20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Pixar

20. Pixar Exists Because Howard The Duck Failed

George Lucas' misguided 80s movie Howard The Dick was an unmitigated disaster, but without it Pixar wouldn't exist.

Pixar was initially a part of Lucasfilm, working with Industrial Light & Magic on the studio's computer animated effects and helping out on movies like Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan and Young Sherlock Holmes in the 1980s. But due to a combination of the Star Wars franchise ending, George Lucas going through a divorce, and Howard The Duck being a huge box office bomb, Lucas was forced to sell Pixar to some guy named Steve Jobs.

That's right, Apple founder Steve Jobs bought Pixar for only $5 million in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was born and the rest was history. Thanks Lucas. Ish.