Toy Story of Terror!

Toy Story of Terror is a Halloween TV special that was released on October 16, 2013 on ABC. The short is directed by Angus MacLane and produced by Galyn Susman. The score was composed by Michael Giacchino. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it will be released on Sky Movies.

Synopsis
Official Synopsis from Animation World Network:"What starts out as a fun road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that must be solved before they all suffer the same fate in this Toy Story of Terror."

Plot
Bonnie goes on a road trip and takes Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Rex, Mr. Potato Head, Mr. Pricklepants and Trixie with her. They stop by a roadside motel. While they’re there, Mr. Potato Head explores, despite Woody’s protests. Then a mysterious creature attacks. After the attack, Mr. Potato Head is nowhere to seen. Mr. Pricklepants then says “And so it begins!” The toys go to find him.

Then Trixie is taken by the creature. The toys then fall underneath the motel, where Mr. Pricklepants says that the creature takes it victims one at a time. At that moment, the creature takes him and Rex. After running from the creature, Woody, Buzz and Jessie find Mr. Potato Head’s arm.

Woody, Buzz and Jessie then find a way out and take the arm with them. Then the creature takes Woody and Buzz, who is holding Mr. Potato Head’s arm. Jessie is then grabbed by a Combat Carl Doll, who tell her the creature took one of his hands. The creature takes Carl. Jessie hides in a bathtub and the creature finds her. The Creature is revealed to be a lizard named Mr. Jones.

He then takes Jessie to Ron, the Motel Manager, who is stealing Toys from his kid guests and selling them on the Internet. Jessie is reunited with Buzz and the others. Ron hears that someone has bought Woody and puts him in a Box. He then gets another sell. It’s Jessie. While he’s busy, Jessie races to save Woody. They then go to save Buzz and the other toys. Jessie hears Bonnie and rushes to find her when suddenly Mr. Jones attacks her.

Jessie then sees Carl’s other hand and Mr. Potato Head’s Lost Arm in Mr. Jones’s body and pulls them out and uses Potato Head’s arm to open the curtain, revealing all the toys. Bonnie and her mom take the toys back. And the toys go home. Mr. Pricklepants says that the horror movie is now over and the credits are about to roll.

During the end credits scene, Carl, who now has his lost hand back, and his friends go home to their owner Billy while the Police arrive to take Ron (and Possibly Mr. Jones) to Jail. However Ron flees.

Voice Cast

 * Joan Cusack: Jessie
 * Tom Hanks: Woody
 * Tim Allen: Buzz Lightyear
 * Carl Weathers: Combat Carl and Combat Carl Jr.
 * Stephen Tobolowsky: Ron the Manager
 * Timothy Dalton: Mr. Pricklepants
 * Wallace Shawn: Rex
 * Don Rickles: Mr. Potato Head
 * Kristen Schaal: Trixie
 * Kate McKinnon: PEZ Cat
 * Lori Alan: Bonnie's Mom
 * Peter Sohn: Transitron
 * Emily Hahn: Bonnie
 * Dawnn Lewis: Delivery Lady
 * Jason "Jtop" Topolski: Vampire/Tow Truck Guy
 * Ken Marino: Pocketeer
 * Christian Roman: Old Timer
 * Laraine Newman: Betsy
 * Tara Strong: Computer
 * Angus MacLane: Officer Wilson
 * Josh Cooley: Officer Phillips
 * Dee Bradley Baker: Mr. Jones

Production
Toy Story of Terror is the first of two 22 minutes TV specials that are scheduled for 2013 and 2014.

Dylan Brown stated in November 2012: "Our first works at Pixar Canada were six-minute pieces, and some one-and-a-half-minute films, which we call shorty-shorts. But we set up the Vancouver studio to produce the 22-minute specials. Pixar in California is currently working on the first one, called Toy Story of Terror."

At D23 Expo, the first ten minutes of the special was shown for D23 attendees.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack of Toy Story of Terror! was released on MP3 on October 15th.

Trivia

 * Toy Story of Terror! is meant to take place about six months after the events of Toy Story 3.
 * This is Pixar's first half-hour special.
 * This is the second time to have a female protagonist. The first is Brave.
 * The tombstones at the beginning of the film belong to deceased characters from previous Pixar films. One for instance reads "RIP Simon J. Palladino", a reference to Gazerbeam from The Incredibles.
 * Woody, Buzz, Mr. Potato Head and Rex are the only four charaters from the first movie who appear in special.
 * This is the first Toy Story production in which Jessie appears without Bullseye.
 * The entire short is computer animated, except a bat seen in a graveyard, which was actually a rubber bat prop, filmed on green screen. Angus MacLane said attempting to simulate one would have been too expensive.