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Dude started talking about toys so much he literally became one

My favorite fun fact about the franchise is that when they were making the Toy Story 2 Disney wanted them to make it direct-to-video so they had no staff. Even after convincing the higher-ups, they still had to hire people who knew how to animate the characters in a hurry. So they went down the hall to Disney Interactive, found the guy who worked on the Interactive Storybook of the first game (which is honestly pretty great), and offered them a chance to work on the movie proper.

Toy Story 3 coming out during the Ps2 era feels like one of those time facts you just can't believe... like Mammoths being around during the Pyramids.

Major reason the Buzz Lightyear cartoon only lasted 4 months is because at the time they were premiering new episodes almost daily. Essentially the show was created for syndication and expected to only last that long, so in the very least it wasn't cancelled.

That Nightmare Buzz boss fight was based on a unused scene from the original movie, where Woody had a nightmare about Andy finding Buzz cooler that him and leaving him out before moving out, leaving Woody alone to be overtaken by cockroaches. Development of licensed games was mostly around earlier draft of movie to develop the game in time, which would usually resolve in the content of the game being slightly or more diffenrent that the product they were based on. Also, a lot of Pixar movies unused scene are about the main hero having a bad nightmare. Strange coincidence, isn't it?

Lol i was totally thinking "Oh boy he is gonna talk about Toy Story 2, loved that game as a kid" when he hit me with the "I know you're here to talk about TS2, I´m not stupid" That made me chuckle.

7:49 Fun fact: That level is inspired by a deleted scene from the first movie that involved a nightmare from Woody. The idea would end up in Toy Story 2 but about Woody fearing of losing Andy..

My uncle helped develop Toy Story 3. He did a lot of work on the toy box mode, and the dragon? The one you ride in the Bonny’s tree area? That was originally going to be a boss, until he was like “but what if you ride it instead?” I got to play test it a bunch, and it was really cool seeing it grow. That game was also the inspiration for Disney infinity, and that specific team worked on the “Lone Ranger” set, which was considered one of the best of the first wave by critics. That uncle would be thrilled to know you liked the game!

first game is a side-scroller that uses 2D sprites, second game is a 3D platformer thats considered the best of the three, and the third game is a pretty fun adventure thats also in 3D. man, Rayman is such a good franchise

The Toy Story 2 game for PS1 was an actual banger, I just wish I knew how to save my game back then

4:28 Alright, I do wanna talk about this for a second. The reason why KH3's Toy Box takes plays in a new mall is becuase it was a scrapped concept for one of the Toy Story movies. Pixar originally wanted to have one of the movies have this huge toy mall like we see in the games, but they couldn't figure out how to make it work so they scrapped it. When it came to the KH collab though, they revived it for the game. Sure it doesn't take place in Al's Toy Barn, but it's an old concept that they were able to bring back to live and I think that's really cool.

Fun Fact: Woody's Nightmare was planned to be a scene in the film but it was scrapped. It is was common for video games based on films to include scrapped scenes because the games and films were often developed concurrently.

19:43 There is a steam port of Disney Infinity where you have all the figures unlocked from the start without having to buy any figures or use that weird pad thing, and it is rather inexpensive especially if its on sale. Maybe check that out if you're interested? I definitely recommend it. Edit: There are some characters missing from the game that were in the console versions like Ant-Man, Mad Hatter, Dory, etc. and there are some issues like no multiplayer or level sharing, but overall its still a great port IMO (thanks for letting me know Spacething7474 and FireYums). [There are also mods to put some of the characters back in, but I can't confirm if they work or not.]

19:44 Fun Fact: Disney Infinity 1,2 and 3 are all on Steam for like $18 as a bundles and they DON'T require the toy-pad or figures. It comes with all the campaigns and characters and everything. Definitely worth picking up as it's never on sale and it's honestly a great deal!

I've rewatched it recently and Star Command while a bit goofy is still a lot closer to what Lightyear should of been. The feature length movie/pilot for it is pretty much exactly what they should of made instead of Lightyear.

