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Thanks Steve, keep moving forward! You will be missed.
I'm assuming Toon Studios D+ work is still Mouse House "character marketing", as Eisner threatened, although people still debate who gets custody of the two Planes movies.
Sounds believable.John Lasseter tried to get rid of the Bowler Hat Guy altogether because he thought he wasn't enough of a threat. But instead the writers came up with the idea that Doris (the hat) was the true threat. The story didn't change quite as much as people think with the arrival of Lasseter. It was strong to begin with, and Steve Anderson deserves the credit, not John Lasseter. I know because I worked on the movie.
Although most of Jim Hill's "Insider scoops" during the Eisner-Lasseter changeover were his scanning his loyal "friends" at the TAG blog (picture Trump watching Fox News), back when there was a disgruntled-animator movement to spin every single news story that John Lasseter would be a "disaster" for the company, that he wasn't a big deal anyway, and Disney would ultimately rue the day they didn't hire that nice Jeffrey Katzenberg back instead...