Pixar Fanboy

Are you on Twitter yet? If you’re a fellow Pixar Fanboy, here are a bunch of reasons why you should be! Below you’ll find the definitive Pixar Employee Twitter list, courtesy of Jeremiah. If you have any that aren’t on the list, get in touch and we’ll make sure to update it.

Read the list after the jump.

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Not only is Lee Unkrich a great editor, director, and overall swell guy, but he also keeps his promises. Just like he said, when he reached 5,000 followers on Twitter, he smashed a cake in his face.

More rumors are swirling that Disney and Pixar are indeed planning a Monsters Inc. sequel. Jim Hill Media reports that among other domains, Disney has purchased Monsters2.com. Disney’s domain name purchases have been a pretty reliable source of unannounced movie news in the past, so I’d say Monsters Inc. 2 is a little closer to being announced.

Via Jim Hill Media

This is the last vacation-related post, I promise. Last Thursday, which happened to be my birthday, we drove to Sonoma Valley to experience wine country. Later that night we stopped at a pizza place called The Red Grape. A few minutes after sitting there, I looked over and realized there was a wine bottle signed by John Lasseter!

John lives near Sonoma in Glen Ellen and recently started a winery of his own. I really wanted to slip that bottle in my wife’s purse, it would have made a good birthday present.

If you’ve taken a look at the About page on Pixar Fanboy, you’ve seen that picture. This was taken last week in front of Pixar in Emeryville, California. As I mentioned in the last article, we went to San Francisco for vacation. One thing I was super excited about from the beginning was knowing I’d could visit Pixar, even if it was only from the street.

We kind of felt like dorks standing in the 55 degree weather on a Friday morning taking pictures of each other in front of the gate, but it was worth it! They’re doing a lot of construction, and there was a sign that said it was for “Pixar Phase 2.” I know there are plenty of people who go there every day and don’t think anything of it, but it was still special to us!

Remember the ice cream parlor that Russell mentions eating Butter Brickle with his Dad in Up? It’s called Fenton’s Creamery, it’s in Oakland, California, and my wife and I went there last week. Pete Doctor couldn’t have found a better establishment to promote in his film, because its been a family owned business for 115 years, and has the best ice cream in the world.

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Well, while I was vacationing in another city in California, the San Diego Comic-Con was going on, and a lot of great Pixar news was building up in my RSS reader. After getting home and sorting through it all, I thought it would be valuable to share all the links I found interesting.

• SlashFilm has great interviews with John Lasseter (featuring a surprise appearance by Hayao Miyazaki) and Lee Unkrich.
• The Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3D double-feature teaser trailer is now online.

• Finally, some Up toys!

  
• Disney Etc. has a great roundup of the amazing looking Toy Story LEGO sets that are coming out soon. I will be honest, I never thought that Toy Story LEGO could look that awesome. I will be extremely broke when these come out.

The always-awesome Upcoming Pixar reported a couple days ago about a “Luxo Lamp Collection” Blu-ray set that was popping up on various UK retail sites, and now they’ve found an image of it. It looks like it comes with a replica (or real version) of the Luxo lamp, as well as a few Pixar Blu-rays. Although I would hate doubling up on any Pixar Blu-rays I already own, I wouldn’t mind having it for the lamp. Will it come to the US? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Via Upcoming Pixar