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cjrivera · Jan 27, 2005, 11:23 AM

Doesn't look like anyone is interested in being involved with Disney's continuation of the Toy Story series without Pixar.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145561,00.html

Hopefully they just scrap the project. (Wishful thinking)

videian28 · Jan 27, 2005, 11:39 AM

Pixar just received four Oscar nominations for its current Disney-distributed film, "The Incredibles." "Cars" will mark the last collaboration between the two studios, since Disney's Michael Eisner has essentially told Pixar to take a hike.

lol

Apple Pro Underwear · Jan 27, 2005, 11:57 AM

Cars looks absolutely like a toddler's movie.

I am not commenting on whether it is good or bad but at ths point I would not see it.

typoon · Jan 27, 2005, 11:58 AM

Disney needs to lay off the Sequals. Looks like they are desperate.

Apple Pro Underwear · Jan 27, 2005, 12:09 PM

Originally posted by typoon:
Disney needs to lay off the Sequals. Looks like they are desperate.

Releasing "Made for Video Sequels" is exactly that!

The product is not strong enough for a theater release but they still yearn for a profit.

Superchicken · Jan 27, 2005, 12:11 PM

I love this... nobody wants to come back to do Toy Story 3 without Pixar. I like how Disney doesn't get to keep the models and junk for it... I imagine if Disney really wants to do this they're gona have to grovel to Stevey boy

brutal · Jan 27, 2005, 12:42 PM

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
I am not commenting on whether it is good or bad but at ths point I would not see it.

Neither would I - since it's not finished yet.

ManOfSteal · Jan 27, 2005, 12:54 PM

Flop.

The Godfather · Jan 27, 2005, 02:01 PM

What about another Fairy Tale? Disney hasn't produced a fairy tale since Beauty and the Beast.

Wiskedjak · Jan 27, 2005, 02:15 PM

I will base my decision of whether or not to see it using the same guides I do for other movies; reviews, trailers, word-of-mouth. Not on some sort of blind tangential loyality to Apple.

typoon · Jan 27, 2005, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
I will base my decision of whether or not to see it using the same guides I do for other movies; reviews, trailers, word-of-mouth. Not on some sort of blind tangential loyality to Apple.

Loyalty to Apple has nothing to do with it. Pixar moies are great because of the complete package. Disney hasn't made a good animated film in many years. That is what I would base that on. PIxar is what 6 for 6 in blockbuster hits in recent years. What was the last Disney hit? If pixar is not involved I'm not going to see it.

lavar78 · Jan 27, 2005, 04:38 PM

Originally posted by typoon:
Loyalty to Apple has nothing to do with it. Pixar moies are great because of the complete package. Disney hasn't made a good animated film in many years. That is what I would base that on. PIxar is what 6 for 6 in blockbuster hits in recent years. What was the last Disney hit? If pixar is not involved I'm not going to see it.

If Pixar's lowest-grossing film (1998's A Bug's Life, $162.8 million) is the mark to beat, then 1999's Tarzan ($171.1 million) is the answer. Four of Pixar's 6 movies have made over $200 million (Toy Story made $191.8 million). Only two animated Disney movies (The Lion King and Aladdin) surpassed that mark.

OwlBoy · Jan 27, 2005, 05:23 PM

Originally posted by lavar78:
If Pixar's lowest-grossing film (1998's A Bug's Life, $162.8 million) is the mark to beat, then 1999's Tarzan ($171.1 million) is the answer. Four of Pixar's 6 movies have made over $200 million (Toy Story made $191.8 million). Only two animated Disney movies (The Lion King and Aladdin) surpassed that mark.

Sadly, the name might bring in the numbers

. There are morons out there who think ANYTHING animated is Disney.

-Owl

Skip Breakfast · Jan 27, 2005, 07:17 PM

Disney wouldn't have the problems they've been having in the last 10-15 years if Eisner hadn't layed off or alienated every talented person in the company.

I am still shocked that they pulled off PotC, though.

Apple Pro Underwear · Jan 27, 2005, 08:28 PM

Originally posted by Skip Breakfast:
PotC,

is??

ender2002 · Jan 27, 2005, 08:39 PM

Piece of total Crap: aka: Pirates of the Carribean.

insha · Jan 27, 2005, 09:19 PM

Originally posted by ender2002:
Piece of total Crap: aka: Pirates of the Carribean.

I like that movie; It was fun to watch. But I will not watch a Disney animated movie without Pixar.

Mafia · Jan 27, 2005, 09:30 PM

Originally posted by insha:
I like that movie; It was fun to watch. But I will not watch a Disney animated movie without Pixar.

disney w/o pixar =

hopefully pixar will put cars in their past and do something incredible(

).

Wiskedjak · Jan 27, 2005, 10:33 PM

Originally posted by typoon:
Loyalty to Apple has nothing to do with it.

Are you so sure?

Originally posted by insha:
I will not watch a Disney animated movie without Pixar.

I wonder if this would even be an issue at a Mac board if there was no connection between Apple and Pixar. One could replace "Pixar" with "Apple" and "Disney" with "Microsoft" and the conversation would look exactly the same.

