Walt Disney is in a tail spin. They’re movies aren’t making money, Linsay Lohan’s breasts are rampaging through their movies, and Pixar has moved on to greener pastures. To turn things around, they’ve completely shut down all 2D animation projects as they gear up to switch over to all computer generated animation. Their first computer animated film is Chicken Little, due in theaters later this year and so Disney is out talking to the animation community. They’re recruiting if you need a job.

According to Yahoo, in conferences with the local animation community in Los Angeles, the mouse house made it’s plea for more workers. To prove how awesome they are (I’m not buying it) they unveiled their next five CGI projects… all of them of course without the help of Pixar. On the list is the aforementioned Chicken Little, a movie about a time traveling orphan called A Day With Wilbur Robinson, a bizarre movie about a martini drinking canine TV star who meets up with a radioactive rabbit in the desert (I’m not kidding) called American Dog, something called Rapunzel Unbraided which will presumably will not be ninety minutes of the fairtale character brushing her hair, and lastly and perhaps most unfortunately Toy Story 3.

I have absolutely no hope at all for Toy Story 3 to be any good without Pixar behind it, neither does anyone else. Disney is pushing ahead anyway. Some of these other movies might be interesting, they might even be alright. But Toy Story belongs with Pixar and Disney is going to do nothing but screw it up. Yahoo has a few plot details on it. It sounds a lot like a rehash of Toy Story 2, only with Buzz getting lost instead of Woody. “The story follows Buzz Lightyear as he is recalled to Taiwan after a series of malfunctions. Learning of a productwide recall, all the toys in Andy's room, under Woody's leadership, head to Taiwan to save Buzz from doom.”

If Disney really wants to revitalize itself, then they should stick with their own original material instead of glaming off the past success of Pixar. They can’t prop the company up forever. I’m dying to hear more about American Dog… it sounds too bizarre to be a Disney movie. The description reads like the sort of thing you’d expect from Seth McFarland, not the house of Walt. With the state Disney is in, that’s probably a good thing.