Dario Floreano stated that the uncanny valley concept was taken seriously by the film industry because of negative audience reactions to Billy. It is unknown when this short was first released in its entirety. "Tin Toy" went on to take the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1989 at the 61st Academy Awards, it was the 2nd cgi short film to get nominated for the Academy Award (Behind Luxo Jr) and was the first computer generated animated short film to receive an Oscar. With the award, "Tin Toy" went far to establish computer animation as a legitimate artistic medium outside SIGGRAPH and the animation-festival film circuit. A member of the Academy's board of governors, animator William Littlejohn, saw in "Tin Toy" a window into the potential of the young medium. "There is a realism that's rather astonishing," he told "The New York Times". "It emulates photography, but with artistic staging." Robert Winquist, head of the character animation program at CalArts, went farther, predicting that computer animation was "going to take over in a short time." He publicly advised animators, "Put down your pencil and your paintbrush and do it another way." The short was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 2003. "Tin Toy" garnered some home media releases via inclusion on "Tiny Toy Stories" in 1996, the VHS and DVD releases of "Toy Story" in 2000"," and the "Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1" (2007).Tin Toy is also available for streaming on Disney+.  1988 - Best Animated Short Film  1989 - Seattle International Film Festival - Best Short Film1989 - World Animation Celebration - Best Computer-Assisted Animation2003 - National Film Registry  Apart from the home video editions of the short film, "Tin Toy" was not the subject of any type of merchandise, like all the other short films produced by the company. The only exception is the reproduction of vinyl Tinny, produced by MINDStyle in 2010. Pixar, in fact, sold the license to the manufacturer of "Tin Toy" MINDStyle objects, which created a marquette of the vinyl character Tinny inside of the line Art Toy Collectible limited Edition of 500 pieces, the price of ninety dollars. The box, which is a faithful reproduction of the packaging of the toy view in short, in addition to containing the model of Tinny, presents a certificate of authenticity printed on a card showing the storyboard in pencil of a scene from the short.