Rob and Chris return home empty-handed but an old black and white television in the apartment, a friend of the five appliances who formerly resided in the cottage with them, plays fictional advertisements for the junkyard the appliances have been taken to, in the hopes that Rob and Chris will go there to find them.Īt the junkyard, the appliances are despondent that Rob apparently no longer needs them. When the group arrives at Rob's family's apartment, their newer appliances - resentful about Rob wanting to take the older appliances instead of themselves - demonstrate how much more technologically advanced they are and throw the group into a dumpster. Rob, now a young adult, goes out to the cottage with his girlfriend Chris to retrieve the appliances to take with him to college. Peters unconscious, the group escapes and makes their way to the city. When Radio is about to be taken apart for radio tubes, the others frighten St. Peters and taken to his appliance parts store, where they witness him dismantling a blender to sell its motor to a customer. They are almost swallowed up by quicksand, but are saved by Elmo St. Kirby dives in and rescues the others but with the chair, strip and battery lost, the group resorts to pulling the disabled Kirby through a swamp. After recovering Blanky, the appliances try to cross a waterfall, but everyone except Kirby falls into the water below. During the night, a storm blows Blanky up into the trees, and Lampy uses himself as a lightning rod to recharge the battery.

At one point, when their battery is nearly dead, the group stops for the night in a forest, with Blanky serving as a makeshift tent. They turn Kirby into a lawn tractor by attaching a rolling office chair, a power strip and a Junko car battery for a power source to him and travel via Kirby, and Radio serves as navigator by directing the group toward urban radio signals he picks up.Īlong their journey, the appliances have numerous harrowing adventures. Then one day in July, upon seeing that the cottage is about to be sold, the appliances decide to venture out and find Rob themselves. In a small wooden cottage known as Peaceful Woodland Cottage, five members of a clan small electric appliances - a toaster, a radio, a lamp stand named 'Lampy', an electric blanket named 'Blanky' and a vacuum cleaner named 'Kirby' - await the return of a young boy named Rob (whom they refer to as the Master) who used to vacation at the cottage with his family, but the family has not come by in many years. While the film received a limited theatrical release, The Brave Little Toaster received positive reviews and was popular on home video and was followed by two sequels, which are The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars and The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue. John Lasseter, then employed at Disney, wanted to do a CGI film based on that, but it was turned down and he was terminated the following year. The rights were acquired by Disney in 1982.

Many CalArts graduates, including the original members of Pixar Animation Studios, were involved with this film. The film was produced by Hyperion Animation, along with The Kushner-Locke Company.

The story focuses on five anthropomorphic household appliances, which include a toaster, a lamp stand, a blanket, a radio and a vacuum cleaner, who go on a quest to search for their owner. It is set in a world where domestic appliances and other consumer electronics come to life, pretending to be lifeless in the presence of humans. Day, Jon Lovitz, Tim Stack, and Thurl Ravenscroft, with Wayne Kaatz, Colette Savage, Phil Hartman, Joe Ranft and Jim Jackman in supporting roles. The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 American animated musical film adapted from the 1980 novel The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M.

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