Tex 2: Moo Can

## Overview

### English (from Lucasfilm THX Theatrical Trailers: The Audience is Listening on DVD)

Back by popular demand, TEX returns to show off the virtues of THX using a 'with THX' and 'without THX' demonstration. Again John Lasseter and his Pixar animation team and Gary Rydstrom create a crowd-pleaser. Marco d'Ambrosio developed the "cow chord" you'll hear using real cows recorded at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California. TEX 2 was released on Thanksgiving weekend 1997, and is available in all three digital sound formats.

### English (from The THX Ultimate Demo Disc)

Back by popular demand, TEX returns to show off the virtues of THX using a "before and after" demonstration with a classic children's toy. John Lasseter, his Pixar animation team, and Sound Designer Gary Rydstrom created another crowd-pleaser, while Marco d'Ambrosio developed the "cow chord" using real cows recorded at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California. Released on Thanksgiving weekend in 1997, "TEX 2" is available in all three digital sound formats.

### Français

A la demande générale du public, le très attachant personnage de TEX fit un retour fracassant dans les salles américaines en 1997 à l'occasion du week-end de Thanksgiving.

En qualité de porte-parole des vertus du procédé THX, le robot rigolo procède cette fois-ci à une petite démonstration très parlante du son "avec THX" et "sans THX".

Là encore, John Lasseter et son équipe des studios d'animation "Pixar" furent sollicités afin de concevoir tout le visuel et l'animation 3D, tandis que l'ingénieur du son Garry Rydstrom fut chargé du mixage de la piste sonore 5.1.

Pour l'anecdote, sachez que les meuglements audibles dans ce trailer furent enregistrés à l'époque par Marco d'Ambrosio, lequel ira jusqu'à sampler les vaches du Skywalker Ranch (Marin County - Californie) pour plus de réalisme.

Marco d'Ambrosio est également compositeur : vous avez sans doute déjà pu apprécier son oeuvre au travers de certains trailers Dolby tel que Rain, Aurora ou encore City.

TEX 2 reste disponible dans les formats

Dolby Digital, DTS et SDDS.

## Description

We see a gray, lifeless THX logo. Tex the robot, from the previous trailer, drops down from the top of the screen, landing towards the front of the camera. He has a can in his hand which has a picture of a cow on a field and says "moo" (which is in a bubble cloud, as if the cow were saying it) and he holds it closer to show us. He flips it over, realizing the can is empty and says "Hmmm." He flies to the THX logo in the background, opens a hatch in the X, and then pulls out a cable from it. He then returns with the "moo can" and holds the cable up with his opposite hand, revealing it to have a plug, and attaches it to the can. Tex looks around for a few seconds as we hear the sound of cows mooing. Then, the THX logo turns silver as "Lucasfilm Ltd." fades in above it and starts to rise up from the middle of the screen to its usual position nearly at the top and shines. Tex smiles and nods seemingly in accomplishment when suddenly the THX logo begins to rumble and shake. Tex sees this, jumps back in surprise and he nervously flies off with the can and the plug. The THX logo jolts to its left side for a moment before going back to its normal position. The cable is pulled back into the logo, the hatch closes and like the last trailer, the black screen with the text "The Audience is Listening" falls to the screen.

## Trivia

* There a variant of this trailer for the PS3 game Lair, where creatures from the game can be seen running across the screen once the text "WWW.THX.COM" appears.
* A version exists for Monster THX certified equipment: the cable Tex pulls up is a Monster HDMI cable, the moo can becomes a "Monster Moo Can" and the logo at the end reads MONSTER THX, with the MONSTER being plaved over the THX logo. The end board shows the MONSTER THX logo and the thx.monster..com website.
* When THX became a separate company, the logo was modified in mid-2005 and all references to Lucasfilm were removed.
* Aside from theaters, the only times this trailer has been seen in scope is on the THX Ultimate Demo Disc and Demo Disc II.
* This trailer can be found letterboxed for full-screen on the VHS and UK rental DVD of *Monsters, Inc.*
* On the Pixar "Made in Point Richmond" DVD and "Toy Story 2 (Ultimate Toy Box)" DVD, a different mix of the logo can be heard, notably the one heard in the VHS release.
* In the DVD version, the black screen falls in at the end with a text "The Best Sound... The Best Picture... You're Watching A THX Certified Feature."
* The only Blu-ray this has appeared on is the THX Calibrator Disc.
* In production, this trailer was referred to as "Tex Stampede." - a name which the Trailers and F/X menu on Made in Point Richmond reflect.
* This trailer also appears on the DVDs that came with the second and third editions of the book *DVD Demystified* by Jim Taylor.

## Releases with this trailer

### United Kingdom

 Monsters, Inc.
 Toy Story 2

### Australia

 Monsters, Inc.
 Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 2
 Toy Story 2

### France

 Monsters, Inc.
 Toy Story 2
 The Transporter

### Japan

 Swing Girls
 Waterboys