While A Bug’s Life was still in production, Disney decided to make low budget sequel to Toy Story. The reels they came up with horrified Lasseter, who quickly brought the project over to the Pixar side, and completely rewrote the storyboard. Because they were producing A Bug’s Life at the same time, Toy Story 2 was a smaller production with not even half the people working on it who were working on A Bug’s Life. With a smaller crew and a shorter timeline, only two years to make the movie, as apposed to the usual four and a half Pixar averaged making animated movies, the crew of Toy Story 2 exhausted themselves trying to get a solid movie ready for release. Their results paid off, instead of being a direct to video release as Disney had originally intended it was released in Theaters to critical and monetary success. It earned significantly more than both A Bug’s Life and the original Toy Story and was hailed as a sequel that was equal or even better than the original. Pixar refused to compromise its storytelling integrity, even for a lowly sequel, and now has a reputation for making sequels that are entertaining movies in their own right.