Hey folks, Harry here. As most of you know, I've been hot on TOY STORY II since way back when it was a straight to video deal. I read the script and wrote this review back in February of 1998. I've been dying to see more and more on this film ever since then because... personally I believe the script for TOY STORY II is better, cooler and way funner than the original... And TOY STORY is in my top 5 movies of this decade... Hell... I have a six foot Buzz Lightyear cardboard cutout at the foot of my bed, and a Woody hanging on the wall above the Basil Wolverton pin and the Cat In The Hat doll whilst hanging below my Tibetan blacklight poster of Shiva. I love TOY STORY.
Now one of the adventures I have never written up for you folks is my journey into the bowels of PIXAR back after the A BUG'S LIFE premiere. Why didn't I write it then? Well... Since most of the 'news' was A BUGS LIFE news, I felt it would have just promoted A BUGS LIFE and it would have served as de facto advertising, so instead I sat on the knowledge and... well... over time I'll tell bits and pieces of it.
Today I received in the mail the infamous PIXAR stockholders report. This is strange because... well, I'm not a stockholder in PIXAR (unfortunately... it's gonna skyrocket with this TOY STORY II release this Fall) and when I got the tube I thought.... Oh Cool Oh Cool, what I get what I get what I get?
One poster was a big frame from A BUG'S LIFE of Flick on the Dandelion. Beautiful image, but what was the other stuff. There was a pamphlet on the state of the company. How much money they made, how much their taxes were, how much money they made off toys, news that TOY STORY 2 doesn't count on their Disney 5 film deal because it's a sequel, though A BUG'S LIFE and MONSTERS, INC. do. Also that there is a mysterious film after MONSTERS, INC, that they won't even hint at. The report talked about how the wild success of all the animated films from last fall/winter, just proved the gaining strength of the animated film medium. Then heralded how it looked like they were the only animated film being released this fall. (Though I could've sworn that is when Dreamwork's ROAD TO EL DORADO is aiming for a FALL release (though IMDB says March 2000)
Then there was... the other poster. And folks... I nearly shat myself. It was the cast of various toy characters from TOY STORY 2!!! Including EMPEROR ZURG!!!! I'm sooooo jazzed by this. Unfortunately the poster is much larger than my scanner allows, and the digital camera just doesn't pick up the lovely level of detail that I would like to show you the images at. BUT... I'll do my best. Now a WARNING! If you do not wish to see the looks of these new characters... CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO THE MAIN PAGE!!! or continue down the page here...
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Now for the images... First up is THE PROSPECTOR...
Next up is Mr & Mrs POTATO HEAD!
The female toy in the Woody line of characters... Jessie...
And now... it's Buzz Lightyear and Emperor ZURG!!!!!
And lastly... here's a shot that I took with the Digital Camera. I'll need to get a good place to lay this thing out flat and well... I don't know. I think it'll be impossible for me to get the whole thing scanned right. Well, I did my best. Btw... The horse is named BULLSEYE and the penguin is named Wheezy!
