What kind of earth-shattering news would get me to start posting again? How about a coup in the world of animation, as Disney buys Pixar?
But I can hear your question now: How can this be a coup, if Disney bought Pixar? Simply put, this is basically a reverse takeover, just like when Apple bought NeXT. When that happened, Steve Jobs returned to Apple, along with most of the NeXT executives, who replaced their Apple counterparts, and the Macintosh operating system was replaced with the NeXT operating system (since renamed “Mac OS X”).
So in the same tradition, Disney has bought Pixar, which will place Jobs on the Disney board of directors, and Pixar creative director John Lasseter will assume the role of Chief Creative Officer for the combined animation studios of Disney and Pixar, and will also oversee the development of new Disney theme park rides and attractions. So now, the director who was competing with Disney has become Disney. Hopefully this means he will resurrect Disney’s recently-dead traditional animation division, among other things. And now Disney’s work on Toy Story 3 (they retained sequel rights after the initial split with Pixar) will hopefully die a quick death, and Pixar can make the sequel the right way, if they decide to make it at all.
In short, it appears that once again, Steve Jobs can do no wrong.
