Editing Toy Story (section)

== Influence and legacy ==
[[File:30 Years of Toy Story Panel at D23 2024.jpg|thumb|[[Jonas Rivera]], Bob Pauley, [[Bonnie Arnold]], [[Andrew Stanton]], [[Pete Docter]], and [[Katherine Sarafian]] discussed the film and its legacy at [[D23 (Disney)|D23]] 2024.<ref name="Sakamoto">{{cite news |last1=Sakamoto |first1=Kimberlee |title='30 Years of Toy Story': Panel at D23 shares stories from beloved film |url=https://abc7.com/post/30-years-toy-story-panel-d23-ultimate-disney-fan-event-shares-stories-beloved-film/15166216/ |access-date=August 14, 2024 |work=ABC7 |date=August 9, 2024}}</ref>]]
''Toy Story'' had a large effect on the film industry with its innovative computer animation. After the film's debut, various industries were interested in the technology used for the film. Graphics chip makers desired to compute imagery similar to the film's animation for personal computers, game developers wanted to learn how to replicate the animation for video games, and robotics researchers were interested in building [[artificial intelligence]] into their machines that compared to the film's lifelike characters.<ref name="ImpactPossible">{{cite news |last1=Porter |first1=Tom |last2=Susman |first2=Galyn |author-link=Thomas Porter (Pixar) |title=Creating Lifelike Characters in Pixar Movies |url=https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2000/1/7745-on-site-creating-lifelike-characters-in-pixar-movies/abstract |work=[[Communications of the ACM]] |date=January 1, 2000 |access-date=March 13, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180909165242/https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2000/1/7745-on-site-creating-lifelike-characters-in-pixar-movies/abstract|archive-date=September 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Various authors have also compared the film to an interpretation of ''[[Don Quixote]]'' as well as [[humanism]].<ref name="TSQuixote">{{cite journal |last=Burningham |first=Bruce |year=2000 |title=Walt Disney's Toy Story as Postmodern Don Quixote |journal=Cervantes |publisher=Cervantes Society of America |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=157–174 |url=http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/artics00/burningh.pdf |access-date=March 13, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706163405/http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/artics00/burningh.pdf|archive-date=July 6, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="InfinityHeaven">{{cite news |first=Lucia K.B. |last=Hall |title=Toy Stories for Humanists? |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Toy+Stories+for+Humanists%3F-a060100167 |work=The Humanist |date=March 1, 2000 |access-date=March 13, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141206113355/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Toy+Stories+for+Humanists%3F-a060100167|archive-date=December 6, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, ''Toy Story'' left an impact with its catchphrase "To Infinity and Beyond", sequels, and software, among others. In 2005, ''Toy Story'' was selected by the United States [[Library of Congress]] to be preserved in the [[National Film Registry]] for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref name="NationalFilmRegis">{{Cite web |date=January 1, 2006 |title=Library of Congress Adds 25 Films to Registry List |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5078366 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220118230821/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5078366 |archive-date=January 18, 2022 |access-date=January 18, 2022 |website=[[NPR]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2005.html |title=Films Selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress – 2005 |date=December 27, 2005 |publisher=[[National Film Registry]] |access-date=March 11, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208150126/http://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2005.html |archive-date=February 8, 2014}}</ref>

=== "To Infinity... and Beyond!" ===
Buzz Lightyear's line "To Infinity and Beyond!" has been used not only on themed merchandise, but among philosophers and mathematical theorists as well.<ref name="InfinityPhil">{{cite book |last=Dusek |first=Val |year=2006 |title=Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction |page=59 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |isbn=1-4051-1163-1}}</ref><ref name="InfinityPossible">{{cite news |title=Introducing student-friendly technology |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-919112_ITM |work=[[The Jakarta Post]] |date=April 10, 2004 |access-date=March 13, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716080259/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-919112_ITM|archive-date=July 16, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="InfinityAmerican">{{cite news |last=Matson |first=John |title=Strange but True: Infinity Comes in Different Sizes |url=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-infinity-comes-in-different-sizes |work=[[Scientific American]] |date=July 19, 2007 |access-date=March 13, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120918202155/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-infinity-comes-in-different-sizes|archive-date=September 18, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2008, during [[STS-124]], astronauts took an action figure of Buzz Lightyear into space on [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] as part of an educational experience for students while stressing the catchphrase. The action figure was used for experiments in [[Weightlessness|zero-g]].