Hey everyone, I’ve just discovered something that I thinks pretty damn cool in the two trailers for Toy Story!!!
After just staring at them lustfully for ages now, I’ve finally started to really think about it and I’ve noticed one huge glaring obvious thing thats only on the screen for about two seconds!!!
I’ve made this picture to show you all, but I’m sure you’ve all got the trailer in all its HD goodness already so feel free to scan through and correct me if I’m wrong!!!
Okay, heres what I think this is…
this is the very opening of the film, a cross between the start of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, like in Toy Story it is Andy playing with his toys, but like Toy Story 2 it isn’t what it appears to be.
We see Woody, Buzz and Jessie, our three “main” characters, on a wild adventure, we’re not told that this is just Andy playing, much like the Buzz Lightyear video game. Then we are suddenly switched back to reality of Andy and his mum, using home video footage and a beautiful song by Randy Newman, much like the opening of Up, a heart wrenching beautiful sequence that spans ten years of their lives as truly loved toys, setting up for the rest of the film the emotional side of the story.
In the picture you can see the canyon bridge in Andy’s room which is incomplete for a train to just drive right off the edge, the monkeys that are scattered on the floor, Woody, Buzz and Jessie, and a train that has just drove right off the edge. Also the blue cloudy sky that we’re all familiar with.
That’s amazing! I’d been wondering why the trailer would cut into sort of real-life moments with the train and the canyons, but it makes sense now! Nice find, ximonb.
I was confused when I saw those scenes in the trailer the other day. I pretty much had this look on my face -----> followed by this —> . Lol.
I believe that some people have talked about this a bit in the trailer discussion thread.
At first I started to think that they magically end up in the middle of nowhere and get chased by whoever is the villain’s minions. Then I thought back to the train and realized that it didn’t make sense, unless Pixar was gonna pull a Roger Rabbit, or a Space Jam and have the toys end up in some alternate universe known as Toy Town. Don’t ask me why I thought of that, at the time it made sense to me. XD
It wasn’t until someone pointed those two scenes in the picture out, that it actually started to make sense. I can see the beginning of the movie starting out with what we see going on in Andy’s mind during play time, then something happens to make us all think that the toys are done for. Then the camera might pan out and show Andy playing with his toys, then the audience can breathe again.
I’m just wondering how they will fit together. If it will be like the Buzz video game, where you’re wondering what’s going on and it’s revealed as Andy’s fantasy, or if perhaps it’s how the toys are seeing it, since we’ve never been introduced to that conecpt, or perhaps Andy dreams it, then decides to re-enact it with his toys, OR it’s Woody having a dream about Andy, then it turns into a nightmare as it becomes more realistic.
You know from the trailer that Buzz has to get new batteries installed.
The Child Care toys were gambling with batteries, so looks like Buzz lost them one way or another. Given they noted in that trailer they might be able to use Buzz, there may be a big hint there in that scene why.
We don’t know he has to change batteries…they just have to lift open that door where the batteries are to access the ‘reset’ button on his back. I think their REAL intention is to turn him evil, although nobody know why/what their motives are to make Andy’s toys stay.
Yep, I completely agree with you too ximonb. It’s going to be a lot like the introduction to the first two Toy Story films, combined together. And I can’t wait to see it in 3-D!
It does seem like that’s how those scenes are going to work in the film, but I’ve had my doubts for two reasons:
They already had that kind of opening with the Buzz Lightyear video game in Toy Story 2 and I was expecting it to open with the home movies of Andy playing with his toys just for something different.
If the film does open in a flashback with the home movies, than wouldn’t having a big fantasy sequence within a flashback be a bit too much?
I was thinking what the heck this scene could be about. I do think its a nightmare Woody has while being at Day Care. He wants to get back to Andy so bad with the others, I bet things will get in his way though.
I reckon it’ll be a sequence at the start, then after Buzz resuces the train it’ll cut to Andy playing, THEN cut again to his mom coming in with the camera like in the trailer.
When I first saw this I thought “What? [spoil]Rex and dynamite?[/spoil]” But now it makes sense! (And so does the scale of the train compared to Woody).
Good find! It took a sharp eye to catch that!
And also the thing with the hoards of attacking monkeys in the desert was getting on my nerves.
followed by this —> 
. Lol.