In-Depth Look at the First Trailer

In a past post I discussed the most recently released full-length trailer for Toy Story 3. For today's post I'm going to take a look at the other full-length trailer that was released before that. This trailer has a significant amount of different footage.

Trailer #1

This trailer starts with a new song by Randy Newman and a montage of young Andy that manages to pull at the old heart strings a little bit. I like that the trailer starts this way, it seems to invoke a some nostalgia for the people who saw the first movies when they were little. It is a little serendipitous that the people who were kids when the original Toy Story came out are now college-age like Andy; and the beginning of this trailer seems to subtly acknowledge that.

Then it goes into some footage of them at the daycare that we saw in the other trailer. The standout portion of this trailer though, is definitely when we see Hamm accidentally set Buzz set to his Spanish version. There's not a lot of this in any of the other promotional material for the film, which leads me to believe that it's not going to be a huge part of the story. I kind of hope it's not. It is a really clever idea, and it brings the audience back to the fact that the characters are all toys, which is fun, but I would rather see Buzz being his regular self for most of the movie. The Spanish Buzz looks interesting, I just hope he doesn't overstay his welcome. The Spanish Buzz seems reminiscent of the new Buzz that still thinks he's a space ranger from Toy Story 2. The people at Pixar seem to think that without some kind of twist, Buzz's character is too bland, which may be a bit misguided.

Sparks

Sparks was first officially revealed on the website LatinoReview.com. The official description calls sparks "retro-inspired," which would mean that he is actually modern toy, but he certainly reminds me of a classic tin-toy robot that I actually have at my house. In case you think that a spark emitting robot toy is just some clever idea thought up by the people at Pixar, here is a picture of a robot exactly like the one I have:

Picture from tintoyarcade.com

You can see where the "inspiration" comes from can't you? From looking at the picture of Sparks he appears to be made out of plastic, which makes sense since he is a modern toy that is "retro inspired", but why make him that way? Why didn't Pixar choose to make Sparks an actual retro tin robot toy? That would have been so much cooler. It would be completely plausible that an old toy like that would be laying around a daycare, perhaps neglected because of its age. Maybe there is something I don't get, some reason why it wouldn't have worked that way. I suppose I shall see.

What do you think of the trailer? What do you think of Sparks? What do you think of the fact that I actually have one of those old tin toys at my house? Leave a comment.