>Pixar might be big, but Pixar doesn't have 200 projects going
>at once. Pixar's approach, at least based on the documentary
>and personal observation, is very lean in theory which seems
>to work well.

Pixar has three films currently in various stages of production, never mind whatever shorts they're doing. That's slightly above an average production schedule for an animation studio. Disney Animation also has three films in production. No film studio in the world has 200 projects going on at the same time.

They do movies. One or 2 at a time. Thats it.
>Disney has so many projects and ventures, from their own theme
>parks to television to all these other things.

Again, we're talking about the animation studio. Remember that Pixar is a subsidiary of Disney just like Disney Animation, and has been since January of 2006. While Lasseter is also Principal Creative Advisor for the Parks, that's an entirely different sector of the company. Any television output also has nothing to do with the Disney Animation studio

It seems that
>at Disney authority and direction trickles down through so
>many people that it takes effort just to get the right people
>onboard and agree on a project, never mind make projects you
>want to see made.

Now this part is (was) true. After the 2006 merger, steps were taken to try to make Disney Animation more Pixar-like and do away with the executive-heavy upper echelon staff. From what I'm seeing, it appears more that Pixar is being made more Disney Animation like what with having sequels they didn't really want to make foisted upon them. That any of these films (Toy Story 3 is one of them) turn out good shows just how good Pixar is at what they do.