Walt-Disney-World

By now, dear reader, you are familiar with the argument that Disney needs to get its Marvel characters back from Sony Pictures and Fox. They’ve done a pretty great job weaving together the Marvel cinematic universe around the Avengers. In the comics we have members of the X-Men, Spider-Man, and Thing from the Fantastic Four as members of the Avengers or New Avengers. Imagine how great things could be in the cinematic (and now, thanks to SHIELD, TV world). But there’s another place Disney could and should be leveraging its characters - it should have a Marvel park at Walt Disney World. As someone who grew up in Florida I went to theme parks a lot. In the last few months I revisited both Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure Orlando and Walt Disney World. There is no doubt in my mind that WDW is the king of immersive theme park experiences. Universal Studios is a mismatch of rides just randomly dropped on the property. The Islands of Adventure Side does a better job of grouping rides into themes, but the park is too small to do justice to the expansive universe that is Marvel comics.