After answering Toaster and the other four appliances their question of what they mean by singing their song to them, they kick them into the apartment's dumpster from the window, where they are shortly transported to Ernie's Disposal, which is a junkyard. When the appliances arrive at Rob's apartment, the newer appliances explain that they are "on the cutting edge of technology". After secretly witnessing this, Rob's newer appliances in the apartment become resentful. Rob, who is now living in a modern apartment as a young adult and is about to depart for college, leaves with his girlfriend Chris to return to the cottage and retrieve the appliances to take with him. Peters by pretending to be a ghost and flee to the city, while most of the worn-out appliances flee the store and return to their masters' homes. When Radio is removed from a shelf and about to have his radio tubes extracted, the appliances frighten St. Peters, an owner of a spare parts shop, where they get scared by a group of partially dismantled or disfigured appliances, who have lost hope and are at risk of being disassembled or sold, almost in a prison-like motif. After losing their balance and almost drowning in a mud hole, they are rescued by Elmo St. After losing both the chair and the battery, the group resorts to pulling a disabled Kirby through the swamp. After recovering Blanky the next morning, they try to cross a waterfall, but during an attempt to cross it, everyone falls in except for Kirby, who dives after them and rescues them, and the appliances wash up into the middle of a swamp. 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 followed by a violent storm during nightfall wakes Toaster and the others with the storm blowing 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. 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. On the second day of July, the appliances are devastated to learn that a real estate broker is selling the house. They wait every day at Rob's cottage for his return with an increasing sense of abandonment, which causes Blanky to hallucinate about finally seeing Rob coming back. Toaster is the leader of a gang of appliances consisting of a radio, a lamp named "Lampy," a blanket named "Blanky" and a vacuum cleaner named "Kirby," who belong to their "master," a young boy named Rob. Disch published the story for the first time in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (shown below, left), It was later published as a book in May 1986 as _ The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances_ (shown below, right). The story focuses on five appliances, a toaster, a desk lamp, an electric blanket, a radio and a vacuum go on a quest to search for their original 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 animated family comedy film produced by Hyperion Pictures and The Kushner-Locke Company, directed by Jerry Rees and based on the children novel of the same name by Thomas M. Tblt, toaster, blanky, lampy, radio, kirby
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