I absolutely love the Buzz Lightyear Animated Series. It's genuinely more enjoyable than the film.

Interesting little tidbit: Jon Burton, the head of Traveller's Tales (who developed the game adaptations of Toy Story 1 and 2), has a RU-vid channel dedicated to showing off the various techniques the team used to develop their games, and the Toy Story 1 game in particular has a lot of fascinating elements behind its development. They utilized the Genesis's hardware in ways that didn't even seem possible when developing the game, particularly with some of the 3D-replicating effects and especially the music. The channel's called "Coding Secrets", by the way.

AntDude's videos are slowly becoming Caddy's at this point at just 40+ mins of entire sagas

I'm glad to see Toy Story 3 getting the love it deserves.

Fun fact: since they didn't have enough big villains for the Buzz Lightyear Star Command game (since the TV show did not last long), they had to use background and nameless characters to put on the levels. That's why you challenge "Skreel" , "Marl" and "Snark"

“When you first pop into this game, the first thing you notice is the poor edging on Woody”. -George Wood

The Toy Story 2 game really does still hold up today. I agree, this game would do spectacularly well if it were given the remake treatment. TS3 is also still a very fun time.

Toy Story 3 for the ps3 was an absolute classic. I used to play around in the town for hours just messing around. The Sid’s house stage used to scare me though.

21:16 Strangely enough, the PSP version is now available on the PS5.

The Toy Story 3 game was freaking great, and the evidence is that Disney Infinity was effectively just the Toy Story 3 game but other Disney properties. It was actually a competently designed platformer, it had memorable levels (that one level with the rising tea was too difficult as a kid though), and the open world toy box added so much more content on top of it since it was pretty much its own game. I just don't understand why they tried to make a movie tie-in game that good, but it sure did pay off in the end I guess.

I remember playing the Toy Story 3 game so much as a kid. Even when replaying it today, it still holds up incredibly well... at least for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. The Wii version is heavily downgraded so it can fit on a Wii disk and run well on a Wii, and the PC version is just a port of the Wii version. If you have a PS3 or Xbox 360, get those versions instead. Fun fact: After the success of the Toy Story 3 game, Avalanche Software had an idea for a sequel which would be based on Buzz instead of Woody. Some concept art was made for it, but at some point a higher-up from Disney came by and said "This game looks cool, but why restrict it to just Toy Story? Why not include multiple different Pixar franchises?" So the game was scrapped and they started working on Disney Infinity. Fortunately the concepts were utilized and included as a play set: Toy Story In Space! Also for people who want to play Disney Infinity without having to spend hundreds of dollars on the figures, you can get Gold Editions of each of the 3 games on Steam that have all content normally locked behind figures unlocked from the start! They're very inexpensive and cost even less when on sale!

I remember the commercial for the SNES/Genesis Toy Story that played at the beginning of a movie I watched as a kid. It was so cool looking! I particularly remember the balloon you pump in the first level and the LGM saying "HELLOOOO!" when you find him in the first person segment.

11:06 Wait no you might actually be right about the inspiration for Metroid, seeing the badly plastered on buzz face does actually give me the same feeling of fear that I got when I first saw Samus in the reflection of her helmet.

No one ever talks about 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue on PS1. Personally I'd rank that in the same tier as Toy Story 2 and A Bugs Life on PS1. Great game

The Buzz Lightyear of Star Command tv show was amazing!

31:11 atleast it had to more episodes than the normal Disney channel cartoon at the time

The Toy Story 2 game is still one of my favorite 3D platformers of all time. It has such a good vibe and so many fun environments to explore. I spent countless of hours with that throughout several stages of my life.

Well, thank you for at least _acknowledging_ Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. You did more than Disney is doing, which is a bit sad.

