The passing of years seems to have mostly calmed the feelings of rivalry among the figures and assorted playthings, especially between Andy's two favorite toys, pull-string cowboy Woody (Tom Hanks) and high-tech space ranger Buzz Lightyear, whose competitive relationship largely drove the first film. The same can be said of his toys, when he is not around, at least. Andy (voiced by John Davis), the owner of the central toys, is a few years older but still very playful. When Toy Story 2 opens, one can assume that as much time has passed in the movie's world as it did in real life. Toy Story 2 would open in theaters on the week of Thanksgiving 1999, exactly four years after its predecessor, and would become one of the best-reviewed and highest-grossing films not only of the year, but of all-time. So, Toy Story 2 was then pinned for a theatrical release, with Pixar expanding the scope of the film to about 90 minutes (from the common DTV target of 75), creating new characters, and further fleshing out the story to make the product worthy of its name and big screen destination. Somewhere along the line, Disney realized that Pixar, which was then also at work on A Bug's Life, was more or less incapable of making something lightweight for the DTV sect.
Like the sequels for Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, and The Lion King that had either been released or in the midst of production, Toy Story 2 was intended to debut on VHS with a marketing campaign of something much more significant.
Regardless of the fact that sequels were not covered in theirĭistribution deal with Disney, Pixar Animation Studios, the creators of Toy Story, were apparently game for a follow-up. The same was mostly true in the mid-to-late 1990s, especially for Disney, who had found a lucrative opening in the home video market for modestly-produced direct-to-video (DTV) sequels. Nowadays, it seems like a movie cannot find that kind of success without either already being part of a franchise or subsequently triggering one. By both domestic and worldwide counts, Toy Story became the top-grossing film released to theaters in 1995.
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