User blog:Green Ninja/The Future of the Marvel Takeover

It's my first blog post since June, so here goes nothing!

As you might have already known, yesterday Marvel Studios announced their upcoming slate of films that they will release through 2019, all part of Phase 3 of the world-renowned Marvel Cinematic Universe movie franchise. You can see what these films they are below...


 * Captain America: Civil War (May 6, 2016)
 * Doctor Strange (November 4, 2016)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (May 5, 2017)
 * Thor: Ragnarok (July 28, 2017)
 * Black Panther (November 3, 2017)
 * Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1 (May 4, 2018)
 * Captain Marvel (July 6, 2018)
 * Inhumans (November 2, 2018)
 * Avengers: Infinity War, Part 2 (May 3, 2019)

Now, you might be thinking, "What does this blog post have to do with Club Penguin?" Hold on, I'm getting to that.

Marvel already has two more films in late development out next year to wrap up Phase 2; those being Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1, 2015) and Ant Man (July 17, 2015). It is highly like we will have a third installment of the beloved 2012-2013 Marvel Super Hero Takeover party then. When? I'd say either late April (just before the Avengers sequel) or mid-June (in-between that and Ant Man). I know a lot of fans will be cheering; Marvel is really one of the most beloved takeovers, or clearly it wouldn't have returned in 2013. Also, it was the first takeover ever to occur, so it is quite a milestone. Spike Hike did confirm that there would be no Marvel Super Hero Takeover this year. This ended up being true, because we would have gotten one around Captain America: The Winter Soldier or Guardians of the Galaxy (No Rocket Raccoon costume... really?), or maybe even right in-between, like I mentioned could happen with 2015's party above.

And why was there no party this year? I'd like to say that Club Penguin was just too busy. Though one could argue that this wasn't the case due to the lack of "effort" in parties in 2014; I believe that Club Penguin is hard at work at their app (porting an entire virtual world to mobile is by far the worst idea to come out of the Kelowna studio), CPNext (will revolutionize the game) and whatever Project Super Secret is. They probably didn't want to get involved in any more synergistic partnerships (hence why there were only two this year, and both of them were brand new).

And in 2016 and beyond? It's hard to tell. Marvel is a great company, with films and comics for everybody to enjoy. As soon as it starts to appeal to more people (Black Panther and Captain Marvel will be the first Marvel super hero African-American and female solo films, respectively), Club Penguin will be able to build on the company's success. And soon, maybe CP will even improve their own.