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Be sure to see [[Toy Story (franchise)/Headscratchers|Toy Story 1]] and [[Toy Story 3/Headscratchers|Toy Story 3]].
== Would Buzz and Jessie count as a crossover pairing? ==
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* If more Woodies were purchased, wouldn't that mean more of them would have been battered and bashed by loads more kids thus sending most of them to junkyards?
** Technically, yes, but it would also mean that there would be some that have been kept boxed.
*** A lot fewer -- remember, if Woody was the popular one, that means that a lot less of them were going to be sold. And in the 1950s, collectors who purchased toys and kept them in the box was less common.
**** This. To add more, maybe Woody dolls were worth less when they didn't have the hat. When there is an old toy, especially a rare one, that has some accesory, it's harder to find the toy with the accesory since children play with them and lose things. In this case, Woody's hat. To quote [[Toy Story 2]], "What's a cowboy without his hat?". For the collection to be truly "complete", the toys would probably have to have their accesories.
** This would also explain why Stinky Pete (blatantly the least popular character in the show) is still mint-in-the-box, having not been sold when the show was popular. Remember, his backstory was that he spent years on a store shelf since children didn't want a Stinky Pete doll.
* How many of the old 70's and 80's toys have you been able to find in second hand stores or on ebay? It's the same principle; the line's so old that finding ''any'' figure from it is valuable. As a member of the Transformers fandom and having experience with looking for different figures of the line, I can tell you with much certainty that finding an original 1980's mint-in-box Optimus Prime or Grimlock figure is really hard to do, and when you ''do'' find them, they're a lot of expensive, money that I'm sure Big Al - with his poorly-paying job - wouldn't have the money for.
** Al is hardly poorly paid. He owns the store and lives in a penthouse appartment.
** Owning a small toy store does not make a man rich, he'd make only a little more money that average stockers. If he was an important CEO or something, maybe, but his office was located inside the store. If he was making real money, he wouldn't dress up in stupid costumes to attract customers.
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* Perhaps it's because he came from a toy-line with a back story, which would act like memories. The other toys, except for Woody, who may have grown out of it due to his old age, probably wouldn't have stories to go with them. Dinosaurs, slinky dogs, Mr. Potatohead, and so on don't have stories, so they didn't have any illusions about what they are, while The Army Men did have a vague "soldiers fighting in a war" story, so they kept a lot of the militant trappings.
* That would make sense with most, but Mr Potato Head did have a story since he appeared in the [[Potato Head Kids]] TV series
** Although he was already well-established as a toy long before that TV series came around, and the toys lasted long after that show entered the dustbin of history; presumably his 'default' personality and 'backstory' (or lack thereof) overrides this somewhat.
* What about Bo Peep? She is based on a nursery rhyme character but it is unknown if she every considered herself to be the "real" Bo Peep.
** Bo Peep isn't strictly speaking a toy. She's a figurine. This Troper's grandmother has dozens of figurines that have appearances similar to storybook characters, but have generic names, like 'princess'. It could be that she calls herself (or Andy calls her) Bo Peep, after the nursery rhyme, but her actual name is something like 'sheperdess'.
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== If new toys think that they're the real character, how come Woody had never heard of ''Woody's Roundup''? ==
* I always figured that that was specific to Buzz Lightyears. The rest of the toys all treated him like he was crazy for thinking he was the real Buzz.
* Maybe ''Roundup'' was off the air for quite a while, or Woody never got access to a TV during its airing times.
* Toys don't come alive until their box is opened, it's possible Woody's box wasn't opened until after the show had gone off the air.
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*** He's a puppet from a relatively cheap children's television show from the 1950s; presumably the original carvers just decided that putting a gun would be too tricky or too time consuming and left it out. [[Moral Guardian|Moral Guardians]] might have also objected.
== [[Action Girl|Jessie]] and [[The Hero|Woody's]] relationship. It's supposed to be a [[Like Brother and Sister|brother-sister one]], [[Relationship Writing Fumble|right]]? Because it seems more romantic then anything. Jessie-Buzz basically [[Pair the Spares|came out of nowhere]] and they accidentally made it seem like: A. Woody would never get Bo Peep, or B. They were now just friends. ==
* [[Your Mileage May Vary]]. Aside from the fact that Woody never expressed romantic interested in Jessie in the first place, it has been clearly established from ''Toy Story'' and ''Toy Story 2'' that Woody and Bo Peep are indeed an item (pardon the pun). Plus, as Woody and Jessie are both from the Woody's Roundup family, a brother-sister relationship makes more sense, unless you meant [[Brother-Sister Incest|this]].
* I particularly enjoyed a (sadly since-been-taken-down) fan fic's interpretation of Buzz [[Ho Yay|falling for basically a female version of Woody.]]
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== At the end of ''Toy Story 2'', Al has a new commercial lamenting the loss of the Woody collection. Would be fine, except this was the next day, with the luggage train still outside. This means Al has 12 hours to get to Japan, find out the toys are gone, talk to the museum guys, fly back, unpack, shoot the commercial, edit it, and get it on the air. Wow. ==
* Not to mention that the stockholders of Al's Toy Barn would actually allow a commercial with the owner of the company ''crying his eyes out'' during the take to air. Pixarians actually Lampshade this.
** Well earlier in the movie when Al is on the phone with (I'm assuming) the producer of the commercial, he stated something along the lines of "And I want to do it in one take, you hear?"
** Plus, it's not exactly as if he's running a massively expensive advertising campaign there. It involves him dressing up in a chicken suit, basically. They probably didn't have time or cash for a lot of reshoots, and he was probably inconsolable at having lost the centrepieces of his toy collection, and thus his chance at making millions of dollars. They were probably forced to run what they had.
* The [[DVD Commentary]] admits this doesn't make sense, they just wanted to show that Al got what he deserved.
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== [[What Happened to the Mouse?|What happened to Zurg and Bonus Belt Buzz in 2? ]] I don't think they returned to Al's Toy Barn. ==
* They played catch in the bushes, and went on to live out the rest of their lives. It's possible that Zurg was the same Zurg that winds up at the daycare at the end. Unknown about bonus belt Buzz.
** If it was meant to be the same Zurg, they probably didn't want to show Buzz with him to avoid an at-a-glance "Wait, why is Buzz back in the donations box?" reaction, especially if the viewer hasn't seen the second film to get the reference.
*** Viewers who haven't seen the second film won't understand plenty of things. The movie mostly made references to the first one, but obviously people who didn't see ''2'' shouldn't expect to get everything. Especially who Jessie and Bullseye are, and when Andy ever got a hold of any of those Pizza Planet alien toys. Or why {{spoiler|Potato Head calls them "[my] boys!" at the end.}} But I agree with the avoiding confusion about which Buzz is which.
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