Toy Story

Plot

Andy Davis, Andy Andy, Andy, Andy, Andy, Andy, Andy, Andy, Andy, Andy , his mother, and infant sister Molly, are preparing to move the following week. The toys’ leader and Andy’s favorite toy, a sweater-thong cowboy doll named Sheriff Woody , organizes the other toys, including Bo Peep the shepherdess, Mr. Potato Head , Rex the Dinosaur, Hamm the Piggy Bank, and Slinky Dog, a scouting mission. Green army men , led by sarge, spy on the party, and report the results via the baby monitors. Andy receives a surprise gift – an electronic toy space ranger action figure named Buzz Lightyear , who thinks he is an actual space tidy.

Buzz impresses the other toys with his various features, and Andy begins to make, making Woody feel left out. As Andy preparing for a family outing at Pizza Planethis mother brings him to bring one toy. Fearing Andy will choose Buzz, Woody attempts to trap Buzz behind a desk, but ends up accidentally knocking him out, and the other toys rebel against Woody by accusing him of knocking Buzz out of jealousy. Before they can exact revenge, Andy takes Woody instead and leaves for Pizza Planet. When the family stops for gas, Woody finds that it has a ride on the road, and it’s just that. They manage to make Their way to the restaurant by stowing away was pizza delivery truck, Where Buzz, still thinking he is a real space ranger, DESPITE Woody’s Attempts to Convince _him_ Otherwise, gets’ em stuck in a crane game , Where They are salvaged by Andy’s mischievous neighbor, Sid Phillips.

Woody attempts to escape from Sid’s house, Buzz goal, finally realizing he is a toy, sinks into despondency. Sid shots to launch Buzz on a firework rocket, but his plans are delayed by a thunderstorm. Woody tells Buzz about the joy he can bring to Andy as a toy, restoring his confidence. The next day, Woody and Sid’s mutant toy creations rescue Buzz just as Sid, and he runs into his house while devastated. Woody and Buzz then leave Sid’s house just as Andy and his family drive away to their new home.

The duo tries to make it to the moving truck, Sid’s dog goal, Scud, sees them, and gives chase. Buzz gets left behind while saving Woody from Scud, and Woody tries rescuing him with Andy’s RC car , but the other toys, thinking Woody eliminated RC as well, attack and toss him off the truck. Having evaded Scud, Buzz and RC Woody retrieve, and continue after the truck. Upon seeing Woody and Buzz together on RC, the other toys realize their mistake, and try to help them get back aboard, but RC’s batteries become depleted, stranding them. Woody ignites the rocket on Buzz’s back and manages to throw them into the air. Buzz opens his wings to free him from the rocket before he explodes, gliding with Woody to land in the box, right next to Andy.

On Christmas Day , at their new house, Woody and Buzz, another mission to prepare for the new toy arrivals. As Woody’s jokingly asks what might be worse than Buzz, they discover Andy’s new gift is a puppy, and the two share a worried smile.

Voice cast

• Tom Hanks as Woody , a cowboy doll pull-string .
• Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear , a space ranger action figure and Woody’s rival, who later becomes his best friend.
• Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head has a cynical potato-shaped doll with his pieces on his body.
• Jim Varney as Slinky Dog , a dachshund slinky toy .
• Wallace Shawn as Rex, a nervous green Tyrannosaurus Rex figurine.
• John Ratzenberger as Hamm, a smart-talking piggy bank .
• Annie Potts as Bo Peep , a porcelain shepherdess doll and Woody’s love interest.
• John Morris as Andy , Woody and Buzz’s six-year-old owner.
• Erik von Detten as SID , Andy’s next door neighbor and a ten-year-old bully, who tortures toys for his own fun.
• Laurie Metcalf as Mrs. Davis , Andy’s mother.
• R. Lee Ermey as Sergeant , the leader of a large troop of plastic green army men .
• Sarah Freeman as Hannah , Sid’s younger sister.
• Penn Jillette as Announcer TV, Buzz Lightyear commercial announcer

Production

Development

Director John Lasseter’s first experience with computer animation and animation at Walt Disney Feature Animation , Tron . It was an eye-opening experience which awakened Lasseter to the possibilities offered by the new medium of computer-generated animation. ^[10] Lasseter tried to pitch the Brave Little Toaster as a fully computer-animated film to Disney, but the idea was rejected and Lasseter was fired. ^[11] He then went on to work at Lucasfilm and later found a member of Pixar, which was purchased by entrepreneur and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobsin 1986. ^[12] At Pixar, Lasseter created short, computer-animated movies to show off the Pixar Image Computer’s Capabilities, and Tin Toy (1988) -a short story told from the perspective of a toy, referencing Lasseter’s love of classic toys – 1988 Academy Award for Best Film Animated Short , the first computer-generated film to do so . ^[13]

