Friday at 8 p.m., Toy Eaters Studio, 143 Christopher Columbus Drive, Jersey City, myspace.com/toyeaters; $12 $100 for students.
Stanford professor Robert Sutton notes that the Pixar movie Cars was chosen from about 500 pitches, and at Skyline, the toy design studio that generates ideas for Fisher-Price and Mattel, employees submitted 4,000 new toy concepts in one year.
Mutely unresponsive to Kokoschka's attentions, she was soon demoted from sex toy to studio lay figure before being escorted into the garden where she had her head snapped off.
While other studios' animated feature films have averaged better than 10percentt of their worldwide grosses in China, most of the Toy Story studio's movies have earned 2percentt or less there.
There I met with one of the main members of the company's development section, Yoshiya Kanke, as well as a director from the toy design studio T-Rex, Hiroyuki Motoki.
They meet in a room where the seats are modeled after Mickey's red shorts and the shelves overflow with toys the studio has designed.
From molds based on cheap toys, the studio crafts its own metallic gun replicas.
A diorama of the Indian subcontinent filled the centre of the studio; toy models of Indian and Pakistan soldiers were carefully placed over an area labelled Kashmir.
That was also the case with the sole toy in the studio: a Rubik's Cube, one of those maddening three-inch, multiaxled puzzles, some 300 million of which have been sold since being introduced by Ideal in 1980.
So at his suggestion, carpenters in his studio toyed with making simple thronelike structures from reclaimed factory timbers.
Stanton was the lead writer of Pixar Animation Studios' "Toy Story" trilogy; he also wrote and directed "Finding Nemo," about a father fish's quest for his son, and "Wall-E," about a janitor robot's quest for a sexy probe droid.
