This Wednesday will see the release of Disney Pixar’s Toy Story Toon Toy Story: Small Fry in front of The Muppets.

Hyping up the release, IGN spoke with director of Small Fry about many aspects of the short including casting Jane Lynch for a lead role as a mermaid toy.

The leader of the support group is Neptuna, a warrior mermaid toy voiced by Glee’s Jane Lynch. Discussing that character, MacLane noted, “I had pitched this idea for this character for Toy Story 3, actually. ‘Oh, what if we did like a kind of battle mermaid,’ and it just never ended up making it into the movie for time reasons. Of course, I was like, ‘Oh, this would be cool,’ but I was just an animator in the movie, and it was kind of late in the process to introduce those ideas. Then, pretty much as soon as I had the context for what she was doing in the film, I knew I wanted her to be kind of tough and kind of a battle/superhero kind of character. But once there was the idea of having a support group, she was this leader who was kind of patronizing — but we still wanted her to be appealing. She’s not nasty, she’s just narcissistic, but funny about it. Pretty much ever since Best in Show, I’ve been a big fan [of Jane Lynch’s]. That was the first movie I really saw Jane Lynch in, and I’m so glad she’s been so successful. Luckily, she wanted to do it. She was our first choice. It was so great to work with her. It was really an honor.”

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