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What A Cartoon Movie! - Toy Story 2 [History Segment]
🕑 Added 2020-05-24 04:01:00 +0000 UTCHey howdy hey, it's time for May's episode of What A Cartoon Movie! And the winner of this month's Pixar sequel poll is—unsurprisingly—the fantastic Toy Story 2. It's an amazing follow-up that quite honestly shouldn't be thanks to the extremely small window of time Pixar had to rescue and finish it, and we go into Toy Story 2's surprisingly rich history—including some big facts most folks (even us) get wrong! And, as always, we give a full, scene-by-scene breakdown of the entire film, with lots of fun trivia, clips, and jokes about your favorite molded plastic characters. Now ride like the wind and get ready for another great podcast!
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Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
That history of the entire alternate version of the movie, it's near-loss, and then it's subsequent dumping before Pixar had to come in and do a rush job from square one again is INSANE. The fact that this story remained hidden for so long, and is pretty unknown still, hits the nail on the head for one of my biggest problems with Disney as a corporation: their revisionist history. Them just swiping issues under the rug, never admitting to them or properly addressing them, and just trying to colour over everything with a DISNEY IS THE BEST crayon is awful. I much prefer how, say, WB handled old racist Looney Tunes by still having them out there but with the context of "yep, this is screwed up but it was socially acceptable and hiding it would be harmful by ignoring the fact that it hurt people." This shit is interesting and glazing over mistakes is dangerous rhetoric that helps keep abusers/harassers (like Lasseter) and murderous capitalists in positions of uncomfortable power.
ShyRanger
Oh my god, you guys mentioning the Toy Story CD ROM games just unlocked a massive memory for me. That was one of the very first games I ever played (aside from Tonka) and I haven't thought of it in like 23 years. Funny thing, that plus the Toy Story 2 game being pretty good, it ALMOST set me on a "oh movie licensed games are good" streak. Luckily I did not end up playing too many so that mindset died befor eit was too late.
