Disney has announced it will make Toy Story 3 without Pixar. For those of you who do not know Pixar was the company behind making the first two Toy Story movies while all Disney had to do with them is promote and distribute them. Disney now believes they can make the next movie all by themselves. Disney does not have the years of experience making CGI animated movies like Pixar nor the talent. Pixar has had several years to build their talent and tweak their custom software. Pixar also has great script writers, Disney better not forget that after people get past the shiny visual effects they expect a good story line. Despite what Disney thinks you cannot hire some artists, writers and buy some off the shelf software and make an animated movie.

What makes Pixar so great is they have never made a bad movie and their reputation is based on this. If Pixar makes a bad movie then their reputation will be severely damaged. Disney on the other hand has had so many bad movies (Treasure Planet, 80 Days, The Alamo, The Ladykillers, Raising Helen, Lion King 1 1/2) one more will not make a difference. When most people think of Toy Story they think of Pixar so Disney could take this opportunity to create a bad movie with the intention of damaging Pixar.

Therefore, I will be among one of the first to say I expect Toy Story 3 to be so bad it will be a straight to DVD release.