[3][4] The division was named after the street where its studio was located, Circle Seven Drive in Glendale, California, which is also home to KABC-TV.

[6] Jobs announced in January 2004—after ten months of negotiations—that Pixar would not renew their agreement with Disney, and would seek out other distributors for releases starting in 2006.

[8] When he had to announce what had happened at a meeting of Pixar's 800 employees, Lasseter reportedly said, through tears, "It's like you have these dear children and you have to give them up to be adopted by convicted child molesters.

[1][3] The projects that the studio worked on were early drafts of Toy Story 3, Monsters, Inc. 2: Lost in Scaradise, and Finding Nemo 2.

They eventually appointed Andrew Millstein, the former head of Circle Seven, as the general manager of Walt Disney Animation Studios to handle day-to-day business affairs on their behalf.