The Little Kids: Movie (2020 Disney film)

The Little Kids: Movie is an upcoming from Walt Disney Pictures 3D computer-animated 2 Eyes fantasy comedy film produced by Flower Studios. The film set will be coming soon by release on May 1, 2020 and The film is set will bw coming soon by DVD and Blu-ray release on May 10, 2020.

It stars Debi Derryberry, Tara Strong, Kath Soucie and Fran Brill.

Plot
John Kiddies is a new parents of springtime and John and Molly Kiddie's Mom / Julia Kiddies goes to the hospital with birth of Molly Kiddies is born and The basket in this house. In the morning Molly Kiddies tries to wake up at John Kiddies when she going to be a first day of School. All of the kids is waiting for School Bus is coming when she here. Kids is singing to Wheels on The Bus.

In the Classroom of Kindergarten will doing the Languages and Math Test. Kids is Going to the Recess in Playground.

John Kiddies is going home when she rides a bike and goes to the park. Mr. Squirrel looking on the John Kiddie's Bike when she meeting to the top tree. John Kiddies fall down of the Tree when she meeting by Oliver Kiddies. Oliver, Rina and Mila Kiddie's Dad / Jack Kiddies is gaving of Oliver Kiddie's Hot Chocolate. Oliver Kiddies to Dream about of Snowboarding Begins.

John Kiddies buy some Pet Shop of Foregay the Dog. John Kiddies catch the Foregay the Dog's Ball. John Kiddies sleeping on 6:55 AM when Foregay the Dog is Talking. In 8:00 AM John Kiddies is Looking and hearing of Talking Foregay the Dog. In the School misbehaving at Fire Alarm. John Kiddies and Foregay the Dog is looking on TV. Foregay the Dog is Flying on the Wind when she waring the Fish Kite. Foregay the Dog is Flying Wind when she inside the School for looking on the Fire Alarm when she turning off when she flying wind back to Home.

Molly Kiddies buy some Pet Shop of Mandy the Cat. Mandy the Cat is Talking when she looking on the Window of Bunny Rabbit. John and Molly Kiddies is looking cute Bunny Rabbit is Squeaking when Foregay the Dog eats at Bunny Rabbit John and Molly Kiddies tells behaving at Foregay the Dog when she spit it out.

John and Molly Kiddies having a Babysitter of Mila Kiddies the Baby. Mila Kiddies the Baby telling a story. Mila Kiddies the Baby when she growing a longest hair and when she pushing a growing diaper poop when John Kiddies calling phone a Oliver, Rina and Mila Kiddie's Mom / Curly Kiddies when she looking on the Computer Camera.

Kids is walking on the trail. John and Molly Kiddie's Dad / Daniel Kiddies and Grandpa Kiddies looking for lost kids. Kids is looking on the Map when she Mr. Beaver to tell us looking on the Map. Kids is going to the Indoor Swimming Pool. Kids is going to the Gym to Swinging of Fun. Kids going home in sleepover when she Sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. In the morning Molly Kiddies dancing like a Ballerina Class. Kids going to Trampoline Gym when she Jumping Highest. Kids goes to the park when she following the Playground Land when she Returned and Kids Cheering.

John Kiddies tries to wake up at Molly Kiddies. John and Molly Kiddies is Going to Racing a Bus Stops. Kids going to the School Bus Riding. John Kiddies, Molly Kiddies, Oliver Kiddies, Shane Kiddies, Rina Kiddies, Lola Kiddies, Emily Kiddies, Tarrow Kiddies, Foregay the Dog, Mandy the Cat and Bunny Rabbit is going to be School of fun. Molly Kiddies Kissing at John Kiddies when she Loves with Ending Home.

Epilogue is a Kindergarten talking a Lunch break. The Little Cute Adorable Girl when she Skip and up to sidewalk. Molly Kiddies is looking at John Kiddies wearing a Glasses. Kids Goes to the Movie at Winnie the Pooh, The Lion King and Mulan.