Licensed games in the 90's and early 2000's really were a golden age, so many quality titles, especially the Disney games. Traveller's Tales really went out of their way to make fantastic Toy Story games (well, maybe not Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), and A Bug's Life. And Toy Story 2 will always be one of those games where I can keep coming back to and never get tired of it, a testament to a game's quality. It is a bummer that we hardly ever get any licensed games these days, can you imagine what a new Toy Story game on the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series consoles could be like? That would be the closest we could get to Pixar quality visuals in a game, but it doesn't look like it was meant to be.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command on PS1 was my first video game ever. I loved it so much when I was a kid, but going back as an adult, you can just feel how lazy it is. Still has amazing music. Honestly all the PS1 Toy Story games have fantastic music.

I remember some incredible old Toy Story flash games that also used to exist on Disney's website, sadly in 2016, they all got the axe and vanished. I also miss the Phinneas and Ferb flash game that they also had, it had references to almost every episode in the series, but that one vanished in I think 2014...

I'm required to tell this story on every review of Toy Story 2 GBC: When I was a kid, my mom, sister and I went to our new school for a conference/primer for the new school year. While the adults talked, the kids were in another room and I had my GBA with Toy Story 2. The event ends and my mom and sister go to the bathroom. I play the game waiting for them to get back, and I'm so focused on playing that I don't think to inform any of the exiting staff that we're still inside so by the time my mom and sister come out of the bathroom, we're temporarily locked inside the school. We got out in just a few minutes, but that cost me my Game Boy for quite a while.

I remember playing that PSP version of Toy Story 3 and used to get scared on Big Baby's face during the stealth mode in one of the levels. Maybe because of that PSP graphics that scared me. That and the Toy Monkey in the movie is a source of nightmare fuel.

20:46 now imagine if Toy Story 1 was on SNES Nintendo Online

the toy story 3 game was really nostalgic for me, I remember having trouble with the buzz level as a kid though and now I wanna play it again

I remember having the TS2 game on PS1, and despite playing it all the time, I was never able to beat it. To be fair though, that was the case with a lot of games from my childhood (Banjo Kazooie, DK64, etc.) I still absolutely adore the TS3 game. I still return to it every now and then. It basically set the ground work for Disney Infinity.

I first bought Toy Story 3 on the Wii at first, and I would hear about these amazing things in the Toybox mode that I wanted to do but couldn’t. Then I got the Xbox 360, and it was so amazing! Doing all the quests and unlocking different features of the toy themes like the haunted mansion, space, and the fairies. I just let my imagination run around while I play this game. Also, I know you didn’t talk much about Toy Story In Space in Disney Infinity, but I loved that game too. It was so much fun creating my own space station and exploring the planet and just seeing all those freaking adorable creatures, I mean have you seen them?! Ahem, excuse me. It’s one of my favorite story games on Disney Infinity, and it gives me nostalgia just thinking about them.

Skip to 32:30 to see ALIEN POG 8y Honestly, I'm glad you talked about the first three games Traveller's Tales made. The first movie's game adaptation was a HUGE technical achievement for the time. Jon Burton's made a couple videos on it over on his GameHut channel- they're well worth listening to!

5:30 holy moly i finally know this song's name, playing Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure in the PS2 with my sister was like my entire childhood

The Toy Story 2 game is a certified hood classic! By far my favorite game developed by Traveler's Tales.

Toy Story 2 was the GOAT of all Toy Story games for me. To this day, I never get tired of speedrunning it 100%. I remember getting it on PC that was bundled as part of a combo back with a Gravis gamepad pro and Disney's Hercules.

I personally loved the Star Command series. Yeah it’s a product of it’s time, but it had potential for more.

When he brought up the activity center games, it flipped a switch in my brain I had long forgotten. I had one of those as a kid, and seeing it now is incredibly surreal.

31:00 Seeing the reviews of Lightyear made me more interested in the show than the movie.

I have literally been playing the toy story 3 game this week lmao. it's still holds up from my childhood and is still really fun and surprisingly challenging at moments, even though I'm technically an adult now lol

Toy Story 2 is still one of my all time favorite N64 games. Never got to try the other versions, though.