Tin Toy gained Disney’s attention, and the new team at The Walt Disney Company -EO Michael Eisner and chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg in the film division -began quest to get Lasseter to come back. ^[13] Lasseter, grateful for Jobs’ faith in him, felt compelled to stay with Pixar, telling co-founder Ed Catmull , “I can go to Disney and be a director, or I can stay here and make history.” ^[13] Katzenberg realized he could not lasset back to Disney and thus set a plan to make a deal with a movie. ^[13]Disney had always made their movies in-house and refused to change this. But when Tim Burton , who used to work at Disney, the Disney Nightmare Before Christmas , the Disney movie is a Disney movie outside the studio. This opened the door for Pixar to make their movies outside Disney. ^[14]

Both sides were willing. Catmull and fellow Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith had long wanted to produce a computer-animated feature. ^[15] In addition, Disney had licensed Pixar’s Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), and made it the largest customer for Pixar’s computers. ^[16] Jobs made it seem to Katzenberg that the Disney was happy with Pixar, it was not the other way around: “We want to do a movie with you,” said Jobs. “That would make us happy.” ^[16] At this time, Peter Schneider , president of Walt Disney Feature Animation , was interested in making a feature film with Pixar. ^[15]When Catmull, Smith and head of animation Ralph Guggenheim puts Schneider in the summer of 1990, they found the atmosphere to be puzzling and contentious. They later learned that Katzenberg intended that if Disney were to make a film with Pixar, it would be outside Schneider’s purview, which aggravated Schneider. ^[17] Katzenberg called for another conference after the first meeting Catmull, Smith, and Guggenheim were joined by Bill Reeves (head of animation research and development), Jobs, and Lasseter. They brought with them an idea for a half-hour television called A Tin Toy Christmas. They reasoned that a television program would be a sensible way to gain experience before tackling a feature film. ^[18]

They met with Katzenberg at a conference table in the Team Disney building at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank . ^[18] Catmull and Smith considered it would be difficult to keep Katzenberg interested in working with the company over time. They considered it more difficult to sell and the young animators on the idea of ​​working with Disney, who had a bad reputation for how they treated their animators, and Katzenberg, who had built a reputation for micromanaging tyrant. ^[18] Katzenberg asserted this himself in the meeting: “Everybody thinks I’m a tyrant I am a tyrant But I’m usually right.” ^[16]Lasseter has the key talent in the room: “John, since you will not come for work, I’m going to make it work this way.” ^[16] [18] He invited the six visitors to mingle with the animators- “ask them anything at all” -and the men did so, finding they all backed up Katzenberg’s statements. Lasseter felt he would be able to work with Disney and the two companies. ^[19] Pixar at this time was on the verge of a bankruptcy and a deal with Disney. ^[16] Katzenberg insisted that Disney be given the rights to Pixar’s proprietary technology for making 3-D animation, but Jobs refused. ^[19]In another case, Jobs asked for Pixar would have share ownership of the movie and its characters, Katzenberg refused. ^[16] Disney and Pixar reached agreement on contract in May 3, 1991, and signed on in early July. ^[20] Eventually, the deal specified that Disney would own the picture and its characters outright, have creative control, and pay Pixar about 12.5% ​​of the ticket revenues. ^[21] [22]It had the option (but not the obligation) to do Pixar’s next two movies and the right to make (with or without Pixar). Disney could also kill the movie at any time with a small penalty. These early negotiations would become a point of contention between Jobs and Eisner for many years. ^[16]

An agreement to produce a feature film based on Tin Toy with a working title of Toy Story was finalized and production was soon thereafter. ^[23]

Writing

The original treatment for Toy Story , written by Lasseter, Andrew Stanton , and Pete Docter , had little in common with the movie. ^[24] It’s paired Tinny, the one-man band from Tin Toy with a ventriloquist’s dummy and feels them on a sprawling odyssey. Under studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg , Woody Was the villain hand, abusing the other toys up to Rallied They contre _him_; however, after Disney executives saw the storyboards they relinquished creative control to Pixar. ^[25] The core idea of Toy Storywas present from the treatment onward, however: that “toys deeply want children to play with, and that desire their hopes, fears, and actions.” ^[24] Katzenberg felt the original treatment was problematic and told Lasseter to reshape Toy Story as a couple of buddy picture, and suggested they watch some classic buddy movies, such as The Defiant Ones and 48 Hrs. , in which two characters with different attitudes are thrown together and have to bond. ^[26] [27] Lasseter, Stanton, and Docter emerged in early September 1991 with the second treatment, and the lead characters were still Tinny and the dummy, the outline of the final film was beginning to take shape.^[26]

