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Marvel's Impact on the Disney Parks - The WDW News Today Podcast: Episode 71
July 29, 2025·1 hr 34 min·5 clips
Tom reveals how Black Panther changed history as a cultural moment bigger than anyone could fathom.
As heard by us
A lively, slightly wandering look at how Marvel changed the parks and the rights mess behind them.
This episode treats Marvel and the Disney parks like a business story with fandom noise all over it. It opens with Comic Con chatter and side arguments about city names, then moves into Disney's Marvel purchase, the early MCU, and the rights tangle around Spider-Man, Fantastic…
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You want the Disney-buys-Marvel story with jokes, detours, and the logic behind why the lesser-known characters became the useful ones.
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