I mostly prefer animated movies and am looking foward to seeing UP.

. . . they’re all back where they should be: Hundreds of miles from Hollywood, thousands of miles from Florida, painstakingly crafted in Emeryville by people who love them like children, not milk them like cash cows.

No doubt about that, which is why we are all eagerly looking forward to Cars 2.

True at the time but in the end the Mouse and/or the market won. See here.

You don’t have to tell me Toy Story 3 is coming — a trailer in 3-D preceded the beginning of Up, which I saw opening night. It’s not a problem.

Neither Lasseter nor I trusted Disney Animation with Pixar’s characters, but now, they’re all back where they should be: Hundreds of miles from Hollywood, thousands of miles from Florida, painstakingly crafted in Emeryville by people who love them like children, not milk them like cash cows.

sillygatboy, did you hear that story on Coast to Coast? I heard a very similar story there.

They died within 2 hours of each other the next day.

Pixar’s John Lasseter (who had been named Chief Creative Officer of Disney Animation in the deal) personally went to where Disney was preparing Toy Story 3 and ordered everything destroyed.

True at the time but in the end the Mouse and/or the market won. See here.

In any event, while I sympathize with some of the negative comments above, the essence of the story is what counts. To be a child in such pain that one cannot open one’s eyes is just overwhelming. By the standards of human decency, this act of Pixar is one of the better stories we have had in a while, and I think we should just respect that and let everything else go.

Don’t forget that this is DISNEY/Pixar. The same DISNEY that owns ABC. The same DISNEY that a lot of commenters on here are having issues with because of the upcoming ABC/National Healthcare lovefest.

They are owned by the same parent company, but not only has Pixar always enjoyed a level autonomy within the Disney Co., the balance of power swung to Pixar when the two cemented their working relationship.

It used to be that Pixar (built from the ashes of Steve Jobs’ failed NeXT Computer company) rode on Disney’s reputation, creating the product that would be distributed by Walt Disney Studios. But Pixar’s computer-animated features were so successful and revolutionary, they overshadowed Disney’s once-dominant traditional cel animation features. Disney gave up on old-school animated features (using cel animation to produce lame straight-to-video sequels like Cinderella II) and appropriated the Pixar characters as well. It all came to a head when Disney set out to create Toy Story 3 — whose characters were, under contract, owned by Disney — in Southern California, rather than in the sprawling state-of-the-art Pixar facility in Emeryville, CA (NE of Oakland).

Pixar and Disney nearly broke off relations (which would have been worse for Disney than Pixar), but cooler heads prevailed. Pixar was given the rights to the characters it created, and as legend has it, when the deal was finalized, Pixar’s John Lasseter (who had been named Chief Creative Officer of Disney Animation in the deal) personally went to where Disney was preparing Toy Story 3 and ordered everything destroyed.

I’m hoping that Pixar can continue to be an oasis of quality family-friendly and family-centered entertainment in a society that now tolerates bestiality jokes told by animated toddlers. What the Walt Disney Company once was, Pixar is.

I must wonder? Would Obamacare have even considered such a thing?