O bother, why art thou?

News has officially broken about Disney going ahead with a Toy Story sequel without Pixar's participation. Under the terms of their deal Disney has every right to do this, of course. They are also making a giant, mammoth mistake by exercising this right. What exactly is the target audience for a non-Pixar, non-Tom Hanks Toy Story movie? Never mind the rest of the cast they won't get (can you really see John Ratzenberger or Wallace Shawn, two actors who benefit again and again from Pixar's love of their work sacrificing that for a sequel that will undoubtedly tank with or without them?)

More importantly, Disney has sequel rights, but do they have the right to the actual data? This never mattered before in animation because in hand drawn 2d we expect a certain amount of variance in how characters are rendered from film to film. But 3d characters are based on very specific data sets that describe every single aspect of their looks and movement. What is Toy Story 3 going to look like if Woody and Buzz are slightly off from how we're expecting them to be? My suspicion is we're going to get the same kind of soul destroying replicants we've been enduring with the Joe Alaskey Looney Tunes voices and post Jim Henson Kermit the frog. In other words come 2006 it's gonna be "Toy Story 3: Close, But No Cigar." Why would I wanna see that, especially if Pixar has any brains at all and releases its own original film 1 week before Disney rolls out their knockoff.