

The strong wind 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. Shortly after stopping to rest within a forest, a nightmare where Rob and Toaster get tortured by an evil smirking clown dressed as a firefighter, only to be awoken by a violent storm in the middle of the night. 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 broadcast from the city where Rob has moved to.

Not wanting to accept the fact that the Master would abandon them, Toaster decides that the group should head out and find Rob. Before long, the appliances become devastated upon learning that a real estate broker is selling the house. Ī gang of appliances consisting of a toaster, a radio, a lamp named "Lampy", a blanket named "Blanky" and a vacuum cleaner named "Kirby" waits for 2,001 days at a cottage for the return of their master, who is a young boy named "Rob", with an increasing sense of abandonment, which causes Blanky to hallucinate about finally seeing Rob coming back. While the film received a limited theatrical release, The Brave Little Toaster was popular on home video and was followed by two sequels: The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars and The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue.

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 anthropomorphic household appliances, a toaster, a lamp, a blanket, a radio, and a vacuum cleaner, who go on a quest to search for their 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-British animated musical film adapted from the 1980 novel The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliancesby Thomas M. For the novel, see The Brave Little Toaster (novel).
