Toy Storie Much? - The Brave Little Toaster (1987) Discussion

[–] FrankBooth_DeLarge 18 years ago

Their both about inanimate objects coming to life when no one's around. they both have a character who dismembers characters, such as Sid from Toy Story and Elmo St Peters from BLT. Elmo St. Peters actually killed the blender, unlike sid's victims who are dismembered, but turn out to be okay.

They both deal with inanimate objects feeling abandoned. They both have a lot of the same crew members. Such as John Lassetter, director of Toy Story, who was an animator on BLT.

Those are a few examples I came up with.

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[–] greatgonzo-3 18 years ago

Although Elmo St. Peters killed the blender, he's far from an evil character. Whereas Sid was tourmenting the toys for his own amusment, Elmo's just some innocent guy doing his job. If he knew the appliences were alive, he probably would have stopped.

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[–] HaulinBoats 16 years ago

I could make the argument that Sid wasn't "tormenting" the toys, he was playing with them. He was destroying them and altering them but he didn't know they were "alive". If anything, he was being creative with his alterations in a sort of Dr. Frankenstein-y way. I think the reason we all hate Sid is because at this point in the movie we have become attached to the toys and they aren't just "toys" to us.

I remember as a kid I destroyed a couple G.I. Joe's with a hammer, just to see what would happen, (does that make me a psycho? :D ).

Just thought of one more...both Sid and Elmo had dogs!

(Forgive me if this is way off, I haven't seen Toy Story forever. I just can't seem to recall Sid destroying the toys after he knew they could come alive.)

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[–] DisturbedPixie 13 years ago

No, Once Sid knew they were alive, he was very afraid of them (as intended by Woody). They never showed him again after his sister chased him with her doll.

And my brother also destroyed some of his toys. One in a microwave. One with a magnifying glass. I think it's very common.

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[–] lostcorks 12 years ago

The creative team at Pixar have said they too were like sid, and abused their toys when they were kids, and acknowledge that its rather normal.

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[–] angel624 18 years ago

While Toy Story was a great film, I like the darker tone of BLT.

Same here.

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[–] lostcorks 17 years ago

me too!

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[–] AntoNEO 16 years ago

I just watched a documentary called "The Pixar Story" that chronicles the origins of Pixar, and I was surprised to find out that John Lasseter (director of Toy Story) was originally going to be the director of Brave Little Toaster. He pitched it to the studio as the first computer animated movie and they didn't like the idea at all. He was promptly fired from Disney because of his "crazy" ideas. As such, Brave Little Toaster got a new director and went ahead as a traditionally animated film. Soon enough, Toy Story became the first computer animated movie headed by John Lasseter and the rest is history. Crazy how things work out, huh?

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[–] LuciaJoyce 16 years ago

crazy! That also happens in Toy Story 2!! HMMMMMMMM

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[–] Truman-11 13 years ago

A garbage truck and a landfill play a big role in both BLT and TS3. That brave little toaster evidently has a lot of influence in the Pixar universe.

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[–] trisp 11 years ago

Sort of OT, but John Lasseter being fired from a project he was slated to direct. Kind of ironic once you consider his track record as of late. lol.

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[–] HaulinBoats 16 years ago

Both have the inanimate objects breaking their rule of re-animating in front of humans to help their peers be saved Sid, and the electronic store guy)

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[–] stitchfan82 15 years ago

I agry
and i a trying to make a video cuting sid's toy's to the B movie song

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[–] Illyngophobia 12 years ago

The only way in which it would relate is them looking for their Master after being seperated. After that, it has nothing relatable.

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[–] mjn-seifer 11 years ago

The title of this thread makes it sound like Toy Story came first...

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