A snippet.:
"On Wednesday, less than 24 hours after Mr Jobs and Disney's new chief executive, Bob Iger, unveiled the merger, Mr Lasseter went to Burbank with Pixar's president, Ed Catmull. He announced that Toy Story 3 would now be scrapped, without a word about the fate of the animation team."

[news.independent.co.uk]

BGnR

That's actually pretty big news! I wonder why? I never heard anything about the $$ in #1 vs #2, but when you got a good thing going......

Given how long those various projects take, you'd think it would be quite easy to integrate one team into another to speed up getting an ongoing project into place.

But what do I know about that stuff.......

It was probably a straight to video piece of crap that Disney is in the habit of making. The Pixar guys want a quality product from the ground up. There may be a TS3 but it will not be what the Disney guys were crapping out.



Here are some of Disney's sequels that TS3 would have joined straight to video:

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
Atlantis: Milo's Return
Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas Special Edition
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame II
Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride
The Lion King 1 1/2
The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea
Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World
Tarzan® II
Mulan 2
Bambi II
The Jungle Book 2
Stitch! The Movie
The Return of Jafar, Aladdin 2
Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Aladdin 3

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Aladdin 2 was just horrible. That was the first 'straight-to-video' from Disney I had seen, and I think it was also the last.

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It was probably a straight to video piece of crapthat Disney is in the habit of making. The Pixar guys want a quality product from the ground up. There may be a TS3 but it will not be what the Disney guys were crapping out.

Precisely.

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Pixar wasn't making the sequel, Disney Animation Studios was. I don't blame John Lassiter at all. Good intentions aside, Disney Animation probably would have royally messed up that franchise.

Pixar supposedly has a movie about a rat in a snazzy Parisan restaurant coming up, Ratatouille. I could not make this up. Taken hostgage is the only way I will see it.

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Seems Lassiter thinks he really IS Buzz

Nice one Mr. Jobs. I got a laugh out of that.

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Aladdin 4 ...... Moe, Allah and the Hashish

So is Bob Iger the next Gil Amelio?

Disney Animation was going to make TS3 since they effectively own the rights to the Toy Story franchise. Pixar wanted the rights to all of their films that Disney owns. I believe this was part of the problem about why Jobs did not renew the contract with Disney and was looking for other suitors. TS3 was Disney's attempt to rub Pixar's nose in it to show them that they could do what they wanted with Pixar's creation.

Toy Story II was originally intended as a direct-to-video release, but the early test scenes played so well that Pixar started over and redeveloped it into a theatrical release movie.

Of course being produced by Pixar, not Disney!
Disney has a glut of middle management micro managers that suck the soul out of projects. Can someone send a memo to Disney and tell them it is story, and character development that makes a good movie, oh, and please send the same note to George Lucas.

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nuff said....

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Disney once tried to change their ways by putting their best and most imaginative talents and their most promising projects under a single department in its own building with all of the resources of the company behind them. This department was to be separate from the brain-draining meddlers in middle-management whose infinite capacity for cutting anything new, interesting, challenging or politically incorrect from their pictures had been responsible for a series of box office failures.

They called the project the "Secret Lab" and they recruited the top people from all across the company to work there, charged with developing innovative approaches to animation and exploring how modern technology could be used to complement their stories in a manner not unlike how Pixar does it.

During one of their middle-management reorganizations, they cut the budget for the Secret Lab and laid off most of the people who worked there. They had some of the best animators, writers, producers, directors and technologists in the world at their disposal and they discarded them all in one bold move.

For awhile, the Secret Lab muddled on as just another animation department at Disney. Eventually, the building was put to other uses.

...Which is how Disney came to be the fine company they are today.

wasn't someone at dealmac a former animator at Disney? this was back when they actually did work in the US in orlando maybe 4-6 years ago?