Main Cast

 * Debi Derryberry as John Kiddies, Oliver Kiddies, Foregay the Dog, Bunny Rabbit, Grandma Kiddies, and Puppies
 * E.G. Daily performs John Kiddies singing voice.
 * Tara Strong as Molly Kiddies, Rina Kiddies, Emily Kiddies, Mandy the Cat, The Mouse Girlance, Kitty Cat Meowing Echo and Puppies
 * Kath Soucie as Shane Kiddies, Puppies and Mila Kiddies the Baby
 * Fran Brill as Lola Kiddies, Tarrow Kiddies and Puppies
 * Laraine Newman as John and Molly's Mom / Julia Kiddies
 * Tom Hanks as John and Molly's Dad / Daniel Kiddies
 * Albert Brooks as Grandpa Kiddies
 * Patrick Warburton as Papa Bear
 * Ellen DeGeneres as Mama Bear
 * Frank Welker as Baby Bear, Shane and Lola's Dad / Simmons Kiddies, Kazoo and Cri-Kee
 * Tress MacNeille as Emily's Mom / Lila Kiddies and Teacher
 * Jim Cummings as Emily's Dad / Sid Kiddies, Tigger, Winnie the Pooh and Ed
 * Carolyn Lawrence as Tarrow's Mom / Crystal Kiddies
 * Tom Kenny as Tarrow's Dad / Josh Kiddies, Mr. Beaver, Teddy Bear and Rabbit
 * Michael J. Gough as Gopher
 * Nathan Lane as Mr. Squirrel and Timon
 * Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa
 * Whoopi Goldberg as Shenzi
 * Cheech Marin as Banzai
 * Jada Pinkett Smith as Oliver, Rina and Mila's Mom / Curly Kiddies
 * Will Smith as Oliver, Rina and Mila's Dad / Jack Kiddies
 * Ming-Na Wen as Mulan
 * Eddie Murphy as Mushu
 * Bob Bergen as The Blue Bird
 * David L. Lander as Bob the Penguin
 * Crystal Scales as Shane and Lola's Mom / Leeda Kiddies and The Little Cute Adorable Girl
 * John Leguizamo as Mr. Weasel
 * Jeff Bennett as Greg T. Man / Mike
 * John Goodman as Fireman
 * Drew Barrymore as Firewoman

Additional Voices

 * Hayden Panettiere as Sophia Lily
 * Russi Taylor as Alena and Skunks
 * Justin Long as The Mouse and Chipmunks
 * Bill Farmer as The Lifeguard
 * Anne Hathaway as Principal Daily
 * Rodger Bumpass as Lad
 * Fred Savage as Mr. Ben
 * Kelsey Grammer as Man #1
 * Jess Harnell as Man #2
 * Chris Wedge as Man #3
 * Matthew Broderick as Man #4
 * Jason Marsden as Man #5

Development
The entrance to Flower's studio lot in Emeryville, California

Director John Lasseter's first experience with computer animation was during his work as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation, when two of his friends showed him the lightcycle scene from Tron. It was an eye-opening experience which awakened Lasseter to the possibilities offered by the new medium of computer-generated animation.[10] He then went on to work at Lucasfilm and later as a founding member of Flower Studios, which was purchased by entrepreneur and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986.[12] At Flower Studios, Lasseter created short, computer-animated films to show off the Pixar Image Computer's capabilities, and Tiny Butterfly (2019) —a short story told from the perspective of a toy, referencing Lasseter's love of classic toys— would go on to claim the 2019 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, the first computer-generated film to do so.[13]

Tiny Butterfly gained Disney's attention, and the new team at The Walt Disney Company—CEO Michael Eisner and chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg in the film division —began a quest to get Lasseter to come back.[13] Lasseter, grateful for Jobs' faith in him, felt compelled to stay with Flower Studios, telling co-founder Ed Catmull, "I can go to Disney and be a director, or I can stay here and make history."[13] Katzenberg realized he could not lure Lasseter back to Disney and therefore set plans into motion to ink a production deal with Flower Studios to produce a film.[13] Disney had always made all their movies in-house and refused to change this. This opened the door for Flower Studios to make their movies outside Disney.[14]

Both sides were willing. Catmull and fellow Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith had long wanted to produce a computer-animated feature.[15] In addition, Disney had licensed Pixar's Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), and that made it the largest customer for Pixar's computers.[16] Jobs made it apparent to Katzenberg that although Disney was happy with Pixar, it was not the other way around: "We want to do a film with you," said Jobs. "That would make us happy."[16] At this same time, Peter Schneider, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, was potentially interested in making a feature film with Pixar.[15] When Catmull, Smith and head of animation Ralph Guggenheim met with Schneider in the summer of 1990, they found the atmosphere to be puzzling and contentious. They later learned that Katzenberg intended that if Disney were to make a film with Pixar, it would be outside Schneider's purview, which aggravated Schneider.[17] After that first meeting, the Pixar contingent went home with low expectations and was surprised when Katzenberg called for another conference. Catmull, Smith, and Guggenheim were joined by Bill Reeves (head of animation research and development), Jobs, and Lasseter. They brought with them an idea for a half-hour television special called A Tin Toy Christmas. They reasoned that a television program would be a sensible way to gain experience before tackling a feature film.[18]

