{"id":8725,"date":"2019-06-25T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2019-06-25T10:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:57:57","slug":"toy-story-17-things-you-probably-never-knew-about-pixars-best-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/toy-story-movie-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Toy Story&#8217;: 17 Things You (Probably) Never Knew About Pixar&#8217;s Best Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The release of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/toy-story-4\/164756\"><em>Toy Story 4<\/em><\/a> marks the end of an era for both Pixar and their flagship franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The sequel represents the end of the animation giant&#8217;s current slate of sequels based on their most established properties <a href=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/whats-next-for-pixar-after-toy-story-4\/\">as Pixar re-invests themselves toward telling original stories<\/a> &#8212; doing that which solidified their brand nearly 25 years ago with the first\u00a0<em>Toy Story<\/em>. As Woody and Buzz&#8217;s legacy finally comes to an end, here&#8217;s a look back at how they got there with some fascinating behind-the-scenes secrets about the making of one of the best movie series ever.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Toy Story&#8217; (1995) Trivia<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KYz2wyBy3kc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Before\u00a0<em>Toy Story<\/em> was made, Disney had a relationship with Pixar as a user of its computer-assisted production system (&#8220;CAPS&#8221;), which Disney animators used on the wedding sequence in\u00a0<em>The Little Mermaid<\/em> and then again later during the iconic ballroom dance in\u00a0<em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>.\u00a0Critics singled out that scene with praise, helping persuade Disney to expand its collaboration with Pixar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong>\u00a0Despite those initial collaborations, Pixar still had friction with Disney because the former wanted to go outside the big studio&#8217;s box and make an animated film that was not a traditional Disney cartoon. Pixar did not want to make a musical fairy tale or tell a story where the side characters were more engaging than the main ones. They wanted to make a CG-animated movie that had never been done before, a mismatched-buddy comedy, \u00e0 la <em>48 Hrs.\u00a0<\/em>or <em>Midnight Run<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1090px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ToyStoryOriginalComps-1.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"675\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: Pixar)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0<\/strong>The original Woody (pictured above) got his name because he was originally designed to be a ventriloquist dummy. He was also creepy and tyrannical. Over time, he evolved into a pull-string cowboy doll voiced by Tom Hanks &#8212; but the animators kept the name, now as a tribute to Western character actor Woody Strode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong>\u00a0The initial <em>Toy Story<\/em> plot paired the cynical Woody dummy with Tinny, the wide-eyed soldier from the Pixar short, &#8220;Tin Toy.&#8221; The idea of bringing toys to life definitely fit into Pixar&#8217;s wheelhouse, since some of the easiest things to render in early CG were plastic-like surfaces common with toys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong>\u00a0The filmmakers decided that Tinny was too dated of a toy for their story, so they decided to replace him with an astronaut toy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong>\u00a0Buzz Lightyear was originally named &#8220;Tempest,&#8221; after the Atari game that was an obsession for the animators. The name &#8220;Buzz,&#8221; of course, came from astronaut Buzz Aldrin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong>\u00a0The film was initially budgeted at $17 million (compared to $45 million for Disney&#8217;s 1994 <em>The Lion King<\/em>), but the cost soon ballooned to $30 million.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Toy Story 2&#8217; (1999) Trivia<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ElhbTsKsros?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong> This is one of three Disney movies to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture. The other two are 1991&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>\u00a0and 1994&#8217;s <em>The Lion King<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong> For the scene where Woody looks at the merchandise from &#8220;Woody&#8217;s Roundup&#8221; while at Al&#8217;s private office, mock-ups of the toys were shown to\u00a0Tom Hanks\u00a0in the recording booth. Hanks&#8217; spontaneous reactions to the toys were recorded and used for Woody&#8217;s dialogue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10<\/strong>. Some of this sequel&#8217;s key scenes &#8212; like Woody&#8217;s nightmare and Buzz&#8217;s toy commercial &#8212; were unused ideas leftover from the first film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.\u00a0<\/strong>In the opening credits, when the &#8220;Walt Disney Pictures&#8221; title card appears, fans can see the Pixar lamp, Luxo Jr., as a constellation of stars in the upper right corner of the screen.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Toy Story 3&#8217; (2010) Trivia<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TwlwBR1XFB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>12.<\/strong> This was the first sequel &#8212; animated or live-action &#8212; to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar without any of its predecessors being nominated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13.<\/strong><em> Toy Story 3\u00a0<\/em>holds the record for the most characters to ever appear in a Pixar movie: 302.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14.<\/strong> The first animated film to make $1 billion at the worldwide box-office.\u00a0<em>Toy Story 3<\/em> achieved this on August 27, 2010.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Toy Story 4&#8217; (2019) Trivia<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YbcUNwb9ZDM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>15.\u00a0<\/strong>Among the Easter Eggs from previous Pixar movies fans can see in this sequel are: The awards cases from Gusteau\u2019s office from\u00a0<em>Ratatouille,\u00a0<\/em>furniture from the first\u00a0<em>Incredibles <\/em>movie, and props from\u00a0<em>Coco<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16.\u00a0<\/strong>In an interview from November 2018,\u00a0Tom Hanks\u00a0claimed that the sequel&#8217;s ending was emotional and that it marked &#8220;a moment in history.&#8221; The Oscar-winning also added that he couldn&#8217;t face the crew while recording his final lines because they made him very emotional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17.\u00a0<\/strong>Keanu Reeves voices Duke Kaboom in a role that marks the actor&#8217;s first-ever Disney movie role. It is also Reeves&#8217; first G-rated movie.<\/p>\n<p><em>Toy Story 4<\/em> is in theaters now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/toy-story-4\/164756?ref=insidertickets\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Get-Tickets.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release of\u00a0Toy Story 4 marks the end of an era for both Pixar and their flagship franchise. 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