Hoybrown.Com » The Pixar TV special you never got to see, "A Tin Toy Christmas"

Jim Hill — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:40:27 GMT

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re: The Pixar TV special you never got to see, "A Tin Toy Christmas"

Jim Hill — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:37:46 GMT

What? No comments yet? Jim, this is the sort of stuff that makes your site unique. I would love to see a future Pixar flick based on Tinny! Keep up the good work.

re: The Pixar TV special you never got to see, "A Tin Toy Christmas"

Jim Hill — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:52:14 GMT

Nice article. I knew a lot of that already, but it was interesting to learn the connection between 'Nightmare' and 'Toy Story'.

Of course, you missed the key point that made the Pixar deal viable for Disney and would lead to trouble down the road: Pixar got basically the *same* deal as Burton, which included Disney ownership of the film/characters/etc. While this was, obviously, the only way Disney would have backed 'Toy Story', it did prove to be the sticking point when the production deal was coming to an end. Disney refused to sell 'Nightmare' to Tim Burton, and there was no way they were going to allow Pixar to get their hands on 'Toy Story', et. al. (a key demand from Steve Jobs). Like the Burton production, the only way Pixar would get control over their Disney films was to "bring them in". In the case of Burton, it just meant doing the film for Disney/Touchstone. In the case of Pixar, it meant Disney buying the studio.