Scheduled for release on May 29, 2009, their next epic, Up, will hit the screens:

Pixar's next film, Up, is scheduled for release on May 29, 2009, featuring a slightly different plot (Wikipedia):

"Carl Fredricksen has spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But one day, Carl finds himself to be 78 years old and his life has seemingly passed him by, until he befriends a chubby 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. The two opposites match up for thrilling adventures as they encounter wild terrain, unexpected villains, and all the terrifying creatures that wait in the jungle.^"

What's this? No talking toys?  No talking cars?  No talking fish (as a premise, I mean)?  No hidden societies or  anthropomorphisms?  Now obviously, the plot at the time is just about completely unknown.  However, this little synopsis could possibly point to a different direction for Pixar, perhaps focusing on a far more character-oriented story.  If that's the case, will this still have a fair shot at becoming Pixar's tenth consectutive smash?

While I doubt that (it being a differently focused film), one film coming down the pipe in 2011 has, despite the usual humanized non-human players, another odd feature:

"Newt and Brooke live in a community college science lab and don't care for each other, yet as the last remaining blue-footed newts on the planet they are forced to mate to save the species. "

O.K., that one sounds a little tangential, doesn't it?  Then again, maybe it's just the wording.  Perhaps they'll just be getting "married" in the film.

So these are coming up next (including Toy Story 3 in between).  How are you're expectations?

Yeah, Up seems a little different from the prevoius pixar films. I'm expecting it to be as memerable as Monsters Inc (aka not very) Toy Stary 3, hmm.... I never got into the Toy Story series.
The mating one sounds hillarious, but might not be kid appropriate....

(16 hours later)

I know, I feel the same way about Up (but Monster's Inc.? I m-u-s-t disagree :)) I really can't think of much of a way for Pixar to subtley get across the reproduction problem while keeping pro-family, unless they somehow squeeze in some love story as the main focus, while barely mentioning the fact of the purpose of the marriage at the beginning.

I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

Granted, it's a little early to be makng solid predictions about them, and I have faith in Pixar's abilities. But they just both sound so different.

The premise doesn't sound to bad. I want to see what it looks like because you can really only judge Pixar movies on the final product.
Toy Story 3 2010?

Yeah, Toy Story 3 is July 10, 2010.

There's a Toy Story 3? Since when?

They've apparently had it in development (that is, planned it publicly) for... 8 or months, at least.

TOY STORY 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!