Box office. Toy Story 2 was as successful as the first Toy Story film commercially. It became 1999's highest-grossing animated film, earning $245.9 million in the United States and Canada and $511.3 million worldwide — beating both Pixar's previous releases by a significant margin.
'Toy Story 2' Was Saved Thanks to One Woman Who Worked From Home. The servers were abruptly shut down, but the damage was done. 90% of Toy Story 2 was gone. There was a backup system, but to make matters worse, it hadn't been working correctly for weeks.
Toy Story 2 builds upon Buzz and Woody's relationship and takes these two individual characters to new places. Buzz gets to see his older self represented by a new toy. He gets to see the aisle that's nothing but Buzz Lightyear dolls and reflect on how important he is and how far he's come.
In 1998, Pixar was getting ready to release Toy Story 2. The film was nearly complete and final edits were being made. But when someone hit the wrong button, the movie's files began to disappear. Oren Jacob, the former chief technical officer at Pixar, was an assistant technical director on the movie.
Pixar producer Gayln Susman is best knowing for saving Toy Story 2 back in 1998 after another employee accidentally deleted most of the film's files when hitting a wrong command. The then technical-director thankfully had a backup copy of the film at her house after she was working from home whilst on maternity leave.
This took place in 1998, with Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull recounting the tale in his book Creativity, Inc. The story goes that an unnamed Pixar employee was doing some routine file clearance on internal servers when they accidentally entered a deletion command on Toy Story 2's root folder.
What happened to the employee who deleted Toy Story 2?
Fast forward to 2023 and as part of wider layoffs at Disney—who aren't just cutting staff, but TV shows as well—Susman is now gone, alongside Lightyear director MacLane and Pixar's vice president of worldwide publicity Michael Agulnek.
Tom Hanks voices Woody, left, in the "Toy Story" franchise. Hanks' Toy Story salary started off as much less than “infinity and beyond.” He and Tim Allen (who played Buzz Lightyear) each made just $50,000 for the first Pixar film, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named Toy Story 3 one of the top-ten films of 2010. Amongst its numerous accolades, Toy Story 3 was nominated for five awards at the 83rd Academy Awards, winning Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.
Disney will release Pixar's Toy Story 5 on June 19, 2026, the studio announced Friday. Disney CEO Bob Iger first announced Toy Story 5 in February 2023, with the sequel an attempt to return to form for the franchise after the disappointing performance of the 2022 spinoff, Lightyear, which voice starred Chris Evans.
Just last summer, it was confirmed by Pixar's creative chief officer that Woody and Buzz Lightyear will be returning for the fifth Toy Story sequel. The fifth installment is set to arrive in 2026, almost seven years after the most recent one, 2019's Toy Story 4.
Why was Buzz Lightyear banned in China by Disney Pixar on “Toy Story” franchise? - Quora. The reasons why Lightyear has been banned in at least 14 countries, and possibly China too, is over a brief kissing scene.
In 1998 a year before the movie was released, one of the animators was cleaning up some files and accidentally deleted the root folder of the Toy Story 2 data in their computers which caused all of the data in the movie to disappear.
How The Good Dinosaur Became Pixar's First Bona Fide Box Office Flop - IMDb. The last few years of Pixar have been rather dispiriting. I don't mean this in terms of quality.
Disney planned to make a sequel to Finding Nemo since 2005, tasking its new studio Circle Seven Animation after disagreements with Pixar. Though it never went into production, a script was uploaded to the official Raindance Film Festival website that includes elements of the unmade script.
"Plastic Spaceman" is one of the two deleted songs from Disney•Pixar's 1995 animated feature film Toy Story, written and performed by Randy Newman. It was replaced by "I Will Go Sailing No More".
Climatic Moment: Buzz and Bullseye catch Woody and Jessie when they jump from the plane's landing gear. Resolution: Everyone returns to Andy's room, where Andy is delighted by his new toys—and Woody makes peace with the fact that Andy must someday grow up.
