The best thing about the new Disney-Pixar partnership isn’t the creative synergy that can occur. It isn’t the amazing story telling & visual prowess that will dazzle movie goers for years to come and it isn’t even the money to be made.

No, the best thing about the Disney-Pixar parnership is this: Pixar chief asserts his authority over Disney by axing ‘Toy Story 3’.

John Lasseter, the creative chief of Pixar Animation Studios, has wasted no time asserting who is boss after Pixar’s takeover by Walt Disney – by stopping production of Toy Story 3, the controversial sequel to the two wildly successful animated films.

Mr Lasseter was deeply opposed to the idea but Disney went ahead, as it owns the intellectual property, putting 100 scriptwriters, animators and other creative staff to work on Toy Story 3 at its own Walt Disney Studios animation complex in Burbank, California.

“Toy Story 3” we hardly knew you. Now Disney can redirect most of its creative team back to churning out movies about theme park rides. I am dying for the white-knuckle-thrill-a-minute-feature-length movie adaptation of Big Thunder Mountain coming out in the Spring 2007.