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While most of the extras can be found on Disc 2, Disc 1 does include a new Introduction by director John Lasseter (who won a special Oscar for his work on this film) and an all-new featurette titled The Legacy of ‘Toy Story’, featuring talking head commentaries from a host of film and animation luminaries ruminating on the importance of the film. Making appearances are Star Wars’ guru George Lucas, the newly slimmed-down lord of the Rings Peter Jackson, Spirited Away Oscar-winner Hayao Miyazaki, Ice Age and Robots director Chris Wedge, familiar historians Leonard Maltin and John Canemaker, voice stars Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, the Incredible Brad Bird, Disney honchos Roy Disney and Thomas Schumacher, and real American hero Buzz Aldrin, as well as various animators and animation students who have been inspired by the film.

One carry-over from the Ultimate Toy Box is the film’s Audio Commentary, provided by Lasseter, producers Ralph Guggenheim and Bonnie Arnold, co-screenwriter Andrew Stanton (who would go on to win his own Oscar for Finding Nemo), supervising animator Pete Docter (later co-director of Monsters, Inc.), art director Ralph Eggleston and technical director Bill Reeves. If this sounds like a lot of people to keep track of, no fear: helpful subtitles are provided identifying each speaker. Oddly, about halfway through the film, a female narrator also announces each speaker and then, just as oddly, disappears from the track without another peep.

1. Oops … the part of the baby monitor that the green army men take downstairs is actually the wrong end.
2. Buzz Lightyear was an amalgam of every cool toy ever made, including G.I. Joe and (my childhood favorite) Big Jim.
3. Proof that animated movies take a long time to make: Tom Hanks made Toy Story at the same time as both Forrest Gump and Apollo 13.
4. If the sound effects during the scene where Woody accidentally pushes Buzz out the window sound familiar, they are: they are the actual effects used in the famous opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
5. An early possible title for the film was You Are A Toy.
6. Pizza Planet originally had a miniature golf theme and was called Pizza Putt.
7. Beauty and the Beast co-director Gary Trousdale came up with the idea that the alien’s “leader�? was “the claw�?.
8. Various homages and inspirations from mainstream movies include such obvious ones as Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and some not so obvious, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando, Conrad Hall’s groundbreaking cinematography in In Cold Blood and Elmer Bernstein’s classic score for The Great Escape.
9. Sharp-eyed viewers can catch a glimpse of the “Copyright Disney�? logo on Buzz’s bottom when he launches off the banister during “I Will Go Sailing No More�?.
10. Yes, that is actual Morse Code that Spider Baby taps out.

And if you want to see the complete Buzz Lightyear commercial as seen in the film (narrated by that Aristocrat Penn Jillette), you can find it in an Easter Egg on the Main Menu by highlighting one of the dials on the TV.