What was the budget of Toy Story, in millions of dollars?

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Toy Story had a reported budget of $30 million.

That $30 million production budget funded Pixar’s first feature film, released in 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures. At the time, producing a full-length computer-animated movie was a major technological and financial risk. Pixar had to develop new tools and workflows for character animation, lighting, rendering, and digital environments while working with a comparatively small team.

The investment produced a landmark result: Toy Story became the first entirely computer-animated feature film and a major commercial success. It earned roughly $394 million worldwide during its original theatrical run, far exceeding its production cost, although box-office gross is not the same as profit because theaters and distribution expenses take a share.

The figures in this question are easy to confuse with later installments. Toy Story 2 had a budget of about $90 million, while Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4 each cost about $200 million. The $30 million figure belongs specifically to the original film, not to the franchise as a whole or to its marketing budget.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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