In the scene in the airport baggage area, it took an average of 70 hours to render each frame.
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When Ham is flipping though the channels looking for the Al’s Toy Barn commercial. All the other “stations” are clips from Disney shorts.
Many people think the Woody’s Roundup sequence was filmed with real puppets. But really they took the same CG models and made small changes to make them look like puppets. Then they animated the puppet versions of the characters in a CG black and white set. Then they used this technique called the kinescope effect, which adds scratches, hairs, and pieces of grain to the image to make it look old.
Tom Hanks (Woody) and Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear) both confessed to crying at the part of Jessie’s flashback sequence that shows her being rejected, and abandoned by her owner, set to “When She Loved Me” by Sarah McLachlan.
I cry every time…btw
The car that Buzz and Hamm use to find Woody is a Gyoza (a pun on Toyota). Gyoza is a type of Asian dumpling.
Toys in boxes do not become conscious until they are opened; this is seen in the first movie (when Buzz arrives), and in the toy store. Stinky Pete is in what appears to be an unopened box, but we find out that it has been opened; presumably, doctoring the box to appear unopened was another job by the cleaner.
The design of the cleaner character that fixes Woody for Al was based on renowned makeup artist Stuart Freeborn
The character design for Geri the Cleaner is also the same as the main character in Geri’s Game (1997) where he plays chess against himself. One of the drawers he opens and closes is filled with chess pieces.
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In the scene when Woody is having a dream about Andy returning from Cowboy Camp, Woody is dropped and falls into a garbage can full of broken toys. In all previous scenes, he was unable to use his arm after it tore; however, he uses both arms to attempt to escape the grip of the toys. However, as this is a dream it is quite acceptable that Woody would be able to use both arms.
When Rex tells Buzz #2 about how to defeat Zurg, Buzz makes ‘notes’ on his “computer” on his arm, which is really a sticker and therefore shouldn’t be making any beeping noises. However, this is allowable within the fantasy toy-biology of the movie.
The enormous amount of Sheriff Woody merchandise is a reference to the similarly themed Disney merchandizing phenomenon, Davy Crockett, from the 1950s.
Al is on a plane for Japan but the next morning he’s on TV very sad in a chicken suit. The flight to Japan and back would take longer than this, not including the time it takes to produce and air a commercial.
Wheezy the penguin is a tribute to the Linux mascot, Tux.
When Jessie (Joan Cusack) first meets Woody (Tom Hanks), she exclaims, “Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln!” Abraham Lincoln’s mother was Nancy Hanks, a blood relative of Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks is a direct descendant of an uncle of Nancy Hanks.
The Green Three Eyed aliens have a circled pizza (pepperoni and mushroom) on their fronts.
In the scene with Rex in the car in Al’s Toy Barn holding the How to Defeat Zurg book, at 45:17 into the movie, there is one frame where we see a clear glimpse of the bottom corner of the book. As a lighthearted jab at Canadians the cover price is shown as $4.95 and $50.00 in Canada. It should be about $6.95. In the waiting area for the new “Toy Story Mania!” ride at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, FL, there is a large replica of the book’s cover that also reflects this joke.
