The Brave Little Toaster/Trivia

• Executive Meddling: Minimal but meddling did make John Lasseter walk off the project.
  • To be more precise: The film was supposed to have a proper theatrical release, and was the first animated film ever at Sundance, where it received rave reviews. It was destined to be a box office film for the Summer of 1987. when Disney bought the film, and intended to use it for their newly created Disney Channel. It was buried by the channel, and made it ineligible for Oscar nominations such as Best Original Score or Best Song. It then hobbled around the festival circuit, unable to find a distributor (thanks, Disney!), but it never found an audience til it was released on VHS, uncut and un-Bowdlerised. Lasseter remembers being thoroughly angry at the film's lack of a theatrical release.
  • In the documentary 'The Pixar Story', Lasseter states that this movie was intended to use some early form of computer animation, but because executives at the time could not see the purpose(if it neither "made things faster or cheaper"), it was shelved. Furthermore, Lasseter was promptly let go afterwards, which let to his hiring later at Pixar.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Thurl Ravenscroft (Tony The Tiger and "Mr. Grinch" singer) as Kirby.
  • And Jon Lovitz is Radio.
    • Phil Hartman is the air conditioner and the hanging lamp in the hardware store from hell.
      • It's kind of hard to tell it's Hartman, too, since for each character he does an impersonation (Jack Nicholson and Peter Lorre, respectively).
      • This troper thinks air conditioner sounds like an evil Lionel Hutz.
  • This troper swears that Lampy is voiced by Carrot Top. Anyone willing to prove me wrong/right?
    • He was voiced by Tim Stack.
    • In the Polish dub, she's Mirage, Maleficent, Lady Bane and a turkey.
  • In Goes to Mars, we have:
    • Bryce Lynch from Max Headroom as Rob.
    • Wayne Knight as the Microwave.
    • Fyvush Finkel as the Hearing Aid.
    • Kath Soucie as Tinselina.
    • Alan King as the Supreme Commander, with Jim Cummings as his singing voice.
    • Farrah Fawcett as the Faucet.
    • DeForest Kelley as Viking I.
    • Carol Channing as the ceiling fan.
• No Budget: This film was made on a budget of $2.3 million, which was modest even for animated films at the time.
• Non-Singing Voice: Remember that song in 'Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars'? The song 'I See a New You' was supposed to have been sung by the Toaster. It wasn't.
• The Other Darrin: Jon Lovitz didn't return for the sequels, so Roger Kabler became the voice for Radio.
• Shrug of God: The gender of most of the appliances.
• Vindicated by Cable
• What Could Have Been: Imagine if John Lasseter had been able to make this film as the first(?) to combine hand-drawn elements and CGI? Sadly, the idea was deemed not cost-effective enough and the tech wasn't quite there yet.

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