@trickface “yes, Disney are dependent on Pixar, but Disney are richer and still have a bigger audience. I’m not sure just how big Pixar wants to grow before it cuts the cord and jumps ship, allowing itself to create things wildly different. You must agree that there are more Disney conventions in all of the Disney/Pixar films than there are Pixar conventions. Pixar is in a powerful position but I still think they’re second best, even though their creativity is paramount.”
Why would they cut the cord? Pixar controls Disney and they get Disney funds. If you don’t like what they’re doing you can’t blame Disney. Pixar is calling the shots.
Disney was distributing Pixar. That was union was coming to an end originally after the release of Cars, most likely a consequence of the Michael Eisner’s fantastic dislike of the Pixar folks. But then the powers that be broke out their abacuses and gave Eisner the boot. With that stumbling block gone Pixar was bought up amicably by Disney and Disney gave creative control of Disney animation and Imaginaeering to Pixar’s John Lasseter and .Edwin Catmull.
Functionally, I’m not sure there is such a thing as “Disney animation” any more. It’s Pixar and John Lasseter trying to pull a Dr. Frankenstein on the corpse of Disney animation (we’ll see how that goes).
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Cartoon Brew’s take on the merger