The film rights to The Brave Little Toaster, the original novel, were bought by the Disney Studios in 1982, two years after its appearance in print. After John Lasseter and Glen Keane had finished a short 2D/3D test film based on the book Where the Wild Things Are, Lasseter and Thomas L. Wilhite decided they wanted to make a whole feature this way. The story they chose was The Brave Little Toaster, but in their enthusiasm, they ran into issues pitching the idea to two high level Disney executives, animation administrator Ed Hansen, and head of Disney studios Ron Miller. During Lasseter and Wilhite's pitch, the film was rejected due to the costs of having traditionally animated characters inside expensive computer-generated backgrounds.A few minutes after the meeting, Lasseter received a phone call from Hansen and was asked to come down to his office, where Lasseter was told that his job had been terminated. The development was then transferred to the new Hyperion Pictures, the creation of former Disney employees Wilhite and Willard Carroll, who took the production along with them.^[3]

With Disney backing the project, Toaster soon turned into an independent effort; the electronics company TDK and video distributor CBS-Fox soon joined in. In 1986, Hyperion began to work on the story and characters, with Taiwan's Wang Film Productions for the overseas unit.^[3] The cost was reduced to $2.3 million as production began. Jerry Rees, a crew member on two previous Disney films, The Fox and the Hound and Tron, and a friend of Lasseter, was chosen to direct the film, and was also a writer on the screenplay along with Joe Ranft. Rees' inspiration for voice casting came from the Groundlings improvisational group, some of whose members (Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Timothy Stack, and Mindy Sterling) voiced characters in the film. Lovitz and Hartman were stars of Saturday Night Live at the time. The color stylist was veteran Disney animator Ken O'Connor, a member of Disney's feature animation department from its establishment

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The Brave Little Toaster was initially released on July 10, 1987, and made its way to the Sundance Film Festival the following year. Despite being a favorite with festival audiences, it failed to find a distributor. Disney, who held the video and television rights, withdrew its official theatrical distribution, intending it to be shown on its new premium cable service instead.

Kommer också ihåg den. Kanske svara det här på några frågor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OVsYvqCemE&feature=related

Men, men. Till saken hör att jag minns att det stod på baksidan av den att den var gjord av gamla Disneyanimatörer, detta var innan jag blev så pass intresserad av Disney som jag är nu så jag brydde mig inte så mycket om det. Men hur som helst, helt plötsligt idag så blev jag att tänka på filmen igen och sökte på den på youtube, då fick jag upp en film där man kunde se reklamen som var innan filmen på den amerikanska VHS-utgåvan. Då var det en massa Disneyreklam och loggor som om filmen var en riktig Disneyfilm, det var reklam för Djungelboken och så. Så nu undrar jag hur mycket har egentligen Disney att göra med denna film, är det bara några animatörer eller tillhör filmen Disney, för jag hittade den inte på filmlistorna här heller. Är det någon som vet?