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Toy Story 3 Preview
Story details, plus footage screens in London.
by Chris Tilly, IGN UK
UK, September 10, 2009 - A packed cinema in London's Leicester Square was the venue for a world exclusive sneak peak at Toy Story 3 this morning.
John Lasseter was on hand to provide story details and descriptions of the action in question, which included an extended clip from the movie and a brand new trailer.
The clip was a dramatic one, taking place just three days before Andy leaves home for college. While packing, he re-opens his toy box and decides to take Woody with him, placing the rest in storage.
However, Andy becomes side-tracked before he can take the toys up to the attic, and before you can say "To infinity and beyond!", his mother has taken them out with the trash
Cue a Woody rescue, although as ever, all does not go quite according to plan. He calls upon the family's loyal hound Buster, though these days he's too old and fat to help out. He then heads out of the window and down the drain-pipe, but before he can his friends out of the bag, the trash man has picked them up and driven away.
This signalled the end of the clip, although the brand new trailer that followed suggests that the film will revolve around the toy's efforts to reunite. Highlights included the gang barely making it out alive when they are thrown at the mercy of a group of pre-schoolers, and the reset button being pressed on Buzz Lightyear's back, causing him to return to life, only this time speaking in Spanish.
Lasseter also revealed that Barbie's Ken will be appearing in the film, voiced by none-other-than Michael Keaton. He then showed what looked like a DVD extra - a 1960s do entary in which a camp Ken introduces himself, shows us round his house, and becomes annoyed at the realisation that he is a girl's doll.
Another new character unvelied was a cute little hedgehog called Mr. Prickle-Pants. Lasseter explained that Prickle - who is voiced by Timothy Dalton - behaves like a posh English thespian, and has one particuarly good scene with Woody.
All-in-all it was hilarious stuff that retains the charms of the originals, and looks to be a worthy addition to the Toy Story cannon.
The audience was also treated to the first five minutes of Toy Story 2 in 3D, which looked incredibly impressive. Buzz's efforts to defeat Zurg's minions and steal his power supply really popped out of the screen, so much so that you would have thought the film had been designed in 3D rather than transferred.
We were also treated to a new teaser, in which Buzz and Woody play around with a pair of 3D glasses, before Rex arrives on the scene, trapped in his 2D body. It ended with a couple of clever sight-gags that perfectly whet the appe e for the Toy Story onslaught that is set to hit screens over the next 12 months.
