Last time i had heard, Pixar and Disney weren't getting along too well business wise. Maybe this is Disney's way to get what they want by buying the whole dang company and start pulling the legs and arms off the management that gave Disney problems. payback? hehehe. I don't know to be honest, i'm just speculating.
I haven't seen anything since the last toystory II, i'm not sure if Pixar has put anything worth buying out there, does anyone know?
First of all,there's the string of successes that others on this thread have mentioned. But what pixar would really be to Disney would be fresh blood. I have read biographies of Walt Disney, and also seen lots of material on the pixar studios. What impresses Me is that the pixar studios today is the a kind of crazy, creative, synergistic and most of all FUN kind of place to work. Staff zip around on skateboards, bikes and scooters. People wear loud clothes and there are all kinds of corporate get togethers, halloween parties, spontaneous things happening all the time.One animators office is only accessible through a 3 Ft. tall service tunnel which is hidden in another animators office. They drive newbies crazy by telling them to deliver something to this guys office. It is very reminiscent of the kind of crazy, hectic loopy workplace that was Disneys Hyperion studios in the '30s and '40s. In his time Walt revolutionized the animated film industry with a hardworking , but fun and spirited studio. Not suprisingly, Jobs and pixar is doing much the same thing in our era. Jobs Et. al. will get the distribution, marketing savvy and Cache' of the Disney name. Disney will get some of the complacency shaken out of them by the new upstarts at pixar(and might just be reminded of Walts vision for the company)
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