A Tin Toy Christmas

A Tin Toy Christmas was a cancelled Christmas special that was made by Pixar. The film was supposed to be proof that Pixar was capible of making a feature length film but was cancelled after when Pixar was given an oppurtunity to make a feature lenght film. It features Tinny the tin toy from Pixar's academy award winning short film, "Tin Toy".

Plot
Even though the film never came through, a plot was told. Tinny was apart of a Christmas Tin Toy toy line sold in the '40s. But due to poor sales, he and his friends are put away in storage and Tinny falls into a sleep. After many years of sleep, Tinny wakes up in a modern day mega store during the Christmas season. When he wakes, he sees that his friends are no where to be found. He decides to look for them on Christmas eve. On his adventure, he'd meet a rather sarcastic ventriloquist dummy who's on the look for an owner.

Production
During the ealry '90s, Pixar was on the verge of bankrupcy due them making short films on their Pixar Image computers rather than making sales with their Pixar Image computers. They decided to drop the software selling buisness and go on to just being an animation company which was doing better than their software selling buisness. During that time, they went to making television commercials and they would go to making a half-hour television special (which would be A Tin Toy Christmas) then go on to making a feature length film (which would soon be Toy Story). During early production of A Tin Toy Christmas, Peter Schnider, former president of Walt Disney Studios, tried to get John Lasseter, animator at Pixar, back to Disney, but Lasseter decided to stay with Pixar to help get it oout of struggles. Then Peter Schnieder called Ed Catmull, Vice President of Pixar, and said that he would like him and Pixar to make a feature length film. At first Catmull said that they should do their half-hour tv special first, but Schnieder said that if they could do a half-hour that then they can do 90 minutes. And so, A Tin Toy Christmas was cancelled and Toy Story was born.