Originally Posted By Doobie This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=863" target="_blank">The Latest: Latest: It's Official: Disney Buys Pixar. Read the</a>
Originally Posted By Skellington88 WOW! This is the best news for Disney since 1984 when Frank Wells and Micheal Eisner took over! Prepare for the beginning of a bold new Era for Disney!
Originally Posted By bayrr326 I hope Catmull and Lasseter clean house and kick all those non-creative managers with their MBA's out of animation and imagineering. I think Pixar will still be allowed to do what they do and hopefully they can bring back that creatve spark that the Animation once had. There are some good movies in the pipeline(I can't wait to see American Dog even though it is years away and expect it to be even better if Chris Sander's isn't micro-managed). This is a great day for the company and hopefully Disney will be able to return to the creative glory it used to have. Kudos to Iger and Jobs and everyone else involved for getting this done. B
Originally Posted By Indigo Just liveblogged the CNBC interview at The Disney Blog. Investor Conference is about to begin. -John <a href="http://thedisneyblog.typepad.com" target="_blank">http://thedisneyblog.typepad.c om</a>
Originally Posted By cstephens I'm apparently one of very few people who is not happy about this deal, who would have liked to have seen another distribution deal with Disney put in place rather than Disney buying Pixar outright. /cs
Originally Posted By Ursula <Lasseter will become the chief creative officer of the animation studios, as well as principal creative adviser at Walt Disney Imagineering.> I keep repeating this over and over in my head. And now my husband's sister company is Pixar. Wow.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Holy crap! This is great news! Now I won't have to hear that "A Disney presentation of a Pixar Film" in front of everything anymore!!
Originally Posted By retlawfan I not sure if Jobs on the board of Disney is a good idea. He is great at what he does, but how good is he in a board room? He's good at being #1. How good is he at sharing decisions? I guess we'll find out soon...
Originally Posted By Duncan32 This is so cool!!! I am so glad we were able to become friends again. I think Bob iger has a little bit of Walt in him. it will be interesting to see how he does with other areas of Disney
Originally Posted By TomSawyer <Lasseter will become the chief creative officer of the animation studios, as well as principal creative adviser at Walt Disney Imagineering.> Wow. This is great, great news.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If they are in fact buying Pixar, does that mean that they will return to traditionally animated films? It would make sense either way, since they now have an amazing new CGI staff, so they would focus on that. But at the same time, a big reason for the switch was to compete with Pixar, since they weren't getting along. I really hope that they go back to the traditional films, because they seem to have a warm feeling that has yet to be completely found in the CGI ones.
Originally Posted By tuknshak I have to agree with retlawfan. Steve Jobs on the board of Disney AND the largest stockholder. Not sure I am comfortable with that...... Anyone else agree?
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Well, it was Michael Eisner prior today, and many people on these boards seemed to feel Eisner was something akin to Satan. Jobs or Eisner? *shrug*
Originally Posted By pacomama I've been thinking about this deal for a while and I have very mixed feelings. I'm a little worried that Disney's corporate machine will stifle Pixar's creativity. I'm excited that Lassiter will be overseeing the animation studio and consulting with imagineering, but... he's just one guy and Disney is a corporation with a bunch of bean counters and lawyers. I really hope Pixar can bring a spark to Disney animation, rather than Disney animation snuffing the life out of Pixar with a billion sequels. I just don't want to lose that Pixar-ness.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger I was just thinking of what happened last time a company that Steve Jobs owned was bought out.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I not sure if Jobs on the board of Disney is a good idea. He is great at what he does, but how good is he in a board room? He's good at being #1. How good is he at sharing decisions? I guess we'll find out soon...< I am more hoping he starts a few discussions in that inbred group, and I don;t think he will have any problem doing that - new cutting edge blood !
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I'm apparently one of very few people who is not happy about this deal, who would have liked to have seen another distribution deal with Disney put in place rather than Disney buying Pixar outright< would be interested to hear why ? not being critical, just curious
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger >>what happened?<< Jobs owned a little company named Next. It was bought by a bigger company named Apple. You probably remember the rest.
