Toy Story 3 anticipation thread

Oh my gosh...Woody was Lotso!

http://newslite.tv/2010/07/21/toy-story-fan-changes-his-name.html

What is the story w/British people and Buzz Lightyear?

Wait, you mean this is a "thing"!?!?

I don't know, this is coming from my mom, who told me British people are crazy about Buzz Lightyear. She's also told me a bunch of wacky stuff that "black people secretly believe," so I don't know how trustworthy she is on other cultures.

Pretty sure there's no 'thing' with us Brits, although when the first Toy Story came out, the Buzz was THE toy to get for Christmas, and it sold out like everywhere. My mum happened to be going to Canada and managed to get one for my little brother. But I think it was nuts there too because she had to fight for it!

This was great, as expected, though if they had gotten the cameoing Totoro toy just to say "To-tooorr-ro" once it would have next levelled it imo.

http://twitchfilm.net/news/Totoro_ToyStory3.jpg

Big Baby was scary as fuck.

The Monkey Shines monkey was a bit freaky as well.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/monkey_shines.jpg/402px-Monkey_shines.jpg

Yes, such an awful, soul-rending noise it made.

God I loved this. Mr Veg & I held hands & bawled...so hard to say goodbye to childhood. Spent the whole ride home wondering if my childhood teddybear is still in my old bedroom closet at my parents' house.

Little Molly in her gumboots and tutu was the cutest. And Spanish Buzz was awesome. Slinky Dog sure is the workhorse of that toybox...

this was absolutely amazing you guys - scene at the end where Andy and Bonnie play with the toys was literal :''''''''''''''')

not gonna go into the good bits now (there were lots of them) but the way it kept bombarding us with believable emotional climaxes was astonishing

I liked this but it was a fraction of the film Up was. The opening ten minutes of that will forever be Pixar's 'Bambi's mum' moment.

SPOILERS
The bit in the dumpster was genuinely intense until those bloody aliens saved them in classic kid's movie style.

I thought that would be it - and that it would be the jawdropping mindmelting never-been-there-before antidote to every kid's film ever - but equally that movie NEEDED closure with Bonnie's toys and Andy's toys being brought together, which I realised pretty much as soon as they first came onscreen

'jawdropping mindmelting never-been-there-before antidote to every kid's film ever'

Now this is what I wanted, in a kind of perverse way. Pixar should have totally gone for a historic unhappy ending.

I really enjoy Pixar's films but this one also suffered with being somewhat overfamiliar with the characters...third installments are always so hard to pull off. Just didn't feel like this fresh, inventive adventure like their previous three or so.

They could have melted them down to metal ingots to be reincarnated as high-end die-cast toys for nostalgia-ridden adult Andy.

I went with my entire family actually...like the only film we could realistically enjoy all together, and they were totally charmed.

xpost yes hahaha!

I disagree - the opening twenty minutes (after the 'imagination' sequence) were a bit frantic and confused and 'been there before' but after that it went to some places that neither of the first two films went - the idea of toys DAMAGED by neglect being key - although in a perverse way, yeah, everyone frying and Woody somehow surviving to be just like Lotso would have filled me with immense catharsis.

But I still think that Bonnie and her toys did enough to justify the film's ending. The dread and despair of the dumpster scene was real - the happy ending doesn't remove that fact.

HAHAHAHA my brother made the same regenerative point!!!!!!!

except he said the new toys should be really faceless throwaway consumer-culture ones

I don't think I would have been able to handle myself if they had all burnt to death & that was The End. I would have needed to see a grief counselor.

I was crying hard enough even with the deus ex machina.

yeah also this ^^ although I was more weepy at Andy's mum being all 'my son is gone' and the BIT WHERE ANDY AND BONNIE PLAY WITH THEIR TOYS LIKE OMG ACTUAL CRYING YOU GUYS

hearts of steel

I watched Tokyo Story yesterday and that absolutely pwned Toy Story 3 in the emotional outpour stakes.

I was absolutely sullen for like half an hour. You would like it LJ, I think.

did anyone spy any toy story characters in the wall-e junkyards?

I bet it didn't have a moment like 1/4 as funny as Tortilla Potato Head xp but yeah I might watch it

Yes it is sombre as fuck. I give, lots of belly laughs like that Shakespearian hedgehog and SPANISH BUZZ.

spanish buzz was next-level for about 20 seconds, which is enough

That hedgehog killed me! Especially since it was wearing little lederhosen.

bonnie's toys were about as charming a bunch of toys as Pixar could have engineered, I was all 'squee'

"we do a lot of improv here."

I'm not one for stuffed toys. But the peas-in-a-pod are the CUTESTTTTT!
ahem.

what a totally wasted opportunity not to get Tom Waits to be the voice of Chuckles The Clowm

also that short at the beginning was probably the most spectacular piece of animation I've seen since Ren & Stimpy

For the all the makes-grown-men-weep hype I didn't find the sad parts particularly sad - I think partly cos grown-up Andy is kind of a tool. Up was far more heartwrenching. Still a really really good film though.

This is why I'm a valuable poster. I find this sort of depraved silliness just before everyone else.

http://i30.tinypic.com/9s4inl.jpg

Trying to work out whether Spanish Buzz or Metrosexual Ken was the best thing about this.

http://i31.tinypic.com/2l95zlj.jpg

Serious Actor Doll was the best imo

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O-_F30rZ2lA/TFBVXvNFLGI/AAAAAAAACHg/F6QT_7cK97U/s320/Mr+P2.jpg

^^^^you can take all the uranium you want if it's to build a truth bomb^^

Trying to work out whether Spanish Buzz or Metrosexual Ken was the best thing about this.

I liked the monkey myself.

Okay, so the store I work at sells this like $150 huge Buzz Lightyear toy that talks and does all sorts of fancy stuff. There's a display of it, so I hear kids pushing the button to make him talk like 1000 times a shift. Anyway, one of the random lines is Buzz doing the Spanish thing. Except its not from the movie, instead it is the most offensive, racist fake Spanish accent I've ever heard.

For the all the makes-grown-men-weep hype I didn't find the sad parts particularly sad - I think partly cos grown-up Andy is kind of a tool. Up was far more heartwrenching. Still a really really good film though.

Same here really. In my case it might be because I never held any real great lasting affection for my own toys in the first place. I got rid of them fairly quickly, and painlessly, when I grew out of them. I did like the film, and the ending though.

So a couple of people spent two years making a shot-for-shot live action version of Toy Story. Real human characters using the Toy Story toys to remake Toy Story. Something deliriously meta about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G0j_Huv2Fg

ok the unified theory of pixar thing was lol but this i TOTALLY buy - http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/25/toy_story_andy_s_mom_has_a_secret_identity_look_at_the_hats.html

ha, pretty good. very believable

just read that unified theory of pixar, hilarious!!