[us66]

Originally Posted by JGatti

This post made me do a search to find out and I seen a yahoo post saying Irvine California. Their average mean temperature is 54 degree's in December, hardly cold enough to have the winter depicted in the film.

It absolutely was not Irvine. The architecture was not at all Spanish/Mediterranean. Their house would likely have looked kinda like a Taco Bell.

[313Weather]

Honestly though, it's probably just some fictional place that has a lot of similarities to several cities, including Detroit.

Other than Tim Allen's input, I don't see why they would choose to set Toy Story entirely in Detroit of all places.

There are a lot of Tri-County areas out there anyway.

[Coldjensens]

Not Irvine.

No tri-county area.
All of the houses in Irvine look essentially identical.
No hills
No trees (only Irvine lollipops)
The movie does not depict enough traffic.
The stores in the movie are too old and too spread out for Irvine.
I think that the movie shows a sort of downtown Irvine has no downtown, nor does any City in the area except Santa Ana or Orange and they are both very distinctive.

I thought it was set in Minnesota, but I do nto remember where I heard that.

[jewelry02]

As far as I know , TOY Story was set in MI.
I miss this movie, It was so long since I viewed.

[cmhgirl]

He spent a lot of time in Michigan, even though he was born in Colorado. Maybe that had influence on the setting of the movie.

[rock_chalk]

From IMDB:

"When the Pizza Planet delivery boy enters the Dinoco gas station, he asks for directions to West Cutting Boulevard. West Cutting Boulevard is the street where Pixar Animation Studios was located in Richmond, California, at the time (Pixar moved its entire operation to Emeryville, California, in 2000)."

[B2R4D]

It's a classic case of Anytown, USA. Many fans have provided evidence for many different possible states in regards to the film's location. I personally have always felt like it was set somewhere in the Bay Area of California though.

[BoomRShine]

Originally Posted by iPwn

I could have sworn I saw a Michigan license plate in the first movie

Here is a screen grab from the movie:

The plates don't look like 1995 Michigan plates, which were blue, like these:

[dmalouf]

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