The fine folks over at Upcoming Pixar had a chance to interview John Lasseter at Disney’s California Adventure in regards to the new Toy Story Midway Mania attraction.
UpcomingPixar: I’ve heard Pete Docter and others say that while making “Toy Story†many people at Pixar were thinking about the day the characters might end up in the Disney parks. How staggering is it to see the journey of what you’ve done with the “Toy Story†characters, how far they’ve come and the growth of all the Pixar attractions?
John Lasseter: The fact that I worked at Disneyland, that I grew up a half-hour away and came here all the time, to see the characters I’ve created come alive in the parks, it’s been so unbelievable. But then what’s even more exciting to me is to turn around and look at the faces of the kids and families looking at your characters. To see how these characters have touched these families.
Think about it, ‘Toy Story’ came out in ’95, it’s 2008 — that’s 13 years ago. So a 13-year-old right now doesn’t know a world that didn’t have ‘Toy Story’ in it. That’s two generations of kids — because Walt Disney believed that every seven years there was another generation of children — that means we’re almost on that second generation of children.
Read the entire interview at Upcoming Pixar.