Amorya · Jan 27, 2005, 10:50 PM

Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
Are you so sure?

I wonder if this would even be an issue at a Mac board if there was no connection between Apple and Pixar. One could replace "Pixar" with "Apple" and "Disney" with "Microsoft" and the conversation would look exactly the same.

I will not watch a Microsoft animated movie without Apple?

lavar78 · Jan 27, 2005, 10:54 PM

Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
I wonder if this would even be an issue at a Mac board if there was no connection between Apple and Pixar.

Of course it would. Forget box-office stats -- here are the Pixar and non-Pixar Disney movies since 1998:

Pixar
A Bug's Life
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Monsters Inc.
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles

Non-Pixar
Mulan
Tarzan
Fantasia 2000 (IMAX only)
The Emperor's New Groove
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Lilo and Stitch
Treasure Planet
Brother Bear
Home on the Range

Pixar has been consistently good (and often great) while the non-Pixar movies have been decidedly hit-or-miss (mostly misses). Why look for pro-Apple bias?

TailsToo · Jan 28, 2005, 01:12 AM

I'm a huge disney fan, but they have been making crap movies lately. I'd love to see Toy Story 3, but only if Pixar makes it! Every other disney movie since The Lion King has been pretty much crap. (Tarzan was ok.)

Mafia · Jan 28, 2005, 01:28 AM

Originally posted by TailsToo:
I'm a huge disney fan, but they have been making crap movies lately. I'd love to see Toy Story 3, but only if Pixar makes it! Every other disney movie since The Lion King has been pretty much crap. (Tarzan was ok.)

i don't think pixar would make it since the split and everything.

MilkmanDan · Jan 28, 2005, 01:52 AM

Disney sucks these days.

Cubeoid · Jan 28, 2005, 02:20 AM

Originally posted by The Godfather:
What about another Fairy Tale? Disney hasn't produced a fairy tale since Beauty and the Beast.

The de-volution of society has made fairytales lame. Today's viewer wants nothing but sex and sarcasm.

videian28 · Jan 28, 2005, 11:34 AM

Originally posted by Cubeoid:
The de-volution of society has made fairytales lame. Today's viewer wants nothing but sex and sarcasm.

sad yet true

Hawkeye_a · Jan 29, 2005, 05:17 AM

Originally posted by Cubeoid:
The de-volution of society has made fairytales lame. Today's viewer wants nothing but sex and sarcasm.

I kinda noticed the move away from fairy tales as well....or at least that template anyway. I always attributed it to the fact that the medium changed from 2D to 3D, but your take on it seem to make sence as well. I wonder, if Pixar/Don Bluth/Dreamworks tried to make the first full-3D animated fairytale, would it be a success? I'd bet it would be, but this topic is worthy of a poll.

Intereting stuff.

Cheers

MacGorilla · Jan 29, 2005, 10:29 AM

Any Disney sequel these days would suck bad--bad, bad bad. It would ruin the good name of Toy Story.

TailsToo · Jan 29, 2005, 12:34 PM

Pixar has still not signed with anyone else, so there's still a chance that they might get back with Disney, but probably not while the current management is still in charge.

The Godfather · Jan 29, 2005, 02:19 PM

Originally posted by Hawkeye_a:
I kinda noticed the move away from fairy tales as well....or at least that template anyway. I always attributed it to the fact that the medium changed from 2D to 3D, but your take on it seem to make sence as well. I wonder, if Pixar/Don Bluth/Dreamworks tried to make the first full-3D animated fairytale, would it be a success? I'd bet it would be, but this topic is worthy of a poll.

Intereting stuff.

Cheers

Dreamworks/Microsoft Shrek is a fairy tale.

Mediaman_12 · Jan 29, 2005, 03:00 PM

Originally posted by The Godfather:
What about another Fairy Tale? Disney hasn't produced a fairy tale since Beauty and the Beast.

They would have to devise there own (Shrek for example of a new fairy tale). Disney just spent years strip-mining the world for suitable fairy tale's as the basis for there animated movies.

lavar78 · Jan 29, 2005, 04:10 PM

Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
They would have to devise there own (Shrek for example of a new fairy tale). Disney just spent years strip-mining the world for suitable fairy tale's as the basis for there animated movies.

The very same public domain they're preventing their stuff from entering

Eug Wanker · Jan 30, 2005, 05:01 PM

I just hope Pixar's Cars isn't as stupid as it looks.

MacGorilla · Jan 30, 2005, 06:23 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
I just hope Pixar's Cars isn't as stupid as it looks.

I hope not either but all we've seen are a teaser trailer. The treaser trailer for Monster's Inc never made it into the final movie.

Mafia · Jan 30, 2005, 06:26 PM

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
I hope not either but all we've seen are a teaser trailer. The treaser trailer for Monster's Inc never made it into the final movie.

well thats good because monsters inc was awesome. but its not the trailor that i don't like its more the concept of the cars thing. just seems kinda dumb but i guess we'll see.

Stogieman · Jan 30, 2005, 10:21 PM

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
I hope not either but all we've seen are a teaser trailer. The treaser trailer for Monster's Inc never made it into the final movie.

The teaser trailer for the Incredibles never made it into the final movie either.