Useless Movie Trivia For
Toy Story
Memorable Movie Quotes
Buzz: To infinity, and beyond!
Buzz: How dare you open a space man's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could have been sucked from their sockets!
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Mr. Potato Head: Ages three and up! It's on my box! Ages three and up! I'm not supposed to be babysitting Princess Drool!
Trivia
First fully computer-generated full-length feature film. Each frame took 4 to 13 hours (depending on the complexity of the shot) of time on a RenderFarm consisting of 87 2-CPU SparcStation 20's, 30 4-CPU Sparc-Station 20's and a SparcServer 1000.
The animation team perfected the movement of the toy soldiers by gluing some sneakers to a sheet of wood and trying to walk around with them on.
Woody and Buzz Lightyear are inspired by director John Lasseter's own childhood toys. He based Woody on his own pull-string Casper doll, and once he grew out of Casper he moved on to a G.I Joe, a flashy toy at the time of his childhood.
Sid Phillips is said to be inspired by a former Pixar employee of the same last name who was known to disassemble toys and use the parts to build bizarre creations.
The top of Sid's backpack reads "Julie Macbarfle has cooties!", a reference to camera manager Julie M. McDonald, who lobbied people to put her name in the film. "Juju's house of food" is another reference to her.
The moving company ("Eggman Movers") is named after art director Ralph Eggleston. The license plate of the truck ("MLY1K9", meaning "Molly, one canine") is a reference to Pixar's resident sheepdog.
When the Pizza Planet delivery boy enters the Dinoco gas station, he asks for directions to West Cutting Boulevard. West Cutting Boulevard is the street where Pixar Animation Studios was located in Richmond, California, at the time (Pixar moved its entire operation to Emeryville, California, in 2000).
Whenever a character's eyes blink, they never blink together, but one at a time.
Pizza Planet was originally Pizza Putt, a combination pizzeria/mini-golf course.
What attracted Tom Hanks to the role of Woody, was during his childhood he would always wonder if his toys were alive and moved around when nobody was in his room. What attracted Tim Allen to the role of Buzz Lightyear, was before him they offered the role to his biggest influence in his career, Chevy Chase, who turned it down.
All of the cars in Toy Story have license plate stickers that are dated November 95 - the same date the movie was released.
The toolbox on top of the milk crate that Woody is trapped in is a Binford, the same type of tool that Tim Allen used on his television show Home Improvement.
This was the first animated film in Oscar history to be nominated for a Best Screenplay Academy Award - Adapted or Original.
Hasbro denied Pixar the use of the name GI Joe when it was informed that a GI Joe doll was going to be blown up by Sid.
Joss Whedon reportedly created the character Rex the Dinosaur.
During the scene where Woody and Buzz are riding RC to catch up to the moving truck, for a fraction of a second WALL·E is visible posing as a garbage can in the background. This is because John Lasseter and others came up with the idea for the movie at a lunch just before Toy Story was complete.
The highest-grossing movie of 1995.
Goofs
While planning the rescue of Buzz from the rocket, the clock on Sid's wall jumps from 6:35 to 10:00 to 3:10.
The light fixture that Ducky and Legs remove and then replace is larger than the hole it travels through.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget: $30,000,000
Gross $30,144,903
Filming Locations