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Toy Story premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on the 19th of November 1995. This event marked a turning point for animation history as the first fully computer-animated feature film.
Disney executives halted production after screening the first half of the film because they called it the Black Friday Incident due to disastrous story reels. Peter Schneider stopped the project immediately after seeing footage where characters lacked charm and Woody had become a mean tyrant instead of a relatable leader.
Tom Hanks voiced Woody despite initial hesitation from Disney executives while Tim Allen accepted the part of Buzz Lightyear after Billy Crystal turned down the offer. Every lead actor had never done an animated film before Toy Story and their performances became central to the film's emotional resonance.
Eight hundred thousand machine hours were consumed during production using Sun Microsystems computers running around the clock. The Render Farm rendered less than thirty seconds of film per day despite having hundreds of machines available to process one hundred fourteen thousand two hundred forty frames of animation.
Rotten Tomatoes gave Toy Story a rare approval rating based on professional reviews while Metacritic assigned a score of ninety-six out of one hundred indicating universal acclaim. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on their scale.