While Pixar fans have been hoping to get a Toy Story 4 teaser trailer attached to Incredibles 2 (alas, no, but it’s a fantastic movie! go see it!), yesterday attendees of the CineEurope trade show in Barcelona, Spain were treated to previews of several upcoming Disney movies – including Toy Story 4.
It’s been a really long time since we’ve heard any specific details about Toy Story 4, specifically in regards to the film’s plot, and this lack of information has left a lot of questions in fans’ minds as to whether the original story had been kept or scrapped. Fortunately, thanks to interviews both with Annie Potts, the voice of Bo Peep, and Stephany Folsom, the movie’s screenwriter, over the past several days, we’ve got new reinforcement that production is moving forward in a positive direction, and that the story still is following the same theme as originally planned.
All Toy Story-related news has been focused on Toy Story Land lately, which is understandable considering the new land is opening at Walt Disney World in just a little over a month. So it’s taken some sleuthing on my part to find any cryptic updates on Toy Story 4 – and I’m happy to say, I’ve discovered a pretty great one!
The Toy Story news keeps on coming, as we draw closer to Toy Story Land’s opening on June 30 and the one-year mark for Toy Story 4 in just a few months. So here’s the latest roundup of updates – most of them exciting, one unfortunately sad…
It feels like things are really starting to pick up lately in the Toy Story world – Toy Story Land will be opening at Walt Disney World in less than 12 weeks, and with Incredibles 2 hitting theaters in just two months, we’ll soon be hearing more about Toy Story 4. Some new info has come out over the past week, so here’s a roundup of those updates!
I know I usually report on Toy Story Land in Walt Disney World, but the news coming out of Disneyland is too good not to share! Over this past weekend, there was a media preview event at Walt Disney Imagineering, and new concept art was revealed for Pixar Pier – which opens this summer at Disney California Adventure – featuring an overwhelming wealth of Toy Story goodness!
It feels like it’s been forever since there have been any official reports on the progress of Toy Story 4 – the most recent hints being glimpses of work in progress at the D23 Expo this past summer. The silence was broken yesterday, however, as news came out that Stephany Folsom has joined the film’s team as its new screenwriter.
Yesterday’s breaking news about John Lasseter’s six-month sabbatical from Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, resulting from accusations of “missteps” brought against him, hit me like a ton of bricks, as I’m sure it did many other Pixar fans. But before anyone starts sharpening their pitchforks to come at me, I’d like to clarify that the intention of this post isn’t to be political, or controversial. Until more concrete details come out, I respectfully choose to keep my views and opinions to myself. One thing I do want to address, however, is the insight that this situation has brought to light regarding the delays Toy Story 4 has suffered in production over the past few years.
Cars 3 premieres this week, and with it has come a steady stream of promotional ads, new merchandise, special events, and of course trailers and television commercials. The advertising campaign for a new Pixar movie is always exciting, especially when the characters and setting allow for a little extra creativity in commercials. A couple years ago, the Inside Out cast popped up in all sorts of television ads, from the Super Bowl in January through the movie’s theatrical release in June. Dory and her aquatic friends weren’t quite as conducive to interacting with people in a commercial setting, nor were dinosaurs, so I don’t recall seeing quite as many for those films. But I do remember lots of commercials during the months surrounding Toy Story 3‘s release, and thought it would be fun to look back at them in a throwback post.
Despite the disappointment of Jessie still being absent from meet and greets at Walt Disney World, there’s been a lot of exciting news lately relating to the Toy Story franchise in the parks! Over the past several weeks, we’ve seen two new shows debut that give the characters a greater presence in entertainment offerings, and the construction for Toy Story Land is really starting to kick into gear…
