


There are two new movies on Disney+ this week, which should be enjoyed because it doesn’t happen that often. Woody follows suit by deciding to stay with Bo Peep as a lost toy instead of returning to Bonnie’s RV he is going where he is needed, but also where he himself wanted to be. Woody then offers to take her to Bonnie as a chance to be loved by another kid, but on the way to her, Gabby sees a lost child at the carnival and knows that that is where she wants and where is needed most. When Harmony finally encounters Gabby for the first time, she dismisses her immediately, and Gabby loses all hope and sense of self-worth.

Gabby wants Woody’s voice box so that she may be finally fixed and be worthy of Harmony’s love. Like Woody, she places the value of herself as a toy on if she is good enough to be played with by a child. This reaches a culmination when he encounters Gabby Gabby, a pull-string doll who, not unlike Woody, has been gathering dust on an antique store shelf waiting for the day to be played with by the one child she loves, a girl named Harmony. She asserts to him that “there’s plenty of kids out there,” and that he could do greater good by helping toys find their kids rather than hanging on to just one kid. He learns from Bo that being an independent, ownerless toy does not mean he would be unloved or without purpose. After an unexpected reunion at a playground with Bo Peep, who has been a lost, nomadic toy for years at this point, Woody begins to learn that what he has feared for so long is not what he thought it would be. But in this scene, Woody shares that even after fulfilling his role as Andy’s toy and having found a new home with Bonnie, he is still ultimately faced with what he has always feared: Being alone, gathering dust in the closet, unloved, and no longer played with.Įver since Buzz’s cardboard spaceship landed on Andy’s bed in the first film, Woody has seen the love of a single child as a qualifier for his usefulness and value in life as a toy. To Woody, being a toy to a kid is comparable to how a parent raises their child. They go off and do things you'll never see.”
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You are going to help create happy memories that will last for the rest of her life… then you watch 'em grow up and become a full person. In one scene, Woody expresses what being a toy has meant to him and how it has informed his current character. Instead of viewing Forky as a threat like he did Buzz, Woody tries to instill into the reluctant Forky the value he possesses in being Bonnie’s new favorite toy. In Toy Story 4, Woody, who is far from Bonnie’s favorite toy and is even left to gather dust in the closet, is supplanted by a new toy made from literal trash in the form of Forky, who does not want to be a toy at all. The arrival of a new toy challenges Woody to re-assess his role amongst the other toys and his relationship with his kid. Toy Story 4 finds Woody in a similar position as the original Toy Story. What else was there to tell? What could a follow-up to the previous film’s final moments bring that was worth telling? The toys had faced their darkest hour in the garbage dump and found themselves a new home with Bonnie. Andy had grown up and was off to college.
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Jumping ahead to Disney’s announcement of Toy Story 4, the idea of yet another sequel after the much-beloved (and overtly conclusive) third movie was met with comments of skepticism and doubt from fans. After an emotionally heartfelt final goodbye, many audiences felt that the ending of Toy Story 3 would be the last anyone would see of Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the gang on the big screen. The long-awaited third installment delivered hilarious comedy, tear-jerking moments, and most of all, a satisfying conclusion to the story of Andy and his toys. Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for the Toy Story franchise.Since its release in 2010, Disney/Pixar’s trilogy-capping sequel Toy Story 3 has been widely considered to be a modern masterpiece and one of the studio’s all-time greatest films.
