They have apparently already been working on it, or at least Disney have, I think it was going to get released with or without this deal.

Lasseter in charge of ALL Disney animation? Chief Creative Officer?

There IS a God!! :banana:

This is good news for EVERYONE!

John Lassetter is becoming Chief Creative Officer for Disney, in charge of all animation. This means Disney films should get better, not that Pixar films will get worse.

The CGI short & curlies look so REAL

I hope for the best for everyone involved.

Will Pixar become their primary animation house?

Do you end every post with LMAO, LOL, ROTLMAO?

I am sure that is exactly what Time Warner was thinking.

So when does Jobs become the CEO of Disney?

Did you see Chicken Little? What a terrible movie. They *need* Pixar.

steve jobs is the real winner here

he gets a ton of money and a disney board seat that he will use to push disney into issuing more content on the Itunes store.

Pixar is basically worthless. It's a bunch of artists that can leave at a whim to work for Dreamworks, someone else or to start their own company if disney pisses them off

:up: To John Lassater and his promotion.

I think that deal is a good one.

However, the Macrodobe deal sucked hard.

and all this time I thought Pixar was owned by Disney

Right about now, George Lucas is probably thinking that selling Pixar to Jobs was the worst deal he ever made.

Sounds good to me. Though the problem at Disney was not the animators and artists. It was the micromanaging, basing decisions on markets and brands rather than quality. I still remember reading about one of their best projects in years, getting axed because of the ding-a-ling that oversaw WDFA. I want to say it was American Dog, but can't really remember.

:( No way! This sucks.

This is nothing....I heard somewhere that Disney has offered to buy out kvrdave for $7.4B!!!!!

So let me get this straight...

Some dude has a vision about making cartoons, creates a stupid looking rat, about doesn't make it, in debt up to his ears (pun intended) but manages to release a feature length cartoon based on an old kids book which vaults the company into a mega billion $$$ media/entertainmen empire. This empire buys another company that (god forbid) uses a computer to make movies and wasn't even around 15 years ago for 7.4 Billion (with a "B"). And your saying there will be another "start up" company to do the same thing right around the corner?

God I love America!!!

By the way, here's an interesting article from JHM that discusses why Jobs being a board member or possible CEO of Disney is not a good thing. It even discusses how Pixar became successful, in spite of Jobs.

Of course the article admits Jobs is a brilliant businessman, but it does make some compelling arguments as to why Jobs being in a controlling position at WD is not necessarily a good idea. Don't shoot the messenger.

http://www.jimhillmedia.com/article.php?id=1812

And to think in DisneyWar Roy Disney told the company to buy it for 15 million and they thought it was a stupid idea.

And you know this how exactly! -rolleyes-

It is obvious that Disney wants to integrate Pixar into the company, by giving Jobs a seat on the board and making Lasseter head of animation. This isn't a case of Disney execs dying to meddle with Pixar, it's a case of them realizing that Pixar has consistently made better and higher grossing films than Disney ever since they started working together. It's worth it for them to pay 7.4 billion, because if the Pixar trend continues, they'll make back much more than that just by letting the Pixar people do exactly what they've been doing.

In other words, the sky is NOT falling.

Disney will NOT cause problems at Pixar. Remember, new Disney CEO Robert Iger is far more a hands off CEO than Eisner, and as such will let each division head do what's best for the company. :up:

With Jobs on the board at Disney, does this mean we could see Disney themed Apple products, like ipods or macs?

If Lasseter is still there in three years, I'll be surprised.

Despite all the rhetoric about "preserving what made the company great," usually when an innovative company is bought out by a much bigger entity the founders end up leaving. And I don't understand why Pixar would bother selling out to Disney unless one of the major shareholders wanted to cash out and do something else.

Were there any other major shareholders in Pixar that could push through such a thing except for Jobs (and his 50.6%)?

We could be seeing Disney-themed ipods, but I doubt Macs. I imagine much more synergy between Disney content and Apple in the future, though, especially any Pixar films.

Think much more ipod content because of this merger. Disney can't screw up Pixar because Jobs has a lot of power now.