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It's a question that echoes across the Internet, on blogs and message boards, and in the content of a specialty wiki called Brickipedia: "Why are Legos so expensive?" Our search for an answer starts in Denmark, and ends in the playrooms of countless children around the world.

For 88 years, Walt Disney (DIS) has been the epitome of good, clean, family fun. Mickey Mouse. Disneyland. Donald Duck. But when Disney purchased Marvel Entertainment for the prince charming sum of $4 billion in 2009, a new cast of characters with entirely different rules moved into the House of...

In theory, the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark had a lot going for it, including a popular Marvel superhero and songs by U2 stars Bono and the Edge. But one thing the critically savaged show doesn't have going for it is a monetary investment from Bono.

So Marvel just got swallowed up by Disney for $4 billion. Hey, Captain America, what are you? Some kind of super hero? That's the sort of huge payday that we used to see three or four years ago. But what about Universal Studios? It's Walt Disney World's biggest rival for the cutthroat Orlando...