El Capitan Theatre
Disney rented the neighbouring Masonic Convention Hall for Totally Toy Story, a promotional attraction that ran until 1 January 1996.
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Toy Story
The first computer-animated feature took 800,000 machine hours and could draw under 30 seconds of film a day. Every place here starts as an outline and is drawn in buckets, like a frame.
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Seven jobs in the queue
At less than 30 seconds of film a day, 77 minutes would take at least 154 days. Pick a job and press Render: its place is drawn in twelve buckets, then its facts appear.
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Pixar at Point Richmond is in the queue.
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Two nights
Which night was the premiere?
Two pages that describe the same film give different days. Pick a source to light its calendar.
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The Toy Story page puts Disney’s premiere at the El Capitan on 19 November, with Pixar’s the following night at the Regency Center.
The Regency Center
The film opened in the United States on 22 November 1995 on 2,281 screens and took $29.1 million over its first three days, a record at the time.
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Go and find the frames
The El Capitan, the Regency Center and the two Toy Story lands are public places. Pixar’s two campuses are working offices, best seen from the street.
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Where it is now
7 places from the Bay Area to Hollywood, Florida and Shanghai.
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Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The office park is not a visitor site and nothing marks the film there. The photograph shows Cutting Boulevard in Point Richmond, near the site.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working studio campus. No public tours were found, so see it from the street.
Cutting Boulevard in Point Richmond, March 2021, the street Pixar’s Toy Story office park stood on. Pi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Pixar’s two homes · 1001 West Cutting Boulevard, Point Richmond
Pixar at Point Richmond
Pixar moved from San Rafael to Richmond in 1990 and leased space at Point Richmond before the move to Emeryville.
The office park is not a visitor site and nothing marks the film there. The photograph shows Cutting Boulevard in Point Richmond, near the site.
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Pixar’s Emeryville campus, home since 2000. Sharon Hahn Darlin · CC BY 2.0 Pixar’s two homes · 1200 Park Avenue, Emeryville
Pixar in Emeryville
Shortly after Steve Jobs bought the company in March 1991, Pixar made a $26 million deal with Disney for three computer-animated features. The first was Toy Story.
A working studio campus. No public tours were found, so see it from the street.
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A room on the boulevard.
A Hollywood hotel on the same boulevard as the El Capitan.
The Hollywood Roosevelt
The Hollywood Roosevelt
Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
A 1927 hotel at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, on the same boulevard as the El Capitan. Pictured: the El Capitan, 2008.
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The archive
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
7 of 7 places · 9 of 9 stories
Pixar at Point Richmond
1001 West Cutting Boulevard, Point Richmond
Frames around the clock
Sun computers render the 114,240 frames for 800,000 machine hours, under 30 seconds of film a day.
Pixar in Emeryville
1200 Park Avenue, Emeryville
The three-feature deal
A $26 million Disney deal for three features makes Toy Story Pixar’s first.
The move
Pixar’s Emeryville studio opens, five years after the film.
El Capitan Theatre
6838 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood
Disney’s premiere
Disney premieres the film at the El Capitan; two pages give 18 and 19 November.
Totally Toy Story
A promotional attraction in the neighbouring Masonic Convention Hall runs to 1 January 1996.
The Regency Center
Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Pixar’s own night
Pixar holds its premiere the next night in San Francisco.
Toy Story Land, Florida
Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Bay Lake, Florida
Toy Story Land opens
The Florida land opens on 30 June 2018 with Slinky Dog Dash.
Toy Story Mania!
Toy Story Land, Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Midway Mania opens
The shooting ride opens in Pixar Place on 31 May 2008.
Toy Story Land, Shanghai
Shanghai Disneyland, Pudong, Shanghai
Shanghai opens
Shanghai’s Toy Story Land opens on 26 April 2018.
