Toy Story Secret: The Books behind Woody!
Rusty Martin
I was watching Toy Story last night as I often do, and made an interesting
discovery. In the opening scene where Woody calls a staff meeting to inform
the toys that Andy's birthday party is that day, I took note of the books on
the shelf behind Woody's head.
Included among them are...
The Adventures of Andre and Wally B.
Red's Dream
Tin Toy
Knicknack
"Red's Dream," "Tin Toy" and "Knicknack" were all titles of Pixar Animation
Studios short films directed by John Lasseter! Additionally, "The Adverntures
of Andre and Wally B." was also a film directed by Lasseter. Very cool, I
thought.
So now, after a day or so of searching, I can't seem to find any reference to
"Luxo Jr." This film was nominated for Best Animated Short Film in 1986, is
also created by Pixar and Lasseter, and will be shown in theaters along with
"Toy Story 2." Can anyone else find a reference to that film?
There are a couple of books that I can't read the titles, but they don't seem
to say Luxo Jr.
Additionally, I found the following other titles amongst the books:
Twist and Twirl
Scooter Run
Ant and Bee Go on Vacation
Feet First
Help the Planet
Pale Cowboy from Texas
Anyone out there want to take a stab at the significance of those titles?
Rusty Martin
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You can buy a video of them at
http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Videostore/Associated.html#Pixar
You can learn more about them at and see some outtakes at
http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Movies/Secrets/TinyToyStories.html
And Toy STory fun facts at
http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Movies/Secrets/ToyStory.html
Tom
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Rusty Martin
>You can buy a video of them at
>http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Videostore/Associated.html#Pixar
>You can learn more about them at and see some outtakes at
>http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Movies/Secrets/TinyToyStories.html
>And Toy STory fun facts at
>http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Movies/Secrets/ToyStory.html
Thanks, I appreciate it. I've been visiting hiddenmickeys.org for years and
there's a link to it on my site.
What I'm really interested in is finding direct references within Toy Story to
Luxo Jr, as was done with the other films, *and* if anyone knows what the
significance of the other book titles I mentioned.
Anyone?
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Tom
Rusty Martin wrote:
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Joe
is a website http://us.imdb,com that is great for finding stuff like
that. "imdb" is for "internet movie database", and entering "Luxo Jr."
on their search brings immediate results. This is a gold mine of info
on movies of all types.
--
JOE
