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It appears the rumors were true. Blu-ray.com is reporting that retailers are now listing a March 23, 2010 release date for both Toy Story films on Blu-ray! I figured they would be released before Toy Story 3 hits the theaters in June, and I can’t wait to watch these in HD.

Some of the features listed are:

Toy Story

• Toy Story 3 Sneak Peek – The Story
• Paths to Pixar: Artists
• Black Friday: The ‘Toy Story’ You Never Saw

Toy Story 2

• Toy Story 3 Sneak Peek – The Characters
• Paths to Pixar: Technical Artists
• Celebrating Our Friend Joe Ranft

This isn’t quite official yet, but I’ll keep you posted. I’m sure we’ll get an official announcement from Disney/Pixar sometime soon, and they’ll act like it’s the first any of us have heard about it, but we can humor them.

Good news for all of you Pixar comic fans, Boom Kids just released the first issue of it’s new Toy Story comic book! The first arc of the new series is being written by Jesse Blaze Snider and illustrated by Nathan Watson.

I had a chance to read the first issue (#0), and it was a lot of fun! It took me a while to get used to seeing the Toy Story characters in comic book form, but they lend themselves to the medium nicely. The story revolves around Woody and Buzz and feels like a classic Toy Story tale.

Snider came to fame on the MTV show “Rock the Cradle” and is an active musician as well as a comic book writer. You can check out the Boom Studios website for more details, but I highly recommend picking up a copy or two!

Up and Monsters Inc. have been out on Blu-ray for a couple weeks now, and I’ve thankfully had time to enjoy them, but haven’t had much time to write about them. Now I’m on holiday and I thought I’d go ahead and post some thoughts on the releases, in case you still haven’t decided on them yet.

Up Blu-ray

I knew Up was going to look gorgeous in high-definition, but I had no idea it was going to look this good. I saw Up in the theater four or five times (nothing compared to some of our intrepid Pixar Fanboy Facebook/Twitter fans!), but I almost felt like I noticed details more when I watched it at home. One visual that stuck in my memory was the detail in Carl’s grass before he takes off in his house. The video quality of Up on Blu-ray is amazing, bottom line.

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Here’s the newest Cars short, Unidentified Flying Mater. I’ve got some cool stuff coming tomorrow, so in the mean time enjoy this and let me know what you thought!

Well, I didn’t get review copies of Up and Monsters Inc. on Blu-ray, so my reviews will have to wait until next week. Thats not all bad though, because I just pre-ordered them on Amazon and found out that if you get both, you can save ten dollars!

Just add Up and Monsters Inc. to your cart and you’ll get $10 deducted off the total, which is a steal for two films as fine as these!

Stay tuned next week for my official reviews, I can’t wait!

Lee Unkrich, our favorite Pixarian on Twitter, just posted some cool Toy Story 3 news via a video he made.

The biggest news is that Disney will be extending the run of the Toy Story 3D Double Feature to allow more people to see it. I kind of saw this coming, because why wouldn’t Disney want to make some extra money by having it stay in theaters longer?

Also, Kristen Schaal will voice a new (and as yet unnamed) character in the film. You may recognize Kristen from the Flight of the Conchords HBO series.

Also, the new voice of Slinky Dog was announced as Blake Clark. Lee explains that Blake was actually friends with the late Jim Varney, and that he seemed to channel him in his recording sessions. I can’t wait for June 18th!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but things should start picking up here soon. Before we know it it’ll be June and we’ll all be talking about this wonderful film!

In the last video of the series, John Lasseter gives “The Real Buzz” on Buzz Lightyear. We’ll miss hearing from you, John!

Now if I could just get my hands on some of those toys…

Here’s the TV spot for the Toy Story Double Feature that’s been floating around for a couple days now. I love that they actually put some care into these and aren’t just editing a bunch of clips together.

Also, there’s another reason to be excited about this. The Toy Story 3 trailer will be attached to the double feature! If you’d like some spoilers on the trailer (with new plot details), head over to Jim Hill Media for his round-up.

When the space shuttle Discovery landed last week, it brought back a Buzz Lightyear action figure it had been carrying. It was part of a Disney and NASA partnership to encourage the study of science, and they took some cool video of Buzz floating around in zero gravity.

Via Gizmodo