 Originally the main character was going to be Tinny, the title  character in _Tin Toy (1988)_ (qv). He would have gotten lost during  a family trip and joined up with a sarcastic ventriloquist dummy in  a search for a home. Eventually, Tinny was replaced with a toy  astronaut named Lunar Larry, which then became Buzz Lightyear. The  dummy, meanwhile, was given the identity of a cowboy, eventually  becoming Woody.