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Toy Story 3 Cancelled !

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Source: Animated News, DJW
January 26, 2006

With Disney's acquisition of Pixar, Pixar President Ed Catmull was named President of the new Pixar and Disney animation studios and Pixar Executive Vice President John Lasseter is the new Chief Creative Office of the animation studios, as well as Principal Creative Advisor at Walt Disney Imagineering.

According to a poster at Animation Nation, Catmull and Lasseter "announced to Feature Animation employees [Tuesday] that the 'Toy Story 3' production will end effectively [Tuesday]. They said that sequels should only be made if there is a really great story that demands it, and should be the domain of those who created the original film."

An Associated Press article from Tuesday about the acquisition confirms the news:

One immediate sign of Lasseter's influence is that plans for Disney to make the long rumored sequel "Toy Story 3" on its own have been scrapped. If the film is made, it will be done by Lasseter and the other creators of the original film, the companies said.

Bradley Raymond was announced as the director of Toy Story 3, which was scheduled to open in 2008. In the film, Buzz Lightyear would have been recalled to Taiwan after a series of malfunctions. Learning of a productwide recall, all the toys in Andy's room, under Woody's leadership, were to head to Taiwan to save Buzz from doom.

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Oh bloody hell, best news ever!

This is just too cool.

I luv John Lasseter.

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They said that sequels should only be made if there is a really great story that demands it........

Best quote ever and it is music to my ears.

Too bad it's too late for poor Bambi...(sob)

But is it too late for the other sequels already in animation ?
(ex: Fox And The Hound 2, Aristocats 2, Cinderella 3, The Little Mermaid 3 , Lilo & Stitch 3 )

This is good news. The story they had in mind for TS3 didn't sound too good. It sounded like TS2 but replacing kidnapped Woody with recalled Buzz.

Sounds like good things are happening. :)

Man, that's great news. But I doubt that it will have much of an effect on the Disney cheapquels in production. The way the statement was worded: "the domain of those who created the original film," it sounds like the Pixar creative team is taking back its property and nothing more. The first half of the statement does bode well for the future of Disney's attitude, assuming Lasseter gets the leeway we all hope he gets - but I still think I'll be saving a lot of money by not buying a big pile of Disney DVDs in the next year or two.

Can I be cautiously optimistic now? :D