Toy Story 4: June 21, 2019

[Lejuan]

Andy is studying animation at college. Very meta. He's got an internship at a local production studio, "Gleamworks". Bonnie is a little older now and a social justice warrior. She engages Andy to sabotage the current Gleamworks film - which she claims is whitewashed narrative - by recolouring and revoicing the characters. Of course he can't do it all on his own, so the gang get together to help out.

 

[cmiller99]

Perhaps the toys could take on new personalities to reflect their new owners personality.

That'll never happen.

Nah, you can't do that.

The thing that was so glorious about the end of the third film was it was like a rebirth. The toys had been neglected for so long, and after nearly coming to an end entirely they were thrown right back into their glory days of love and attention.

Do we really need to explore that further? Nope.

 

[cmiller99]

Andy is studying animation at college. Very meta. He's got an internship at a local production studio, "Gleamworks". Bonnie is a little older now and a social justice warrior. She engages Andy to sabotage the current Gleamworks film - which she claims is whitewashed narrative - by recolouring and revoicing the characters. Of course he can't do it all on his own, so the gang get together to help out.

 

[rushmore223]

Nah, you can't do that.

The thing that was so glorious about the end of the third film was it was like a rebirth. The toys had been neglected for so long, and after nearly coming to an end entirely they were thrown right back into their glory days of love and attention.

Do we really need to explore that further? Nope.

Yeah, I know they'd anger too many people with my idea, just thought it was one way they could keep it fresh.

No, we don't need anymore, but it's almost a guaranteed billion dollar movie, so they'll make it anyway, and nearly all of us on here will go and see it, myself included.

 

[cmiller99]

Absolutely everyone'll see it.

It'd certainly keep things fresh but it'd be taking it too far. I think everyone loves the characters far too much to tolerate that kind of a change.

 

[Khev]

To this day the one thing that bothered me about Toy Story 3 is that Woody never spoke to Andy. I was waiting for it during the entire build up to their final farewell and was braced to just lose it to see Andy realize what he'd meant to them all those years. Since they'd set precedent for toys breaking the "rules" with Sid I was sure that they'd go there again for the swan song of the trilogy. At the very least he could have done a little wave or subtle gesture to make Andy do a double take. A missed opportunity IMO. I wonder if they'll consider it for the next one.

 

[beefnutz]

Toy Story 4: Bride of Woody

 

[cmiller99]

To this day the one thing that bothered me about Toy Story 3 is that Woody never spoke to Andy. I was waiting for it during the entire build up to their final farewell and was braced to just lose it to see Andy realize what he'd meant to them all those years. Since they'd set precedent for toys breaking the "rules" with Sid I was sure that they'd go there again for the swan song of the trilogy. At the very least he could have done a little wave or subtle gesture to make Andy do a double take. A missed opportunity IMO. I wonder if they'll consider it for the next one.

I think they didn't do that because they would've had a hard time getting Andy over that shock of having sentient toys and still having an emotional ending.

 

[Khev]

I think they didn't do that because they would've had a hard time getting Andy over that shock of having sentient toys and still having an emotional ending.

I think they could have pulled a neat reversal in having Andy not be shocked (which in turn would shock Woody) and simply glad that his suspicions were true and honored that Woody interacted with him. "Sid told me what you did and for whatever reason I just kind of always halfway believed him. Thanks guys. We had some epic adventures didn't we?" "You have no idea Andy. You have no idea."

I think that audiences are accustomed to characters being friends with aliens, dragons, robots, and so on and keeping it a secret and would have accepted Andy knowing the truth. That's my thought anyway. TS3 was great but personally I always wished they went a slightly different way at the end.

 

[beefnutz]

To this day the one thing that bothered me about Toy Story 3 is that Woody never spoke to Andy. I was waiting for it during the entire build up to their final farewell and was braced to just lose it to see Andy realize what he'd meant to them all those years. Since they'd set precedent for toys breaking the "rules" with Sid I was sure that they'd go there again for the swan song of the trilogy. At the very least he could have done a little wave or subtle gesture to make Andy do a double take. A missed opportunity IMO. I wonder if they'll consider it for the next one.

i've seen that movie already.

