PIXAR’S 15th Anniversary Special Offer Disney/Pixar 3-Pack: Toy Story, A Bug’s Life & Toy Story 2

Three Great Animated Films Available For The Price of Two Includes Free Movie Ticket to Disney/Pixar’s New Film, “Monsters, Inc.”

The titles included in the DISNEY/PIXAR 3-PACK — TOY STORY, A BUG’S LIFE and TOY STORY 2 — are three of the most beloved computer animated films ever made. The DISNEY/PIXAR 3-PACK is an especially ideal DVD collection, as each film’s digital images are presented in the pristine visual and audio format that DVD delivers, resulting in the finest home entertainment experience available.

The free redeemable movie ticket certificate, packed inside specially marked DISNEY/PIXAR 3-PACK packages, is valid from November 2, 2001 (the nationwide theatrical release date of MONSTERS, INC.) through February 28, 2002. Owners of the box set can simply take the certificate to participating theaters showing MONSTERS, INC. and redeem. This offer is good at movie theaters across the United States, Canada, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

TOY STORY
Rated “G.” Running time: approximately 81 minutes.

DVD

• Widescreen 1.77:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16x9 televisions
• Full-Frame 1.33:1 aspect ratio specially recomposed for television (not pan & scan)
• Dolby^® Digital 5.1 Surround
• Mastered directly from Pixar’s digital source
• THX^® Certification including THX Optimode
• “Tin Toy” Academy Award^®-winning short film (1989 Best Animated Short Film)
• French language track
  

VHS

• Full-Frame 1.33:1 aspect ratio

A BUG’S LIFE
Rated “G.” Running time: approximately 95 minutes.

DVD

• Widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16 x 9 television
  Full-Frame 1.33:1 aspect ratio specially recomposed for television (not pan & scan)
• Dolby^® Digital 5.1 Surround
• Mastered directly from Pixar’s digital source
• “Geri’s Game” Academy Award^®-winning short film (1998 Best Animated Short Film)
• Two sets of Outtakes
  
• French language track
  

VHS

• Full Frame 1.33:1 aspect ratio
  
• “Geri’s Game” Academy Award^®-winning short film (1998 Best Animated Short Film)
  
• Two sets of Outtakes

TOY STORY 2
Rated “G.” Running time: approximately 92 minutes.

DVD

• Widescreen 1.77:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16x9 televisions
• Full Screen 1.33:1 aspect ratio specially recomposed for television (not pan & scan)
• Dolby^® Digital 5.1 Surround EX
• Mastered directly from Pixar’s digital source
• THX^® Certification including THX Optimode
• “Luxo Jr.” Academy Award^®-nominated short film (nominated for Best Animated Short Film 1986)
• Outtakes
• French language track
  

VHS

• Full-Frame 1.33:1 aspect ratio
• “Luxo Jr.” Academy Award^®-nominated short film (nominated for Best Animated Short Film 1986)
  
• Outtakes

TOY STORY is the delightful story of Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), a pull string cowboy doll, and Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen), space ranger action-figure, who compete for the affection of their owner, six-year-old Andy. When the competition gets rough, things backfire and Woody finds himself lost in the outside world with Buzz as his only companion. Joining forces to find their way home, the two rivals set out on a course that takes them into the clutches of Sid, a nasty neighborhood kid known for his mistreating of toys. In Sid’s possession, Woody and Buzz must work together to learn the true value of being a toy, thus forging a genuine friendship. Teamwork is their only true hope for survival and a return to Andy’s room.

A BUG’S LIFE tells the story of a band of greedy grasshoppers, led by the ominous Hopper, who, each summer, descend upon an ant colony to demand a hefty portion of their hard-earned harvest. The film’s hero, Flik, an inventive worker ant, builds a harvesting contraption to help increase food production; but instead it runs out of control and destroys the ants’ food offering to the grasshoppers. On behalf of the desperate ant colony, Flik takes it upon himself to get outside help and unknowingly enlists an unemployed troupe of bug performers from a second-rate flea circus to join the fight against the grasshoppers. Working together in their newfound friendship, the ants and the circus bugs prepare for a climactic confrontation in an attempt to save the colony.

In TOY STORY 2, Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggin (owner of Al’s Toy Barn) kidnaps Woody. At Al’s apartment, Woody discovers that he is a highly valued collectible from a 1950’s TV show called “Woody’s Roundup,” and he meets the other prized toys from that show — Jessie the cowgirl, Bullseye the horse and Stinky Pete the prospector. Back at the scene of the crime, Buzz Lightyear and the other toys from Andy’s room — Mr. Potato Head^®, Slinky^® Dog, Rex and Hamm — spring into action to rescue their pal from winding up as a museum piece. The toys get into one predicament after another in their daring race to get Woody home before Andy returns.

Walt Disney Home Video is distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., a recognized industry leader. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. is the marketing, sales and distribution company for Walt Disney, Touchstone, Miramax, Dimension and Buena Vista videocassettes and DVDs.

Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR) combines creative and technical artistry to create original characters and stories in the medium of computer animation. Under its partnership with Disney, Pixar has created and produced the first computer-animated feature film, the Academy Award^®-winning TOY STORY, released in 1995; A BUG'S LIFE, the highest grossing animated film released in 1998; and Golden Globe-winner TOY STORY 2, the highest grossing animated film released in 1999. The Northern California studio is currently in production on MONSTERS, INC., scheduled for release on November 2, 2001 and FINDING NEMO, scheduled for a summer 2003 release.


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