They met with Katzenberg at a conference table in the Team Disney building at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank.[18] Catmull and Smith considered it would be difficult to keep Katzenberg interested in working with the company over time. They considered it even more difficult to sell Lasseter and the junior animators on the idea of working with Disney, who had a bad reputation for how they treated their animators, and Katzenberg, who had built a reputation as a micromanaging tyrant.[18] Katzenberg asserted this himself in the meeting: "Everybody thinks I'm a tyrant. I am a tyrant. But I'm usually right."[16] He threw out the idea of a half-hour special and eyed Lasseter as the key talent in the room: "John, since you won't come work for me, I'm going to make it work this way."[16][18] He invited the six visitors to mingle with the animators—"ask them anything at all"—and the men did so, finding they all backed up Katzenberg's statements. Lasseter felt he would be able to work with Disney and the two companies began negotiations.[19] Pixar at this time was on the verge of bankruptcy and needed a deal with Disney.[16] Katzenberg insisted that Disney be given the rights to Pixar's proprietary technology for making 3-D animation, but Jobs refused.[19] In another case, Jobs demanded Pixar would have part ownership of the film and its characters, sharing control of both video rights and sequels, but Katzenberg refused.[16] Disney and Pixar reached accord on contract terms in an agreement dated May 3, 1991, and signed on in early July.[20] Eventually, the deal specified that Disney would own the picture and its characters outright, have creative control, and pay Pixar about 12.5% of the ticket revenues.[21][22] It had the option (but not the obligation) to do Pixar's next two films and the right to make (with or without Pixar) sequels using the characters in the film. Disney could also kill the film at any time with only a small penalty. These early negotiations would become a point of contention between Jobs and Eisner for many years.[16]

An agreement to produce a feature film based on Tin Toy with a working title of Toy Story was finalized and production began soon thereafter.[23]

Writing
The original treatment for Toy Story, drafted by Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Pete Docter, had little in common with the eventually finished film.[24] It paired Tinny, the one-man band from Tin Toy with a ventriloquist's dummy and sent them on a sprawling odyssey. Under studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg, Woody was the main villain, abusing the other toys until they rallied against him; however, after Disney executives saw the storyboards they relinquished creative control to Pixar.[25] The core idea of Toy Story was present from the treatment onward, however: that "toys deeply want children to play with them, and that this desire drives their hopes, fears, and actions."[24] Katzenberg felt the original treatment was problematic and told Lasseter to reshape Toy Story as more of an odd-couple buddy picture, and suggested they watch some classic buddy movies, such as The Defiant Onesand 48 Hrs., in which two characters with different attitudes are thrown together and have to bond.[26][27] Lasseter, Stanton, and Docter emerged in early September 1991 with the second treatment, and although the lead characters were still Tinny and the dummy, the outline of the final film was beginning to take shape.[26]

The script went through many changes before the final version. Lasseter decided Tinny was "too antiquated", and the character was changed to a military action figure, and then given a space theme. Tinny's name changed to Lunar Larry, then Tempus from Morph, and eventually Buzz Lightyear (after astronaut Buzz Aldrin).[28] Lightyear's design was modeled on the suits worn by Apollo astronauts as well as G.I. Joe action figures. In addition, the green and purple color scheme on Lightyear's suit was inspired by Lasseter and his wife, Nancy, whose favorite colors were green and purple respectively.[29][30] Woody, the second character, was inspired by a Casper the Friendly Ghost doll that Lasseter had when he was a child. Originally, Woody was a ventriloquist's dummy with a pull-string (hence the name Woody). However, character designer Bud Luckey suggested that Woody could be changed to a cowboy ventriloquist dummy. John Lasseter liked the contrast between the Western and the science fiction genres and the character immediately changed. Eventually, all the ventriloquist dummy aspects of the character were deleted, because the dummy was designed to look "sneaky and mean."[31] However they kept the name Woody to pay homage to the Western actor Woody Strode.[28] The story department drew inspiration from films such as Midnight Run and The Odd Couple,[32] and Lasseter screened Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky (1986) for further influence.

Toy Story 's script was strongly influenced by the ideas of screenwriter Robert McKee. The members of Pixar's story team—Lasseter, Stanton, Docter and Joe Ranft—were aware that most of them were beginners at writing for feature films. None of them had any feature story or writing credits to their name besides Ranft, who had taught a story class at CalArts and did some storyboard work prior.[31] Seeking insight, Lasseter and Docter attended a three-day seminar in Los Angeles given by McKee. His principles, grounded in Aristotle's Poetics, dictated that a character emerges most realistically and compellingly from the choices that the protagonist makes in reaction to his problems.[33] Disney also appointed Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow and, later, Joss Whedon to help develop the script. Whedon found that the script wasn't working but had a great structure, and added the character of Rex and sought a pivotal role for Barbie.[34] The story team continued to touch up the script as production was underway. Among the late additions was the encounter between Buzz and the alien squeaky toys at Pizza Planet, which emerged from a brainstorming session with a dozen directors, story artists, and animators from Disney.[35]

