Live Action Toy Story is a fan film produced by the Arizona-based Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta.

[2] To drive interest in the project, the production process was documented on the film's Facebook page, and behind-the-scenes videos, plus a live-action recreation of the ending of Toy Story 3, were uploaded to YouTube.

[4] The Toy Story 3 ending remake was covered by New York magazine's Vulture blog[5] and the Pixar Times upon its May 2012 upload.

[7] Upon its 2013 upload, Live Action Toy Story was covered by Boys' Life,[8] The Verge,[9] Collider,[10] NBC News,[11] Slate,[12] Laughing Squid,[13] MTV News,[14] The Huffington Post,[15] Gothamist,[16] Wired,[17] CNET,[18] Vulture,[19] NME,[20] and The Hollywood Reporter which claimed it to be "a crown jewel in the fan-made tribute video community.

[24] As Fast Company journalist Joe Berkowitz described the film's appeal, "Although the strings controlling Woody and Buzz Lightyear may be visible in nearly every frame, you can also see the creators’ giddy affection for the source material, and for the craft of filmmaking in general.