These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: The Brave Little Toaster
Adaptation Displacement: Not everyone remembers the Disch book this was based on, but that's not too surprising. According to Wikipedia, Disney had bought the movie rights to it before it was even able to get published!
And the Fandom Rejoiced: The response to the Jerry Rees and Deanna Oliver's interview where they talked about a new CGI/3D sequel. However, discussing the act of turning a traditionally animated film into CGI caninciteanger among certain people.
Animation Age Ghetto: This was the animated film that started the recovery from it. They hired a composer with complex instrumentation (David Newman), they included jokes that only parents would catch, the film never pandered to its audience, and it was Serious Business for the animators. Furthermore, this was the film that Pixar sprung out of, including John Lassetter and Joe Ranft. You might notice Lampy resembles a certain animation house mascot, too. It's all in the OST linear notes as well as later interviews of the people involved with the project.
Ass Pull: Radio's tube is just the right kind of tube to save Wittgenstein. No matter that this tube is extremely rare and they have to go to Alaska otherwise to get one.
Awesome Music: The entire soundtrack, from the amazing DavidNewmanscore to the well-written musical numbers. Specifically, the bass lines in some of the songs are also awesome. If you listen closely to some parts of "Worthless" and "B-Movie" (most notably) you can hear spontaneous little bass riffs that just make it THAT much better when you hear it.
At one point the movie successfully pulls off a BLAM (The lonely flower) within a BLAM (the meadow scene). One could argue that this may not qualify as a BLAM; it causes Toaster to realize what could happen if a person truly starved of company or affection is rejected. Granted, the result of death is quite extreme, but the scene's purpose is not lost; Toaster begins to behave kinder to Blanky.
There's a rather egregious one in The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars when the appliances meet a group of balloons who floated away from Earth. Believe it or not, the scene was in the book, and wasn't a BLAM: Toaster and Crew picked up a balloon that helped them navigate their "spacecraft" and told them some of the Mars Appliances' backstory.
The song that computers sing about the "Super Highway" in the second film.
Hilarious in Hindsight: "We are on the cutting edge." Also, the song "Cutting Edge" (sung by, among other things, a Tandy-style computer) was a satire of consumerism featuring modern technology singing their own praises. But to a modern audience, it's hilarious when you consider that nearly every single one of those cutting-edge appliances is now severely obsolete.
Jerkass Woobie: Air Conditioner. Even with his initial smug attitude, it's hard not to pity him after seeing his insecurities of immobility get to him. And then we see him tear up after the Master repairs him.
In the novel version of The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, the main villain was an ancient hearing aid created by Albert Einstein, who went insane after being used by a Nazi party member, then escaped to Mars, inhabited a giant refrigerator, and amassed an army of "Populux" appliances ("Wonderluxe" in the movie), with the goal of returning to Earth and killing all the humans in revenge for planned obsolescence schemes. Seriously. And it became an animated movie as well.
They Just Didn't Care: The two sequels were released out of order, simply because production on Goes to Mars got finished first.