The script went through many changes before the final version. Lasseter decided Tinny was “too antiquated”, and the character was changed to a military action figure, and then given a space theme. Tinny’s name changed to Lunar Larry, then Tempus from Morph, and eventually Buzz Lightyear (after astronaut Buzz Aldrin ). ^[28] Lightyear’s design was modeled on the worn by Apollo astronauts and GI Joe action figures. In addition, the green and purple color scheme on Lightyear’s Lasseter and his wife, Nancy, whose favorite colors were green and purple respectively. ^[29] [30] Woody, the second character, was inspired by Casper the Friendly GhostThat Lasseter had when he was a child. Originally, Woody was a ventriloquist’s dummy with a pull-string (hence the name Woody). However, character designer Bud Luckey suggests that Woody could be changed to a cowboy ventriloquist dummy. John Lasseter liked the contrast between the Western and the science fiction genres and the character immediately changed. Eventually, the ventriloquist was dummy aspects of the character, because the dummy was designed to look “sneaky and mean.” ^[31] However they kept the name Woody to pay homage to the Western actor Woody Strode . ^[28] The story department draw inspiration from movies such as Midnight Runand The Odd Couple , ^[32] and screened Lasseter Hayao Miyazaki ‘s Castle in the Sky (1986) for further Top influence.

Toy Story ‘ s script Was Strongly Influenced by the ideas of screenwriter Robert McKee . The members of Pixar’s story-Lasseter, Stanton, Docter and Joe Ranft -were aware that most of them were beginners writing for feature films. Ranft, who had taught a story class at CalArts and did some storyboard work prior. ^[31] Seeking insight, Lasseter and Docter attended a three-day seminar in Los Angeles given by McKee. His principles, grounded in Aristotle’s Poetics, dictated that a character emerges most realistically and compellingly from the choices that the protagonist makes in response to his problems. ^[33] Disney also appointed Joel Cohen , Alec Sokolow and later, Joss Whedon to help develop the script. Whedon found that the script was not working but had a great structure, and added the character of Rex and sought a pivotal role for Barbie. ^[34] The story team is still underway. Among the late additions was the birthplace of Planet Pizza, which emerged from a brainstorming session with dozen directors, storytellers, and animators from Disney.^[35]

Casting

Katzenberg gave approval for the script on January 19, 1993, at which point the voice casting could begin. ^[36] Lasseter always wanted Tom Hanks to play the character of Woody. Lasseter claimed Hanks “If the character, like the one in A League of Their Own , is down-and-out and despicable.” ^[36] Paul Newman , who subsequently accepted the role of Doc Hudson in another Pixar success, Cars , was considered for the role of Woody. ^[37] Billy Crystal was approached to play Buzz, but turned down the role, which he later regretted, and subsequently accepted the role of Mike Wazowski in another Pixar success, Monsters, Inc.. ^[38] [39] In addition to Crystal, Murray Bill , Chevy Chase,and Jim Carrey were also considered for Buzz. ^{[40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45]} Lasseter took the role to Tim Allen, who was appearing in Disney’s Home Improvement , and he accepted. ^[46]

Lasseter borrowed a common Disney technique: animate a vocal monologue from a well-established actor to meld the actor’s voice with the appearance or actions of the animated character. ^[34] This early test footage, using Hanks’ voice from Turner & Hooch , convinced Hanks to sign on to the movie. ^[36] [47] Toy Story was both Hanks’ and Allen’s first animated film role. ^[48]