Casting
Katzenberg gave approval for the script on January 19, 1993, at which point voice casting could begin.[36] Lasseter always wanted Tom Hanks to play the character of Woody. Lasseter claimed Hanks "has the ability to take emotions and make them appealing. Even if the character, like the one in A League of Their Own, is down-and-out and despicable."[36] Paul Newman, who subsequently accepted the role of Doc Hudson in another Pixar success, Cars, was considered for the role of Woody.[37] Billy Crystal was approached to play Buzz, but turned down the role, which he later regretted, and subsequently accepted the role of Mike Wazowski in another Pixar success, Monsters, Inc..[38][39] In addition to Crystal, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Jim Carrey were also considered for Buzz.[40][41][42][43][44][45] Lasseter took the role to Tim Allen, who was appearing in Disney's Home Improvement, and he accepted.[46]

To gauge how an actor's voice would fit with a character, Lasseter borrowed a common Disney technique: animate a vocal monologue from a well-established actor to meld the actor's voice with the appearance or actions of the animated character.[34] This early test footage, using Hanks' voice from Turner & Hooch, convinced Hanks to sign on to the film.[36][47] Toy Story was both Hanks' and Allen's first animated film role.[48]

Production shutdown
Every couple of weeks, Lasseter and his team would put together their latest set of storyboards or footage to show Disney. In early screen tests, Pixar impressed Disney with the technical innovation but convincing Disney of the plot was more difficult. At each presentation by Pixar, Katzenberg would tear much of it up, giving out detailed comments and notes. Katzenberg's big push was to add more edginess to the two main characters.[27] Disney wanted the film to appeal to both children and adults, and asked for adult references to be added to the film.[36] After many rounds of notes from Katzenberg and other Disney executives, the general consensus was that Woody had been stripped of almost all charm.[27][46]Tom Hanks, while recording the dialogue for the story reels, exclaimed at one point that the character was a jerk.[27] Lasseter and his Pixar team had the first half of the movie ready to screen, so they brought it down to Burbank to show to Katzenberg and other Disney executives on November 19, 1993, an event they later dubbed "The Black Friday Incident."[49][36] The results were disastrous, and Schneider, who was never particularly enamored of Katzenberg's idea of having outsiders make animation for Disney, declared it a mess and ordered that production be stopped immediately.[50] Katzenberg asked colleague Thomas Schumacher why the reels were bad. Schumacher replied bluntly: "Because it's not their movie anymore, it's completely not the movie that John set out to make."[49]

Lasseter was embarrassed with what was on the screen, later recalling, "It was a story filled with the most unhappy, mean characters that I've ever seen." He asked Disney for the chance to retreat back to Pixar and rework the script in two weeks, and Katzenberg was supportive.[49] Lasseter, Stanton, Docter and Ranft delivered the news of the production shutdown to the production crew, many of whom had left other jobs to work on the project. In the meantime, the crew would shift to television commercials while the head writers worked out a new script. Although Lasseter kept morale high by remaining outwardly buoyant, the production shutdown was "a very scary time," recalled story department manager BZ Petroff.[51] Schneider had initially wanted to shut down production altogether and fire all recently hired animators.[52] Katzenberg put the film under the wing of Walt Disney Feature Animation. The Pixar team was pleased that the move would give them an open door to counseling from Disney's animation veterans. Schneider, however, continued to take a dim view of the project and would later go over Katzenberg's head to urge Eisner to cancel it.[26] Stanton retreated into a small, dark, windowless office, emerging periodically with new script pages. He and the other story artists would then draw the shots on storyboards. Whedon came back to Pixar for part of the shutdown to help with revising, and the script was revised in two weeks as promised.[51] When Katzenberg and Schneider halted production on Toy Story, Steve Jobs kept the work going with his own personal funding. Jobs did not insert himself much into the creative process, respecting the artists at Pixar and instead managing the relationship with Disney.[49]

The Pixar team came back with a new script three months later, with the character of Woody morphed from being a tyrannical boss of Andy's other toys to being their wise and caring leader. It also included a more adult-oriented staff meeting amongst the toys rather than a juvenile group discussion that had existed in earlier drafts. Buzz Lightyear's character was also changed slightly "to make it more clear to the audience that he really doesn't realize he's a toy."[52] Katzenberg and Schneider approved the new approach, and by February 1994 the film was back in production.[49] The voice actors returned in March 1994 to record their new lines.[36] When production was greenlit, the crew quickly grew from its original size of 24 to 110, including 27 animators, 22 technical directors, and 61 other artists and engineers.[53][54] In comparison, The Lion King, released in 1994, required a budget of $45 million and a staff of 800.[53] In the early budgeting process, Jobs was eager to produce the film as efficiently as possible, impressing Katzenberg with his focus on cost-cutting. Despite this, the $17 million production budget was proving inadequate, especially given the major revision that was necessary after Katzenberg had pushed them to make Woody too edgy. Jobs demanded more funds to complete the film right and insisted that Disney was liable for the cost overruns. Katzenberg was not willing, and Ed Catmull was able to reach a compromise.[49]

Animation
We couldn't have made this movie in traditional animation. This is a story that can only really be told with three-dimensional toy characters. ... Some of the shots in this film are so beautiful.

