The book's author is shown as "Lasseter." A reference to the director and writer of the short, John Lasseter.The book is located on the second to the bottom shelf, and can be seen when Woody passes by Etch before their duel, or when Woody talks at the toy meeting. A Tin Toy book can be seen stacked on Andy's bookshelf during the first Toy Story.Thankfully, they finished the animation and released it to SIGGRAPH once more and got better reception. This was because the guys at Pixar had fallen asleep during production. When the short initially premiered at SIGGRAPH, it stopped abruptly at the part where Billy approached Tinny in his box.The picture on the table is an actual photograph of director John Lasseter.At the beginning of the short, when the camera shows the entire room, there is a picture of a Luxo lamp at the top-right.
After that, the sounds playing in the background is audio from an episode of the television game show series The Price is Right. During the opening title cards and while the camera passes across the bag and the Tin Toy box, the music playing is the theme song of the children's television series Captain Kangaroo.Although the only Pixar short where the old Pixar logo in the beginning lacks the square, the square part can be seen on the top-left of a silver bag that the camera passes in the beginning and Billy is playing with near the end of the short.This is the only Pixar short that was rather released on home video (that being the 2000 VHS reprint of Toy Story as well as The Ultimate Toy Box DVD set) but not theatrically with a Pixar film.In addition to containing the model of Tinny, it included a certificate of authenticity printed on a card with a pencil storyboard of a scene from the short. Created in a limited edition of only 500 pieces, the exterior box packaging was a faithful reproduction of the box seen in the toy short. In 2010, Disney licensee MINDstyle produced a limited edition vinyl maquette of the character Tinny as an Art Toy Collectible. Tin Toy collectible figure produced by MINDstyle Tin Toy won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, the first time a computer animated film had won in that category. Later it was decided that both toys were too old-fashioned and they were replaced with Lunar Larry (later renamed Buzz Lightyear) and Woody respectively. The original draft of Toy Story's script told the story of how Tinny got left behind at a rest stop and teamed up with a ventriloquist dummy in search of a new home. Later, when Pixar and Disney collaborated on Toy Story, Tinny was to be the main character of the film. However, due to lack of funding for the project, it was dropped. The plot involved Tinny being put into storage at a mall after he failed to sell, where he would have met with other toys who had had the same thing done to them.
Tinny with the ventriloquist dummy in one of the original sketches for Toy Story.Ī follow-up entitled A Tin Toy Christmas was planned as a holiday TV special. Near the end of the credits, other toys hiding under the couch come out from underneath and begin to play. Mad, Tinny tries to follow Billy to get his attention, but is still ignored. When he does, Billy manages to cheer up, but then just ignores him and plays with the box Tinny came in. Tinny, feeling sorry for himself and the baby, tries to go and cheer him up. While walking and trying to find Tinny and the other toys, Billy falls flat onto the hardwood service floor and begins to cry.
Tinny soon finds cover under the couch, and when he looks up, he sees that there are several other toys hiding, also afraid of Billy after learning the same experience. He then begins to run, but is chased by Billy, who pursues him. When Tinny tries to walk, his musical instruments on his back play notes. At first, Tinny is delighted at the prospect of being played with by Billy until he sees how destructive the latter can be, because Billy wants to play with and dribble on him. The film takes place in one room and stars the toy of the title, a mechanical one-man band player named Tinny, and a huge baby named Billy.