Pixar Fanboy

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…

The big news today was of course that Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment for a whopping $4 Billion. Unlike most Marvel Fanboys on Twitter today, I’ve been really excited about this news. I think Disney will be able to handle the Marvel brands in a great way.

I didn’t, however, expect to hear anything about Pixar, but an article on Film School Rejects detailing the Disney/Marvel investors conference call points out that John Lasseter has met with Marvel about a Pixar team up.

This could have been taken out of context, because Lasseter is in charge of more than just Pixar now, but I think something will come out of Pixar with the popular Marvel characters someday. Will it be a feature film? Maybe not, but think of that shiny new studio they’re building in Canada that was going to focus more on shorts and television content. That’d be the perfect place to make some official Pixar/Marvel animation, and I think that is pretty exciting.

Update I found a direct quote from the call.

When asked about a Pixar/Marvel team-up:

“We won’t co-brand, but they will collaborate. When we put these two creative groups together. Sparks will fly.”

Disney sent me a heads up about this new series of videos in which John Lasseter discusses the Toy Story Definitive toy line. It is a seven part series that kicks off today, and will feature two new videos a week. Don’t miss the chance to be the first to hear Lasseter talk about his inspiration and why the Definitive toy line is a collectors dream.

You can keep an eye on the YouTube Disney Living channel for more, or just check back here.

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.