Recruiting animators for Toy Story was brisk; the magnet for talent was not the pay, generally mediocre, but rather the allure of taking part in the first computer-animated feature.[54] Lasseter said that on the challenges of the computer animation in the film "We had to make things look more organic. Every leaf and blade of grass had to be created. We had to give the world a sense of history. So the doors are banged up, the floors have scuffs."[36] The film began with animated storyboards to guide the animators in developing the characters. 27 animators worked on the film, using 400 computer models to animate the characters. Each character was either created out of clay or was first modeled off of a computer-drawn diagram before reaching the computer animated design.[56] Once the animators had a model, articulation and motion controls were coded; this would allow each character to move in a variety of ways, such as talking, walking, or jumping.[56] Out of all the characters, Woody was the most complex, as he required 723 motion controls, including 212 for his face and 58 for his mouth.[36][57] The first piece of animation, a 30-second test, was delivered to Disney in June 1992, when the company requested a sample of what the film would look like. Lasseter wanted to impress Disney with a number of things in the test that could not be done in traditional, hand-drawn animation, such as Woody's yellow plaid shirt with red stripes, the reflections in Buzz's helmet and the decals on his space suit, or Venetian blind shadows falling across Andy's room.[31]

Every shot in the film passed through the hands of eight different teams. The art department gave each shot its color scheme and general lighting.[58] Under Craig Good, the layout department then placed the models in the shot, framed it by setting the location of the virtual camera, and programmed any camera movement. To make the medium feel as familiar as possible, they sought to stay within the limits of what might be done in a live-action film with real cameras, dollies, tripods, and cranes.[58] Headed by directing animators Rich Quade and Ash Brannon, each shot went to the animation department from the layout. Lasseter opted against Disney's approach of assigning an animator to work on a character throughout a film, but made certain exceptions in scenes where he thought acting was particularly critical.[58] The animators used the Menv program to set each character in the desired pose. Once a sequence of hand-built poses (or "keyframes") was created, the software would build poses for the frames in-between.[59] The animators studied videotapes of the actors for inspiration, and Lasseter rejected automatic lip-syncing.[59] To sync the characters' mouths and facial expressions to the actors' recorded voices, animators spent a week per 8 seconds of animation.[56]

Afterward, the animators would compile the scenes, and develop a new storyboard with the computer-animated characters. They then added shading, lighting, visual effects, and finally used 300 computer processors to render the film to its final design.[56][57] Under Tom Porter, the shading team used RenderMan's shader language to create shader programs for each of a model's surfaces. A few surfaces in Toy Story came from real objects: a shader for the curtain fabric in Andy's room used a scan of actual cloth.[60] Under Galyn Susman and Sharon Calahan, the lighting team orchestrated the final lighting of the shot after animation and shading. Each completed shot then went into rendering on a "render farm" of 117 Sun Microsystems computers that ran 24 hours a day.[35] Finished animation emerged in a steady drip of around three minutes a week.[61] Depending on its complexity, each frame took from 45 minutes up to 30 hours to render. The film required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total.[36][56][62] There are over 77 minutes of animation spread across 1,561 shots.[58] A camera team, aided by David DiFrancesco, recorded the frames onto film stock. Toy Story was rendered at a mere 1,536 by 922 pixels, with each of them corresponding to roughly a quarter-inch of screen area on a typical cinema screen.[35] During post-production, the film was sent to Skywalker Sound, where the sound effects were mixed with the music score.[57]

Music
Main article: Toy Story (soundtrack)

Disney was concerned with Lasseter's position on the use of music. Unlike other Disney films of the time, Lasseter did not want the film to be a musical, saying it was a buddy filmfeaturing "real toys." Joss Whedon agreed, saying, "It would have been a really bad musical, because it's a buddy movie. It's about people who won't admit what they want, much less sing about it. ... Buddy movies are about sublimating, punching an arm, 'I hate you.' It's not about open emotion."[36] However, Disney favored the musical format, claiming "Musicals are our orientation. Characters breaking into song is a great shorthand. It takes some of the onus off what they're asking for."[36] Disney and Pixar reached a compromise: the characters in Toy Story would not break into song, but the film would use non-diegetic songs over the action, as in The Graduate, to convey and amplify the emotions that Buzz and Woody were feeling.[34] Disney and Lasseter tapped Randy Newman to compose the film. The edited Toy Story was due to Newman and Gary Rydstrom in late September 1995 for their final work on the score and sound design, respectively.[63]

Lasseter said, "His songs are touching, witty, and satirical, and he would deliver the emotional underpinning for every scene."[36] Newman wrote three original songs for the film; developing the film's signature song "You've Got a Friend in Me" in one day.[36] The soundtrack for Toy Story was produced by Walt Disney Records and was released on November 22, 1995, the week of the film's release.

