Disney drops Pix Micro, Click and Max kiddie-cams

It's not exactly a technological tour de force, but Disney's new lineup of heavily branded digital cameras should hit their target market -- the wallets of pampered children's parents -- quite nicely. Starting off the branding extravaganza is the $20 Pix Micro cam (pictured), which shoots 352 x 240 pics and runs on a single AAA battery. A tad more exciting is the $50 Pix Click camera, which has a 1-inch color LCD, storage for 200 VGA pics, a built-in flash, TV output and 2 interchangable faceplates -- which of course prominently feature exciting Disney properties like our personal fav: "High School Musical." The $80 Disney Pix Max really pushes things to the limit, featuring a 3 megapixel CCD, 1.5-inch color LCD, expandable memory, TV-out and a flash. Finally, we have the Disney Princess Digital Movie Maker, which goes for $80 and includes 32MB of built-in memory for shooting VGA princess flicks -- Princess not included.

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[Ebzy @ Sep 8th 2006 1:05PM]

FFS Nooooooooooo.

[emehrkay @ Sep 8th 2006 1:52PM]

I will be buying one of these for my son

[Josh @ Sep 8th 2006 1:55PM]

For you son?! Heck, I'm buying one of these for myself...

[Drew @ Sep 8th 2006 1:55PM]

Stop saying "Drop" in that context! Reading the headline makes one think Disney is dropping those cameras from their lineup, which is the opposite of what you mean.

[BrianP @ Sep 8th 2006 2:20PM]

Please "drop" the verb "drop" from your headlines. It's too confusing.

Hm, I see Drew beat me to it. Well, seconded then.

[J @ Sep 8th 2006 2:49PM]

you keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means

[Cyburke @ Sep 8th 2006 3:04PM]

you guys never heard of "drop it like it's hot" and other such phrases? "drop some knowledge on ya" even! ;-)

[Norock @ Sep 8th 2006 3:22PM]

I'll go so far as to say that anyone who buys one of these is going out of their way to make the world a worse place to live.

[rickm @ Sep 8th 2006 3:23PM]

I'd get one for my kid.

The drop is confusing unless you're thinking "drop" as in "getting rid of". I think "drop" here means, well, plopping a steamer into the lineup.

[Erk @ Sep 8th 2006 4:04PM]

WOW...a new low for the whiners. "Please stop using DROP"? How lame can you get? And Norock, boy your childhood must have sucked...I guess when you were a kid Fisher-Price and toys like that were not allowed in your home huh?

While we're at it, why doesn't someone suggest that the LCD viewfinders are really a two-way camera so BIG BROTHER watches kids?! OH NOES!!! Conspiracy!!!

[Jacob @ Sep 8th 2006 4:04PM]

When you "drop" a music album, you release it.

When you "drop" a product, you eliminate it from your product line.

If you said that "Sony plans to drop the PS3 in November", you'd give millions of nerds a heart attack.

Someone's been watching too much BET.

[Alan Strangis @ Sep 8th 2006 4:19PM]

This "drop" meme is BAD.

Whatever "BAD" means. :)

Though the cameras actually seem kinda cool for the price.

[boss sauce @ Sep 8th 2006 8:36PM]

"drops" is not correct-- it does not mean what the blurb writer thinks it means. not sure how the engadget folks got hooked on this usage, but it's wrong.

[Spear @ Sep 8th 2006 8:48PM]

This camera totally beats my 30D :)

[Wry Cooter @ Sep 8th 2006 9:44PM]

Drop Drop. No. I mean Drop it. No. Drop.

[Peter @ Sep 9th 2006 12:27PM]

I think it's the way of the future to sell products with a special outfit. It's the Apple way.

[Loonie @ Sep 12th 2006 5:43PM]

I wonder how "Disney Digital Imaging" differs from conventional digital imaging?

[Lee @ Oct 4th 2006 4:43PM]

I cannot find a place to actually buy this camera..... Is anyone actually selling it? If so who, and if not, when will someone actually sell it?

[Kelmac284 @ Oct 11th 2006 1:12PM]

I agree. I saw these on the Disney store website but when I went to buy one they were unavailable. I saw an article on digitalblue and asked them where I could buy one and they said all the normal places like target, toysrus but NO ONE has these cameras. I need THREE!! HELP!! Anyone who knows would be GREAT

[caren @ Oct 17th 2006 3:34AM]

Is this camera compatible with macintosh?

[Zilla @ Nov 5th 2006 7:06PM]

We found them at Best Buy.

[camp @ Nov 7th 2006 10:33PM]

I am looking for a application that would work on a Mac to download the photos too. I haven't tried iPhoto yet.

[Kate @ Nov 15th 2006 7:33AM]

The camera looks great but where can I get one! Completely unable to source one with Lightning McQueen cover. Shopping from Scotland so need internet purchase.

[Dillon @ Aug 26th 2007 9:03AM]

I haven't found software that works with a Mac. Thank God for Parallels and BootCamp.

It's a little strange that a company that rides the back of Mac (Pixar exclusively uses Mac) doesn't go to the effort of making a natively compatible camera. Not only can you not use the software (bundled software is generally subpar to iPhoto anyway), but Mac OSX doesn't even recognize whatever proprietary USB driver their using.

[Equality @ Dec 6th 2007 8:45AM]

Don't buy these Disney cameras! Waste of money. Disney should "drop" their business association with Digital Blue (manufacture of "Disney" cameras). My daughter's camera died within a month. Company won't take it back!

[meghan smalla @ Jan 22nd 2009 1:04PM]

I have a disney pix camera my husband lost the cd so I can not upload the pictures of off this camera is there any way where i can get the software without the cd?? please let me know... the camera is for my 2 year old