What Disney Is Not Selling… And Why
Pixar was at the time an excellent acquisition for Disney. Sure computer animated characters were new but there was no real problem fitting them into Disney's existing pantheon. In the last Wreck-It Ralph movie there was a gag with a Disney princess's green room and no one could understand Merida's accent because "she is from the other studio." But Merida, Woody, and Lightening have no trouble fitting into the Disney-shared universe.And there effectively is a Disney-shared universe....