Toy Story
Short description
Toy Story centres on the secret life of the toys belonging to a boy named Andy. When people are not around, the toys talk and move on their own, and Woody, a pull-string cowboy, has long been Andy's favourite and the group's leader. Andy's birthday brings a new present, a space ranger action figure named Buzz Lightyear, and Woody's position at the top is suddenly under threat. Jealous of the newcomer and afraid of being replaced, Woody works against Buzz, but the two are separated from Andy and have to cooperate if they are to find their way back.
The film was directed by John Lasseter and released in 1995, arriving after his earlier short films Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Tin Toy and Knick Knack and before A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2. Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon and Joel Cohen wrote the screenplay, Bonnie Arnold and Ralph Guggenheim produced, and the voices include Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn and John Ratzenberger. It was made by Pixar on a budget of 30 million dollars and took close to 398 million dollars worldwide, a strong return for an animated release of that period. On IMDb it holds 8.3 out of 10 from about 1.2 million votes, on TMDB 8 out of 10 from over 20,000 votes, and a critics' rating of 9.4 out of 10 from 161 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- The van used to transport Andy's toys was called "EGGMAN"; this is also the name of the main villain from the Sonic the Hedgehog game series.
- The gas station 'Dinoco' appears in the cartoon. In 'Cars' (2006), Dinoco is one of the leading racing companies.
- In the episode where Molly is riding in the front seat of the car, the same music plays as from the opening credits of the animated series “Timon & Pumbaa” (1995-1998).
- Distributions of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system are named after the main characters of the cartoon.
- When Woody is announcing Andy’s birthday on the microphone, books with titles from early Pixar shorts are visible behind him. Among them: “The Adventures of André & Wally Bee” (1984); “Luxo Jr.” (1986); “Knick Knack” (1989); “Red’s Dream” (1987).
- Processing each frame took from 4 to 13 hours.
- In other, non-English language versions of the cartoon, the characters' mouths move in accordance with the voice and intonation of the voice actor. In addition, all inscriptions appearing on the screen were also adapted for each of the countries where the cartoon was released.
- There is a globe in Andy's room. If you look closely, you can notice (especially when the globe almost crushes Buzz), that it depicts a map not of Russia, but of the USSR.
- When Buzz proves he can fly, a ball from the short film “Luxo Jr.” (1986) can be seen during his fall.
- If you look closely at the video, you can make the following observation: the characters in the picture blink periodically, but never do so simultaneously.
- The cartoon was released in an unusual format of 1.78:1 (the traditional format is 1.85:1).
- To get into Hannah's room, Woody hides in a string of Christmas lights. When he and Buzz emerge from it, the lights are gone, and in the next shot, they are back in their original place.
- The filmmakers admitted that they were inspired by the chase scene from 'Wallace & Gromit 2: The Wrong Trousers' (1993) when creating the scene of the chase after the van.
- The number A113 appears in every Pixar film; it corresponds to the number of the classroom where John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, and Andrew Stanton studied at CalArts. In 'Toy Story,' A113 is the driver's license number on the windshield of Andy's mother's minivan.
- The name of one of the main characters of the cartoon – Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear – coincides with the name of the famous American astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
- The character Andy got his name in honor of Professor Andries 'Andy' Van Dam. Many of the film's creators studied in his courses on computer science and computer graphics.
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