I don’t know if this was posted already but I recently found this really interesting article on Total Film.com about the history and background story of how Toy Story 3 was created. What I found especially interesting was their phrase on page one
So, was PIXAR intent with not continuing the series after 2, or for that matter even 1 (since Disney kinda forced them to create 2 originally as a DtoV cheapquel)?
Yeah, Pixar and Disney got into an argument over making it that almost split them. Disney created “Circle 7 Animation Studios” which was making the movie, but when John Lasseter took over he shut it down and moved it back to Pixar, where an entirely new script was written.