At Al's apartment, Woody meets three other toys: a cowgirl named Jessie, a horse named Bullseye, and Stinky Pete the Prospector - all based on the main characters from Woody's Roundup, a TV show that was popular in the 1950s. Woody also learns that he and the Roundup gang are to be sold to a toy museum in Japan; he claims he cannot to go because he needs to go home to Andy, earning resentment from Jessie. Al accidentally rips Woody's arm off. When Woody tries to retrieve it and escape, his attempt fails when Al's television unexpectedly turns on. The next morning, Woody is repaired and still desires to go home to Andy; however, he soon learns that Jessie was once owned by a girl named Emily who eventually lost interest in and abandoned her. Fearing that Andy will do the same, Woody decides to stay with the gang to go to Japan. Story contains two brief bonuses. First is a storyboard pitch of "Woody's Nightmare" thrown to the directors and creative crew by Pixar's late story man Joe Ranft. With the "angle" button, you can view this either with the storyboards in a window and Ranft in his audience filling the screen, or simply with Ranft's narration over the screen-filling storyboards. Second, there is a story reel for the "Jessie's Song" sequence, which you also watch in two ways: as a split-screen storyboards-to-film comparison or as simply the storyboards. Either way, you get the final sound mix of the film. Together, with the skippable pre-existing introductions by Ranft and story supervisor Dan Jeup, these two features run 7 minutes. Gray, Brandon (November 28, 1999). "Weekend Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 15, 2023 . Retrieved May 15, 2023. Wolk, Josh (January 23, 2000). "Good as Golden". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013 . Retrieved November 23, 2013. At this point, we reach the last listing of the Main Menu, but if you think we're almost done, you must not be familiar with Pixar DVDs. Behind the Scenes is divided into seven entries and is by far makes up the most massive portion of the disc. Firstly, also ported over from the Toy Box, a "John Lasseter Profile" (3:01) can now be viewed as a video in the campaign to make the Toy Story 2 director the president of Disney Feature Animation. It repeatedly conveys the idea that Walt Disney's legacy is being continued in the pioneering visions of Lasseter, who appears gushing briefly in interview clips and working with the voice actors.

As the story approached the production stage in early 1997, it was unclear whether Pixar would produce the film, as the entire team of 300 was busy working on A Bug's Life for a 1998 release. The Interactive Products Group, with a staff of 95, had its own animators, art department, and engineers. Under intense time pressure, they had put out two successful CD-ROM titles the previous year – Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story and The Toy Story Activity Center. [16] Between the two products, the group had created as much original animation as there was in Toy Story itself. Steve Jobs made the decision to shut down the computer games operation and the staff became the initial core of the Toy Story 2 production team. [14] To make the project ready for theaters, Lasseter would need to add 12 minutes or so of material and strengthen what was already there. The extra material would be a challenge since it could not be mere padding — it would have to feel as if it had always been there, an organic part of the film. [6] With the scheduled delivery date less than a year away, Lasseter called Stanton, Docter, Joe Ranft, and some Disney story people to his house for a weekend. There, he hosted what he called a "story summit", a crash exercise that would yield a finished story in just two days. Turan, Kenneth (November 19, 1999). "Seeking the Meaning of (Shelf) Life". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013 . Retrieved September 23, 2012. a b Nissen, Dano (July 3, 2019). "Disney Cuts 'Toy Story 2' Casting Couch Joke From Blooper Reel". Variety. Archived from the original on July 3, 2019 . Retrieved July 4, 2019. The story of Toy Story 2 is based a lot on my own experience. I'm a big toy collector and a lot of them are like antiques, or one-of-a-kind toys, or prototypes the toy makers have given me. Well, I have five sons, four of them are little and they love to come to daddy's work, and they come into daddy's office and they just play with everything. And I’m sitting there [saying]'Oh no, that's uh, you can't play with that one, oh no, play with this one, oh no....' and I found myself just sitting there looking at myself and laughing. Because toys are manufactured, put on this Earth, to be played with by a child. That is the core essence of Toy Story. And so I started wondering, what was it like from a toy's point of view to be collected?"Pixar Films on DVD: Toy Story • A Bug's Life • Toy Story 2 • Monsters, Inc. • Finding Nemo • The Incredibles • Cars • Ratatouille • WALL•E • Up • Toy Story 3 Toy Story 2' will feature 'outtakes' Christmas Day". Palladium-Item. December 20, 1999. p.A9. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020 . Retrieved November 17, 2020– via Newspapers.com.

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Disney initially envisioned Toy Story 2 as a direct-to-video sequel. The film began production in a building separated from Pixar, on a small scale, as most of the main Pixar staff were busy working on A Bug's Life (1998). When story reels proved promising, Disney upgraded the film to a theatrical release, but Pixar was unhappy with the film's quality. Lasseter and the story team redeveloped the entire plot in one weekend. Although most Pixar features take years to develop, the established release date could not be moved and the production schedule for Toy Story 2 was compressed into nine months. [6] [7]Rinaldi, Ray Mark (March 27, 2000). "Crystal has a sixth sense about keeping overhyped, drawn-out Oscar broadcast lively". Off the Post-Dispatch. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p.27. Archived from the original on May 19, 2023 . Retrieved May 19, 2023– via Newspapers.com. Schwarzbaum, Lisa (July 31, 2012). "Toy Story 2 Review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 22, 2013 . Retrieved September 23, 2012.