Live Action Toy Story
Live Action Toy Story is an American live-action fan remake of this a shot-to-shot fan remake of the original Toy Story. It premiered on August 22, 2012 through a local community screening, on YouTube on January 12, 2013, and on a VOD release on November 22, 2015.
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| Directed by | Jonason Pauley Jesse Perrotta |
| Produced by | Carla Pauley Jeff Pauley Jonason Pauley (co-producer) |
| Screenplay by | Jonason Pauley Carla Pauley |
| Story by | John Lasseter Pete Docter Andrew Stanton Joe Ranft |
| Based on | Toy Story, created by Pixar Joss Whedon Andrew Stanton Joel Cohen Alec Sokolow |
| Starring | Tom Hanks Tim Allen Don Rickles Blake Clark Wallace Shawn John Ratzenberger Annie Potts T.J. Bright Carla Pauley Victor Bright Delani Kent |
| Music by | Randy Newman Joel McNeely(stock music) |
| Edited by | Jonason Pauley |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures YouTube Pictures |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
The plot of the movie mostly follows the original Toy Story. The main toys are Woody, Buzz, Mr. Potato Head, Rex, Hamm, Bo-Peep, Slinky Dog, and RC.
A boy named Andy plays with his toys in his room, acting out a scene where the evil One-Eyed Bart robs the bank and takes Bo-Peep's sheep hostage. Saving the day is Sheriff Woody, who foils Bart's plans and sends him to "jail"; Andy's little sister's cradle.
Woody learns that day is Andy's birthday party, being held several days early as to not be interrupted by the family moving in a few days, and gathers all of the toys for a meeting. They go over many boring events, and organise a mission for the toy soldiers to bring a baby monitor downstairs to tell the toys what presents Andy receives. Woody eases the toys' nerves, who are all afraid they'll be replaced by newer, better toys.
Rex accidentally knocks over the radio and after the batteries come out, the transmission of the final toy is missed. They turn it back on just in time to be warned that Andy is coming, and they all hide in the places they woke up from. Andy and his friends play in his room until they're all called down by Andy's mom for board games.
Woody emerges from under the bed and despite the toys' concern that he's been replaced by a new toy atop the bed, Woody encourages them to welcome the new toy to Andy's room. After climbing up the bed, Woody discovers that the new toy is a spaceman action figure, who speaks into his communicator, and points a laser at Woody. The action figure introduces himself as Buzz Lightyear, a space ranger from another galaxy.
Woody realises that Buzz is unaware he is a toy, despite the cowboy's remarks about his features, such as his lightbulb-powered laser and plastic wings. To prove he can "fly", Buzz leaps off the bed, bounces from a ball, zooms atop a Hot Wheels race car and is caught by a helicopter toy attached to the ceiling, "flying" around in circles before landing on the bed right before Woody's eyes, who describes the feat as "falling with style".
Over the next few days, Andy plays more and more with Buzz, using Woody as a villain for Buzz. All of Andy's cowboy posters and merchandise are replaced with Buzz Lightyear ones, and Woody slowly grows more and more bitter. The toys watch from Andy's window as Sid, the next door neighbor, explodes a Combat Carl action figure using fireworks.
Andy's mom plans to bring Andy to a pizza restaurant named Pizza Planet, and Woody asks a Magic 8-Ball if Andy will choose to bring him, but is told to not count on it. In anger, Woody throws the toy behind the dresser, provoking a dark idea in his head.
Pretending that a "defenseless" toy got stuck behind the dresser, Woody begs for Buzz to save it. With his back turned, Buzz is vulnerable to Woody's plan; driving RC, a remote control car into him. However, Buzz dodges it, but is accidentally knocked out the window by a swinging lamp. Andy's toys believe Woody did this on purpose, and discretely threaten him as Andy frantically searches for Buzz.
