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17-year-old Andy is about to leave for college, and his toys have not been played with for years. He intends to take only Woody with him, and puts Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and the other toys in a bag to be stored in the attic. Andy's mother mistakenly takes the bag to the curb for garbage pickup. The toys escape and, believing Andy intended to throw them away, decide to climb into a donation box with Barbie bound for Sunnyside Daycare. Woody follows them but is unable to convince them of the mistake.

Buzz seeks out Lotso to request to have them moved to the older children's room, but Lotso, who controls Sunnyside in a concentration-camp-like style, refuses, explaining that the newer toys need to be sacrificed to the younger children to protect the older ones, indifferent to damage or suffering they might endure. Seeing promise in Buzz, Lotso resets Buzz to his original space ranger persona, which also resets his memory. At the same time, Mrs. Potato Head, through an eye she accidentally left in Andy's room, sees Andy searching for the toys and realizes Woody was telling the truth. However, before they can leave, Andy's toys are imprisoned by Lotso's gang, guarded by Buzz...

 

{{tropelist|Tropes common to the franchise are listed on [[Toy Story (franchise)|the ''Toy Story ''franchise page]]. Tropes specific to this movie include:}}

* [[Accent Adaptation]]: Given the very clear nature of Buzz' Spanish dance moves, some of the Spanish-language dubs keep him Spanish, but give him a thick Andalusian accent, of the "huge lisp" variety (Like the one the [[Shrek|Puss in Boots]] has)

* [[Actionized Sequel]]: With this being number 3 in a trilogy fifteen years in the making, character introductions are almost moot point, with even more dramatic escape sequences taking place in comparison to its predecessors.

* [[Advertised Extra]]: Stretch the octopus is displayed prominently on the DVD cover, despite having about ten minutes of screen time.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: The ultimate fate of Lotso. He's advised by his new pals to keep his mouth shut.

* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: When Andy leaves his toys in the care of their new kid Bonnie.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The opening scene. There's Woody and Jessie, the cowboy and cowgirl, chasing Potato Head on a 19th century style steam train. Then a pink sports car turns up, then spaceman Buzz Lightyear and later Slinky Dog is some sort of high tech forcefield dog contraption. Ham has a pig-shaped spaceship, with a cockpit filled with computers, lights and a teleporter and a [[Wave Motion Gun]] in the snout. Finally, there's Rex, the ''dinosaur''. Justified in that this is all a story made up by a six year old and the ludicrous nature of it is clearly powered by his sense of [[Rule of Cool]].

** This scene is a retelling of the first two movies' opening sequences blended together.

* [[Ass Shove]]: Done in the epilogue when Mr. Potato Head discovers the Peas-in-a-Pod popping out of his rear hatch.

{{quote|"I told you kids, stay out of my butt!"}}

'''Hamm:''' You ''said'' it. }}

* [[Bear Hug]]: From Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Lotso really should not have broken the name tag in front of Big Baby.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Lotso turns out to be the most vicious character in the film.

*** The looping orange racetrack Buzz used to "fall with style" in the original and Jessie used to help Buster in the sequel is mentioned to be stored in the attic.

*** Lotso's backstory. Him getting lost on a trip out and having to make his way back home to the owner he is intensely loyal to: That's the plot of the first movie right there. Him being replaced and his [[If I Can't Have You]]: Hey, Woody, remember when you pushed Buzz out the window? His philosophy that all toys are destined to be treated as garbage: Remember when Woody was more willing to go to a museum than to Andy because he was afraid he'd be thrown out eventually? Lotso is [[Future Me Scares Me|Woody from a bad future.]]

*** Big Baby resembles the creepy baby who fell victim to the Uncanny Valley in the [[Pixar Shorts]] ''Tin Toy''. In that short, a number of toys hide from said child. The same toys are also shown hiding from the toddlers of the Caterpillar Room before the kids return from recess.

