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Plot summary
Rob, the boy the appliances call the Master, used to spend his vacations at a small wooden cabin with his family. Five electric appliances wait there for him: Toaster, Radio, Lampy, Blanky and Kirby. They hold still and pass for ordinary objects when people are near. Rob has not come for some years, and the cabin is about to be sold. Toaster proposes that they go and find him, and the group leaves the cabin for the city.
Cast
- Timothy E. Dayas Blanky / Young Rob (The Master) (voice)
- Judy Tollas Mish-Mash / Two-Face Sewing Machine (voice)
- Wayne Kaatzas Rob (The Master) (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
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- Rees claims the judges told him before the awards ceremony that they considered Toaster the best film, but decided not to give the award to a cartoon because they thought people would not take the festival seriously afterwards.
- A few minutes after the meeting, Lasseter received a phone call from Hansen and was instructed to come down to his office, where he was informed that he was dismissed.
- The film made history as the first original animated film ever exhibited at Sundance, and remained the only one until 2001's Waking Life.
- After being cast, Jon Lovitz got an opportunity to appear on Saturday Night Live, so Rees, who had written the part of Radio specifically for him, kept him by recording all of Lovitz's dialogue in a single marathon night session.
- Disney, which held the film's video and TV rights, reportedly moved up the television premiere date to avoid competition, undercutting distributor Skouras Pictures' independent theatrical run and forcing Skouras to withdraw its deal.
- Rather than pulling from a sound effects library, the filmmakers built the entire soundtrack of appliance noises using exclusively made Foley recordings of real objects gathered around Los Angeles, such as pieces found in antique stores.
