Cutting-Edge Appliances

The Cutting-Edge Appliances are minor characters in The Brave Little Toaster. They are an assortment of modern appliances that live in the apartment of Rob's mother, and served her, even up to Rob's departure to college.
==Members==
The Cutting-Edge Appliances include:
*Plugsy 
*Computer
*The Two-faced Sewing Machine
*Entertainment Complex
*Stereo 
*Toaster Oven 
*touch-tone Telephone
*Food Processor
*Floor Lamp with track lights
*Two-headed canister vacuum cleaner
*Hand Mixer
*Ceiling track Lights
==Appearances==
===The Brave Little Toaster===
The Cutting-Edge Appliances are a group of 1980's-era appliances that were considered at the time highly-advanced and at the forefront of technology. They are highly egotistical as they take great pride in their latest features, which far outrank the abilities of any appliance that preceded them. As a result, they have a low opinion of any appliance that is not as advanced as they are. They served Rob's mother in the latter's apartment in the city.
When Rob prepares to go to college, he wants to take his old appliances from his childhood with him for use in his dorm. After leaving to his family cabin with his girlfriend Chris, the Appliances are disgusted at Rob's preferences. They would prefer to be serving him in order to impress him with their technological advantages.
Later that day, the five voyaging appliances, Toaster, Lampy, Blanky, Radio, and Kirby arrive in search of the Master and are greeted by Plugsy. Shocked at their presence, the Appliances planned to dispose of the gang in order to force the Master to take Plugsy and T.V. instead. They welcome them into the apartment and are courteous at first, but quickly take advantage of their presence and prepare to make their move. When Plugsy changes T.V. to a Spanish broadcaster, another old appliance in the house who tries to tell his friends where Rob went, the gang gets angry and found out that the Appliances tricked them, which is why they have to lead the five of them into a trap, and the Appliances, who are now traitors to the gang, start to slowly approach to them. Radio asks Lampy what "(on the) Cutting Edge of Technology" means, but he doesn't know and asks them that. Then they answer Lampy and Radio's question by singing "Cutting Edge" to them and the other three appliances, as they demonstrate their technological superiority to them. When they finished singing it, they toss Toaster and his gang into a dumpster out the window. After that, they await Rob's return, as T.V. was planning to have Rob find his old friends.
The gang is taken to Ernie's Disposal and the Master comes home disappointed, having realized that the appliances are not at the apartment. Despite their absence, Rob still doesn't want to take his mother's appliances with him, still preferring the "oldies but goodies". Plugsy overhears this and is bitterly to blame. It can be assumed that the other Appliances were equally upset at this discovery. Rob eventually recovers his trusty appliances from Ernie's Disposal thanks to T.V.'s intervention, and the old appliances go to college with Rob as opposed to the Cutting-Edge Appliances.
==Examples of Technology==
The Cutting-Edge Appliances sing about their technology, the following is a list of their features mostly mentioned in "Cutting Edge" or visibly shown.
*The computer, a fancy word/accounting processing desktop computer, has a high contrast color pixel C.R.T. screen with a built-in keyboard. He is also a handy-dandy machine for graphing capabilities.
*The Entertainment Complex is an automated home theater entertainment complex system with stereo audio, a mainframe computer, and a cabinet with a high-resolution C.R.T. projector inside.
*The touchtone Telephone uses fiber optics to allow instantaneous and high-quality phone calls.
*The Stereo features radio, stereo speakers, and the ability to play cassette tapes, but also has the headphones as his attachments.
*The Food Processor can grind, chop, grate, cream, mince, beat, whip, mix, shred, liquefy, and puree ingredients.
*The Toaster Oven can bake or toast food in a compact space.
*The Canister vacuum cleaner has a compact versatile design that allows it to clean hard to reach areas with ease.
==Gallery==
Toaster and friends with Cutting-Edge Appliances.jpg|Plugsy and the stereo offer to take our heroes to the Cutting Edge
0 (4).jpg|Plugsy, the Yacht and a jumbo jet (plane named "Hot Air") with Two of the Cutting-Edge Appliances
Cutting edge.jpg|Plugsy, The canister vacuum and The computer approach our heroes with really big smiles
CuttingEdgeAppliances.jpg|Toaster and his gang reflected in The computer's screen
0132.png|Plugsy with two of the Cutting-Edge Appliances
Toaster and friends in the Master's city apartment.png|Toaster, his gang, Plugsy and Two-Face Sewing Machine with four of the Cutting-Edge Appliances
731.png|Plugsy with four of the Cutting-Edge Appliances
6193.png|Plugsy and Two-Face Sewing Machine with two of the Cutting-Edge Appliances
6475.png|Lampy and Hand Mixer with two of the Cutting-Edge Appliances
Toaster with a Cutting-Edge Appliance.png|Toaster with the food processor
Toaster with another Cutting-Edge Appliance.png|Toaster with the Toaster Oven
9123.png|The telephone
57634.png|The computer
2834894.png|The Entertainment Complex
6329204.png|The computer with the Entertainment Complex
Kirby and the new vacuum cleaner.png|The Two-head Vacuum with Kirby
Radio and the new radio.png|The stereo with Radio
Brave-little-toaster-disneyscreencaps.com-8346.jpg|Plugsy and T.V. with two of the Cutting-Edge Appliances
Brave-little-toaster-disneyscreencaps.com-8349.jpg|Plugsy and T.V. with the New Toaster
Brave-little-toaster-disneyscreencaps.com-8268.jpg|Lampy and Plugsy with three Cutting-Edge Appliances
==Trivia==
*The new appliances are nowhere near as antagonistic in the original book as they are in the movie and are actually quite friendly and helpful. 
*The food processor speaks with a French accent, which may be a reference to the inventor of the food processor; Pierre Verdon also being French.
*The computer's design and appearance seems to be based on the Apple 2.
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