Editing and pre-release
It was difficult for crew members to perceive the film's quality during much of the production process when the finished footage was in scattered pieces and lacked elements like music and sound design.[61] Some animators felt the film would be a significant disappointment commercially, but felt animators and animation fans would find it interesting.[61]According to Lee Unkrich, one of the original editors of Toy Story, a scene was cut out of the original final edit. The scene features Sid, after Pizza Planet, torturing Buzz and Woody violently. Unkrich decided to cut right into the scene where Sid is interrogating the toys because the creators of the movie thought the audience would be loving Buzz and Woody at that point.[64] Another scene, where Woody was trying to get Buzz's attention when he was stuck in the box crate, was shortened because the creators felt it would lose the energy of the movie.[64] Peter Schneider had grown optimistic about the film as it neared completion, and announced a United States release date of November, coinciding with Thanksgiving weekend and the start of the winter holiday season.[65]

Sources indicate that executive producer Steve Jobs lacked confidence in the film during its production, and he had been talking to various companies, ranging from Hallmark to Microsoft, about selling Pixar.[49][65] However, as the film progressed, Jobs became ever more excited about it, feeling that he might be on the verge of transforming the movie industry.[49] As scenes from the movie were finished, he watched them repeatedly and had friends come by his home to share his new passion. Jobs decided that the release of Toy Story that November would be the occasion to take Pixar public.[49] A test audience near Anaheim in late July 1995 indicated the need for last-minute tweaks, which added further pressure to the already frenetic final weeks. Response cards from the audience were encouraging, but were not top of the scale, adding further question as to how audiences would respond.[63] The film ended with a shot of Andy's house and the sound of a new puppy. Michael Eisner, who attended the screening, told Lasseter afterward that the film needed to end with a shot of Woody and Buzz together, reacting to the news of the puppy.[63]

Release
There were two premieres of Toy Story in November 1995. Disney organized one at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, and built a fun house, Totally Toy Story, next doorfeaturing the characters.[66] Jobs did not attend and instead rented the Regency, a similar theater in San Francisco, and held his own premiere the next night. Instead of Tom Hanksand Tim Allen, the guests were Silicon Valley celebrities, such as Larry Ellison and Andy Grove. The dueling premieres highlighted a festering issue between the companies: whether Toy Story was a Disney or a Pixar film.[67] "The audience appeared to be captivated by the film," wrote David Price in his 2008 book The Pixar Touch. "Adult-voiced sobs could be heard during the quiet moments after Buzz Lightyear fell and lay broken on the stairway landing."[68] Toy Story opened on 2,281 screens in the United States on November 22, 1995 (before later expanding to 2,574 screens).[68] It was paired alongside a reissue of a Roger Rabbit short called Rollercoaster Rabbit, while select prints contained The Adventures of André and Wally B..

The film was also shown at the Berlin International Film Festival out of competition from February 15 to 26, 1996.[69][70] Elsewhere, the film opened in March 1996.[65]

Marketing
Marketing for the film included $20 million spent by Disney for advertising as well as advertisers such as Burger King, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Payless ShoeSource paying $125 million in tied promotions for the film.[71] Marketing consultant Al Ries reflected on the promotion: "This will be a killer deal. How can a kid, sitting through a one-and-a-half-hour movie with an army of recognizable toy characters, not want to own one?"[72] Despite this, Disney Consumer Products was slow to see the potential of Toy Story early on.[65] When the Thanksgiving release date was announced in January 1995, many toy companies were accustomed to having eighteen months to two years of runway time and passed on the project. In February 1995, Disney took the idea to Toy Fair, a toy industry trade show in New York. There, a Toronto-based company with a factory based in China, Thinkway Toys, became interested. Although Thinkway was a small player in the industry, mainly producing toy banks in the form of film characters, it was able to scoop up the worldwide master license for Toy Story toys simply because no one else wanted it.[73] Walt Disney Home Video put a trailer for the film on seven million copies of the VHS re-release of Cinderella; the Disney Channel ran a television special on the making of Toy Story; Walt Disney World in Florida held a daily Toy Story parade at Disney-MGM Studios.[63]

