Early yesterday morning around 7:45am PT, a hydrogen leak and small fire at a nearby transit bus yard caused local authorities to evacuate Pixar, a high school and some town homes nearby.

A pressure valve in a hydrogen tank used to fuel the buses malfunctioned, resulting in the leak of some of the fuel and a small fire which "quickly burned itself out" according to a transit spokesman. All of the safety procedures worked as designed with emergency shut-off system, and employee emergency response protocols were executed like clockwork.

Many Pixar employees shared their adventure on Twitter. One Pixar Lighting Technical Director commented:

It was good timing that we finished Brave yesterday! Let's mark this one up as a well deserved holiday for our hard work.

Phil Shoebottom

So it would also appear that the Pixar crew has wrapped on Brave. Congrats team!

May 1st has come and gone without so much as a word regarding the anticipated release of the UP 3D blu-ray that was widely pegged for release today.

The popular film has been available on 3D blu-ray in many European countries as early as January of this year, but still hasn't seen the light of day in the US, save for a few foreign imports that are asking quite the pretty penny on Amazon.

Despite that, a Spring/Summer 2012 release does not seem improbable. I'd be surprised to see it delayed clear until their standard early November blu-ray release days when Brave will likely be released. In the last couple of years, Pixar has made something of a fanfare of their home video release days, often releasing several of their titles at once.

I'm glad I tacked a question mark to the end of my original article!

UPDATE: UP 3D was not released on blu-ray last May, but is coming December 2012.