# Disney acquires Pixar: fucking terrific **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 25, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483 "2006-01-25T01:28:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/21 "2006-01-25T17:49:47Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > You know, it **is** possible to enjoy Disney/Pixar products without encouraging these Gomers by raising sales figures. > > Just buy your DVDs _used_. The pictures are just as good. And the total # of DVDs sold is lower. And it is all legal & honest & stuff. > > Just thought I’d point that one out. 🆒 So you want to make it less profitable for them to make movies you enjoy? ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/22 "2006-01-25T18:21:57Z")
Can someone explain the ‘sticks and stones’ joke? Is he saying it’ll have a really crappy budget with no special effects? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/23 "2006-01-25T18:24:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Then I woke up out of my Disney cartoon fantasy and realized that more companies were being consolidated under the giant global corporations that already control the world. So how do you feel about the impending WB/UPN & CBS merger? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/24 "2006-01-25T18:29:19Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > You know, it **is** possible to enjoy Disney/Pixar products without encouraging these Gomers by raising sales figures. > > Just buy your DVDs _used_. The pictures are just as good. And the total # of DVDs sold is lower. And it is all legal & honest & stuff. > > Just thought I’d point that one out. 🆒 But, if they’re making movies I enjoy, wouldn’t I _want_ to encourage them, so they’d make _more_ movies I enjoy? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/25 "2006-01-25T18:30:28Z")
> [@andrewdt85](#): > > Can someone explain the ‘sticks and stones’ joke? Is he saying it’ll have a really crappy budget with no special effects? I don’t know what technology will be used to fight World War III but World War IV will be fought with rocks and sticks. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/26 "2006-01-25T18:38:53Z")
From what I’ve read, Disney’s acquisition won’t really change anything except establish Disney as the official permanent distributor of Pixar’s work. Disney had always been the distributor but on a movie-by-movie basis, then they started to throw their weight around and made demands that ruffled Pixar’s feathers, so Pixar said “see ya- we don’t need ya”. Disney realized they screwed up and were about to lose out on a goldmine of distribution revenue, so they made Pixar a deal they couldn’t refuse- which I have to assume is satisfactory to the Pixar leadership. I’d think that Pixar would insist on complete creative control over their work, and like others have pointed out, Steve Jobs can be very influential. And no, I don’t have cites for any of this, since it’s info I’ve picked up from numerous articles over the years and I’m not about to spend hours searching the archives. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/27 "2006-01-25T18:48:31Z")
I think it’ll change a lot actually, and I actually agree with that slashdot article in that I think it gives Pixar more power over Disney than it gives Disney over Pixar. Erek ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/28 "2006-01-25T22:33:18Z")
> [@andrewdt85](#): > > Can someone explain the ‘sticks and stones’ joke? Is he saying it’ll have a really crappy budget with no special effects? **Telemark** , got it right, but forgot to add that is an Albert Einstein quote. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/29 "2006-01-26T01:58:23Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > Look on the bright side: Bambi 3 ([Bambi 2](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0447854/)) will now feature stunning computer generated animation _in addition to_ vulgar 3rd-rate pap. Bambi 3. The movie that had to be made. So . . . what, does Bambi show up in South Central LA to visit forest justice on the scumbags who whacked his mom? That might be worth seeing, unless his idiot nephew Scrappy tags along. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/30 "2006-01-26T06:23:12Z")
You guys realize what has been created here, don’t you? Very shortly, people in Cafe Society will be discussing the latest animated release…from Dixar. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/31 "2006-01-26T11:46:58Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > You guys realize what has been created here, don’t you? Very shortly, people in Cafe Society will be discussing the latest animated release…from Dixar. :eek: No, _Teh Dixxar._ ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/32 "2006-01-26T12:39:57Z")
Not Pixie? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/33 "2006-01-26T13:17:24Z")
> [@Linty Fresh](#): > > Bambi 3. The movie that had to be made. > > So . . . what, does Bambi show up in South Central LA to visit forest justice on the scumbags who whacked his mom? That might be worth seeing, unless his idiot nephew Scrappy tags along. Bite your tongue! :mad: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/34 "2006-01-27T13:03:39Z")
We’re already seeing the upside of this merger: [http://us.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-01-26/](http://us.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-01-26/) > [@](#): > > Disney To Shutter Sequels Studio > Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook officially announced Wednesday that the company is shutting down Circle 7 Productions, the unit that was set up to create computer-animated sequels to Pixar’s original hit films. The Glendale-based Circle 7 was already well along in the production of Toy Story 3, according to several reports. Pixar Chairman Steve Jobs, who has made his dislike for sequels well known, remarked on Tuesday, “We feel very strongly that if the sequels are going to be made, we want the people who were involved in the original films involved in the sequels.” I was truly frightened of what Disney’s crappy-sequel-to-beloved-movies factory was churning up for Toy Story 3. After seeing the beauty of a well done sequel by the original team (TS2), I couldn’t believe they’d handed the franchise over to someone else. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/35 "2006-01-27T23:44:48Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Not Pixie? > > :eek: If the studio caught fire, would the result be Pixie dust? ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/36 "2006-01-29T15:08:36Z")
[Toy Story 3 axed](http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article341627.ece) That was quick. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/37 "2006-01-29T15:38:23Z")
Hilarious. Jobs gets the board seat, plus he is now the single largest shareholder, AND they paid him $7 billion? Check out the big brain on Steve! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/38 "2006-01-29T15:45:53Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Hilarious. Jobs gets the board seat, plus he is now the single largest shareholder, AND they paid him $7 billion? > > Check out the big brain on Steve! > > 😃 Yes! Yes! [CHECK IT OUT](http://www.cshobbies.com/images/Metaluna%20Mutant.jpg), as you so whimsically put it, yes. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/39 "2006-01-29T16:56:10Z")
I’m going to point out [Robert Cringeley’s](http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060126.html) take on it. He basically said that Jobs had most of his wealth tied up in a highly non-liquid asset (Pixar), and hence by selling it to Disney, he’s wealth is now much more liquid. Interesting take, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483/40 "2006-01-29T17:10:05Z")
> [@drewbert](#): > > [Toy Story 3 axed](http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article341627.ece) > That was quick. There may be hope yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-acquires-pixar-fucking-terrific/341483.md?page=3)