Disney screwed up big time....

[Bowser_Koopa]

now that they don't have an animation studio, or a 3d studio, they got nothing left, they got rid of the animation studio to focus on 3d movies, but pixar is going solo, and i think they are gonna have more luck than the money suckers at disney, what has happened to this company? they now suck :cry:

[Kali]

I died laughing when I heard this news. See, now they're getting what's coming to them. That's what we call "Karma".

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

A person familiar with the talks said negotiations broke down because Pixar wanted to reclaim the copyrights to the five films it has produced with Disney so far, plus the two left in the deal. Such an accommodation would have presumably revoked Disney's right to make sequels and potentially denied the company millions of dollars in future profits.

In my opinion, Disney should shy away from making so many sequels. That's partly the reason why fans are tuning out in droves; not only do sequels rarely, if ever, live up to or surpass their predecessors, Disney has a habit of making sequels to movies that were failures to begin with.

Disney has been in a downward spiral for a good long while now. People feared it was a slump; I don't think so. Disney is crumbling at its very foundation. I think it just needs a complete facelift.

When was the last time a Disney movie really, truly struck a chord with its audience? The only ones I can think of are The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King. All those films came out over 10 years ago.

It's been hit or miss since, with many more misses and even the hits not faring so well.

"Total bummer, dudes." - Michaelangelo, from "Four Musketurtles"

[The Defibrillator]

Disney should have been beaten to death 5+ yrs ago.

[Drtooth]

It's official. According to Reuters, Pixar will find a new company to release films under starting in 2006. Their last picture together will be "Cars," and Paul Newman is expected to be a celebrity voice over. Their pentultimate film, the "Incredibles" will be released later this year.

I have 2 words for this... BIG MISTAKE! I'm not a huge Disney fan, but this was a symbiotic relationship in which both companies thrived by each other. Disney was the famous muscle to help move Pixar into the main stream and keep them there, and Pixar made money for Disney, since they were batting zero with most of their other animated films (with the exception of Lilo and Stitch). Disney is planning to quit their traditional animation as well, focusing on computer animation. Pretty bad time to start, actually. They're looking for third party animators, possibly an eye at the company that animated Shrek. "Home on the Range" an oddball cartoon starring Rosanne as a cow (type casting) is apparently the last traditional animated movie they will do.

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

Disney is planning to quit their traditional animation as well, focusing on computer animation. Pretty bad time to start, actually. They're looking for third party animators, possibly an eye at the company that animated Shrek. "Home on the Range" an oddball cartoon starring Rosanne as a cow (type casting) is apparently the last traditional animated movie they will do.

Home on the Range will be Disney's last animated movie?!

*Keels over from shock*

What a horrible way for Disney to end its animated run. That movie has FAILURE stamped all over it. I can usually tell from the previews if a movie will tank or be successful, and Home on the Range will tank. DEEP.

What a sad day in the history of Disney. How can you have one without the other? Disney and cartoons; cartoons and Disney. You can't have peanut-butter without the jelly. It's a package deal.

"Please, I implore you! Send me back!" - Shredder, from "Return of the Shredder"

[That Matt Guy]

Personally, Disney should have stopped making cartoons after 1980.

[Reznorite420]

what has happened to this company? they now suck :cry:*ponders placing the infamous timeline.png in this post*You can't have peanut-butter without the jelly.Then I must not be from this universe, in that case :lol:

[ZariusTwo]

ROESANNE BARR?

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

She BLOWS, ugh, Disney could have got the cast pf Freinds or Frasier to see off the animation studios, but THIS fat b*tch who disgraced the National anthem?

Seems so...appropriate does'nt it?

Thank god I still have episodes of "Duck Tales", "Tailspin" "Chip'N'Dale: Rescue Ranger", and "Gummi Bears", now THEY are disney cartoons.

Burn in hell Eisner, you deserve it.

[Cascadia]

oops on Disney

[Demonfox38]

Ladies & Gentlemen, Disney has whiffed it once again!

Last good Disney movie I saw w/o Pixar: Hercules. (circa 1998?)

Man, it's time to watch this ship sink.

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

It's unbelievable how a company with such a rich background can totally run itself into the ground. This is how we're supposed to remember the once-mighty Walt Disney Studios?

Sad. Very sad. :(

"Humans are like onions. They have many layers."
"And like onions, they can make you cry."

Splinter and Michaelangelo, from "White Belt, Black Heart"

[raphael90]

I lost interest in Disney movies after "Emperor's New Groove"...the only truly good movies they did before that were "Mulan" and possibly "Tarzan"....I think the last real classic was of course "The Lion King" Lilo & Stitch was at best weird and I don't think this new one Brother Bear did very well either. Oh yeah, they really piss me off making all these sequels to the classic movies...I never even saw them and I have no desire to...it is of course just a ploy to cash in on some quick moola, didn't even send them to the theater.

Is it just me or are all kids movies getting stupider? If I see one more movie preview where smart kids save the world from bad guys I'm gonna freak... :x

[damnhooligan]

Walt Disney is barrel rolling in his grave.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Micheal Eisner is a bastard from hell. He has destroyed the company that practically invented animation in the first place. May he burn in hell for this. Disney is filled with fools, and they will collapse because of this. Never thought I'd see a company as mighty as Disney possible wind up getting bought out. They will now fall once all their die hard fans find out. Farewell Disney, you screwed up for the last time. :cry:

[Demonfox38]

Walt Disney is barrel rolling in his grave.

You mean, in his Cryo-tube. :lol:

[Bowser_Koopa]

what has happened to this company? they now suck :cry:*ponders placing the infamous timeline.png in this post*

i wonder what you ment there

[Tokka-B]

I knew Pixar would bail out since 2 years ago. It was then when Jobs and Eisner started having their feuds. And of course no one can forget the war Eisner had with Katzenburg, (Now CEO of Dreamworks SKG), over the same stupidity. Eisner doesn't know when enough is enough. Then when Roy Disney had to resign due to Eisner's greed in keeping the company to himself and not even thinking about a new chairman. If they can only somehow get Eisner off his high horse Disney would be starting off fresh again. If only we had the Eisner that cooperated, back from '84 to '94...rather than the one that relies on making cheapquels for easy cash. Check out www.savedisney.com