Warner Bros. buys Disney

What if Warner Bros. offered to buy the then struggling Disney in the early 80s? Would the Disney brand still exist? Would we see Bugs and Daffy in the theme parks next to Mickey and Donald? Or would WB just dissolve it (along with the theme parks) and only use the disney classics for back catalog sales?
 
I think WB had taken the best piece of Disney

like the disney classics, Copyright on Mikey & co and animation studio
sell the theme park to Six Flags
(or also sell the Disney Animation studio to Turner TNT)
and shoot down the rest

wat a vision: Daffy Duck vrs Donald Duck cartoon :D
 
Brings to mind this scene from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
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In which Donald and Daffy attempt a duet and finishes with Daffy saying "Thats the lath time I work with thum one with a speath impediment".
 
Hm- I wonder, if Warner would still merge with Time Inc. in TTL...

Note that when New Line Cinema was brought into Time Warner in 1996, it took until 2008 for it to be wiped out and merged into Warner Bros. So while mid-90s Time Warner isn't entirely comparable with mid-80s Warner Communications, it may still be possible that Disney remains separate from the main Warner Bros. studio, at least for a time. Even if the Disney studio is wiped out and folded into WB, the Disney brand may be kept on.

I do think they would keep the theme parks- Warner did have some interest in theme parks, later on in the 1990s they owned Six Flags for a time, for example.
 
What about all the movies Disney made in in th 90's? i.e. The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast. ect.

Would they still get made? I can't be sure, but they may come about in some form.

Also, what happens to Pixar in this senario? Do they get their sucsess working with Warner bros instead of Disney?
 

Xen

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I doubt Warner would dissolve Disney, in fact it is far more likely we see a change to Disney-Warner Inc. (because it flows off the tongue better than Warner-Disney). Disney would be ran as a separate entity for a decade or so, until Warner can merge the corporations.

Disney World and Disney Land will remain what they are, though I can imagine, Warner putting its name out there, such as Disney's Magic Kingdom, Warner Brothers Epcot Center, Disney-Warner Hollywood Studios, and Disney-Warner Animal Kingdom. Disney characters appear at the Magic Kingdom, Warner characters appear at Epcot, while the two joint ventures features both.

As far as movies such as Pocahontas, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, they are likely to be made, I don't see why not, it makes money, Warner likes money, its a marriage in heaven. Pixar might remain with George Lucas though or Steve Jobs. Perhaps with Pixar remaining part of LucasFilm, we will see an earlier release of Star Wars, and shows such as the Clone Wars will look more like Toy Story.
 
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