Rob repairs the Toaster and takes all of them to college with him. Rob returns to the apartment with all of the appliances in tow, including a now-mangled Toaster. Toaster sacrifices himself by leaping into the compactor's drive gears to disable the machine in time from destroying the appliances and killing Rob. After being foiled numerous times, the magnetic crane picks up Rob himself as well as the appliances, except for Toaster, and drops them on the compactor's conveyor belt. When they discover that Rob is in the junkyard, they are encouraged and attempt to foil the magnetic crane in order to allow Rob to find them. Thinking that his original appliances have been stolen, Rob and Chris return to his apartment, where his black and white television, who originally lived with the appliances, broadcasts false advertisements and encourages Rob and Chris to look at Ernie's Disposal for replacements.Īt the junkyard, the appliances go into depression and wait for the magnetic crane that picks up junk and places it on a conveyor belt that leads into a car crusher. When the appliances arrive at Rob's apartment, the modern appliances convince them that they are outdated and unusable, tossing them into the garbage, where they are shortly transported to Ernie's Disposal, a junkyard. The modern electronics 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 cabin and retrieve the appliances to take with him. When Radio is taken from the shelf and about to have his radio tubes extracted, the appliances distract St. Peters, the owner of an appliance parts store where they meet a group of partially dismantled or disfigured appliances, who have lost hope and await being disassembled and sold. After almost drowning in quicksand, 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 group tries to cross a waterfall, only to have everyone fall in except for Kirby, who then 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 violent storm during nightfall wakes Toaster and the others and blows 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 slowly learn to work together. The appliances connect a car battery to an office chair pulled by Kirby and set out into the world, following the Radio's signal broadcasted from the city, where Rob lives. Unable to accept that the Master would abandon them, Toaster decides that the group should head out and find Rob. The appliances are devastated to learn that a real estate broker is selling the house. They wait every day at Rob's log cabin for his return with an increasing sense of abandonment. Toaster is a toaster and leader of a group of appliances consisting of a radio, Radio a lamp, Lampy an electric blanket, Blanky and a vacuum cleaner, Kirby who belong to their master Rob. ( The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars and The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue) 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. Many of the original members of Pixar Animation Studios were involved with this film, including John Lasseter and Joe Ranft. and it was co-production by Fine Arts Films. The film was produced by Hyperion Pictures along with The Kushner-Locke Company. The story focuses on five appliances- a toaster, a 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 have the ability to speak and move, pretending to be lifeless in the presence of humans. The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 American animated adventure film adapted from the 1980 novel of the same name by Thomas Disch.