Comments on: Disney buys Pixar

Animation giant is paying $7.4 billion in stock--a deal that makes Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs the single largest Disney shareholder.

[dbthree]

What a Shame.

I love Pixar as much as anyone, but this is really sad for the Walt Disney Company. Everything that the SaveDisney.com campaign fought for is lost as the board got what it wanted and has completely marginalized Roy E. Disney from the company.

The last ounce of Disney in the Walt Disney Company is effectively gone with Jobs now the majority shareholder.

[MidniteRaider]

Jobs is not...

the majority shareholder. He has the biggest individual share of the
company. Read somewhere, around 6% of the company, 6% is not a
majority.
The good thing that comes out of this. Is that it shows that Disney
knows where the money is. Pixar has made more money for Disney,
even with the splitting of profits, than almost all of their latest
animated pictures.
And with the last ounce of Disney gone from the company. That is
inevitable for such a huge company that Disney is.

[ronjay]

Relevance?

I understand the Roy Disney was trying to do something for Disney,
and I'm glad getting rid of Eisner will be part of his legacy. That
said, I don't understand how Roy Disney is at all relevant to the
future of Disney as pertains to the pending future of Jobs being on
the Board. Could you elaborate?

[MidniteRaider]

I wonder if,

Jobs ever thought, that his $10 million investment, would get him
to this point.
Even to the board of directors. Makes me wonder what Eisner is
thinking now?

SON OF A #$@$#

I'm gonna &$&^%$#$#@ my #@%^$#@ in the ^$#^%# with a #^$# and #^%$#%$#@ his $#@%#@$ with a ^@#%#@% in my @#$@#$@!!!!!!!

Heh, Eisner was a fool. Jobs has now shown that what he does succeeds. I think if Pixar can claim to be the revival of Disney and animation, that Apple will soon see that in the PC sector.

History repeating?

Is this going to go the same way as when Apple bought Next? With
Next taking over Apple while getting paid for it? :)

[technewsjunkie]

Can Jobs still Manage Apple?

I'm concerned that he'll be slightly "distracted" with all this
responsibility! I 've been amazed at the fact that he Managed (CEO)
Apple AND Pixar, both exceptional innovators.

How will this effect his performance and concentration on Apple
innovations. (?)

[technewsjunkie]

Pixar can still be "independent"! Fear not.

The way the Mac Business unit of Microsoft is.

I'm SURE Steve Jobs fought to have Pixar remain in control and
"independent" because he knows that Lassiter hates Disney (after
being burned) and the same for other Pixar employees (the
"cultural issues").
I presume this independence and control was a large part of the
negotiations.

[sipeter]

One more time Steve!

We all knew this deal was coming.

My one wish is that Steve will start another company.

Starting companies, creating jobs, bringing unwieldy talented
people together and focusing their efforts is what Steve does
best. He did it at Apple, NeXT, Pixar and he should do it one
more time!

Maybe Gil Amelio had it right in that silly book he wrote after
being booted from Apple: Steve may become CEO of Disney.

[ronjay]

Lasseter hates Disney

Somehow, with all that Lasseter has to lose by going back to Disney
(over 35 million unexercisable shares of Pixar at filing of 10-K in
2005), he would not be going there to take on such a high position
in a company "he hates".

[chuchucuhi]

Destino

Well maybe the public will get to finally see Destino through iTunes one of these days then, I can only hope, jeez.

[deeplyaware]

Incredibles

Does the guy from Incredibles look a bit like Steve Ballmer?

[MacDuff]

Walt would have approved

Walt Disney was a non-traditional, forward thinking person who
reveled in thinking outside the box. Steve Jobs has allowed those
creative minds at Pixar -- everyone at Pixar -- to flourish in
their creativity by nurturing a very non-traditional climate.
Pixar's creativity shows in the quality not just of their animation
but MOST importantly, their storytelling and awesome character
development. THAT is what has been missing from Disney's
efforts post-animated musicals, and THAT is exactly the gold
that Disney has acquired here, today. And Bob Iger knows this.

John Lassiter will now also be approving all Disney theme park
designs??! LOL! That is absolutely perfect and you can see why
they did this: the quality is not in awesome animation; it is in
awesome creativity. And now Lassiter can apply that insight and
creativity to even theme park attractions and it'll work.

Dreamworks is another company whose creativity just SUCKS.
Shrek, while having some annoying current-culture references
like so many of their films, at least had wonderful characters
that you cared about and excellent voice acting. But Shark's
Tale? TERRIBLE. It had SO MUCH current culture riffing it made
me sick. And one could care less about the story-line and the
characters. This type of thing, of morphing a real-world popular
entity into the movie's world (say like... "Donald Trout" instead
of Trump, for example) is a LAZY attempt at humour. And by the
way you will never EVER catch Pixar succumbing to this crass
attempt to appeal to the audience-- mark my words.

[Earl Benser]

And Walt would have fired Eisner at the beginning...

,,,, and avoided the years of low grade animation and
inappropriate variations of classic literature, etc, that dominated
Disney fare over the last ten years. He also would not have tried
to continue the original author's fraud that 'Hildalgo' was in any
way a true story. There was just so much that the Disney
Company lost when Eisner tried to run the place.

And with Eisner gone, before he could do any damage, the
Disney Company might have evolved into a modern animation
house, a la Pixar. Now, it's hopefully a turnaround. If not, it's a
disaster for Pixar.

[thebignoticeboard.com]

thebignoticeboard.com

steve jobs will now be more influential than ever. i cant wait to see
if apple offer full length disney films on itunes. this is the start of
something big!

[heystoopid]

Oh well!

Watch, the talented pixar team become vaporware, for disney has become a basket case!