Toy Story

WHAT WENT WRONG

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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There’s no 'Toy Story' without Pixar, and there’s no Pixar without… Steve Jobs. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first computer animated feature film ever, Chris and Lizzie dive into the story behind 1995’s absolutely miraculous 'Toy Story'. Find out why an early version of Woody made Disney almost pull the plug, how Tim Allen changed Buzz Lightyear, and why George Lucas let Pixar slip through his fingers for only $10M.

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0:00.0	And action.
0:14.2	Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to another episode of What Went Wrong,
0:19.0	your favorite podcast full stop that just so happens to be about
0:22.3	movies, and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone a breakthrough
0:28.5	film pioneering a brand new form of technology and telling a timeless story that I find as
0:37.0	effective now as an adult as I did as a child. As always, I am
0:40.6	Chris Winterbauer joined by my co-host, Lizzie Bassett. Lizzie, how you doing this afternoon?
0:46.4	I'm doing great. I really, really love this movie. I'm so excited to talk about it. And, of course,
0:53.6	we are covering Toy Story because of the 30th anniversary of this movie. I'm so excited to talk about it. And, of course, we are covering Toy Story
0:55.1	because of the 30th anniversary of this movie. And Chris, I'm curious, what was your, what's your
1:01.5	relationship with Toy Story and what was it like watching it again as a 36-year-old man?
1:07.2	Saw it when I was a six-year-old man for the first time, and I loved it as a child, and it was revolutionary in so many ways, obviously, that I'm sure we'll talk about, but it was revolutionary as a kid in that we were in the midst of the Disney Renaissance, kind of entering the back nine of the Disney Renaissance. We didn't know it at the time. And here comes
1:28.3	Toy Story. And not only was it technologically unlike anything I'd seen before, it also
1:36.1	tip to tat to somewhat more adult humor in certain moments that I definitely appreciate now
1:43.1	more, but I could feel that my parents really
1:45.2	liked it as well, which as a kid is always exciting. Oh, this isn't just a movie for kids. It's a
1:49.5	movie for grownups, too. And that made it an even more enjoyable experience. It was then the first,
1:54.9	we owned a lot of Disney films. I know this is not technically a Disney film. We'll, I'm sure,
1:59.2	get into the distribution and stuff, but... Oh, it's a Disney film.
2:02.2	Distributed by Disney. And so, we owned all of these Disney VHSs, right? They would unvault them
2:08.2	from time to time. And then Toy Story was the first film we ever owned on DVD.
2:15.0	Whoa.
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