Toy Story 3 (Circle 7 Screenplay)

Toy Story 3 was the original screenplay for thethirdToy Story film that would have been produced by Circle 7 Animation.

Background[]

In January2004, Pixar CEOSteve Jobs announced thatThe Walt Disney Company had chosen not to renew its contract withPixar. HoweverMichael Eisner stated that he was okay with this because he believed that the company could produce sequels to Pixar's films that would be just as good as the originals. With that in mind, Eisner opened a new animation studio in Glendale, California whose sole purpose was to produce sequels to movies that Pixar had produced. This new studio was namedCircle 7 Animation, after the street on which it was located, Circle 7 Drive.

In addition to creating screenplays for sequels toMonsters, Inc. andFinding Nemo, the animators atCircle 7 also began developing ideas for a thirdToy Story film. Among the rejected ideas was a script written byTeacher's Pet writers Bill and Cheri Steinkellner that involvedWoody and the gang finding toys that had been stolen out ofAndy's grandmother's attic in a whodunit-style mystery.^[1] Another one involved Andy's mom getting remarried and the toys get lost in Mexico while meeting some off-brand toys like El Buzz and Mr. Papaya Head

Finally, Disney chose a draft that had been submitted by Jim Herzfeld. However, they felt it needed some rewriting and gave Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir, writers of Circle 7's planned sequel toMonsters, Inc., the task of doing so. Concept artists that worked on developing the look and character designs for the film included Ric Sluiter, Jim Martin and Shane Zalvin.

However, in January2006, when new Disney CEO Robert Iger decided that Disney was better off with Pixar than they were without them, Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion and subsequently closed down Circle 7 Animation, ending production on all their films. As the Circle 7Toy Story 3 was further into production than the studio's other films, a greater volume of material corresponding to the film (such as concept art, character designs and a brief animation test) has been publicly documented.

Plot[]

After Buzz Lightyear inexplicably starts to malfunction,Andy'smom sends him back to the factory in Taiwan in the city of Taipei, where he was made in the hopes that they will fix him. However, upon learning that a worldwide recall had been issued on all Buzz Lightyear toys and that Buzz will merely be replaced,Woody,Jessie,Bullseye,Hamm,Mr. Potato Head,Rex, andSlinky all ship themselves to Taiwan and set out to rescue him. Meanwhile, at the factory, Buzz is placed on a conveyor belt which he learns leads to a giant toy-crushing machine known as "The Smasher" that destroys all unwanted toys. He jumps off and proceeds to escape, only to be found by some workers who take him to a boardroom. There, he meets the new toys whom the company intend to replace him with: a Transformers-esque action figure and member of Star Command named Daxx Blastar and his cat, Comet. Elsewhere in the city of Taipei, Woody and the gang are in a box on a truck. They have a flashlight with them so that it won't be pitch black, but the batteries suddenly die. Due to her fear of the dark,Jessie jumps off of the truck and the other toys follow. Not knowing where the factory is, they proceed to jump into the basket underneath a passing stroller. Back at the factory,Buzz is taken to an archive room for recalled toys where he meets two of them: Cindy Scissors, a super-heroine action figure who has scissor blades concealed in her legs, and Rosey, a bed warmer doll who was recalled because she had a high risk of over-heating and catching on fire. They tell him that Mr. Kagoy, the founder of the company would have fixed every toy there long ago if not for the fact that the board members have always kept him in the dark about The Smasher.Buzz decides to take a letter to Mr. Kagoy's office that will notify him about it and Rosey and Cindy agree to help him. Meanwhile, the mother pushing the stroller takes her son to a daycare center on the top floor of the Taipei 101, the tallest building in the world at the time. There, Woody and the gang are discovered by other children and are played with in wild and rough ways (Bullseye is made to look like a My Little Pony doll, Mr Potato Head is stripped of his body parts and treated like a potato, Rex and Hamm are diapered and treated like babies, and Woody and Jessie are "Married" with the kids smashing their faces together to make them kiss) After the daycare closes, the toys proceed to construct an escape vehicle using a shopping cart, a bubble machine and some balloons. They use this to float out of a window, down to the street below and proceed to make their way to the factory. At the same time,Buzz, Rosey and Cindy run into Daxx Blastar. Not wantingBuzz to reclaim his spot as the number one toy, Daxx tricks them by placing them in what he claims is the mail delivery chute to Kagoy's office when in reality, it is the one that leads to the destroying room. At the moment the toys end up on the conveyor belt,Andy's other toys arrive and quickly shut down the Smasher, but not before one of Buzz's legs gets crushed. Luckily, with Cindy and Rosey's help, they are able to getBuzz to the toy repair room where they not only fix his leg but put in a new chip so he won't malfunction any longer. WhileSlinky,Hamm,Bullseye,Mr. Potato Head, andRex prepare a delivery box to get the toys home,Woody,Jessie,Buzz, Cindy, and Rosey run to Mr. Kagoy's office. When they get there, they learn that the man is aware that toys are alive, which both shocks and pleases them. Upon learning what the executives have been doing, Kagoy goes to the unveiling of Daxx Blastar and tells everyone present that from now on, all recalled toys will be repaired and sent back to their owners. While this is happeningBuzz goes behind a curtain where Daxx is waiting for his big reveal and knocks him off a pedestal so that when the curtain opens, only Comet is seen. However, all the audience members (IncludingAl McWhiggin) say they love Comet and will definitely buy him, much to Daxx's chagrin. Later, when all the toys are preparing to ship themselves back home, Daxx tries to stopBuzz one final time. However, he is thrown into a box whichAndy's toys writeSid's address on. After they have successfully made it home, a montage of all of the now-repaired toys, including Cindy and Rosey happily being bought by new owners is shown. However, Andy discovers the recall letter about Buzz, and Woody and the gang share an "uh-oh" look, meaning they are gonna go through this process again.