25:34 Disney Presents: Raid Shadow Legends

I just recently watched this buzz light-year cartoon on RU-vid with my family 🤣😁

For anybody who grew up with it like me, the founder of Traveller's Tales (the studio behind the Genesis Toy Story game) has his own channel where he talks about some of the tricks they used to pull that game off. ru-vid.com

I respect you being freaked out by the trash monster. I myself was absolutely, downright terrified of it, and needed one of my sisters to beat it for me to progress.

the buzz lightyear star command game is more of a speedrunning type game encouraging you to get to the end before the enemy allowing you to have an easier boss fight.

I had Toy Story 2 on the pc when I was young, but I was not big into platformers. I remember that the game was actually pretty impressive, but it was HARD for me and even the graphics scared me at times. The garage was pretty much the furthest I could ever get. This video also reminded me I actually never watched Toy Story 3...

Why do I have the feeling that this video was made just for that amazing opening joke

Im still gobsmacked that Toy Story 3 was as enjoyable as it was, me and my brother had so much fun customising the town together!

Maybe just nostalgia, but man there is something about the style of those 2000s cartoons. Hand drawn and all, great voice acting too, even if it was just a spin off. Modern flash-esque cartoons just have a different feel.

That footage of the Toy Story 2 Activity Center was so nostalgic. It was one of like 3 games we had for the big ass Macintosh family computer. I spent so much time messing around with that, having no clue what to do.

I actually owned both Buzz Lightyear and Toy Story 2 on the Game Boy Color as a kid. I distinctly remember how... not good they were.

I completely forgot I played the toy story game on the ds, but the second I saw the daycare room and tower defense I just got really excited

I completely forgot that I owned the Toy Story activity center on my windows 98 as a kid. Holy crap dude, you just awakened a bunch of very fond memories with my baby brother. Thank you so much for that!

I remember playing Toy Story 2 on the N64. It was one of the first games I played as a kid when my family immigrated to the states.

Not gonna lie, there was a period of my life, when I was like 5 or 6, where Buzz Lightyear of Star Command for PS1 was my favorite video game. Then my copy broke a few months after I got it.

Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure is probably the game I have the single most amount of nostalgia for in my life, it's sooooooooo good, glad to see it mentioned here Toy Story Racer as well, I recently 100%'d it for the first time but it is SOOOOOOO tedious and easy once you are used to each map and their shortcuts

31:22 _Bruh!_ How could you not remember Booster or Mira or XR? That show was the _shit,_ man! _Patrick Warburton was the voice of Buzz!!!_

fun fact the Disney infinity trilogy is actually on pc/steam and that version actually removed the toys to life gimmick altogether. So it plays like a proper video game now.

21:06 That music from the DS version in the background just gave me so much nostalgia. Also, that tower defense mode is actually a lot of fun and really replayable.

I have fond memories of playing Toy Story 2 on my PC as a kid. It was one if my first game that my childhood friend gave to me to try out since I loved the first Toy Story game on Sega Mega Drive. I loved the game so much and one of the first games I ever beat.

34:07 Every masterpiece has its cheap copy

Also, I figured out there is a slight benefit to beating the bad guys to the end of the course: if you do, then Nova will take out half of the enemies' shields for you.

I actually watched retro rebound’s retrospective on the toy story games yesterday but yours is honestly just incredible overall. Love every minute of your retrospective.

Nice Retrospective Antdude, definitely fueling the nostalgia here! Though if I could reccomend a particular Disney licensed franchise that has 2 amazing Video Games is arguably "The Nightmare Before Christmas"! (One on console(ps2 and Xbox original) and one on handheld(Gameboy advance)) If you wanna see one heck of a ride in terms of gaming, give these 2 a shot!(not to mention both games are completely different game genres, and both games are REALLY good too!)

2:28 I remember watching the Buzz Lightyear cartoon! Now if only they could give us a Woody’s Roundup singing cowboy musical movie

If you reach the finish line before the bad guys on the star command game, I think you get a damage bonus on them? Or something like that.