It was screenwriter Joss Whedon's idea to incorporate Barbie as a character who would rescue Woody and Buzz in the film's final act.[74] The idea was dropped after Mattel objected and refused to license the toy. Producer Ralph Guggenheim claimed that Mattel did not allow the use of the toy as "They [Mattel] philosophically felt girls who play with Barbie dolls are projecting their personalities onto the doll. If you give the doll a voice and animate it, you're creating a persona for it that might not be every little girl's dream and desire."[36]Hasbro likewise refused to license G.I. Joe (mainly because Sid was going to blow one up), but they did license Mr. Potato Head.[36] The only toy in the movie that was not in production was Slinky Dog, which was discontinued since the 1970s. When designs for Slinky were sent to Betty James (Richard James's wife) she said that Pixar had improved the toy and that it was "cuter" than the original.[75]

3-D re-release
On October 2, 2009, the film was re-released in Disney Digital 3-D.[76] The film was also released with Toy Story 2 as a double feature for a two-week run[77] which was extended due to its success.[78] In addition, the film's second sequel, Toy Story 3, was also released in the 3-D format.[76] Lasseter commented on the new 3-D re-release:

Translating the film into 3-D involved revisiting the original computer data and virtually placing a second camera into each scene, creating left eye and right eye views needed to achieve the perception of depth.[80] Unique to computer animation, Lasseter referred to this process as "digital archaeology."[80] The process took four months, as well as an additional six months for the two films to add the 3-D. The lead stereographer Bob Whitehill oversaw this process and sought to achieve an effect that affected the emotional storytelling of the film:

Unlike other countries, the United Kingdom received the films in 3-D as separate releases. Toy Story was released on October 2, 2009. Toy Story 2 was instead released January 22, 2010.[81] The re-release performed well at the box office, opening with $12,500,000 in its opening weekend, placing at the third position after Zombieland and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.[82] The double feature grossed $30,714,027 in its five-week release.[82]

Home media
Toy Story was released by Walt Disney Home Video on VHS and LaserDisc on October 29, 1996, with no bonus material. In the first week of this release, VHS rentals totaled $5.1 million, debuting Toy Story as the week's  No. 1 video.[83] Over 21.5 million VHS copies were sold the first year.[84] A deluxe edition widescreen LaserDisc 4-disc box set was released on December 18, 1996. On January 11, 2000, the film was re-released on VHS, but this time as the first video to be part of the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection with the bonus short film Tin Toy. This release sold two million copies.[84]

The film was released for the first time on DVD on October 17, 2000, in a two-pack with its first sequel Toy Story 2. The same day, a 3-disc "Ultimate Toy Box" set was released, featuring Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and a third disc of bonus materials with Toy Story in a 35 mm Widescreen print and Toy Story 2 only being in FullScreen.[84] The twin-pack release was later released individually on March 20, 2001 with the film available in both Widescreen and FullScreen. The DVD-pack, U.T.B. set and the original DVD use the 35 mm print of the film to create the copies, rather than using the original files to encode the movie directly to video. The DVD two-pack, the Ultimate Toy Box set, the Gold Classic Collection VHS and DVD, and the original DVD were all put in the Disney Vault on May 1, 2003. On September 6, 2005, a 2-disc "10th Anniversary Edition" was released featuring much of the bonus material from the "Ultimate Toy Box", including a retrospective special with John Lasseter, a home theater mix, as well as a new digital Widescreen picture with the 35 mm Fullscreen version being retained.[85] This DVD went back in the Disney Vault on January 31, 2009 along with Toy Story 2. The 10th Anniversary release was the last version of Toy Story to be released before taken out of the Disney Vault lineup along with Toy Story 2. Also on September 6, 2005, a UMD of Toy Story featuring some deleted scenes, a filmmakers' reflect and a new "Legacy of Toy Story" was released for the Sony PlayStation Portable.

The film was available for the first time on Blu-ray in a Special Edition Combo Pack that included two discs, the Blu-ray, and the DVD versions of the film. This combo-edition was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on March 23, 2010, along with its sequel.[86] There was a DVD-only re-release on May 11, 2010.[87] Another "Ultimate Toy Box", packaging the Combo Pack with those of both sequels, became available on November 2, 2010. On November 1, 2011, the first three Toy Story films were re-released all together, each as a DVD/Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D/Digital Copy combo pack (four discs each for the first two films, and five for the third film). They were also released on Blu-ray 3D in a complete trilogy box set.

