Why wouldn’t Fox want kind of “product placement”, considering Pixar’s track record thus far? Kind of a flashback to the studio system where they used to loan out stars.
Interesting link rh, I’ve been wondering that since I saw the movie and just didn’t have to the time to go searching. Thanks.
As an aside, Andrew, Disney became a lot more careful with their copyrights since the 60’s. Originally, the rocket jets in Tomorrowland at Disneyland were named the “Astro Jets”. American borrowed the term, copyrighted it and Disney was forced to drop it. Ironically, Walt apparently had no hard feelings about it, because he asked AA to sponsor the Tiki Room when it first opened (for a million, a huge amount back then). It didn’t make much sense, as AA didn’t go to Hawaii or the South Pacific until 1970. United was the leader in that area before deregulation and has always been a great rival of AA. Perhaps it was to encourage United to pick up the deal more quickly.