It is now very, very unlikely that we’ll be getting another installment of the celebrated Pixar classic Monsters Inc any time soon, and frankly, that’s probably for the best.

Seriously, the way they ended the last one was going to make for some serious problems if a sequel were to come up.  The whole idea that children’s laughter was several orders of magnitude stronger than their fear, and that solved the monster energy crisis, was pretty much as final as it got.  Who would go back to scaring children?  There’s no percentage in it any more.

But former Monsters staffer Pete Docter is apparently neck deep in something else, and Pixar’s newest project is about a few weeks in, if the advance word is to be believed.

Of course, we’ve all been  wrong before on this sort of thing, but I have to admit that the smart money right now says no more corporate monsters any time soon.