<ref name="BuzzSpace">{{cite news |first=Robert Z. |last=Pearlman |title=Buzz Lightyear Becomes Real Space Ranger |url=http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080529-cs-buzz-lightyear.html |publisher=[[Space.com]] |date=May 29, 2008 |access-date=March 12, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911124014/http://www.space.com/5420-buzz-lightyear-real-space-ranger.html|archive-date=September 11, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> It was reported in 2008 that a father and son had continually repeated the phrase to help them keep track of each other while treading water for 15 hours in the Atlantic Ocean.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title='Toy Story' Line Helped Father, Son Survive in Water for 15 Hours |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/toy-story-line-helped-father-son-survive-in-water-for-15-hours |work=Fox News Channel |date=September 10, 2008 |access-date=March 13, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730124157/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420602,00.html|archive-date=July 30, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> The phrase occurs in the lyrics of [[Beyoncé Knowles|Beyoncé's]] 2008 song "[[Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)]]", during the [[bridge (music)|bridge]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.beyonce.com/album/i-am-sasha-fierce/lyrics/ |title=Beyonce Knowles – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Lyrics {{!}} AZLyrics.com|website=www.azlyrics.com|language=en|access-date=February 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202042229/https://www.beyonce.com/album/i-am-sasha-fierce/lyrics/|archive-date=February 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012, the late [[Capital STEEZ]] released a song titled "Infinity and Beyond" in reference to the phrase as part of his ''AmeriKKKan Korruption'' mixtape.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://genius.com/albums/Capital-steez/Amerikkkan-korruption |title=Capital STEEZ — AmeriKKKan Korruption Lyrics and Tracklist |work=Genius.com |access-date=April 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427180020/https://genius.com/albums/Capital-steez/Amerikkkan-korruption |archive-date=April 27, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Disney has also recycled the phrase in homage to ''Toy Story'' at least twice. In the "[[blooper reel]]" shown during the credits of ''[[A Bug's Life]]'', [[Dave Foley]] says the line while in character as Flik, and Tim Allen himself repeated his famous line in ''[[The Shaggy Dog (2006 film)|The Shaggy Dog]]'', in a scene when the titular character jumps off a bridge onto a moving vehicle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eeggs.com/items/50255.html|title=Shaggy Dog, The Easter Egg|work=eeggs.com|date=June 11, 2007|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=April 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426184338/https://eeggs.com/items/50255.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Other influences ===
''Toy Story''{{'}}s cast of characters forms the basis for the naming of the releases of the [[Debian]] computer operating system, from Debian 1.1 ''Buzz'', the first release with a codename, in 1996, to Debian 14 ''Forky'', the most-recently announced future release.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ – The Debian FTP archives |url=https://www.debian.org/releases/ |publisher=[[Debian]] |date=April 25, 2015 |access-date=April 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011180740/http://www.debian.org/releases/|archive-date=October 11, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=bits from the release team: are you ready to skate yet?|url=https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/10/msg00004.html|publisher=[[Debian]]|date=October 13, 2022|access-date=March 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013085359/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/10/msg00004.html|archive-date=October 13, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2013, Pixar designed a "Gromit Lightyear" sculpture based on the [[Aardman Animations]] character [[Wallace & Gromit#Gromit|Gromit]] for [[Gromit Unleashed]], which sold for £65,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Cracking-Auction-Gromits-Bristol-tops-2m-mark/story-19886480-detail/story.html |title=GROMIT UNLEASHED 2013: Cracking! Auction of Gromits in Bristol tops the £2m mark |work=Bristol Post |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027140419/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Cracking-Auction-Gromits-Bristol-tops-2m-mark/story-19886480-detail/story.html |archive-date=October 27, 2014}}</ref>