jeff's forecast that we see a new Spidey cartoon and maybe even some Avengers and X-Men reboots in the future as well.  Movies will likely see a bigger impact - I know there was a lot of discussion initially about casting someone like Robert Downey as Stark and I'm betting that Marvel will lose some of the creative freedom that has made it such a success in recent years.  The upcoming Avengers movies might not see the impact, but further out movies like Spiderman 4 and Iron Man 3 are the ones I'm concerned about.

As for the Theme parks, I'm sure there are plans to either pull Marvel out of Universal or start negotiating some huge licensing fees.  Rather than just a fall out of the deal, I'd bet that this was one of the key motivators in the buyout. 

Okay, so I was able to do the head switch I wanted, but after boiling and popping the arms off, I can't seem to get them back on.  I'm working with a clone trooper and just want the same arms back in there, but the hole looks ridiculoously small.  Any suggestions?  I was able to pop the legs back on, but they are a little looser than I'd like.   

Bumping this question to the new page...

The truth is that she's not really dead.  The Emperor foresaw all of this happening, which is how he had the Vader suit ready and waiting in time to save Anakin.  Likewise, he had one of his agents tamper with those droids, such that they put her into a catatonic state near death.  He then tucked her away in deep storage in case he ever needed her as leverage against Vader. 

Now wouldn't someone coming across a cryogenic frozen Padme in the future be an interesting turn of events?   

I'm rebuilding my Kubrick display.... someone other than my friend "I am Sith" please give me a good reason I don't take my Blue Stars Trooper off his card and display him.  Same thing for farmboy Luke.  I'm feeling the pull to the dark side to free those two from their plastic prisons!

Open them up!  Free them from the plastic prison!  I've opened all my Kubies and never looked back.   

I was the jerk who swapped up the other loose Jorg Sacul. However, to my chagrin, I received an eBay message from honorius shortly thereafter that he made a mistake in the listing, and that he didn't have that item available. Needless to say, I'm a little miffed. I've purchased several items from him before without any problems...I wonder what happened?

Not that you'd ever be able to find out, but someone could easily have offered to buy it outside of Ebay to save them both money on fees.  He can just cancel your payment and take someone else's money saving $10-15 on his cost.  Not saying he did that, but I know of a few instances where that sort of thing has happened.

I love my team.  I'm a little worried about depth, but I love the first 5 picks.  I had an eye on several TE's who were all taken right before I picked, so I went boom or bust with Shockey.  That's my biggest concern so far.

I take it Shockey is no longer your biggest concern?   

Did you run the system test?

Yah

And I was just in there and now I got booted.  WTF.