Juan F. Lara wrote:

Mostly the "Wacky family" scenes in the house--After seeing early
rushes, the main complaint of the new Disney regime seemed to be, nobody
WANTED to Meet these people. >_<

Accdg. to Jim Hill, John Lasseter's first idea was to drop the Guy out
of the revised script like a bad habit--
But, major animation was 3/4 finished at that point, and rewriting the
entire movie would've been too risky a move and delayed the movie
another year. (Let alone the existing story problems had already gotten
the movie's release exiled to "'Home on the Range' March".)

David Stainton's studio system was always to keep hands off and let
"resident geniuses" run their own little self-indulgent pet projects, no
questions asked...
But Lasseter wanted to bring "the Pixar way" into WDFA, where every
story idea is talked over in group story meetings: He got to talking
with Steve Anderson, got teary-eyed over Steve's own orphan
reminiscences, and thought they could balance in the existing storyline
by giving it an actual point--And showing how the "Cars" people would've
bothered enough to give us *likable* oddballs, obligatory tearjerks, and
a Message. That's how they do things over at Emeryville.

Not sure which producer came up with the Walt Disney quote at the end of
the movie, but consider it a burn against the Chicken Little Guy. :)

Derek Janssen (the new Lasseter-era Disney...WE are the champions.)
ejanss@comcast.net