15 Things You Didn't Know About The Toy Story Movies

15. Tin Toy

Long before Pixar became the much-loved animation film studio we all know today, they produced short movies such as Luxo Jr. and Tin Toy to showcase their incredible work in computer animation.

In fact, Tin Toy, released in 1988, was the blueprint for what went on to become Pixar’s first feature-length movie, Toy Story. The short film tells the story of ‘Tinny’, a mechanical one-man band toy that lives its life in the bedroom of a baby named Billy.

Original plans for Toy Story featured ‘Tinny’ as the main character. Woody did feature in these early drafts, but was initially designed as a wooden ventriloquist dummy, hence the name ‘Woody’, and featured in a less prominent role.

Obviously, Woody went on to become the lead character in Toy Story, but his character went through many different iterations before becoming the lovable cowboy we all know him as today. Tinny was dropped, but he did eventually reappear in Toy Story 4.