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• The dust in the scene where Woody meets Wheezy set a record for number of particles animated for a movie by computer.
  
  
• Various scenes are reprised with a twist from Toy Story (1995). For example, when Jesse fights Woody, she has him on the ground, foot on his back, pulling his arms back - exactly the same position Buzz Lightyear had him in the gas station. Buzz Lightyear also yells "You are a TOY!" to Woody, as Woody had yelled to Buzz in the previous film. As well as the scene where Zurg and Buzz (2) are fighting on top of the elevator. As Buzz's talk button is repeatedly hit it skips the message "Buzz... Buzz... Buzz Lightyear to the rescue." This occurred in the fight between Woody and Buzz underneath the car at the gas station.
  
  
• During the opening credits, the Pixar trademark lamp can be seen in the stars in the upper right side of the screen.
  
  
• When the toys are planning the rescue of Woody, Etch-a-Sketch shows a map to Al's Toy Barn located at 1001 West Cutting Boulevard. This is the address of Pixar Animation Studios in Richmond, California.
  
  
• In the airport, an announcement is made for Lasset Air, Flight A113. That's two references in one: to director John Lasseter, and to room 113 at Cal Arts College, famous its alumna, including many Pixar animators. A113 is also Andy's Mum's license plate number.
  
  
• The Life Magazine issue with Woody and Bullseye on the cover is dated January 12th, 1957. This is director John Lasseter's birthday. (See also "goofs" section.)
  
  
• When the toys are entering the airport an announcement for "Leon Rich" can be heard. This is in reference to Lee Unkrich who added story material, his voice, and co-direction to the movie.
  
  
• The box that Zurg comes out of in Al's Toy Barn has "Printed in Point Richmond" written on it. Pixar's offices were in Point Richmond in Richmond, California when the movie was made.
  
  
• This was the first sequel for Tom Hanks and Tim Allen.
  
  
• Originally intended as a direct-to-video release, but the early test scenes played so well that Pixar started over and redeveloped it into a theatrical release movie.
  
  
• When Al hangs up the phone with the Japanese investor, he says "Don't touch my mustache." This refers to an English mnemonic for the Japanese phrase meaning "You're welcome": "Dou itashimashite."
  
  
• The baggage handler at the airport who shouts "Hold it! There's a couple more bags coming from the terminal!" is the voice of UK television personality Andi Peters. When filming a documentary on the making of Toy Story 2, he was offered this one small line in the film by John Lasseter himself. The recording almost didn't happen because Andi Peters did not have a US work permit, but was allowed to record the dialogue from a London studio, supervised by John Lasseter via satellite.
  
  
• The Life Magazine issue with Woody and Bullseye on the cover says "Doctors Say Americans Don't Eat Enough Fat."
  
  
• The Green Three Eyed aliens have a circled pizza (pepperoni and mushroom) on their fronts.
  
  
• Wheezy the penguin is a tribute to the Linux mascot, Tux.
  
  
• In Al's office, there is an abstracted version of a shot from 'Bug's Life, A' (1998). The shot was reputedly abstracted to prevent people from identifying the shot until they got the video version and looked hard at it.
  
  
• When Jessie (Joan Cusack) first meets Woody (Tom Hanks), she exclaims, "Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln!" Abraham Lincoln's mother was Nancy Hanks, a blood relative of Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks is a direct descendant of an uncle of Nancy Hanks.
  
  
• In the scene with Rex in the car in Al's Toy Barn holding the How to Defeat Zurg book, at 45:17 into the movie, there is one frame where we see a clear glimpse of the bottom corner of the book. As a lighthearted jab at Canadians the cover price is shown as $4.95 and $50.00 in Canada. It should be about $6.95.
  
  
• When the toys are playing cards during Woody's nightmare after being "shelved," all the cards are the ace of spades. In fortune telling, the ace of spades represents death.
  
  
• Directly after Rex lands back in the car in Al's Toy Barn, Tour-Guide-Barbie quotes "remain seated please" then repeats it in Spanish. This is a reference to the safety spiel on the Matterhorn at Disneyland. (In the Spanish version of the movie, she repeats it in French.)
  
  
• