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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 43: Why Disney’s “Toaster” got unplugged

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by talking about some of the casting decisions that Walt Disney Studios has been making on its live-action reimagining of “The Little Mermaid.” They then look back at those two traditional animation / CG hybrid projects that Disney Studios almost produced in the early 1980s, “Where the Wild Things Are” & “The Brave Little Toaster” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If a small flock of cartoon bluebirds didn't help you get dressed this morning,

0:05.0

that just means you haven't yet listened to.

0:08.0

Fine-tuning with Jim Hill and Drew Taylor.

0:12.0

No, the black dress slacks please.

0:16.0

Thank you.

0:18.0

And now, Jim Hill.

0:28.0

Welcome to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor, a one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary. I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and Mr. Taylor and I are recording this on Tuesday

0:34.6

July 2nd 2019 and the Drew and I have a very busy schedule of blowing our fingers

0:40.9

off with illegal fireworks.

0:43.0

Speaking of things that haven't actually exploded, well at least at the box office,

0:48.0

Toy Story 4, the advertising campaign that at this point really should have been dialed down?

0:55.0

Yeah, I don't know. I just, I was talking with somebody else about this earlier today too,

0:59.3

is that I just keep seeing commercials for this thing in a way that I can't remember the last time I've seen

1:04.6

commercials for a movie that's been out like this and I don't know if that's being

1:09.4

informed by some other part of the company like they're not moving enough toys I mean this is all

1:13.5

pure speculation on my part but it doesn't seem like it caught on like they thought it was

1:19.2

going to and you know we saw earlier box office numbers that this year's cumulative box office is down 10% from last year,

1:27.0

which was kind of a lousy number to begin with.

1:29.0

So yeah, it's a really interesting time for Box Office,

1:33.1

and did you actually end up seeing Toy Story for?

1:35.7

I'm at home, I'm a nurse, Drew.

1:37.8

We're looking at actually getting out of the house

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