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Trivia

The film's director, Joe Dante, speaking of Stan Winston said, "When you get into the world Stan's in, you find it generally populated by movie fans -- guys who really loved these pictures when they were kids and always wanted to build monsters and play monsters and get into the world of special effects. Stan is no exception. I met him right after he directed PUMPKINHEAD, which was a pretty cool little movie. But I didn't actually get to work with him until Small Soldiers, and by then he had created this empire. We'd make a pilgrimage over to his studio a couple of times a week to watch their progress. It was very time consuming and labor intensive to design so many characters and create them in a way that made them look alive. It was intense, but Stan made it fun."



Quotes

Irwin Wayfair: He's here! He's early! He's not supposed to be here now. He said... okay, here's the copy of... check.

Larry Benson: Pretty exciting, huh?

Irwin Wayfair: I don't know. I think it's kinda sad, I mean you know Heartland Toys has a long tradition of bringing joy to kids, ya know? ...



Goofs

At 1:28:50, Irwin says that they have to get into [Christy's] house to "wedge the breakers open." Electrical breakers are considered "open" when turned on, and "closed" when turned off. If they wanted to force the breakers to allow current even when there is an overload, then they would actually want to "wedge" the breakers "closed."



Crazy Credits

The soldiers are credited as "The Original Dirty Dozen" and the Gorgonites are credited as "Spinal Tap". Many of the character voices actually come from those two movies.



Alternate Versions

The DVD features some deleted scenes:

Alan meets the principal of his new school, who tells him he doesn't like troublemakers.

An extended version of the scene where the dish technician tells Phil a lot more about the way the dish works and why the tree has to be moved.

Some added dialogue for Stuart and Irene about their old home Chicago right before Phil starts to saw off the branch.

The Gorgonites search Alans encyclopedia for Gorgon. Instead of their home they find the daughter of the Greek God Phorcys.

A discussion between Alan, Christy and their parents about what happened.

Phil and Stuart discover that Alan and Christy get away through a window.

The Toys discover Christys parents, her brother and Irene in the storeroom and ask for "any last requests".

Soundtracks

Performed by Pat Benatar with additional vocals by Queen Latifah Queen Latifah appears courtesy of Motown RecordsRemixed by DJ Kay Gee (as KayGee)Courtesy of Chrysalis Records, a division of EMIUnder license from EMI Special Markets