Pixar can do without Disney. "FOX News reported on Disney's problems getting a Toy Story sequel produced. It sounds like no one wants to direct, write, or possibly star in Toy Story 3. Disney has the right to make sequels to all the Pixar movies it distributed, including "Toy Story," "The Incredibles," "Finding Nemo," etc. But there's a hitch — since Pixar developed all the animation materials to create the movies, it also gets to keep them.

In other words: Disney is now trying to hire another team of animators to recreate Buzz Lightyear, Woody and all the other "Toy Story" characters so that they look the same. It will have to start from scratch to reproduce Pixar's creative work. The next step, of course, is to find a writer and director for the project. With Lasseter gone, FOX reports, "Every single animator of note has turned down the director's job. They don't want to cross Pixar. They've become the only deal in town." -stolen from Luxo - The Pixar Blog

That's all Disney can come up with, sequels to movies that were originally produced by a studio that doesn't wanna work with them anymore. And then they also do "Bambi 2"! The only success Disney had in recent years was "Pirates of the Carribean". It wont take much longer and the kids wont even know who Donald Duck is. But everyone is aware of the magic that Pixar can do and the studio has become what Disney used to be for a long time. Brandchannel's fourth annual Readers' Choice Awards for brand of the year had Pixar on No. 5 after Apple, Sony, Ikea and Al Jazeera. Pixar rose up from the eighth place in 2003 and 31st in 2002."