1. This Isn't The First Toy Story Haunting
Toy Story famously had a number of scrapped sequels - the first was a poor Toy Story 2 alternate, which was canned at the behest of John Lasseter who thought that almost every element wasn't up to scratch. According to Lasseter, all of the animation was binned, and the layout, with only some sequences, such as that set in Al's Toy Barn preserved. And before Pixar was purchased by Disney in 2006 by Bob Iger, in the wake of Michael Eisner's disastrous attempt to launch Circle 7 Films only to make sequels of Pixar movies. As is already famously known, Circle 7 had started work on a Toy Story 3 script, which would feature a product recall of all Buzz Lightyear toys, and a rescue attempt by Woody and Co. That wasn't an altogether terrible idea, but it would have been too familiar. What is less known, and most intriguingly for the context of Toy Story Of Terror is that another script exists, penned by writing partners Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, which had a spookier feel than the final Toy Story 3 that made it to screens. Rather than being sent to daycare, Woody and Buzz and the gang end up in grandma's attic, in an old, spooky house that makes the toys uneasy. There they meet a pair of sock monkeys - adventurer Jack Challenger and bedraggled Gladiola. The whole thing feels like it references haunted house movies and murder mysteries, though there is no actual death involved - a little like Clue, without the emotional grip.