Tinny is the protagonist of the 1988 Pixar short Tin Toy. He is a little tin toy who runs from the baby Billy and hides under the couch with the other toys. In the end, he comes out from under the couch to play with Billy because he feels sorry for him.
Appearances[]
Tin Toy[]
Tinny serves as the short's protagonist. Throughout the short, he encounters a human 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 play with him after realizing the wrong actions he did.
Toy Story[]
Tinny was to be the protagonist in a very early draft of Toy 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 become Woody) 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 appropriate Buzz Lightyear.[2]
Toy Story 4[]
Tinny (now older yet still has his chipper personality) is the "owner" of the club hidden under the Tiki Party pinball machine at the Antique Store, where all the antique toys hang out. This makes it the first time that the character appears in a physical manner in a Toy Story film, not counting his cameo appearance in Toy Story 2 through archived footage.
Disney Parks[]
Walt Disney World Resort[]
In the queue for Toy Story Midway Mania! at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Tinny can be seen on the cover of a fictional Little Golden Book for Tin Toy, which is also seen in Toy Story. Tinny can also be seen comforting Billy on one page of the book that can also be seen.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- In the unmade television special A 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 into Toy Story 2, where Woody learns about coming from of a TV series from the 1950s.
- The directors of Toy Story 4 have confirmed that the Tinny seen in Toy Story 4 is the same one from the Tin Toy short, meaning that his former owner, Billy, eventually grew up and donated him to the Antique Store (this also means he donated the 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 short Lifted underneath Ernie's bed.
References[]
- ↑ "Toy Story: The Original Treatment" (Blog). Platypus Comix.
- ↑ "Toy Story: Behind the Scenes". YouTube.
