Pixar Eaten by Mickey Mouse

The rumors went flying this weekend, but Dekortage writes "It is official: Pixar has been sold to Disney. Steve Jobs will join the Disney board, and John Lasseter is now Disney's Chief Creative Officer. So, dear Slashdot, does this mean that Disney's movies will improve, or that Pixar's will become worse?" Also the price of Pixar was $7.4 billion with a b dollars.

Nice deal

[mwvdlee]

I think the devil made a nice deal; only $7.4 billion for a prime quality soul.

Re:Nice deal

[Urkki]

So, what's so evil about Disney again? I mean, other than the whole no-pants thing corrupting minds of youngsters, and the various "Donald Duck"-parties that have been inspired by this...

I guess I could google for the evilness of Disney, but you should never trust the Internet so I'd rather read about it here on peer-reviewed slashdot.

Plan for Profit!

[wbren]

1. Buy Pixar for $10 million
2. Build it into a great animation studio
3. Sell yourself to the devil (Mickey Mouse [anomalies-unlimited.com])
4. Personal profit of $3.5 million!

Great work, Steve Jobs! See, this time I didn't even need to include the mysterious "..." step. Amazing!

Itchy & Scratchy infringement

[digitaldc]

First Samba eats the cat, then Mickey eats Pixar...
Is this an indication that companies are getting so desperate that they are starting to copy the collected works of Itchy & Scratchy? [mit.edu]

Re:Nice deal

[__aaclcg7560]

Be careful... weirder things are happening at Google [userfriendly.org] than Disney these days.

Re:I don't understand

[Tim Browse]

Prepare to eat your words! [imdb.com] :-)

Does this mean...

[PurpleButter]

Does this mean that Mickey Mouse will now only have 1 button?

Re:You are underestimating the NASCAR crowd.

[Kirth]

I predict that Cars will totally flop in Europe.

Re:Now is the time

[cyberbian]

Pixar isn't randomly greenlighting movie screenplays based on explosion/boob ratio.

That's what Touchstone is for!

MickeyMac

[foo fighter]

Later this year we'll see the release of the "MickeyMac".

It's case will be red and black with Mickey Mouse ears, similar to the TV/DVD combo you can find at Target.

Released at the same time will be the entire Disney animated feature catalog on iTunes Movie Store. I call first dibs on "Aristocats"!

What happens after the merger?

[simong]

Apple-Disney becomes Dapple.

Then it buys Sun, and becomes Snapple-Dapple.

It's a turning into a long afternoon.

No kidding!

[TCQuad]

Pixar isn't randomly greenlighting movie screenplays based on explosion/boob ratio.

And they're doing lots of other things wrong, too!

Re:Don't kid yourselves

[Rebelgecko]

Well actually... [snopes.com]

Re:Don't kid yourselves

[tpgp]

I mean we're going to have one guy (Jobs) essentially controlling two companies that will between them produce the content, the distribution network, the playback codec and the playback device.

        Are you talking about Sony?

Sorry, I meant to say:

I mean we're going to have one guy (Jobs) essentially controlling two companies that will between them produce content we like, the distribution network, the playback codec and the playback device.

See - sony no longer fits the description ;-)

Re:Don't kid yourselves

[nagora]

I've no idea if job wants the CEO position

Bloody hell! First the boils, then the post of CEO of Disney. Poor old Job's having a bad time. Still, better than Jonah. Marginally.

TWW