Toy Story - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Toy Story or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Toy Story

[brent]

Disney pushed hard for the film to be a musical (like most animated features of the time) but John Lasseter was against the idea. He felt the film would work better as a buddy comedy, rather than a musical. Eventually he and Disney reached a compromise in that songs would play at key moments but not be sung by the characters. Pixar wouldn't make a musical until Coco (2017), 22 years later.

[steve]

Andy's lamp is a red version of the lamp that first appeared in and the ball that bounces down the hall just before the party, up and down from the hand of a guest, then is bounced off of by Buzz is the ball that first appeared in Luxo Jr. (1986). Both have since become Pixar trademarks.

[jesse]

In the Black Friday reel, Hamm was depicted as being a bipedal pig (presumably a plush toy) instead of a piggy bank. In addition, he also was given a voice that was more pig-like, similar to Porky Pig, albeit slightly deeper.

[frances]

World's first computer animated feature film.

[michele]

This is the first computer-animated film to use full opening and closing credits.

[dustin]

During the "Mrs. Nesbit" scene, Buzz was with two headless dolls. He says, "One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and suddenly, you see yourself Darjeeling with, Marie-Antoinette and her little sister." Marie-Antoinette was queen of France during 1774-1792. She was guillotined on 1793 in the French Revoultion with her sister-in-law Élisabeth.

[scarlett]

The approximate minutes of the movie is 81 minutes. This is so far the shortest Pixar film.

[ella]

Pixar's only film to not be accompanied by a short film until Toy Story 4 (2019) released 24 years later, although it is Pixar's only film like this before Walt Disney Pictures purchased/acquired the studio in 2006.

[eli]

This is the only Pixar film to not have the Pixar logo, where Luxo, Jr. would bounce on the I, with the Disney logo fading into the film at the start. However, in one of the trailers for the film, a different Pixar logo is shown on a black background, with no lamp.

[alyssa]

In Buzz's first scene, Rex asks Buzz what a space ranger actually does, but Buzz doesn't answer the question, because he is rudely interrupted by Woody who rants about him not being a space ranger. A space ranger is an intergalactic policeman.

[sophie]

The first Pixar film to get more than one sequel.

[aaron]

When Buzz sees the Buzz Lightyear commercial and finds out he is a toy, it says you can get Buzz Lightyear action figures at Al's Toy Barn. This is a reference to Al Mcwhiggin in Toy Story 2 (1999).

[darrell]

Both Robot and Snake have been known to be the most popular background characters.

[morris]

Slinky is made of wood with articulating legs and head, unlike the real life toy which is made of plastic and stands completely still.

[phyllis]

Woody was originally conceived as a ventriloquist's doll. Ventriloquist's dolls play a prominent role in Toy Story 4 (2019).

[bernard]

Though not the main character, Mr. Potato Head, not counting the wanted poster, is famously the first character to appear in both the Toy Story series and the Pixar films. Andy is the first character to be heard speaking in the Pixar films as he was throwing his voice for Mr. Potato Head as a villain.

[scarlett]

This is the first Disney's animated film to be scored by Randy Newman.

[kenneth]

Not only is the dinoco gas station a reference to dinoco in Cars (2006), but also the dinosaur on the picture is actually Arlo from The Good Dinosaur (2015), released 20 years later.