Andy needs to take some bath salts...

sausage party.lolz

 

[Khev]

I haven't seen Sausage Party but I wasn't aware that it came out before Toy Story 3. I thought it was a more recent release.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I think they could have pulled a neat reversal in having Andy not be shocked (which in turn would shock Woody) and simply glad that his suspicions were true and honored that Woody interacted with him. "Sid told me what you did and for whatever reason I just kind of always halfway believed him. Thanks guys. We had some epic adventures didn't we?" "You have no idea Andy. You have no idea."

At the very least he could have done a little wave or subtle gesture to make Andy do a double take. .

That's more like it.

 

[crows]

This is true but where do you take the story from there? After such a satisfying ending people won't want to see another film with the same story (toys get into scrape because they somehow get away from Andy, they eventually get back to Andy etc).

Pixar are going to have to find something new for this one if they want to make it work, I think.

well, Technically, the original plot for Toy Story 3 was that Buzz gets broken or something like that and they need to fix him, so they send him to Taiwan

"Buzz Lightyear starts malfunctioning, so his fellow toys ship him back to his manufacturer in Taiwan
But when they learn of a massive recall on Buzz Lightyear toys, Andy's toys fear that Buzz will be destroyed, so they head to Taiwan to rescue him"

they could always try to do that next.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/thank-god-this-version-of-toy-story-3-never-saw-the-lig-1676064012

I think they could have pulled a neat reversal in having Andy not be shocked (which in turn would shock Woody) and simply glad that his suspicions were true and honored that Woody interacted with him. "Sid told me what you did and for whatever reason I just kind of always halfway believed him. Thanks guys. We had some epic adventures didn't we?" "You have no idea Andy. You have no idea."

I think that audiences are accustomed to characters being friends with aliens, dragons, robots, and so on and keeping it a secret and would have accepted Andy knowing the truth. That's my thought anyway. TS3 was great but personally I always wished they went a slightly different way at the end.

that would have been a mega twist. a twist within a twist. Twistcention
I would have liked to see that, it would have been insane but surprising. it would have been really ballsy but it wouldn't have the sentimental punch the real ending did. would have become more like a twilight zone ending. I think people would have focused too much on that reveal than the toys getting a new life.

But that would have been cool to see

 

[cmiller99]

well, Technically, the original plot for Toy Story 3 was that Buzz gets broken or something like that and they need to fix him, so they send him to Taiwan

"Buzz Lightyear starts malfunctioning, so his fellow toys ship him back to his manufacturer in Taiwan
But when they learn of a massive recall on Buzz Lightyear toys, Andy's toys fear that Buzz will be destroyed, so they head to Taiwan to rescue him"

they could always try to do that next.

I hadn't actually heard about that, but I like the idea. It sure is an escalation, with similar stakes but on a grander scale, following the trend of sequels being same-ish but BIGGER etc.

You could have them return to the airport and run around on those ridiculous baggage conveyer belts for nostalgia's sake, fly to Taiwan... I'd watch it. And probably like it.

 

[Lejuan]

To this day the one thing that bothered me about Toy Story 3 is that Woody never spoke to Andy. I was waiting for it during the entire build up to their final farewell and was braced to just lose it to see Andy realize what he'd meant to them all those years. Since they'd set precedent for toys breaking the "rules" with Sid I was sure that they'd go there again for the swan song of the trilogy. At the very least he could have done a little wave or subtle gesture to make Andy do a double take. A missed opportunity IMO. I wonder if they'll consider it for the next one.

If they'd done that I would've hated on the entire franchise. The strength of Andy and Woody's relationship was built on a contract of imagination.

 

[fosing]

Toy Story 4: Revenge of Mommy's Toys

 

[Lejuan]

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[crows]

Toy Story 4: Revenge of Mommy's Toys

Thats clever