Allegedly Joe Ranft wrote a back story where Andy's dad suffered from polio as a child and kept Woody, Potato Head and Slinky locked in a chest while he went away for medical treatment. By the time he came back he was too old to play with them, so he left them locked in there until he had his own son, who he also named Andy and gave the toys to him as a gift before he died - the implication being that those toys don't realize their original owner is actually dead and that the Andy we know is his son.
My assumption was that Woody's Round-up was a flash-in-the-pan show that probably had a summer of popularity before getting canned (hence the cliffhanger finale). Toys where never made in the quanitity to meet demand outside ol' Stinky Pete.
Well it won't be his name under the boot. It would be Bonnie. Someone haven't been paying attention.
I guess the thing I've always thought is if there was any significant quantity of Woody dolls made, Al could have just bought one from eBay or something. Same with the museum trying to buy Al's collection. The fact that he had to hunt him down by chasing random garage sales, and the museum only being interested in the collection if it included Woody suggests to me that only a few dolls would have ever been made at most.
Oh, that's an excellent point. It had been around for a little while but probably not to the point where everyone would be using it.
Yeah I feel like people keep missing the "making children happy" thing. I don't think Woody would've left Bonnie just to goof off with Bo.
I was already bawling at this point, and then they said "to infinity.... And Beyond".
Lol Key and Peele should be BLACK TOYS!!
Considering the massive implied value of the collection, it's doubtful a Woody doll of the same quality would have been readily available on eBay even if the site did exist at the time.
Idd. And Bo's actively helping lost toys to get played with in the sand pit where they meet too.
Man, I love TS1, but I really can't imagine liking it more than any of the others. The sequels were just so much better in every way.
1 is my favorite. Best slate of songs, particularly Strange Things, only movie with Buzz as a great character, it has the most entertaining animation of the characters in the series. The entirety of 3 doesn't compare to single scenes of 1 in terms of engaging you with the characters and what they're feeling through their expressiveness, mostly because they're in their rawest form they're ever in; Woody's just an emotional mess the entire movie and Buzz too after he learns he's a toy.
Oh wow! That's right no short. Weird. Not that it's a bad thing, just unexpected.
There's a chase scene (could be two) and a jump scare involving dummies that can't speak so he might get a bit spooked there.
Yeah, that's the Ranft back story. Andy's Woody is supposedly the only one they ever made. All the other kids who entered the giveaway were sent a space toy after the show was canceled.
Eh. I get it but also I think it's a good follow-up to how Toy Story 3 ends for exactly that reason. Woody's life wasn't over just because Andy stopped being in it, especially when you consider the nature of the toys (like, they're immortal, right?). Him running off with Bo leaves far more possibilities than it would have staying with Bonnie, who was already over him and would have likely just repeated the "Andy's grown up now" cycle.
