

In original drafts of Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear was Tinny, the main character from Pixar’s 1988 Oscar-winning short film Tin Toy. Buzz Lightyear started out as a tiny tin soldier in the original Toy Story draft. “Obviously they later changed their minds,” as the Barbie brand appeared in Toy Story's sequels. “ didn’t want Barbie in any kind of animated film because they felt it was important for her to be neutral, allowing girls to imprint any personality they wanted,” Pixar camera artist Craig L. She would roll up in her (pink, presumably) Corvette and rescue Woody and Buzz from Sid’s house, telling them to “Come with me if you want to live.” Mattel, however, refused to license the doll to Pixar. Joss Whedon, who was brought on by Disney to do a script revision for the first Toy Story, wanted to include a butt-kicking Barbie, modeled after Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Joss Whedon really wanted Barbie to appear in the first Toy Story movie.
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Executives at Disney, which co-produced Toy Story, requested that he be changed to something else, as ventriloquist’s dummies were usually associated with horror movies, and they didn’t want their cute kids' movie to be terrifying. In addition to having a completely different personality, the original Woody was a ventriloquist’s dummy. Woody wasn't always supposed to be a cowboy in Toy Story. The Pixar team eventually realized that no one would want to watch a kids' movie where the main character was so unlikable, so they altered Woody’s character to make him a well-meaning and kind-rather than a cruel and tyrannical-leader of the toys. Price's book The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company. “He had to wind up selfless in the end, so our strategy had been, let’s make him selfish in the beginning,” co-writer Andrew Stanton said in David A. In early drafts of Toy Story, Woody was-to put it lightly-a stone-cold jerk, verbally abusing Slinky Dog and intentionally pushing Buzz out the bedroom window into Sid’s yard.