Andy decides to take Woody instead, and they go to Pizza Planet together. After stopping at a gas station and Woody is left alone in the car, it's revealed that Buzz hitched a ride on the car, and confronts Woody. He knocks him out of the door and the two fight beneath the car, before Andy's mom drives away, unknowingly leaving the two toys behind.
The two toys hitch a ride to Pizza Planet aboard a delivery car, and upon getting inside, Woody plans to jump into the pram being pushed by Andy's mom. However, Buzz jumps into a claw machine shaped like a rocket ship, and after Woody enters to get Buzz out, the claw is operated by Sid, and he wins Buzz, Woody, and a green alien toy.
Sid brings the three toys home and after giving the alien toy to his dog, Scud, he puts Woody and Buzz in his room, where they encounter Sid's monstrous, pieced-together toys. The two toys escape Sid's room but evade Scud, with Woody hiding in a closet and Buzz dodging into a living room. On the television, a Buzz Lightyear advertisement plays, and Buzz finally realises he isn't a real space ranger, but just a toy.
Overcome with sadness, Buzz looks up a window he once believed he could fly through, and decides to give it one more go, refusing to accept the truth. However, after leaping from atop the stairs, Buzz falls down and after hitting the floor, his arm comes off. The toy lays down in defeat.
Woody later finds Buzz being played with by Sid's sister, and brings him back into Sid's room to escape through the window. Andy's toys catch a string of lights thrown by Woody from Andy's room, but Mr. Potato Head threatens to drop it, still believing Woody murdered Buzz. Woody asks Buzz to help prove he's alive and to give him a hand, but the depressed toy sarcastically throws Woody his detached arm.
Woody uses Buzz's arm to pretend Buzz is just out of view, shaking his hand and acting like his best friend. After accidentally bringing the detached arm into sight the toys realise Woody's lie, and let go of the string of lights, condemning Woody to Sid's house forever.
Sid's toys swarm Buzz and Woody goes to rescue him, but it turns out the had repaired his arm. Sid then marches into the room carrying a highly dangerous firework rocket, and plans to set it off in the morning with Buzz taped to it.
As Sid sleeps, Woody encourages Buzz, saying that while he might just be a toy, he's still a cool toy, loved by Andy and probably cooler than Woody himself. Inspired by Woody's care for Andy, Buzz rescues Woody from the box he's trapped in. The box falls over and wakes up Sid, who races outside with Buzz and the rocket.
With the help of Sid's toys, Woody stages a rescue, and locks Scud outside the front door. In the back garden, Sid finds Woody on the ground and puts him on the barbecue with a matchstick in his holster. Before he can ignite Buzz's rocket, Sid hears Woody's voice box play. Initially believing he was broken, Sid is horrified to hear Woody call him out by name, using his own toys as an intimidation tactic, warning that if Sid doesn't take better care of his toys, they'll "come after him".
After Woody twists his head and tells Sid to "play nice", the boy runs screaming from the garden, leaving the toys to celebrate. Buzz and Woody leave to catch up with Andy's mom in the car, as they are moving away. The two toys make it to the moving truck, but are chased by Scud. Buzz saves Woody from being torn apart by Scud and is left behind. Opening the moving truck, Woody retrieves RC and throws him out. Andy's toys believe Woody is killing another toy, and join together to overpower him.
Using the RC, Woody rescues Buzz from Scud but is thrown overboard by Andy's toys. Now on RC with Buzz, Woody steers the car towards the moving truck, and Andy's toys realise Buzz is alive after all. However, RC runs out of battery power, and slowly comes to a stop.
Buzz has an idea to use Woody's match to ignite the rocket and propel them to the moving truck, but a passing car extinguishes the flame. Having an idea, Woody uses Buzz's helmet to magnify heat onto the rocket fuse, and the two blast towards the truck, throwing the RC back in the truck and knocking Mr. Potato Head apart.
