In 1950, an article titled The Toy That Kills appeared in the Women's Home Companion, a widely read U. S. periodical of the day.

Local punk band The Toy Dolls wrote a song about Ashbrooke Launderette on their 1987 album Bare Faced Cheek.

Early incarnations of The Clean included Peter Gutteridge on bass ( who wrote " Point That Thing ") and Doug Hood on vocals ( who later worked with Toy Love and founded the " Looney Tours " touring company ).

Toy wrote of Moon, " She writes the best English I have ever been privileged to read.

He worked for a year on Disney's Toy Story Web Adventures, and later worked for Todd McFarlane Productions where he wrote several issues of Spawn, Spawn: The Dark Ages.

In 1977 John Haffenden published Henry's Fate & Other Poems, a selection of dream songs that Berryman wrote after His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, but never published.

Toy wrote of Moon, " She writes the best English I have ever been privileged to read.

Ross next wrote the lyrics for a string of hit musicals, beginning with A Greek Slave ( 1898 ), San Toy ( 1899 ), The Messenger Boy ( 1900 ) and The Toreador ( 1901 ) and continuing without a break through World War I.

A translation by Richard Davies, bishop of St David's and the scholar William Salesbury was published in 1567 by Humphrey Toy as Y Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin.

The first feature-length computer animated film was the 1995 movie Toy Story by Pixar.

Although Coleco presented a mock-up of the SGM at the 1983 New York Toy Show, that product was never manufactured.

Duke Nukem 3D ( Sega Genesis ) was released in 1998 by Tec Toy.

Sessions for the planned album Toy, intended to feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs, commenced in 2000, but the album was never released.

In late March 2011, Toy, Bowie's previously unreleased album from 2001, was leaked onto the internet, containing material used for Heathen and most of its single B-sides, as well as unheard new versions of his early back catalogue.

Baum would work primarily with John R. Neill on his fantasy work beginning in 1904, but Baum met Neill few times ( all before he moved to California ) and often found Neill's art not humorous enough for his liking, and was particularly offended when Neill published The Oz Toy Book: Cut-outs for the Kiddies without authorization.

Originally called the " Magic Cube ", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via German businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year.

The development of the Mega-CD was confidential ; game developers were not made aware of what exactly they were working on until the add-on was finally revealed at the Tokyo Toy Show in Japan.

However, because Tec Toy sold the Genesis as the " Mega Drive " in Brazil, it was informally known as " Mega-CD ".

It was manufactured locally by Tec Toy.

* The film's musical score that plays during " the Wizard's Run " was recently used in a trailer for the Toy Story 3 videogame.

In 2000 a board game based on the hit television series of the same name was released by Pressman Toy Corp.

He has been involved with seventeen films that grossed over $ 100 million at the worldwide box office, the highest grossing of which was 2010's Toy Story 3.

By 1995, films such as Toy Story underscored that the distinction between live-action films and animated films was no longer clear.

In 1995, Toy Story was named eighth in TIME's list of the best ten films of 1995.

Toy Story was the highest grossing domestic film in 1995, beating Batman Forever and Apollo 13 ( also starring Tom Hanks ).

It was also nominated for Best Writing — Screenplay Written for the Screen for the work by Joel Cohen, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, and Joss Whedon making Toy Story the first animated film to be nominated for a writing award.

Toy Story was nominated for two Golden Globes, one for " Best Motion Picture — Comedy / Musical ", and one for " Best Original Song — Motion Picture " for Randy Newman's " You've Got a Friend in Me ".

In 2005 Toy Story, along with Toy Story 2 was voted the 4th greatest cartoon in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Cartoons poll, behind The Simpsons, Tom and Jerry and South Park.

Toy Story was released on VHS and Laserdisc on October 29, 1996, with no bonus material.

On January 11, 2000, it was released on VHS in the Gold Classic Collection series with the bonus short, Tin Toy, which sold two million copies.

Its first DVD release was on October 17, 2000, in a two-pack with Toy Story 2.

