Geekstorians: The Film That Nearly Deleted Itself | Toy Story 2, Pixar & the Backup Disaster

About this episode

This episode discusses the near-loss of Toy Story 2 during production due to a backup failure and explores the resilience of geek culture.

Season 2 of Geekstorians begins with one of the great near-disasters in modern geek history. This episode tells the story of how Toy Story 2 nearly disappeared during production, not because of a studio fight or some dramatic Hollywood scandal, but because of a routine command, a failing backup system, and the sort of technical catastrophe that still makes creative people wince. But this is not just a story about Pixar nearly losing a film. It is also the perfect starting point for a season about how geek culture survives when everything goes wrong. The glitches, collapses, bad calls, money problems and moments of blind panic behind the films, games and franchises that now feel untouchable. If Season 1 was about how fandom built itself, Season 2 is about how geek culture kept going when it should probably have fallen apart. If you'd like to support Geekstorians in the Webby People’s Voice Awards, you can vote here: https://wbby.co/57464N Geekstorians is a documentary-style podcast from Dave Elliott of Geektown, exploring the hidden history of geek culture, fandom, film, television, comics and gaming. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/geektown . Hosted on Acast. See…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Elliott

Topics covered

• film
• animation
• technology
• geek culture
• disasters

Keywords

• Toy Story 2
• Pixar
• backup disaster
• geek culture
• technical catastrophe
• fandom
• creative people
• production

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Geekstorians, Toy Story 2

Places: Hollywood

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