To infinity and far beyond £1.5bn
Sheriff Woody Pride, voiced by Tom Hanks, won hearts as a kindly cowboy, but he was originally meant to be a sarcastic ventriloquist’s dummy. The makers realised this could be too scary for kids.
In early drafts, the main character was going to be Tinny the tin man. But this morphed into Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen).
He could have been voiced by Billy Crystal, but he turned down the part and later admitted regretting it.
Jessie (Joan Cusack) was going to be a Mexican woman called Señorita Cactus.
Pixar wanted Barbie in the first film, but makers Mattel declined. However, the doll went on to star in the sequels.
Mattel and Hasbro turned down the chance to make tie-in toys because they thought the film would flop.
It’s working title was You Are A Toy. It has been voted the favourite animated film ever.
Randy Newman wrote the film’s theme song You’ve Got A Friend In Me in one day.
Toy Story was the first fully computer-generated fulllength feature film, but Toy Story 2 was deleted by a computer error. Fortunately someone had made a back-up.
The number 95 appears in all three films. This refers to the year the original Toy Story was released, 1995.
Toy Story 3 is the third highest grossing animated film ever, making over $1billion.
Busy Tom Hanks has admitted he sometimes gets his brother Jim to voice Woody when he’s not available.
Toy Story 4 is set to be the final film in the franchise. It follows the toys after former owner Andy handed them over to another child, Bonnie.
The film features a reluctant new toy Forky (voiced by Tim Hale). Keanu Reeves and Christina Hendricks join the cast as a stuntman and a vintage doll.
Don Rickles, who voiced Mr Potato Head, died in 2017, but his lines were pieced together from old dialogue.
TOM Hanks comes face to face with his alter ego Woody the pullstring cowboy on the red carpet for the European premiere of Toy Story 4 in London.
The 62-year-old actor has returned for what is expected to be the final instalment of the film franchise, out on Friday.
It sees regulars Woody, Buzz and Jessie joined by new character Forky, a toy made from a plastic fork.