The rocket flies straight up, carrying Buzz and Woody to their certain doom. Before it explodes, Buzz ejects his wings and cuts through the tape, falling down with Woody in hand. However, instead of hitting the ground, Buzz soars through the air, gliding through the wind. Woody exclaims Buzz is flying, but the space ranger corrects him, saying they're "falling with style".
The two toys glide towards Andy's car, and land in a box next to their owner, who is beyond delighted to find them, having believed he lost them earlier on. From there on, in Andy's new home, the two toys become proper friends, and integrate with new toys received by Andy on Christmas, as well as a new puppy.
Cast
- Main voices and Live-action cast
- Tom Hanks as Woody, a vintage pull-string cowboy doll. He is Andy's favourite toy.
- Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, an electronic action figure and Andy's new birthday present.
- Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head, a plastic spud shaped toy with detachable body pieces.
- Blake Clark as Slinky Dog, a dog toy with a slinky connecting his front and back ends.
- Wallace Shawn as Rex, a nervous dinosaur toy who wants to be scarier.
- John Ratzenberger as Hamm, a fed-up piggy bank.
- Annie Potts as Bo Peep, a sheep-keeper and toy of Andy's sister.
- T.J. Bright as Andy, an imaginative boy who has immense love for his toys.
- Victor Bright as Sid, a creative and somewhat destructive child who enjoys pulling toys apart to make new ones.
- Carla Pauley as Mrs. Davis/Charlene
- R. Lee Ermey as Sarge, a green army man commander.
- Delani Kent as Hannah, Sid's sister.
- Jerome Ranft as Lenny/Al's Toy Barn announcer, on the Buzz Lightyear commercial.
- Abby 'Abigail' Peters as Molly, Andy's sister.
- Jonason Pauley as Pizza Planet delivery driver/Angus
- Debi Derryberry and Nancy Cartwright as Squeeze Toy Aliens/Pizza Planet announcer
- Bill Farmer as a Pizza Planet announcer
- Sabrina Bright as Sid's Mom
- Jeff Pidgeon as Mr. Spell/Robot
- Phil Proctor as bowling announcer/Pizza Planet guard
- Penn Jillette as TV Announcer
- Andrew Stanton as Buzz Lightyear commercial chorus
Cast-notes
- Notable non-speaking characters include Scud provided by all by Frank Welker, Barrel of Monkeys, Etch A Sketch, Snake, Clown, Babyface, RC, and Buster. Other cast members include Michael Perrotta Jr. as Gas Attendant, A.D. Ramirez as Sid's dad, Rupert the Bulldog as Scud, Michael Perrotta as a Bowler extra, and Jeff Pauley as an Eggman Movers employee. Andy's birthday friends were all voiced by William Pauley, Heath Bright, Jaime Rodriguez, Zayden Rodriguez, Jason Alpers, Noah Smith, and Nyelle Smith.
Release Dates
| Country | Premiere |
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 Canada |
February 16, 2013 |
 United States |
January 12, 2013 |
 Russia |
November 12, 2013 |
 South Korea |
July 12, 2013 |
| File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil | January 16, 2014 |
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February 12, 2013 |
 Spain |
December 10, 2015 |
 Germany |
August 4, 2015 |
 Mexico |
December 12, 2015 |
 Denmark |
March 12, 2014 |
 Italy |
September 12, 2013 |
 Japan |
November 16, 2013 |
 France |
December 5, 2013 |
 Portugal |
March 10, 2013 |
 Turkey |
August 10, 2013 |
 Philippines |
June 10, 2013 |
Production
Jonason Pauley and Jess Perrotta planned to create a live-action fan-film recreation of the original Toy Story, startimg in 2010. Most locations filmed in 2010 to 2011 in places like Mesa, Arizona, Tempe Peter Piper Pizza as the interiors of the Pizza Planet scenes, and Sinclair Gas as Dinoco gas station.
Live Action Toy Story Media
Lee Unkrich, an editor of the original Toy Story movie as well as the director of the third film, tweeted that Live Action Toy Story was done by a "VERY dedicated" group of people.