I played hours of Toy Story 3 on the Wii afterschool as a kid So many great memories with that game, the Toy Box mode was just so fun to walk around in and kick around the little NPCs

Honestly was a huge fan of the animated Buzz Lightyear show. Didn't know it lasted only 4 months despite having two seasons.

I remember playing this one Toy Story game on my preschool's computers that was an interactive, point and click, read-a-long story of the first movie. I don't know if it was the activity center game or not, but I have very vivid, amusing memories of sticking toilet plungers on Buzz's face at the gas station.

Toy story is my absolute favorite franchise ever since I was little! Also, I myself actually went to a Pixar convention and they told us how they animate stuff and it was fantastic!

love that you're trying lots of new things in this vid, it really shows and came out incredibly good

OMG ANT YOU JUST UNLOCKED A MEMORY FROM YEARS AGO!!! I HAD TOTTALY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT GAME AT 32:34 That cutscene just made me remember, thank you very much

The first two movies remain to be my favorite movies ever made! I started rewatching them for fun, and 4 is actually really fun to watch as well. I think I did recall playing Toy Story Kinect games, we’re really fun.

This is probably the most on-time I’ve been to an AntDude video since he had a 6-note crescendo for his intro jingle

I love these new longer videos, like Wario Land, Mario Sports, the Kirby games, keep up the amazing work Ant!

23:29 i love this game with all my heart, I’m 99% sure that it was the first game I ever played! Thanks Toy Story!

I can't be the only one that noticed it, but Toy Story Racer just looks like Muppets RaceMania with a toy story skin over it, which is actually pretty cool because Muppets RaceMania was one of my favourite games as a kid

6:56 Someone’s been watching Daddy Caddy.

4:39 Woody summarising my life

Dude literally woke up memories from my childhood I had completely forgotten about. I played Toy Story Racer, Toy Story 2, the Buzz Lightear cartoon game AND that Disney Skate thing (which I spent HOURS on because I thought it was super funny). Watching this became a much harder nostalgia trip than I expected and I'm grateful for it

Man... I a Disney Gamer account through Spectrobes 2. IIRC, back in the day, most of the folks that used it connected through a Club Penguin game. It was basically a little social network for Disney games on the DS. Avatar creation with some fun unlockable costumes, a surprisingly decent friend system including DMs and gifts (for giving said unlockable costumes to friends connecting from other games, each with their own costumes), and several chat rooms for players to talk. The chat rooms and DMs were somewhat restricted, you could only post words contained within an internal dictionary (said dictionary was pretty large, but naturally did not any expletives, references to violence or other mature concepts, as well as a lot of very common euphemisms for the above). That being said, it did also have some fun functionality, like being able to make your avatar appear above the chat room to perform emotes. Many parties back in the day of people spamming the bubbles emote. Good times. That may or may not also be where I got my first girlfriend who goes to another school.

Hey, if you do want to cover Disney Infinity in the future, there exists versions on steam with every character locked behind a figure unlocked in the games themselves with no need for the toys

I remember playing toy story 3 on my ds and wii. I usually just fooled around in the toybox on the wii and barley touched the single player. The tower defense game on the ds scared me for some reason, but the game was so easy that even as a 5-9 year old I could beat it. I replayed the games now and there still fun.

So when I was a kid, there was a "console" called the V-Smile that had a bunch of cartridges with different games to play. These were for, like, 4 year olds, so it was a lot of "can you count to 5" type stuff, but there were also multiple Disney properties, and Toy Story 2 was of course one of the options. The phrase "We're one step closer to Woody" is burned into my brained for the rest of time.

I’ve been on a Toy Story kick lately, I loved the Toy Story 3 on PS3. I played it all the time. Gives me nostalgia.

28:28 I dunno, Buzz' walking animation here just looks so silly here, I can't stop laughing at it for some reason

I played the toy story 3 game for the wii so much and I loved it! But the psp version was always my favorite one, but not gonna lie...the Bonnie's house mission was always a bit strange to me- like what little girl imagines her house being flooded in coffee?

17:09 That’s Mr. Evil Dr. Porkchop to you Ant!