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A scared, Tin Toy realizes he really wants to play.
Babies are hardly monster-like, unless you're a toy. After escaping a drooling baby, Tinny realizes that he wants to be played with after all. But in the amount of time it takes him to discover this, the baby's attention moves on to other things only an infant could find interesting.
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Jan 7, 2026 · via TMDB
The tin toy doesn’t fancy the baby he’s supposed to entertain very much when he observes it cover it’s multi-coloured hoops in drool. No wonder he now flees the length and breadth of the room - with the baby in tottering pursuit. Eventually he finds sanctuary under the sofa - along with a great many of his discarded predecessors, only for the child to topple over - probably slipped in it’s own dribble - and start to blub. “Tinny” is really quite a kindly soul and so at risk of life and limb sets off to play. Thing is, after a few seconds of engagement it turns out that the bairn is way more interested in the box. Sound familiar? Perhaps because I was always told by my parents that I, too, always preferred the box to the toy that came from it, this made me giggle. Though the child does look a little huge-headed, this animation is good fun: the look of sheer panic on the face of “Tinny” as he races to find safety and his traumatised look after a few seconds of being played with also made me smile and I found the sheer simplicity of the story really quite engaging. Everyone wants to be wanted.
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John Lasseter
Director
John Lasseter
Producer
Gary Rydstrom
Sound Designer
John Lasseter
Animation
John Lasseter
Writer
Aug 1, 1988
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