re: What's your favorite Disney animated feature?

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The Brave Little Toaster was great. Is that Disney?

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Interesting you bring up the Brave Little Toaster.

We can thank the Brave Little Toaster for spawning Pixar.

Originally, the Brave Little Toaster was pitched as a 3D animation by John Lasseter in the early '80s when he worked at Disney. Disney management was not impressed with Lasseter's pitch and $18 million projected budget which resulted in his termination. He was terminated for promoting 3D animation.

After Disney terminated John Lasseter, they reassigned the Brave Little Toaster to another animation team who developed it as a 2D animated feature which was not success at the box office.

Meanwhile, Lasseter went on to form Pixar and the rest is history.