above and beyond
We know, that headline just oozes treacle. But it's for real! The family friend of a dying child cold-called
Pixar's offices and guessed her way through the phone tree to a live person, then pleaded her case: the child desperately wanted to see Up, but was possibly days away from death and too sick to travel or sit in a movie theater. The next day,
a Pixar employee arrived with a DVD of the movie and sat with the family while they watched it. Sometimes people can be really decent to each other.
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toys r us
Cars don't use leaded gasoline anymore, but boy, oh boy ... do toy companies still use lead paint! This Disney/Pixar branded toy chest is painted with red paint that "
contains high levels of lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects."
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Consumerist
Pixar's new movie Wall-E is about (SPOILER ALERT) a crass consumer culture that eventually ruins the planet by completely covering it with pointless garbage. Humanity, unable to consume itself out of an environmental crisis, moves to space, where it endlessly vacations on giant cruise-ship like habitats. The planet is governed by a huge Walmart-esque mega-store called "Buy ‘N Large." In order to celebrate this anti-consumption message, Disney has apparently been giving out cheap plastic watches, and has launched a "Buy 'N Large" website where you can buy movie merchandise. [Slog]
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