Production shutdown

Every couple of weeks, Lasseter and his team would put together their latest set of storyboards or footage to show Disney. In early screen tests, Pixar impressed Disney with the technical innovation but convincing Disney of the plot was more difficult. At each presentation by Pixar, Katzenberg would have much to say about it, giving detailed comments and ratings. Katzenberg’s big push to be more edginess to the two main characters. ^[27] Disney wanted the film to appeal to both children and adults, and asked to be added to the movie. ^[36] After many rounds of notes from the Katzenberg and other Disney executives, the general consensus was that Woody had been stripped of almost all charm. ^[27] [46]Tom Hanks, while recording the dialogue for the story reels, exclaimed at one point that the character was a jerk. ^[27] Lasseter and his Pixar team had the first half of the movie ready to screen, so they brought it down to Burbank to show to Katzenberg and other Disney executives on November 19, 1993, an event they later dubbed “The Black Friday Incident . ” ^[49] [36] The results were disastrous, and Schneider, who was never particularly enamored of Katzenberg’s idea of ​​having outsiders make animation for Disney, declared it a mess and ordered that production be stopped immediately. ^[50] Katzenberg hired colleague Thomas Schumacherwhy the reels were bad. Schumacher replied bluntly: “Because it’s not their movie anymore, it’s completely not the movie that John set out to make.” ^[49]

Lasseter was embarrassed with what was on the screen, later recalling, “It was a story filled with the most unhappy, mean characters that I’ve ever seen.” He asked Disney for the chance to win back to Pixar and rework the script in two weeks, and Katzenberg was supportive. ^[49] Lasseter, Stanton, Docter and Ranft delivered the news of the production shutdown to the production crew, many of whom had left other jobs to work on the project. In the meantime, the crew would move to commercial television while working on a new script. Although Lasseter kept the moral high by remaining outwardly drunk, the production shutdown was “a very scary time,” BZ Petroff’s recapitulated story department manager. ^[51]Schneider had just recently been hired animators. ^[52] Katzenberg put the film under the wing of Walt Disney Feature Animation. The Pixar team was pleased that the move would give them an open door to counseling from Disney’s animation veterans. Schneider, however, continued to take a closer look at the project and would like it to go ahead. Katzenberg’s head to urge Eisner to cancel it. ^[26] Stanton retreated into a small, dark, windowless office, emerging periodically with new script pages. He and the other story artists would then draw the shots on storyboards. Whedon came back to Pixar for the rest of the world, and the script was revised in two weeks as promised. ^[51]When Katzenberg and Schneider halted production on Toy Story , Steve Jobs kept the work going with his own personal funding. Jobs did not insert himself into the creative process, respecting the artists at Pixar and managing the relationship with Disney. ^[49]

The Pixar team came back with a new style, with the character of Woody morphing from being a tyrannical boss of Andy’s other toys to being their wise and caring leader. It also included a more advanced discussion of the topic of discussion among the groups rather than a juvenile group discussion that had existed in earlier drafts. Buzz Lightyear’s character has been changed slightly “to make it more clear to the audience that he really does not realize he’s a toy.” ^[52] Katzenberg and Schneider approved the new approach, and by February 1994 the film was back in production. ^[49] The voice actors returned in March 1994 to record their new lines. ^[36]When production was green, the crew grew from its original size of 24 to 110, including 27 animators, 22 technical directors, and 61 other artists and engineers. ^[53] [54] In comparison, The Lion King , released in 1994, required a budget of $ 45 million and a staff of 800. ^[53]In the early budgeting process, Jobs was eager to produce the film as efficiently as possible, impressing Katzenberg with his focus on cost-cutting. Despite this, the $ 17 million production was proving inadequate, especially given the major revision that was necessary after Katzenberg had been forced to make Woody too edgy. Jobs demanded more funds to complete the film right and insisted that Katzenberg was not willing, and Ed Catmull was able to reach a compromised. ^[49]

Animation

Recruiting animators for Toy Story was brisk; the magnet for talent was not the pay, the mediocre, but rather the allure of taking part in the first computer-animated feature. ^[54] Lasseter said that one of the challenges of the computer animation in the movie “We had to make things look more organic. doors are banged up, the floors have scuffs. ” ^[36] The film began with animated storyboards to guide the animators in developing the characters. 27 animators worked on the movie, using 400 computer models to animate the characters. Each character was created out of clayor was first modeled on a computer-drawn diagram before reaching the computer animated design. ^[56] Once the animators had a model, joint and motion controls were coded; it would be possible to move in a variety of ways, such as talking, walking, or jumping. ^[56] Out of all the characters, Woody was the most complex, 723 motion controls, including 212 for his face and 58 for his mouth. ^[36] [57]The first piece of animation, a 30-second test, was delivered to Disney in June 1992, when the company asked for a sample of what the film would look like. Lasseter wanted to impress Disney, with a number of things in the test that could not be done in traditional, hand-drawn animation, such as Woody’s yellow plaid shirt with red stripes, the reflections in Buzz’s helmet and the decals on his space suit, gold Venetian blind shadows falling across Andy’s room. ^[31]

