Robbie, awakened by the sound of the transmission, climbs out of his crib and follows Hearing Aid. The following night, Hearing Aid escapes from the drawer and to the attic once more. The next morning, Toaster informs the other appliances and Ratso, the family's pet rat, of the events occurring the previous night, leading to the appliances and Ratso agreeing to carefully watch the junk drawer in case of Hearing Aid suspiciously escaping again. One night, Toaster awakes to find the hearing aid in the attic receiving a message which appears to be transmitted from space. At first, the appliances all fear that their masters will pay more attention to Robbie but later grow accustomed to him. Now being married anew and having moved to a farm, Rob and Chris have an infant son named Robbie and Rob operates a veterinary clinic and repair shop in a barn outside their house. It featured the last performances of actors DeForest Kelley (in her final film role, before his death in 1999), Paddi Edwards, Thurl Ravenscroft, and Carol Channing, before their deaths in 1999, 20, respectively.Īlthough set after the events of The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, Goes to Mars was the final of the two sequels to the original film, as both were in production around the same time and the latter was the first to finish production. The film was produced by Hyperion Animation and distributed for video by Walt Disney Home Video. Both are sequels to the book, The Brave Little Toaster.
Disch in 1988 and a film released in 1998 based on it. The film also has a quite intriguing voice cast, including the unmistakable voice of Fyvush Finkel as the hearing aid, Wayne Knight as a microwave, Star Trek (1966-9)’s DeForest Kelley (in his last screen appearance) as the Viking lander and, in an appealingly punning piece of casting, Farrah Fawcett in a brief part as a kitchen faucet.The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars is the name of both a children's book by Thomas M. The supreme commander is a giant refrigerator and the journey to meet him travels across the ocean-like interior of the fridge aboard an ice tray to finally arrive at his lair inside the icebox. The rest of the film is filled with all manner of wacky images such as a talking Mars lander and a planet of kitchen appliances that have revolted against obsolescence and fled Earth for Mars. (The end of the film has the delightfully surreal image of the contraption flying through space back to Earth towing the baby behind it in a bubble).
When the journey to Mars involves a voyage on a laundry basket mounted on a ceiling fan and using a microwave popping popcorn as an energy source to power the contraption, you can clearly see we are no longer in science-fiction territory any longer but that this is an interplanetary journey that takes place entirely within the realm of fantasy. On the other hand, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars settles in with an appealingly zany sense of humour. The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue was a much blander effort than The Brave Little Toaster. Toaster (voiced by Deanna Oliver) meets the Viking Lander (voiced by DeForest Kelley) Disch’s story, and is based on his 1988 children’s book follow-up of the same title, although that is not noted in the credits.
Unlike The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, this returns to the original source material, Thomas M. The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars was made back-to-back and employs identical production credits to The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, with the exception of some extra voice talents brought in to play the new appliances. This was the second of the Brave Little Toaster sequels made by Kushner-Locke, the first being The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997). In the 1990s though, it became one of a host of other animated films that were spun out into lucrative video-released sequel franchises, following the lead of Disney who churned out numerous cheap sequels to their classic animated films. The Brave Little Toaster (1987) was an appealing animated film, although one that enjoyed little success when it originally came out.