I was skimming through the news today when I stumbled across this article on Disney giving Toy Story 3 the green-light. Now I had recently heard that Disney was considering releasing a Toy Story 3 & 4 [without Pixar's involvement], this was just the first time I'd heard it straight from the horse's mouth.

To those who don't closely follow Disney's relationship with Pixar, this idea might sound great, the first Toy Story was a huge breakthrough, it was extremely funny and well-written with lovable characters, and Toy Story 2 was somehow, even better than the first, something amazingly rare these days. A lot of people ask, "how do they do it... how do they keep dishing out such knock-out hits into the theatres"?

Well first off, Disney has nothing to do with Pixar - Disney simple puts up the money to distribute Pixar's films, and before Pixar was a house-hold name [pre-Toy Story] Disney managed to gain the rights to their characters, most importantly the entire Toy Story cast. And with Pixar announcing that it will no longer continue it's distribution-partnership with Disney, it seems as though they have swung back with Toy Story 3's go-ahead...

Now I don't want to be overly pessimistic, but these sequels are going to be down-right bad. I don't know how many of you have ever watched the behind the scenes of Toy Story 1 or 2, Finding Nemo, or Monsters Inc, but you can plainly see that Pixar spends an unusual amount of time and energy on their story... they go through draft after draft of scripts, they story-board relentlessly and plan every last beat of the film. As for Disney [thanks to Michael Eisner] has been slowly but surely loosing it's reputation.

This move is out of spite and greed, and don't let them tell you otherwise, they are going to whip out a half-ass movie [any of you ever seen Lion King 1 ½ ], they are going to spend all the money [they saved by not-writing] on advertisement geared at kids. And Disney will have invested little [time, energy and money] and made a lot, and in the process, ruined a perfectly entertaining string of movies. There's no love in Disney anymore, and I'm not the only one with this point of view, click here to visit 'Save Disney'.

I think I am going to write to Disney and give them a piece of my mind, if you want to do the same you can click here.