Trivia: This was the first completely computer-generated feature film.
Trivia: The carpet design used in Sid's house is the same design used in the hotel featured in The Shining (1980). (00:48:55 - 00:50:10)
Trivia: The toolbox in Sid's room is labelled "Binford". That is the name of the tool company on Tim Allen (the voice of Buzz)'s show, Home Improvement . (00:59:45)
Trivia: After the "Hey Hamm, I'm Picasso" gag, Mr. Potato Head says to a toy hockey puck, "What are you looking at, you hockey puck?" As an insult comic, Don Rickles (who voices Potato Head) was famous for calling people a "hockey puck" in his routines. (00:04:20)
Trivia: 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.
Trivia: While Buzz is watching the commercial for Buzz Lightyear, the sound made by Buzz's laser is the same as the sound from the original Star Wars TIE fighters. (00:45:10)
Trivia: When Buzz Lightyear is knocked out of the window, he yells a Wilhelm scream. (00:27:15)
Trivia: The "Hidden Mickey" is the watch clock in Andy's room. (00:13:50)
Trivia: Originally Woody was to have a nightmare where he was being attacked by a giant Buzz Lightyear with real working lasers. While the idea was dropped from the film, it was later used as a boss battle in the promotional video game, and later as an inspiration for Woody's nightmare in Toy Story 2.
Trivia: Some people that Pixar considered for the voice of Buzz Lightyear before choosing Tim Allen: Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Jim Carrey, and Billy Crystal.
Trivia: All of the characters eye blink independently, rather than together - a quirk the artists intentionally incorporated.
Trivia: One of the cars' licence plate is "HTT1195", which references the company "Hi Tech Tunes", which produced the film.
Trivia: Originally, Toy Story was going to be about a bear in a toy store. However, the animators decided it would be hard at the time to animate fur for a bear, so they eventually changed the story to what it is now. They kept the bear design, you can see him on the shelf when Woody has his staff meeting. That same bear went through some design changes, and became Lotso from Toy Story 3. (00:06:55)
Trivia: When Buzz & Woody are on RC, it very briefly shows Andy's little sister in the car, watching them from the mirror. In the background, we can hear "Hakuna Matata" from Disney's "The Lion King" playing on the radio. (01:12:05)
Trivia: The moving truck's license plate is "MLY1K9" - a reference to Pixar's resident sheepdog, Molly (one canine). (01:07:50)
Suggested correction: The designs are not the same, only superficially similar.
raywest ★
The design is spot on. The color is just different.
lionhead
So it is identical, except for how it is different?
No one said it was identical. The trivia is the pattern is the same. Color has no bearing on the trivial fact. The fact that they animated the carpet means the design was intentional. Although, it's possible they copied the design from a 70's carpet pattern that "The Shining" also used, rather than copy the design in "The Shining."
Bishop73
The colours are reversed but other than that they are the same.
Ssiscool ★