I am a big fan of Toy Story and my favorite character is of course Bullseye. In Toy Story2 we learned Prospector had never been opened and had set on a shelf his whole life. We also found out Jessie’s background but what about Bullseye’s story? This has always bothered me. What do you think his origin is??
I dunno, I think we don’t know his background mostly because he can’t talk. I’m guessing that Al also kidnapped him from some poor kid. xD
WOW I never thought about that
I wish he would have had a flashback or something
Its hard to guess his origin because he never has a flashback
I dont think we need everything spelled out for us like that. I mean, think about all the other toys that dont have a background either. we dont know how many of them had previous owners or how many.
Not everyone should get a background. especially not non talking characters in my opinion. it would feel too forced.
I never thought too much about how Al got Bullseye, just that I knew he was a greedy toy collector who has his ways of getting them. Jessie’s backstory was more important and they kind of showed how he ended up finding her. I would have liked to know more about how he got the Prospector other than him being on a dime store shelf. Did Al buy him when he was younger and just never opened him cause he developed that fixation collectors have of preserving their value? I can imagine that being really sad for a toy to have an owner buy you and never want you for anything other than being inside a box.
I always pictured Bullseye’s back story as him being like legitimately sold at a garage sale or something. Played with lovingly, but not the child’s favorite toy, and then sold to Al eventually. Though I agree that it would’ve been too forced to give him a back story and is unnecessary anyway.
I agree with Kyle, I actually quite like the fact that we, the viewers, aren’t told everything about every character. It’s interesting to guess Bullseye’s background, and there are some good ideas here. I’m with you, TheComedian, in that I too have generally thought that Bullseye was sold to Al legitimately after having been played with for a bit, but not as a favourite toy.
Good point. We don’t know anything about his back story. I always assumed that Bullseye had a case like Jessie’s where he was loved by a child and was given away or sold later on. Which is most likely another reason as to why those two are so close. But who knows? It could be anything, maybe he was like The Prospector and was just never bought or loved, but he still kept his cute little happy go lucky attitude. 
Bullseye obviously wasn’t as emotionally attached to his/her owner. He always seems quite cheerful, so maybe he belonged to a little kid, (maybe an only child?) and somehow got lost or something.
I’m sure that they still might have had an concept backstory for him when they still had him talking in the film (with Don Knotts voice?).
Possibly, but actually it was Martin Short not Don Knotts
Oh my, that would have been horrible. That man’s voice is so grating.
That idea in general sounds horrible to me. I’m really glad they didn’t go that route. I had never heard that though, is there somewhere to read about it or was it on the commentaries or something?
The talking route, or specific casting choices? if the former, its all iver the special features and bonus material. theres even and animation test showing him talkng (but no voice can be heard)
If your talking about casting choices, I dont remember that being discussed.
In which DVD version? The 3rd disc of the Ultimate Toy Box? That’s the only one that I have.
both the ultimate toy box and 10th aniversery have it I believe.
I’ve got the 10 anivesy set and it has it its real intersting.
I think they did not go into Bullseye’s history because jessie’s history was enough and they also might have wanted for people to have their own theories on his history. But knowing Bullseye’s history along with Jessie and Stinky Pete’s I think would have been too much.
Al was the original owner of Stinky Pete. Al became a collector as a child, knowing that the toys were an investment. Stinky Pete was a bargain bin item because he was never a strong seller for the Roundup Gang (which may further explain his personality and motives). Al obviously kept him mint all these years.
As for Bullseye, a flashback or anything would just be silly, Kyle says it best that less is more in this instance. However, if I had to use facts to back up a theory, I’d say he had a normal play life as a toy because he’s out of his box, and excited to be played with [again?]. After that, I’m assuming that his collectable status was discovered, and he ended up in Al’s hands.
Good question. They might have not either…
~It was not needed
~It took up time.
Just my opinions, though.
