All Of The Companies That Disney Owns

Why Mickey, you have certainly been a very busy mouse. Please Pass Go!!! Please Do Collect $200!!! You could say that Disney has built quite the monopoly. Hotels included. Several years ago, Marvel wanted and hoped to get back the Fantastic Four. Twentieth Century Fox greenlit a film at the last minute just so they could hold on to the right. We all remember that box office disaster. Well, since Fox wouldn't play fair, what does Disney do? Buys the whole company, of course, for 71.3 Billion dollars. Got to spend money to make money, I guess. But the question is, how many companies does Disney own?

Well, to say a lot would be an understatement. They own a fair bit. Of course, we know the BIG names: Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Searchlight Pictures, and now Twentieth Century Fox. But there's many, many more. More than you can think. Such as:

• ABC
• Touchstone Pictures
• Hollywood Records
• Core Publishing

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Well, to say a lot would be an understatement. They own a fair bit. Of course, we know the BIG names: Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Searchlight Pictures, and now Twentieth Century Fox. But there are many, many more. More than you can think. Such as:

• ESPN (with a 80% stake in)
• Vice Media (with a 10% stake in)

Along with 50% equity holdings in A&E, The History Channel, and Lifetime, the other 50% coming from the Hearst Corporation, an American global mass media and business conglomerate, producing such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Woman's Health, Men's Health, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, and many more. Back to the House of Mouse, Disney also owns the companies behind their television channels, the Disney Hotels, the Disney Parks, the Disney Stores (the 90's stores were soo much better), and of course, the Disney Cruise Lines.

Look at that. Doesn't that store look better than what the Disney stores of today look like? In fact, weren't shopping centers or malls better back then. But, boy, do I miss the 90's That was 30 years ago! There are times I still think the '80s were 30 years ago, and then I realized that they are not.

Anyhoo, there are some companies I'm willing to bet you've never heard of that Disney own. I didn't even know of them before writing this. So it's been a learning experience for all of us.

• Maker Studios, a YouTube company for popular YouTube Channels.
• Steamboat Ventures, a company that invests in web startups, such as GoPro and Photobucket.
• Earth Star. Inc, a private jet company that flies around Disney Executives.
• International Media Networks, such as: ATV, RDS, RTL 2, Tele 5 and Kividoo.

Yeah, I was unfamiliar with all of these.

But to put it in perspective. Do you know what Disney is a lot like? An iceberg. You heard me right. Disney is a lot like an iceberg. On average, only a tenth of an iceberg is above the water, with the rest hidden beneath, so much more of it. I think it's a great little metaphor to end on. There is so much more to Disney than we can see. If the Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Searchlight, and Twentieth Century Fox are what we see above, well this graph shows how much more there is to the Disney "iceberg":

I hope you can zoom in on that because we only scratched the surface. Before Disney tries to buy Sony, how long will it be before we see Spider-Man in the MCU? It's one way to ensure the character will continue to feature in their Marvel universe and not be shared. It is a bit similar to their Fox buyout. And with that, they got HULU and National Geographic.

At what point does it become too much? Disney can't buy every company, can they? Imagine every film company under their umbrella. There wouldn't be any competition. Studios NEED rivals. You've got to have that competition of trying to one-up each over, and you can't do that if you own them all. I believe it was in the '80s when Disney took a hit from rival animation studios. Don Bluth gave them a run for their money. It wasn't until the '90s when Disney turned themselves around with "Disney Renaissance," which, in my opinion, is still the best decade of animation.

With that said, that's a lot of companies they own. Disney will continue to buy companies, adding more and more to their monopoly. And perhaps build another hotel.

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Written By Conner Heggie

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