Random Fun Facts About Toy Story Movies (31 items)

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  (#6) The Trilogy Has a (Practically) Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score

  Toy Story and Toy Story 2 have perfect 100% scores, while Toy Story 3 has an almost perfect 99%.

  Source: Rotten Tomatoes
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  (#10) Toy Story Saved a Toy (Company) in Real Life

  Prior to Toy Story's release, Etch A Sketch was almost out of business. After allowing the character Etch be used in the movie, they saw a whopping 20% rise in sales, saving the company.

  Source: Reddit
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  (#23) Tom Hanks Improvised Much of Woody's Dialogue

  Tom Hanks had so much fun playing Woody that he'd go off on tangents in character. Lucky for him (and the animators) they record the dialogue first and then get to animating.

  John Lasseter explained: “In the process of making an animated film, we always record the dialogue before we do the animation so the animators can be inspired by the actor’s movements." Everything in the scene where Buzz loses his arm and Woody plays with it was added on after Hanks made it up on the spot.

  
  He recorded so much extra (and usable!) stuff back in 1994 that they plan to use some of that dialogue in Toy Story 4.

  
  Source: MTV
  
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  (#30) Toy Story Is the Only Computer Generated Film to Receive a Special Achievement Academy Award

  Director, writer, and co-creator John Lasseter received this special award for "the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film."

  Source: IMDb
  
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  (#25) Toy Story 2 Sneakily Features a Reel of Other Pixar Clips

  At one point, Hamm is flipping though the channels looking for the Al's Toy Barn commercial. While he does this the TV flashes through other stations, which all show clips from shorts and commercials Pixar produced through the years leading up to Toy Story 2. Among them are "Luxo Jr.," "Red's Dream," "Tin Toy," and "Knick Knack."

  If you look quickly there's also a logo for the NeXT computer (developed by Steve Jobs who was CEO of Pixar at the time) as well as snippets from some of Pixar's TV commercials and even a brief image of Pixar's old logo.

  Source: IMDb
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  (#7) Woody Started Out as a Jerk

  Keith Sawyer wrote a book called Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Creativity. In it he details the path from early drafts of Toy Story to the finished film. He says that in the beginning "[it] had almost nothing in common with the movie that we know and love."

  For example, Woody was a completely different and mean-spirited character. "An early scene, had him abusing Slinky Dog, and another had him pushing Buzz out the window."

  Source: The Atlantic

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