Every shot in the film passed through the hands of eight different teams. The art department gives each shot its color scheme and general lighting. ^[58] Under Craig Good, the layout department then places the models in the shot, framed by the location of the camera, and programmed any camera movement. To make the medium feel as easy as possible, they can be done in a live-action movie with real cameras, dollies, tripods and cranes. ^[58] Headed by live animators Rich Quade and Ash Brannon, each shot went to the animation department from the layout. Lasseter opted against Disney’s approach to a film, but made certain exceptions in scenes where it was particularly critical. ^[58] The animators used the program to set each character in the desired pose. Once a sequence of hand-built poses (or ” keyframes “) was created, the software would build poses for the frames in-between. ^[59] The animators studied videotapes of the actors for inspiration, and Lasseter rejected automatic lip-syncing. ^[59] To the voices, animators spent a week per 8 seconds of animation. ^[56]

Afterward, the animators would compile the scenes, and develop a new storyboard with the computer-animated characters. They then added shading, lighting, visual effects, and finally used final design. ^[56] [57] Under Tom Porter, the shading team used RenderMan’s shader language to create shader programs for each of the model’s surfaces. A few surfaces in Toy Story from real objects: a shader for the curtain fabric in Andy’s room. ^[60] Under Galyn Susman and Sharon Calahan, the lighting team orchestrated the final lighting of the shot after animation and shading. Each completed shot then went into rendering on a “render farm” of 117 Sun Microsystemscomputers that ran 24 hours a day. ^[35] Finished animation emerged in a steady drip of around three minutes to week. ^[61] Depending on its complexity, each frame takes from 45 minutes up to 30 hours to render. 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total. ^{[36] [56] [62]} There are over 77 minutes of animation spread across 1,561 shots. ^[58] A camera team, aided by David DiFrancesco , recorded the frames onto film stock . Toy Story has been rendered at a mere 1.536 by 922 pixels, with each of them corresponding to a quarter-inch of screen area on a typical cinema screen. ^[35]During post-production, the film was sent to Skywalker Sound , where the sound effects were mixed with the music score. ^[57]

Music

Disney was concerned with Lasseter’s position on the use of music. Lasseter did not want the film to be a musical, saying it was a buddy movie featuring “real toys.” Joss Whedon agreed, saying, “It would have been a really bad musical, because it’s a buddy movie.” Buddy movies are about sublimating, punching an arm, ‘I hate you.’ It’s not about open emotion. ” ^[36] However, Disney’s favored the musical format, claiming “Musicals are our orientation.Characters who are asking for.”Toy Story would not break into song, but the film would be used as a non-diegetic song , as in The Graduate , to convey and amplify the emotions that Buzz and Woody were feeling. ^[34]Disney and Lasseter tapped Randy Newman to compose the film. The edited Toy Story was due to Newman and Gary Rydstrom in late September 1995 for their final work on the score and sound design, respectively. ^[63]

Lasseter said, “His songs are touching, witty, and satirical, and he would deliver the emotional underpinning for every scene.” ^[36] Newman wrote three original songs for the film; developing the movie’s signature song ” You’ve Got a Friend in Me ” in one day. ^[36]

Editing and pre-release

It was difficult for crew members to perceive the film’s quality during the production process. ^[61] Some animators felt the film would be a commercially disappointing, but it would find it interesting. ^[61] According to Lee Unkrich , one of the original editors of Toy Story , a scene was cut out of the original final edit. The scene features Sid, after Planet Pizza, torturing Buzz and Woody violently. Unkrich decided to cut right into the scene where Sid is questioning the toys because the creators of the movie thought the audience would be loving Buzz and Woody at that point.^[64] Another scene, where Woody was trying to get Buzz’s attention when he was stuck in the box crate, was shortened because the creators felt it would lose the energy of the movie. ^[64] Peter Schneider had grown optimistic about the film as it was nearing completion, and announced it was due in the United States of America, coinciding with Thanksgiving weekend and the beginning of the winter holiday season. ^[65]

