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| Above, Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. |
Following in the footsteps of George Lucas, who sold the rights to Star Wars, the Walt Disney Company announced a $6 million deal with Toho Co., Ltd. for the purchase of Godzilla and related kaiju characters.
The deal was inked today at the Disney Co. offices in Burbank, California with the company's Executive Chairman, Robert A. Iger and CEO Bob Chapek.
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| Above, the Godzilla statue at Toho Studios main entrance. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
"We are very pleased with this deal with Toho," said Chapek. "We hope to do for Godzilla and the other monsters what we did for Star Wars. We will be developing movies after the current contract with Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. ends. Eventually, there will be Godzilla attractions at our theme parks, including Disneyland in Anaheim and Walt Disney World in Orlando."
Maybe there will be a Godzilla figure looming over Disneyland that will tower over the Matterhorn.
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