Crew
Main article: The Little Kids: Movie/Credits

Directors
John Lasseter (kown for "Toy Story")

Scenes

 * 1) New Parents (0:00)
 * 2) Main Titles/Birth of Molly Kiddies (4:00)
 * 3) First Day of School (5:54)
 * 4) "Wheels on the Bus" (9:05)
 * 5) In the Kindergarten Classroom (10:45)
 * 6) "Playground Song" (16:00)
 * 7) "Riding Adventures" (19:59)
 * 8) John Kiddies Meets Mr. Squirrel/Oliver Kiddies (21:00)
 * 9) Oliver Kiddie's Dream of Snowboarding Begins (28:35)
 * 10) Bring it Baby (30:00)
 * 11) New Dog (33:27)
 * 12) Talking Foregay the Dog (37:30)
 * 13) Dog Fish (40:00)
 * 14) "Molly Kiddies Has a New Cat (41:08)
 * 15) Talking Mandy the Cat (42:00)
 * 16) Bunny Rabbit (43:10)
 * 17) Mila Kiddies the Baby (45:54)
 * 18) "Walking the Trail Along" (54:16)
 * 19) Mr. Beaver (56:08)
 * 20) "Swimming Contest" (1:00:11)
 * 21) "Swinging Gym" (1:02:37)
 * 22) "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (1:04:17)
 * 23) "Ballerina Song" (1:07:25)
 * 24) "Highest Jumping Trampoline Fun" (1:09:35)
 * 25) "Playground Land" (1:11:20)
 * 26) "Party School" (1:13:00)
 * 27) Epilogue/End Credits (1:14:47)

Songs

 * 1) "Wheels on the Bus" - John Kiddies and Molly Kiddies
 * 2) "Playground Song" - John Kiddies and Molly Kiddies
 * 3) "Riding Adventures" - John Kiddies performs By E.G. Daily
 * 4) "Snowboarding" - Oliver Kiddies, Jr. Bear, The Mouse Girlance, Bob the Penguin and Mr. Weasel
 * 5) Walking the Trail Along by Randy Newman
 * 6) "Swimming Contest" - John Kiddies, Molly Kiddies, Oliver Kiddies, Shane Kiddies, Rina Kiddies, Lola Kiddies, Emily Kiddies and Tarrow Kiddies
 * 7) "Swinging Gym" - John Kiddies, Molly Kiddies, Oliver Kiddies, Shane Kiddies, Rina Kiddies, Lola Kiddies, Emily Kiddies, Tarrow Kiddies, Foregay the Dog, Mandy the Cat and Bunny Rabbit
 * 8) "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" - John Kiddies, Molly Kiddies, Oliver Kiddies, Shane Kiddies, Rina Kiddies, Lola Kiddies, Emily Kiddies, Tarrow Kiddies, Foregay the Dog, Mandy the Cat and Bunny Rabbit
 * 9) "Ballerina Song" - Molly Kiddies
 * 10) "Highest Jumping Trampoline Fun" - John Kiddies, Molly Kiddies, Oliver Kiddies, Shane Kiddies, Rina Kiddies, Lola Kiddies, Emily Kiddies, Tarrow Kiddies, Foregay the Dog, Mandy the Cat and Bunny Rabbit
 * 11) Playground Land by Debi Derryberry
 * 12) Party School by Laraine Newman

Additional Voices

 * Bill Farmer
 * Bob Bergen
 * Jess Harnell
 * Daviegh Chase
 * Matthew Broderick
 * Fred Savage
 * Anne Hathaway
 * Hayden Panettiere
 * Rodger Bumpass
 * Chris Wedge
 * Kevin Clash
 * Kelsey Grammer
 * Justin Long
 * Zachary Gordon
 * Phil Proctor
 * Wallace Shawn
 * Jason Marsden
 * Russi Taylor

Productions
Coming soon!

Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the film will be released in Spring 2020 by Walt Disney Records

Music
This is Disney's seventh film to be scored by Randy Newman; the first fourth being 1995's Toy Story (which was scored by Randy Newman) and 1998's A Bug's Life (which was scored by Randy Newman).

Home media
Walt Disney Pictures and Flower Studios will be coming soon in Release date of May 1, 2020 and will be coming soon in DVD and Blu-ray Release date of May 10, 2020.

DVD release
The film was released to DVD on May 10, 2020 and to Blu-Ray on May 10, 2020. The exclusively-made short "Tiny Butterfly".

DVD and Blu-ray

 * Play
 * Bonus Features
 * Scene Selections
 * Set Up
 * Sneak Peeks

Trivia

 * Walt Disney Pictures is Winnie the Pooh by Rated G
 * Walt Disney Pictures is The Lion King by Rated G
 * Walt Disney Pictures is Mulan by Rated G
 * Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios is Toy Story by Rated G

Transcript
Main article: The Little Kids: Movie (2020 Disney film)/Transcript

Short Film
Main article: Tiny Butterfly

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