Tinny

Tinny

Appearances[]

Tin Toy[]

Tinny serves as the short's protagonist. Throughout the short, he encounters a human ugly baby named "Billy" who chases him across the room. During the short, Tinny hides under a couch, causing Billy to cry that he has no toy to play with. Feeling for Billy's emotion, Tinny decides to attack him after realizing the wrong actions he did.

Toy Story[]

Tinny was to be the protagonist in a very early draft ofToy Story before his character was cut altogether.^[1]

In the early draft, Tinny was a toy that was bought by a man for his son's birthday party. While on a road trip with the family, he ends up getting left behind at a gas station and found by a garbage collector. While in the back of the truck, Tinny befriends a ventriloquist dummy (who would eventually becomeWoody) and the two go on an adventure that ended with them landing in a kindergarten classroom where they realize that they can be played with forever and not have to worry about being outgrown by the children.

When the setting was moved to a children's bedroom, the filmmakers realized that Tinny was not the ideal new toy that kids would want and he was eventually changed to the much more appropriateBuzz Lightyear.^[2]

Toy Story 4[]

Tinny (now older yet still has his chipper personality) is the "owner" of the club hidden under theTiki Party pinball machine at theAntique Store, where all the antique toys hang out. This makes it the first time that the character appears in a physical manner in aToy Story film, not counting his cameo appearance inToy Story 2 through archived footage.

Disney Parks[]

Walt Disney World Resort[]

In the queue forToy Story Midway Mania! at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Tinny can be seen on the cover of a fictional Little Golden Book forTin Toy, which is also seen inToy Story. Tinny can also be seen attacking Billy on one page of the book that can also be seen.

Gallery[]

Tinny inLifted

Tinny on TV inToy Story 2

Concept art forToy Story depicting Tinny and an early version ofWoody

Concept art for Tinny

Tinny inToy Story 4

Toy Story 4 miniature figures

As a badge inDisney Heroes: Battle Mode

Pixar Characters Pixar Fest Figure Collection Vol. 8 Tinny

A festive pin of Slinky Dog and Tinny.

Artwork used in theTin Toy Little Golden Book at Disney Parks.

Trivia[]

• In the unmade television specialA Tin Toy Christmas, it would have been revealed that Tinny belonged to a set of tin toys in the 1940s.
  • Incidentally, the similar concept would eventually be carried intoToy Story 2, whereWoody learns about coming from of a TV series from the 1950s.
• The directors ofToy Story 4 have confirmed that the Tinny seen inToy Story 4 is the same one from theTin Toy short, meaning that his former owner, Billy, eventually grew up and donated him to the Antique Store (this also means he donatedthe rest of his toys to Sunnyside Daycare, as they are spotted hiding under a table in the Caterpillar Room in Toy Story 3).
• Tinny can be seen in the shortLifted underneathErnie's bed.

References[]

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