Editing Toy Story (section)

=== Writing ===
Originally, ''Toy Story'' was going to feature "Tinny", the wind-up one-man band toy from the ''Tin Toy'' short film, along with "the dummy", a [[ventriloquist's dummy]]. While the film's premise was still about toys' desire to be played with by children, the rest of the film's script, which involved Tinny being left behind at a gas station, meeting up with the dummy, and having a series of adventures before finding their way into a kindergarten classroom where they can be played with every day, was quite different.{{sfn|Price|2008|p=121}} Katzenberg was unhappy with the [[Film treatment|treatment]] drafted by Lasseter, [[Andrew Stanton]], and [[Pete Docter]], as the two character's motivations were too similar. Instead, he encouraged them to write it as a [[buddy film]], giving the two main characters contrasting personalities, and having them only become friends after being forced to work together.{{sfn|Price|2008|p=124}}{{sfn|Isaacson|2011|p=207}} Lasseter, Stanton, and Docter delivered a revised treatment in September 1991 that more closely resembles the final version of the film: Tinny replaces the ventriloquist dummy as a child's favorite toy, their bickering causes them to be left behind at a gas station, they almost catch up to the family at a pizza restaurant, they have to escape a kid that mutilates toys, and the movie ends with a chase scene as the two toys try to catch up to the family's moving van.{{sfn|Price|2008|p=124}}

The script went through many changes before the final version of it. Lasseter decided Tinny was "too antiquated"; the character was first changed to a military action figure in the likes of ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' and was then given a space theme. Tinny's name changed to Lunar Larry, then Tempus from Morph, and eventually [[Buzz Lightyear]] (after astronaut [[Buzz Aldrin]]).{{sfn|Price|2008|p=125}} Lightyear's design was modeled on the suits worn by [[Apollo program|Apollo]] astronauts as well as the aforementioned ''G.I. Joe'' action figures. Also, the green and purple color scheme on Lightyear's suit was inspired by Lasseter and his wife, Nancy, whose favorite colors are green and purple, respectively.<ref name="BuzzDesign">{{cite news |title=Disney's Buzz Lightyear and Wall-E explore space for NASA |publisher=[[Space.com]] |date=June 24, 2008 |url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-062408a.html |access-date=March 13, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724051156/http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-062408a.html|archive-date=July 24, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Paik|2007|p=103}} Woody was inspired by a [[Casper the Friendly Ghost]] doll that Lasseter had when he was a child; he was a ventriloquist's dummy with a pull-string (hence the name "Woody"). This was until character designer [[Bud Luckey]] suggested that Woody could be changed to a cowboy ventriloquist dummy. Lasseter liked the contrast between the [[Western (genre)|Western]] and the [[science fiction]] genres and the character immediately changed. Eventually, all of the ventriloquist dummy aspects of the character were deleted as the dummy looked "sneaky and mean".{{sfn|Price|2008|p=126}} However they kept the name "Woody" to pay homage to the Western actor [[Woody Strode]].{{sfn|Price|2008|p=125}} The story department drew inspiration from films such as ''[[Midnight Run]]'' and ''[[The Odd Couple (film)|The Odd Couple]]'',<ref name="MidnightRunInfluence">{{cite web |url=http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12024 |title=Charlie Rose Interview of John Lasseter |author=[[Charlie Rose]] |date=December 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208022936/http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12024 |archive-date=December 8, 2011 |access-date=November 21, 2016}}</ref> and Lasseter screened [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s ''[[Castle in the Sky]]'' for further influence.

Since ''Toy Story''{{'}}s script writers had little experience with feature films, they attended a seminar given by screenwriter [[Robert McKee]].{{sfn|Price|2008|p=126}} They were inspired by his guidance, based on [[Aristotle]]'s ''[[Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]]'', that the main character in a story should be defined by how they react to the obstacles they face, and that it is those obstacles that make characters interesting.{{sfn|Price|2008|p=127}} Disney also appointed the duo [[Joel Cohen (writer)|Joel Cohen]] and [[Alec Sokolow]] and, later, [[Joss Whedon]] to help develop the script. Whedon thought that while the script did not work, it had "a great structure". He added the character of [[Rex (Toy Story)|Rex]] and sought a pivotal role for a [[Barbie]] doll; the latter transformed into [[Bo Peep (Toy Story)|Bo Peep]] as [[Mattel]] would not license the character.{{sfn|Price|2008|p=128}} Whedon also re-visioned Buzz Lightyear from being a dim-witted but cheerful and self-aware character to an action figure who isn't aware that he's a toy—an epiphany that transformed the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/joss-whedon-cowrote-toy-story-2014-9 |title='Toy Story' Had An Unwatchable Script Until Joss Whedon Saved It |author=Kirsten Acuna |date=September 23, 2014 |publisher=[[Business Insider]] |access-date=July 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702162757/https://www.businessinsider.com/joss-whedon-cowrote-toy-story-2014-9|archive-date=July 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> A brainstorming session with members of Disney Animation's creative team resulted in the addition of the [[Little Green Men (Toy Story)|three-eyed squeaky toy aliens]].{{sfn|Price|2008|p=137}}

''Toy Story'' was the first animated film for which [[scratch vocal]]s were recorded first for all reels, to be later replaced by production sound.<ref name="Peri_Page_195">{{cite book |last1=Peri |first1=Don |last2=Docter |first2=Pete |author2-link=Pete Docter |title=Directing at Disney: The Original Directors of Walt's Animated Films |date=2024 |publisher=Disney Editions |location=Los Angeles |isbn=9781484755747 |page=195 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ovdZEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref>  Before that point, animation studios were more disorganized as to when scratch vocals or production sound were recorded for any particular reel.<ref name="Peri_Page_195" />  For example, during the 1980s, Disney Animation experimented with recording production sound for all reels (without recording scratch vocals first) before starting animation.<ref name="Peri_Page_195" />