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Considering how good Toy Story 2 was, "sad" is an odd way of putting it, unless you're talking about the ensuing crunch.

There are a few more details about that side of the story elsewhere:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/toy-story-2-disasters-almos...

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The sad part is that the thing they saved didn't actually get used and was just thrown out. So it wasn't exactly the big save it's made up to be. But if it wasn't framed as a big save maybe it wouldn't be posted every week or so.

If the thing they saved hadn’t been saved, it makes me wonder if they would have remade it as written, and then either have to throw that out or release what was by all accounts not a good first pass.

I suspect some character models were reused, and recovering what they did enabled the rewrite that came after.

I think it’s still fair to characterize this as a big save even if it wasn’t used as-is. They arguable needed the first version to decide to move away from it.

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