*** [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: Andy's board has a postcard from Carl and Ellie of ''[[Up]]''; his posters feature the Omnidroid of ''[[The Incredibles]]''; fish from ''Finding Nemo'' are seen in stickers on his wall and in paintings at the daycare; Sunnyside has toy versions of ''Nemo'''s Mister Ray and some of the characters from ''[[Cars]]'' (non-anthropomorphic Snot Rod on Andy's calendar (August) and Finn Mcmissile from ''Cars 2'' on a poster, also, when the children burst into the room for the first time, one of the them is wearing a "95" shirt). Buzz Lightyear is powered by batteries from [[WALL-E|Buy-N-Large]].

* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]: And '''HOW'''!

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Sunnyside Daycare seems like a bright, colorful heaven where there are always children to lovingly play with the toys, but actually it's a brutal dictatorship ruled by Lotso the bear. Most of the daycare's toys get subjected to rough playtimes with the toddlers rather than the loving playtimes with the older children, and any defiant toys get imprisoned in cubbies, forced to stay the night in the sandbox, interrogated, brainwashed, or thrown into the daycare's dumpster to go to the landfill.

* [[Creepy Doll]]: Big Baby.

* [[Cute Giant]]: Lotso and Big Baby are each considerably larger than the protagonists.

* [[Cymbal-Banging Monkey]]: When night falls on Sunnyside Daycare, he sits at the front desk, watching all the surveillance screens. If a toy tries to escape, he turns on the center's P.A. system and screeches into it while banging his cymbals. Lotso and crew are on top of the poor toy in moments.

** May be a [[Shout-Out]] to a [[Stephen King]]'s The Monkey, or [[Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders]], the infamous film featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' partially based upon it (a 1984 horror film called ''The Devil's Gift'' blatantly plagiarized King's short story was edited into [[Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders]]). The monkey looks ''just'' like the design from the cover of Skeleton Crew, the collection that contains it.

* [[Dark Reprise]]: Of 'You've Got a Friend In Me' at the beginning of the film. Just to clarify, the song ends at the line 'Our friendship will never die!' The background music stops, and we just hear 'never die' echo over and over.

* [[Dance Party Ending]]: Stay for the credits. Set to a Spanish version of "You Got A Friend In Me." The choreography was done by [[Dancing With the Stars]] contestants.

* [[Dance of Romance]]: When Buzz is in [[Latin Lover|Spanish mode]], he makes the move on Jessie with a dance. And they do it again in his normal form in the credits.

* [[The Dandy]]: Ken

* [[Den of Iniquity]]: A humorous example with the 'bad' toys hanging around in a vending machine, betting with Monopoly money and triple A batteries. They use a "Speak-And-Say" toy instead of a roulette table.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: THE CLAAAAAW! A literal example, as the DVD commentary points out.

** It seems Buzz is naturally attracted to Jessie, as indicated by Brainwashed Buzz's claim that he is "immune to your... bewitching good looks."

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Barbie appears to be this at first, but later says two lines to Lotso that totally avert it.

''(Hamm and Potato Head shrug in confusion)'' }}

** Well, she ''was'' President once...

* [[Fake-Out Opening]]

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Lotso ends up crucified to the front of a dumpster truck working the landfill, implying he will be stuck that way for the rest of his existence. Even if he frees himself, he's still in that landfill with no way of getting back to 'his' daycare.

* [[First Girl Wins]]: The first toy we see Andy playing with at the start of the first film was Woody. {{spoiler|Guess which toy is the only one Andy decides he's going to take to college with him.}}

** Subverted at the end {{spoiler|when Andy sees how much Bonnie loves Woody, he lets her keep him.}}

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:

** [[Refuge in Audacity|Pixar sure is ballsy:]]

'''Rex:''' [[Prison Rape|Ohhhh, come over here, Porky!]] }}

*** Particularly disturbing, considering it might be a sly reference to [[Deliverance|another movie with Ned Beatty...]]

** And it all goes downhill from here.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Andy's mom, who even though it's almost a decade later looks better than she did in the previous two movies!

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Chunk's remark that Buzz "ain't the sharpest knife in the... [[Buffy-Speak|place where... they keep the knives.]]"

