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Pixar Eaten by Mickey Mouse

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-so-confused dept.

The rumors went flying this weekend, but Dekortage writes "It is official: Pixar has been sold to Disney. Steve Jobs will join the Disney board, and John Lasseter is now Disney's Chief Creative Officer. So, dear Slashdot, does this mean that Disney's movies will improve, or that Pixar's will become worse?" Also the price of Pixar was $7.4 billion with a b dollars.

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  1. Nice deal by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the devil made a nice deal; only $7.4 billion for a prime quality soul.

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    1. Re:Nice deal by Urkki · · Score: 4, Funny

      So, what's so evil about Disney again? I mean, other than the whole no-pants thing corrupting minds of youngsters, and the various "Donald Duck"-parties that have been inspired by this...

      I guess I could google for the evilness of Disney, but you should never trust the Internet so I'd rather read about it here on peer-reviewed slashdot.

  2. Plan for Profit! by wbren · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Buy Pixar for $10 million
    2. Build it into a great animation studio
    3. Sell yourself to the devil (Mickey Mouse)
    4. Personal profit of $3.5 million!

    Great work, Steve Jobs! See, this time I didn't even need to include the mysterious "..." step. Amazing!

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  3. Does this mean... by PurpleButter · · Score: 5, Funny
    Does this mean that Mickey Mouse will now only have 1 button?

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  4. Re:You are underestimating the NASCAR crowd. by Kirth · · Score: 3, Funny

    I predict that Cars will totally flop in Europe.

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  5. Re:Don't kid yourselves by Rebelgecko · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well actually...

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  6. Re:Don't kid yourselves by tpgp · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean we're going to have one guy (Jobs) essentially controlling two companies that will between them produce the content, the distribution network, the playback codec and the playback device.

            Are you talking about Sony?

    Sorry, I meant to say:

    I mean we're going to have one guy (Jobs) essentially controlling two companies that will between them produce content we like, the distribution network, the playback codec and the playback device.

    See - sony no longer fits the description ;-)

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