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While it only appears on the screen for a few brief moments in Toy Story, Andy's bookshelf is a virtual treasure trove of Easter eggs that feature nods to Pixar's past. Viewers get a quick glimpse of the shelf during Woody's birthday staff meeting early in the film, and most of the titles are vibrant enough to be read while Woody is talking. Though a few of the books such as Great Places for Children to Visit are just vague space fillers, others like Tin Toy and Red's Dream add visual interest to the background while actually having a deeper meaning.

Pixar was an ambitious studio from the start, and the release of Toy Story as the first full-length computer-animated film was an important moment in animation much like Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was in the 1930s. From the very beginning, Pixar teased future films...

The film "Lightyear" tells the story of Buzz Lightyear, a space ranger in a film that is the inspiration for the toy Buzz in the "Toy Story" franchise from Disney/Pixar. It's a little complicated, but you get the idea. Buzz didn't just start as a character in the 1995 animated film though. His history is longer than that. Our space hero comes from a short story from John Lasseter called "Tin Toy" from 1988. You can watch it on Disney+ right now, but the animation of the character Billy is going to mess with your brain. You've been warned.

This five minute-short film happened...

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