Sources say that executive producer Steve Jobs lacked confidence in the film during its production, and he had been talking to various companies, ranging from Hallmark to Microsoft , about selling Pixar. ^[49] [65] However, as the film progressed, Jobs has become more excited about it, feeling that it might be on the verge of transforming the movie industry. ^[49] As scenes from the movie were finished, he watched them repeatedly and had friends coming from his home to share his new passion. Jobs decided that the release of Toy Story that would take the opportunity to take public Pixar. ^[49]A test audience near Anaheim in late July 1995 marked the need for last-minute tweaks, which added further pressure to the frenetic final weeks. Response cards from the audience were encouraging, but they would be more likely to respond. ^[63] The film ended with a shot of Andy’s house and the sound of a new puppy. Michael Eisner, who attended the screening, told Lasseter afterward that the film was about to end with a shot of Woody and Buzz together, reacting to the news of the puppy. ^[63]

Soundtrack

Track listing The Soundtrack for Toy Story was produced by Walt Disney Records and was released on November 22, 1995, the week of the movie’s release. ^[70] [71] Scored and written by Randy Newman , the soundtrack has received praise for its “sprightly, stirring score”. ^[70] Despite the album’s critical success, the soundtrack only peaked at number 94 on the Billboard 200album chart. ^[72] A cassette and CD single release of ” You’ve Got a Friend in Me ” was released on April 12, 1996, to promote the soundtrack’s release. ^[66]The soundtrack was remastered in 2006. After it went out of print, the album was made available for purchase digitally in retailers such as iTunes . ^[71] The soundtrack, along with Newman’s complete score for the film was reissued on July 17, 2015 as part of the Walt Disney Records: The Legacy Collection series.

All tracks written by Randy Newman .

Charts

Release

There were two premieres of the Toy Story in November 1995. Disney organized one at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, and built a fun house, Totally Toy Story , next door featuring the characters. ^[73] Jobs did not wait and wait for the Regency, a similar theater in San Francisco, and held its own premiere the next night. Instead of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen , Silicon Valley celebrities, Larry Ellison and Andy Grove . The first dueling highlighted in festering issue between the two: Toy Storywas a Disney gold a Pixar movie. ^[74] “The audience appeared to be captivated by the film,” wrote David Price in his 2008 book The Pixar Touch . “Adult-voiced sobs could be heard during the quiet moments after Buzz Lightyear fell and lay broken on the stairway landing.” ^[75] Toy Story opened on 2,281 screens in the United States on November 22, 1995 (before later expanding to 2,574 screens). ^[75] It was paired Alongside a reissue of a Roger Rabbit shorts called Expired Rollercoaster Rabbit , while select prints contained The Adventures of André and Wally B. .

The film was also shown at the Berlin International Film Festival in March , 1996. ^[76] [77] Elsewhere, the film opened in March 1996. ^[65]

Marketing

Marketing for the movie included $ 20 million for Burger King , PepsiCo , Coca-Cola , and Payless ShoeSource paying $ 125 million in special promotions for the film. ^[78] Marketing consultant Al Ries reflected on the promotion: “This will be a killer deal.” How can a kid, sitting through a one-and-a-half-hour movie with an army of recognizable toy characters, not want to own one? ” ^[79] Despite this, Disney Consumer Products was slow to see the potential of Toy Story early on. ^[65]When the Thanksgiving release date was announced in January 1995, many of the companies were accustomed to having eighteen months to two years of experience and passed on the project. In February 1995, Disney took the idea to Toy Fair, a toy industry trade show in New York. There, a Toronto-based company based in China, Thinkway Toys, became interested. ALTHOUGH Thinkway Was a small player in the industry, Mainly Producing toy banks in the form of movie characters, It was reliable to scoop up the worldwide master license for Toy Story toys simply Because no one else wanted it. ^[80] Walt Disney Home Video trailer for the film on seven million copies of the VHS re-release of Cinderella ; the Disney Channelran a television special on the making of Toy Story ; Walt Disney World in Florida held a daily Toy Story parade at Disney-MGM Studios . ^[63]

It was screenwriter Joss Whedon ‘s idea to incorporate Barbie as a character who would rescue Woody and Buzz in the film’ s final act. ^[81] The idea was dropped after Mattel objected and refused to license the toy. Producer Ralph Guggenheim asked that they do not allow the use of the toy as “They [Mattel] are playing with their dolls.” If you give the doll a voice and animate it, you’re creating a persona for it that might not be every little girl’s dream and desire. ” ^[36] Hasbro likewise refused to license GI Joe (mainly because he was going to blow one up), but they did licenseMr. Potato Head . ^[36] The only toy in the movie was Slinky Dog, which was discontinued since the 1970s. When designs for Slinky Were feels to Betty James ( Richard James ‘s wife) she HAD Said That Pixar Improved the toy and That it was “cuter” than the original. ^[82]