This shouldn't come as any great surprise - given that electro-artist BT
spilled the beans (1:12 onwards) a while back, and
a line of Disney Holiday toys uncovered by The Pixar Times's Samad were for the short - but Pixar have finally officially announced, through
Entertainment Weekly, that their next Toy Story will be called
Partysaurus Rex, and released the first images from it!
EW also announced that the Rex-focused short will be directed by veteran Pixar animator Mark Walsh, and that it will be paired with
Finding Nemo 3D when that hits cinemas next month (14th September in the US;
29th March, 2013 over here in the UK).
The short, the third Toy Story Toon, is - in the words of BT, who handles the dance music for the short - "like a
Toy Story rave!" Rex, the only bath-time toy endowed with limbs, turns on the water to get the party started! And we can expect to see gorgeous underwater, bubble filled, techno-lit animation!
Wallace Shawn, who has voiced Rex since the original
Toy Story in 1995, says that Rex is "sick of being the angel of goodness and sensibleness and caution and fear. He wants to stand on the side of pleasure and happiness and joy". And Walsh, the director, also offered up a brief summary:
“If you’re a bath toy you get really intense playtime. It’s like a party. Then when the water goes down you can’t move. You’re helpless. And that’s pathetic, these guys in bottom of the tub all the time. What I was going for was, you move to a new town and make new friends, and suddenly you think you have this chance where you can reinvent yourself. I love that Rex, in his sweetness, thinks he can reinvent who he is in the image of a party animal.”
The short is apparently full of easter-eggs and references; you can even see a few in these images - check out the toilet seat! We'll likely see
Partysaurus Rex on
Pixar Short Films: Volume 2 in November.
I'm excited for Partysaurus Rex - even if us in the UK have to wait until next year for it - are you?
