Talk:John Lasseter/@comment-4632314-20140907051646/@comment-1672596-20141025213441

Hey, I realize that things won't be easy running a department since you have to answer to heads. And BTW, I don't just blame him for the mess at Disney, but I also blame the mess Eisner and Iger got into (including the edits to Path to 9/11, not allowing a DVD release for the film either directly or even by selling the rights, GCB, and all of that, plus the whole situation at Walt Disney World being far too complicated and a certain... holiday in the first week of Summer that people are upset about [would give the name, but then I'd be accused as being something].), or Jeffrey Katzenberg (due to his quite frankly ruining Beauty and the Beast by ordering for it to be rewritten to not even resemble the original tale at all, and that's not even getting into the Black Friday debacle during Toy Story) However, the bit regarding the DTV sequels cancellation was all on him, especially when they actually were improving somewhat, not to mention his butchering The Little Mermaid III by making a "prequel" that doesn't even tie in to the original film at all and if anything utterly retconned the original film out of existence was entirely all on him. I also heard that he was responsible for Disney Fairies, hence why they cancelled all DTV sequels, and those turned out to be bigger bombs, at least according to TVTropes.

Maybe he wasn't the man responsible for the Winnie the Pooh debacle, but what I do know is that it was because of that that CGI films, not traditionally animated films, are being made, even though the only reason WtP was a box office bomb was because of poor planning regarding releases.

And yeah, there was also Technopus as well. I remember. And Lucas really threw his company under the bus for the selfish reason of being tax exempt when Obama wins office.