After secretly witnessing this, Rob's newer appliances in the apartment become resentful. Rob, who is now living in an apartment as a young adult and is about to depart for college, leaves with his girlfriend Chris to return to the cottage and retrieve the appliances to take with him. Peters by pretending to be a ghost and flee to the city, while most of the worn-out appliances escape the store and quickly return to their masters' homes. When Radio is taken from a shelf and about to have his radio tubes taken apart, the appliances frighten St. Peters, the owner of an appliance parts store, where they get scared by a group of partially dismantled or disfigured appliances, who have lost hope and are at risk of being disassembled or sold, almost in a prison-like motif. After losing their balance and almost drowning in a mud hole, they are rescued by Elmo St. After losing both the chair and the battery, the group resorts to pulling a disabled Kirby through the swamp. After recovering Blanky the next morning, they try to cross a waterfall, but during an attempt to cross it, everyone falls in except for Kirby, who dives after them and rescues them, and the appliances wash up into the middle of a swamp.
Shortly after stopping to rest within a forest, a nightmare where Rob and Toaster get tortured by an evil smirking clown followed by a violent storm during nightfall wakes Toaster and the others with the storm blowing Blanky up into the trees, and Lampy risks his life by using himself as a lightning rod in an attempt to recharge the group's dead battery.
On their journey, the appliances encounter numerous harrowing adventures where they learn to work together. The appliances connect a car battery to an office chair pulled by Kirby and set out into the world, following Radio's signal broadcasts from the city, where Rob lives. Not wanting to accept the fact that the Master would abandon them, Toaster decides that the group should head out and find Rob. One day towards the end of July, the appliances are devastated to learn that a real estate broker is selling the house. They wait every day at Rob's cottage for his return with an increasing sense of abandonment, causing Blanky to hallucinate about finally seeing Rob return. Toaster is the leader of a group of appliances consisting of an antique radio, a gooseneck lamp, Lampy an electric blanket, Blanky and a vacuum cleaner, Kirby, who belong to their master, Rob.
Both sequels were released out of chronological order. While the film received a limited theatrical release, The Brave Little Toaster was popular on home video and was followed by two sequels a decade later: The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998) and The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1999). Many CalArts graduates, including the original members of Pixar Animation Studios were involved with this film. The film was produced by Hyperion Animation along with The Kushner-Locke Company. The story focuses on five appliances- a toaster, a gooseneck lamp, an electric blanket, a radio, and a vacuum cleaner-who go on a quest to search for their original owner. The film is set in a world where household appliances and other electronics come to life, pretending to be lifeless in the presence of humans. The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 American animated musical comedy-adventure film adapted from the 1980 novel The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances by Thomas M.
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