I don’t know about you, but The Brave Little Toaster was one of my absolute favorite movies as a child. It was so influential to me that when my mom and I moved while I was in the first grade, I obsessively made sure that we had remembered all of our appliances. I recently read that Waterman Entertainment has acquired the rights to the film, and announced that they plan on developing it as a computer-animated feature.
If you haven’t seen it, The Brave Little Toaster follows the journey of a toaster, lamp, radio, vacuum and blanket on a journey through the woods in order to reunite with their masters that accidentally left them at a vacation cabin. Kind of sounds a bit like Toy Story, hm? Turns out that this was originally pitched by John Lasseter in his pre-Pixar years at Disney. When Lasseter left, the idea was brought up by Hyperion Pictures and Kushner-Locke, who made the film in standard 2D.
Waterman Entertainment has plans to update the 1987 feature to include more modern technology, like the iPhone, and possibly even some commercial plugs. Ugh. Luckily the film is nowhere in production and could end up being shelved for years.
Don’t get me wrong, I love this movie. But don’t go messing with my Toaster! [via the Mary Sue]
Do you remember this movie from your childhood, Lovelies? What do you think about the potential remake?
daisy / 597 posts
I recently watched this movie because I absolutely ADORE it…
The one thing that I WILL say however is that it’s an EXTREMELY dark movie for a children’s movie.I’m sort of just wondering if in doing so, they’ll also make it more “kid friendly” …
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They’re probably right, in a way. Not sure kids can relate to blankets and radios anymore, and there’s certainly not enough advertising.
orchid / 105 posts
@LKJSlain@xanga - totally! the air conditioner committed suicide!!
@loner_writer@xanga - haha, true. but who would leave their iphone or ipad somewhere and not immediately go back to get it?
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OMFG…you guys are making wish I would have sat down and watched it. My brother, my friends, and I used to laugh about the title and description of the plot alone.
The air conditioner committed suicide….awesome stuff for kids. No wonder you all are so damned weird ;-P
sunflower / 448 posts
I remember being frightened by this movie, but liking it too. Many movies in my childhood were like that.
I don’t see many remakes as improvements. Usually things get extremely silly, go with rudeness/disrespect to adults and potty humor instead of the original charm. I don’t see how this would be much different.
I hope they don’t make it.
@LKJSlain@xanga - Usually things get worse, not better. Just sayin’.
daisy / 597 posts
@NightCometh@xanga - Actually, now days in CARTOONS (especially disney cartoons) they are so freaking PC that it’s sickening… They’re like afraid to scare or offend anyone.
We’ll see.
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Ah my gosh I freaking love that movie! Blankie was always my favorite
. I hope they don’t do a remake.
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I loved that movie but it scared me at the same time. I would be upset if they remade it because most things out nowadays are sequels or remakes, they need to come up with new fresh ideas.
Also most cartoons out now are honestly terrible (some have even been proven to make kids dumber sadly). I miss the old day cartoons where no one thought twice about if they could show an explosion or hit a sibling with a branch or eat dynamite. I grew up with really violent cartoons but I didn’t turn out to be some violent, spoiled, safe, I deserve everything and nothing is my fault teenager.
Let’s go back to the old not everyone is emotionally fragile cartoon days, people can take a chill pill. It is, a cartoon after all.
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i loved the brave little toaster so much! don’t know how i feel about it being in cgi… but i do feel like digging out my old vhs and vcr to re-watch the movie i have!