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Disney Theme Park Attendees Talk about Possible Buyout by Comcast.

By Todd Pack, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 13--Judith Darling was having too much fun on Thursday to pay much attention to the army of financiers trying to storm the Magic Kingdom.

"I wouldn't want them to change it to Comcast World," she said of the cable company that is trying to buy the Walt Disney Co.

But if Comcast Corp. doesn't take the magic out of Disney, then Darling, a tourist from Mansfield, Ohio, said she doesn't care who owns the company.

While some visitors to the Orlando theme p

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