Fans of Pixar Animation Studios should be bristling at this month’s release of Planes, Disney’s own spin-off from the Cars franchise. Cars 2 was the studio’s first straight-up misfire, but it never looked as bad as Planes appears from its trailers, and it’s going to be one of those films that defenders of the faith will constantly have to correct people on: “That one wasn’t Pixar.”

On the plus side, if the continuation of the Cars merchandising bandwagon is left to other filmmakers, at least Pixar is concentrating on other projects. The nature of movie news in this day and age is such that we already know quite a bit about Pixar’s next few projects. Here’s our look at what they’re working on next, instead of Planes…

Toy Story Of Terror

ETA: October 2013

Although rumours of a fourth feature-length Toy Story movie abound, most of us would agree that Toy Story 3 rounded off the story of Woody, Buzz and friends very nicely. Then again, we also liked the recent series of Toy Story Toons very much. Small Fry, which played in cinemas before The Muppets, proved to be a particular delight, exploring the lives of altogether more disposable fast-food toys.