Here is some more information about the song.
#Worthless brave little toaster tv
* Disney then proceeded to ruin most of the success TBLT could have had by making it direct to TV for a Disney Pay-Per-View channel that failed extremely quickly.
#Worthless brave little toaster movie
The production crew was also quite well trained, in fact two members – John Lasseter and Joe Ranft would later go on to raise Pixar to the powerhouse it is today and were largely responsible for writing Toy Story – think of the similarities between TBLT and the Toy Story franchise: makes sense!ĭisney only acquired the rights to the movie after the Sundance film festival where it premiered. That being said, production values were still very high for what they had to work with. That is why the animation isn’t quite as sharp as other cartoons from the late 80s – they used lower skilled artists who were MUCH cheaper. In fact, the American crew spent half a year over there overseeing production. Since the film’s budget was so low all the production was done in Taiwan. It was based on the novel The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story For Small Appliances, by Thomas Disch, which was written in 1980. For comparison the average Disney animation in that same year received 24 million dollars. Which might seem like a lot for 1987 and an animation, but it was in fact dismal. Worth noting: the film’s entire budget was 2.3 million dollars. It was actually produced by Hyperion Animation and The Kushner-Locke Company. Anyways, it’s billed as a Disney movie, but the thing is, it’s not. If you don’t remember it well enough (or if you’ve never seen it), you should watch it again sometime, it’s on YouTube for free. From its endearing characters to its not-so-subtle sexual/dependent undertones for the Master. Most people who were kids (or had kids) in the 87′ – 97′ range are familiar with The Brave Little Toaster (TBLT). I’m going to be talking about the 1987 film, The Brave Little Toaster, more specifically, I’m going to focus on its song, “Worthless.” That said, I’d still recommend you give it a chance simply because there is some very interesting stuff in here.
Still, if you have no interest in an in-depth discussion of old cartoons, or seeing my more analytical side, then you probably won’t find much of interest in this post. This is definitely one of those times where I will deeply analyze and research something that was probably never really intended to be subjected to much scrutiny, or maybe it was, and that is what makes it fun.
While I’ve changed some parts, added some photos, and reworked the formatting (which was horribly broke and ultimately required no less than 30 formatting edits), it’s largely the same general thesis as it was before – just more blog friendly. Because I wanted to memorialize it a bit better as well as share it with a larger audience, I’ve decided to “port” it over to Dinosaur Bear.
This is actually a modified version of an email I sent to Meem, SB, and Daryl 1 back in January. This post is a bit outside of my usual blogging area, but I think it will be a lot of fun regardless.