Full Draft:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KzNPf6whsgA-OKOrOQyfdd51qS9a05FC/view

Gallery[]

Concept art by Ric Sluiter

Concept art by Ric Sluiter

Concept art by Ric Sluiter

Concept art for the fantasy sequence that would've opened the film by Ric Sluiter

The factory in Taiwan by Ric Sluiter

Mr. Potato Head andHamm at the daycare center by Ric Sluiter

The toys on a street in Taiwan by Jim Martin

Taiwan alley by Jim Martin.

greyscale concept art of a Taiwan street by Jim Martin.

colour concept art of Taiwan street by Jim Martin.

The interior of the factory by Jim Martin

Rough animation still of Toy Story 3 by Jim Martin.

Buzz with other recalled toys by Jim Martin

The factory's garbage disposal by Jim Martin

The toys escape the daycare in their makeshift vehicle by Jim Martin

The Smasher by Jim Martin

Daxx Blastar by Jim Martin

Buzz and Daxx Blastar by Jim Martin

Woody and the gang tending to a woundedBuzz by Jim Martin

Cindy Scissors by Shane Zalvin

A recalled toy robot known as Don B.B. by Shane Zalvin

A recalled doll named Handy Hans by Shane Zalvin

A recalled R.C. car by Shane Zalvin

A recalled toy donkey by Shane Zalvin

A recalled teddy bear by Shane Zalvin

Mr. Kagoy by Shane Zalvin

Rosey by Shane Zalvin

The office

Trivia[]

• The plot for this version is very similar toToy Story 2.
• Tom Hanks andJohn Ratzenberger stated that they would not reprise their roles forWoody andHamm ifToy Story 3 wasn't made by Pixar.
• Some elements from this draft were reused/referenced in the final draft ofToy Story 3, such as the toys being sent to adaycare.
• Toy Story 5 would eventually recycle plot elements from the script in the form of its ownMalfunctioning Buzz Lightyear Army.

References[]

- -

Media Films: (//) • (/) • (/) • (/) • • () • • Shows: • (//) • Video Games: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • / • Disney Parks (,,,) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Entertainment: • • • • • • • • • • • • Restaurants: • • • • • Shops: • • • • • • Parades: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Fireworks: • • • • • • • • • • • Spring: • Summer: • • Halloween: • Christmas: • • • • • • • Characters Toys: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Humans: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Animals: • • • • Deleted characters: • • Locations • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Objects • • • • • Songs Films: • • • • • • • • • • • • • Miscellaneous: • • See Also • • • • • • • •