You've Got a Friend in Me · Tesla Light Show
by Randy Newman
Randy Newman's theme for Toy Story, from 1995, a soft-shoe shuffle about loyalty that has followed Woody and Buzz through the whole series. The show ambles along with it: the tail lights lead with the front turn signals answering about once a second, steady and unhurried, and the fullest stretch is in the middle before it eases out. It sits on the darker side, two minutes seven. Short and warm. The gentlest way to open a family set, before the louder songs, and a good one for a kid's birthday.
How this one is choreographed
The lights re-fire about 0.8 times a second, a middle pace that tracks the beat without crowding it. The peak is in the middle third, where roughly 31% of the car is lit against 27% at the top, then it eases back for the finish. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 1:13, when about 37% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the tail lights, re-firing about 1.0 times a second, with the front turn signals answering back at 0.9. About 57% of the re-firing happens at the rear, so the better view is from behind the car. The quietest part of the car is the inner main beams, at about 0.5 re-fires a second. It runs 2:07 and averages 62 of 255 across the light channels, a darker show that spends most of its time well below full, so the hits carry further. About 17% of the light values sit at a partial level, so hits are punctuated by fades rather than being pure on and off. It never goes completely dark for long: the longest gap is 0.5 of a second, at 2:03.
Measured from the exported light sequence for this show, not estimated from the song.
Get it for your Tesla
This show downloads for every Tesla: Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, and Cybertruck. Preview it on your model with the View-on picker above, add it to your library, and it re-tailors to your car's lights automatically.
How to play it on your car
- Open the show above and add it to your library (remix it in the builder first if you want).
- Add your own copy of the song: an MP3/WAV you own. We distribute only the light pattern, never audio.
- Export the
.fseqbuilt for your model, then place your song next to it (or let the one-click USB writer do both). - Put both files in a
LightShowfolder on a USB drive. Or skip the manual steps: in Chrome/Edge, click 🔌 Write it to my USB drive for me right after exporting and we do it all, verified byte-for-byte. Then plug in and start it from Toybox → Light Show. Full walkthrough in the setup guide.
Car says Light Show instead of Custom Light Show, or the drive is not detected at all? That is the USB format, the folder name, or filenames that do not match. If it plays but drifts out of time, that is the audio sample rate. Fix both here.
