005 Toy Story - Buzz Syndrome

The Rotoscopers tackle their first Pixar film, Toy Story! (Because you're not an official animation podcast unless you've covered Pixar). Morgan & Chelsea share their experience of meeting Don Bluth. Also covered is the animation news for the week, the introduction of a new segment called the "Nerdy Couch Hour" and, of course, a hilarious discussion about the first CGI feature-length animated film Toy Story. 
Highlights:
■ We have a cricket problem
■ Morgan & Chelsea go to Don Bluth Front Row Theatre
■ Quick News Segment: Lorax opening weekend $70.2 million, new Japanese Brave trailer & Robert Sherman passes away
■ Nerdy Couch Hour: The movie name change trend
■ Main Discussion: Toy Story
■ Is the entire movie quotable?
■ VHS & 90s movie preview tangent
■ Toy Duel
■ Why Barbie wasn’t in the first Toy Story film
■ Conundrums: What kind of toy is Bo Peep?
■ Favorite scenes: Andy’s playtime & the birthday party
■ The music: no characters singing in the film & potential Sid Phillips villain song
■ The characters: lots of characters but not too many, Rex’s voice actor & Billy Crystal was supposed to be Buzz
■ The Pixar movie experience
■ Pizza Planet: the delivery guy, whack-a-alien & alien juice dispenser
■ Disneyland’s Red Rockett’s Pizza Port: the futuristic Red Robin?
■ Items that are in every Pixar film
■ The green alien men cult
■ Sid Phillips character discussion: crazed genius, pop tarts for breakfast & appearances in Monsters’ Inc. comics
■ Conundrums: Buzz syndrome, Zurg’s secret weapon & batteries for toys
■ Trivia: Woody and Andy’s last name & early working titles for the film
■ Mrs. Nesbitt’s tea party with Marie Antoinette and her sister
■ What we rate the film
■ Bloopers: no flushing allowed, the lego table, multiple interruptions by the cricket & nerdy kid in his room

Runtime: 1:13:08, 33.1 MB
Where to Find Us:
■ Find us on the web: therotoscopers.com, twitter, facebook, YouTube, tumblr, hypable & Animated Views
■ Mason Smith: This Animated Life Blog, Twitter
■ Chelsea Robson: Facebook, Twitter
■ Morgan Stradling: Twitter, Instagram
■ Visit our sponsors: Netflix, Audible, Amazon
■ Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at [email protected]
■ Send us a voicemail at therotoscopers.com/voicemail
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The Rotoscopers tackle their first Pixar film, Toy Story! (Because you're not an official animation podcast unless you've covered Pixar). Morgan & Chelsea share their experience of meeting Don Bluth. Also covered is the animation news for the week, the introduction of a new segment called the "Nerdy Couch Hour" and, of course, a hilarious discussion about the first CGI feature-length animated film Toy Story. 

Highlights:

■ We have a cricket problem

■ Morgan & Chelsea go to Don Bluth Front Row Theatre

■ Quick News Segment: Lorax opening weekend $70.2 million, new Japanese Brave trailer & Robert Sherman passes away

■ Nerdy Couch Hour: The movie name change trend

■ Main Discussion: Toy Story

■ Is the entire movie quotable?

■ VHS & 90s movie preview tangent

■ Toy Duel

■ Why Barbie wasn’t in the first Toy Story film

■ Conundrums: What kind of toy is Bo Peep?

■ Favorite scenes: Andy’s playtime & the birthday party

■ The music: no characters singing in the film & potential Sid Phillips villain song

■ The characters: lots of characters but not too many, Rex’s voice actor & Billy Crystal was supposed to be Buzz

■ The Pixar movie experience

■ Pizza Planet: the delivery guy, whack-a-alien & alien juice dispenser

■ Disneyland’s Red Rockett’s Pizza Port: the futuristic Red Robin?

■ Items that are in every Pixar film

■ The green alien men cult

■ Sid Phillips character discussion: crazed genius, pop tarts for breakfast & appearances in Monsters’ Inc. comics

■ Conundrums: Buzz syndrome, Zurg’s secret weapon & batteries for toys

■ Trivia: Woody and Andy’s last name & early working titles for the film

■ Mrs. Nesbitt’s tea party with Marie Antoinette and her sister

■ What we rate the film

■ Bloopers: no flushing allowed, the lego table, multiple interruptions by the cricket & nerdy kid in his room

Runtime: 1:13:08, 33.1 MB

Where to Find Us:

■ Find us on the web: therotoscopers.com, twitter, facebook, YouTube, tumblr, hypable & Animated Views

■ Mason Smith: This Animated Life Blog, Twitter

■ Chelsea Robson: Facebook, Twitter

■ Morgan Stradling: Twitter, Instagram

■ Visit our sponsors: Netflix, Audible, Amazon

■ Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at [email protected]

■ Send us a voicemail at therotoscopers.com/voicemail

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