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11 unusual facts about Toy Story


Betty James

The Slinky Dog helped turn around the sales slump and a new version issued after a version featured in the 1995 movie Toy Story was another top seller.

Disney English

A typical center will have 5 to 10 classrooms, each themed with a specific Disney property, for example: Snow White, The Lion King, Cars, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Winnie The Pooh, and Toy Story.

Empire Design

Established in 1996, Empire Design’s early work included poster campaigns for movies such as Toy Story, Trainspotting and 12 Monkeys.

Frontierland

Critter Coral was an old area of the land converted into Woody Roundup, a meet and greet area with Woody from Toy Story and Jesse from Toy Story 2.

Johnson and Friends

Often the toys live in terror that new toys will replace them (also a major theme in Toy Story), encouraging small children to look after old toys.

Kerpoof

Since its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company, Kerpoof Studios has integrated its tools for making pictures and printable coloring book pages into Disney.com Preschool and other franchise sites on Disney.com, including Cars and Toy Story.

Kirk Rueter

He is nicknamed "Woody" after his resemblance to a character in the animated movie Toy Story.

Ross Technology

It was an emergency engineering-wide Ross hyperSPARC upgrade which enabled Steve Jobs' Pixar to complete and deliver their animated movie Toy Story to Disney on schedule after the existing Sun Microsystems machines were overwhelmed in the late product development stage by Pixar's demanding new technology.

Simulation

This event transformed the film industry; in 1995, the film Toy Story was the first film to use only computer-generated images and by the new millennium computer generated graphics were the leading choice for special effects in films.

Software versioning

The Debian project uses a major/minor versioning scheme for releases of its operating system, but uses code names from the movie Toy Story during development to refer to stable, unstable and testing releases.

TM 31-210 Improvised Munition Handbook

In the movie Toy Story a document labeled TM 31-210 is clearly visible in Sid's room.


Angry Dad: The Movie

Cultural references in the episode include Pixar Animation Studios, Toy Story, Wallace and Gromit, Kung Fu Panda, Ms. Pac-Man, SpongeBob SquarePants and the 68th Golden Globe Award ceremony.

Asobo Studio

The player can then team up with Pixar Heroes from Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Cars, Up and Toy Story and save the day in 15 thrilling adventures.

BBC One 'Balloon' idents

Produced by Aardman Animations, The three toys used were all connected to BBC One's Christmas Day schedule that year, so there was a dog (the terrestrial premiere of Toy Story), a dinosaur (the dramatic epic The Lost World) and a Reliant Robin van (the comeback of Only Fools and Horses after it had last aired in 1996).

Fog City Mavericks

The film also shows some of the movies made by these filmmakers such as American Graffiti, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, The Black Stallion, Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Toy Story and many others.

Glenn McQueen

In 1994 he moved to Pixar Animation Studios (partly due to his interest in Toy Story and his respect for John Lasseter), where he supervised the animation on Pixar's early successes, including Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc..

Story canon

Toy Story meets Pulp Fiction is an example of using a story canon to demonstrate the absurdity of an idea.