The DVD two-pack, the Ultimate Toy Box set, the Gold Classic Collection VHS and DVD, and the original DVD were all put in the Disney Vault on May 1, 2003. The film received three Academy Award nominations ( Best Original Screenplay (the first animated film to be nominated for this award), Best Original Song for " You've Got a Friend in Me", and Best Original Score) as well as honoring a non-competitive Special Achievement Academy Award. The soundtrack for Toy Story was produced by Walt Disney Records and was released on November 22, 1995, the week of the film's release. Beautiful art book features never-before-seen concept art, character studies, process animation, storyboards, and colorscripts from the Pixar studio animation movie. It was an eye-opening experience that awakened Lasseter to the possibilities offered by the new medium of computer-generated animation.

Whedon also re-visioned Buzz Lightyear from being a dim-witted but cheerful and self-aware character to an action figure who isn't aware that he's a toy—an epiphany that transformed the film.Both Disney and Pixar held separate premiers for Toy Story, with Disney holding theirs at their flagship El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 19, 1995, and Pixar holding theirs the following night at the Regency Center in San Francisco.

We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. Takes the reader on a journey to a magical world where as soon as the bedroom door is closed, the toys come to life. Translating the film into 3-D involved revisiting the original computer data and virtually placing a second camera into each scene, creating left eye and right eye views needed to achieve the perception of depth. The results were disastrous, and Disney's head of feature animation, Peter Schneider, halted production.

When the Thanksgiving release date was announced in January 1995, many toy companies were accustomed to having eighteen months to two years of lead time and passed on the project.