Grammer supplied the voices for " Stinky Pete the Prospector " in 1999 Disney / Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat.

Pixar created a 3D zoetrope inspired by Ghibli's for its touring exhibition, which first showed at the Museum of Modern Art and features characters from Toy Story.

** Carah Faye Charnow, American singer for the band Shiny Toy Guns

Hanks is known for his roles in Apollo 13, Big, That Thing You Do !, The Green Mile, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Charlie Wilson's War, Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, A League of Their Own, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and as the voice of Woody in the Toy Story movie franchise.

In the first week of release VHS rentals totaled $ 5. 1 million, debuting Toy Story as the number one video for the week.

Also on September 6, 2005, a bare-bones UMD of Toy Story was released for the Sony PlayStation Portable.

On November 1, 2011, along with the DVD and Blu-ray release of Cars 2, Toy Story and the other two films were released on each Blu-ray / Blu-ray 3D / DVD / Digital Copy combo pack ( 4 discs each for the first two films, and 5 for the third film ).

Animated films can be nominated for other categories but have rarely been so: Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 ), Up ( 2009 ) and Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ) are the only animated films ever to be nominated for Best Picture, while Waltz with Bashir ( 2008 ) is the only animated picture ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film ( though it failed to earn a nomination in the Best Animated Feature category ).

In response, Martika ’ s British Greatest Hits album was repackaged with its title altered to Toy Soldiers: The Best of Martika.

* Aunt Louisa ’ s London Toy Books: Diamonds and Toads, Warne, 1871.

The term was revived in the 21st century to refer to a new crop of bands including The Flowers of Hell, Comets on Fire, and Flotation Toy Warning who diversely draw upon the ideas and sounds of both waves of the genre ’ s founders.

At Toy Factory he engineered for such clients as Mic Murphy of The System, and Pharaoh Monch of Organized Konfusion, as well as on Mel Holder ’ s stirring saxophone rendition of R. Kelly ’ s " I Believe I Can Fly ".

LeapFrog was awarded the 2011 Toy of the Year Award, Instructor Magazine ’ s 2011 Teacher ’ s Pick Award 2010, Parent ’ s Best Toys, NAPPA Gold, 2010 Time to Play Award, Golden Apple Award and was placed on the The Toy Insider ’ s 2010 Hot 20 and FunFares ’ s 2010 Hot Dozen lists.

More big selling film and television tie-in models were released over the next few years, each with special features to entertain children, and in 1966 Mettoy were awarded two of the most prestigious awards ; ' The Queen's Award to Industry ' and the ' National Association of Toy Retailers ’ Highest Standards Award '.

The story was about Lasseter ’ s love, classic toys, and was inspired by a visit made ​​ in 1987 at the Tin Toy Museum in Yokohama, Japan ..

Released in April 2002 by Mute Records ( UK ), Matador Records ( US ), Everlasting ( Spain ) and Toy ’ s Factory ( Japan ) featured art and design by Chip Kidd with the limited CD and vinyl editions being issued in a ' Fang Pack '.

It was this expertise that became the reason he was seconded from the regular army into MI6 ( R ) based at Aston House ; this was the place christened " Churchill ’ s Toy Box.

Together the three brainstormed Lieberman ’ s concept for a simple mechanical computer, and showed a prototype at the annual Toy Fair in New York City.

The lot features such Disney and Pixar characters as Crush ( from Finding Nemo ), The Genie ( from Aladdin ), Mater and Lightning McQueen ( from Cars ), Buzz, Woody, Slinky, and other characters from Toy Story, in addition to the classic Disney characters present in the land ’ s show, Animagique.

* Toy Soldier Parachute Drop is a parachute jump ride themed to the Green Army Men from Disney-Pixar ’ s Toy Story movies.

* Slinky Dog Zig Zag Spin is a Caterpillar-style ride where guest sit in a large ride mechanism resembling Slinky Dog from Disney-Pixar ’ s Toy Story movies.