As if I needed another reason to like Pixar

[ckd]

Pixar grants a 10-year-old's last wish.

(Via Consumerist.)

Comments

[amysuemom.livejournal.com]

Wow..and sniff of course.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Many thanks to both you and Pixar for that.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Holy crow.

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

Importantly, it doesn't look at all like it was a publicity thing. They just decided it was worth doing and did it; the reporter probably found out about it from the family afterward. Hard for me to be curmudgeonly about that.

[seawasp]

Does a good thing AND gets great publicity.

Note, Pixar: this is the kind of thing you WANT to have a live-answered line for. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass, but something like this will pay you off in about ten times the money it would cost to keep those lines open. This person got lucky and found a way to do it; make this kind of positive spin easier.

[kelmit.livejournal.com]

Wow. Now I'm all teary.

[ckd]

Even when the newspaper contacted them, they declined to comment; that's definitely not publicity-seeking behavior. My read on it is that the family and/or the friends who were involved probably contacted the paper to say "here's some good news for you to write about".

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for linking to that; I hadn't heard about it, and it brought tears to my eyes.

Serious cool points

[drwex]

that is all.

[miekec]

Yes, it does. Wow.