Pixar’s Toy Story ushered in a new age of computer generated imagery (CGI), which would prove to be the downfall of hand-drawn animation as Pixar slowly becoming the gold standard in animated filmmaking. Fifteen years later, Pixar returns to the toy box with Toy Story 3 taking the approach of other animation studios in the recent exploitation of 3D. 

Andy is a teenager departing for college, and his toys have been unused for years. Andy’s mother determines its time to send the toys out to pasture. Before the toys can be put in the attic, they are accidentally thrown away and are picked up by the garbage men. The toys find themselves at a local day-care center, where they must try to survive the pre-school children. The toys must attempt an escape and find themselves a new home.

Everyone has that moment in life when they outgrow their toys. They are stuffed in a closet or an attic. This trailer will bring back possible painful memories of that moment, and seems to have reached a higher degree of sensitivity and sensibility.

The whole crew of toys return for this new adventure, including Tim Allen as Buzz and Tom Hanks as Woody. The film is directed by Finding Nemo co-director Lee Unkrich and written by Little Miss Sunshine screenwriter Michael Arndt. Randy Newman returns to develop the score, and anytime he is in the works, the product turns out to be gold.

The film is set for a June 18, 2010 release.