** One of the other toys immediately calls him out on this. "Neither are you."

** It may seem like the monkey's [[Oh Crap]] moment.

** Regardless, given ''everything else'' that happens in the movie, this is the one scene where you're bound to hear the kids in the audience start crying.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: [[Even Evil Has Standards|Lotso's henchmen are shocked when he shoves Big Baby in the stomach during his]] [[Motive Rant]].

* [[Kubrick Stare]]: In the commentary, Lee Unkrich describes using this expression for Buzz while in [[Brainwashed and Crazy|demo mode]] to indicate that this particular trip to Delusion-ville would have a darker turn.

* [[Madden Into Misanthropy]]: Lotso.

* [[Manly Tears]]: You must have a heart of steel NOT to cry leaving the movie theater.

* [[Melancholy Moon]]: Both Big Baby and Chuckles gaze sadly at the moon. Fitting considering they both lost the same owner.

* [[The Mentor]]: Dolly of Bonnie's toys.

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The dump, the conveyor belt and finally the incinerator.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: The last three Army Men (including Sarge) leave Andy's room in a hurry, knowing their fate will inevitably be the garbage.

* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: The Little Green Men being taken out (and apparently killed) early in the dump sequence. When they return, they [[Big Damn Heroes|save the day]] and things get much lighter and fluffier.

** Also done with Barbie, when Ken keeps her from joining the others on the garbage truck.

*** Big Baby might also be a shout out to the baby from "Tin Toy"... scary movements and all!

** Woody being dragged into the dumpster by Lotso is a shout-out to Hudson's death in ''[[Aliens]]''.

** Much of the film takes its inspiration from ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', which had many future Pixar employees working on it, including John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, and others. It even had the usual A113 moniker in it.

** '''Mr. Potato Head:''' [[Scooby Doo|"And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for]] [[You Meddling Kids|you meddling toys!"]]

** A tower with a klieg that searches the playground. [[The Lord of the Rings|Doesn't ring a bell]].

** Rex being overwhelmed by the flood of monkeys in the intro is reminiscent of a background event in the [[The Lord of the Rings|Battle of Pelennor Fields]], where the Dead Men overwhelm and devour an Oliphaunt.

** This may just be reading WAAAAAAAY too much into the scene, but one of the scenes with '''Ken''' wearing a white gi, similar to a certain [[Street Fighter|someone...]]

** In the opening scene, when Woody and Mrs. Potato Head are fighting atop a moving train, Woody lands with his heels over the edge of the end of the train, tries to regain his balance but falls backwards, and then lands safely on his horse ridden by his female friend. Replace "train" with "truck", "horse" with "car" and "Mrs. Potato Head" with "Agent", and you get what happened to Morpheus in The Matrix Reloaded.

* [[Smarter Than You Look]]: The Squeeze Toy Aliens. For all their times yelling "Ooohh!!!" and "The Claw" it turns out they are actually fairly intelligent. Not only can they learn how to operate heavy machinery within a matter of minutes, find and locate a small group of toys within an entire trash compound, but they actually do know that the "Claw" has to be manually controlled and is not self-choosing.

** Also Barbie -- political philosophy out of nowhere!

* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: After the toys are locked in jail, the [[Captivity Harmonica|harmonica in the background]] turns out to be Hamm playing.

* [[Split Personality]]: Buzz's [[Latin Lover|"Spanish]] [[Badass Spaniard|Mode"]], activated by pressing a reset button hidden in his back [[Never Trust a Trailer|for more than five seconds]], could be an example of this.

'''Mr. Potato Head:''' This is the perfect time to be hysterical.

'''Rex:''' ''(hysterically)'' Should we be HYSTERICAL?!?

'''Buzz:''' Maybe! But not right now! }}

* [[Three Amigos]]: Woody, Jessie and Buzz in young Andy's playtime imagination.

{{quote|'''Mr. Potato Head:''' You would not believe what I've been through tonight!}}

 

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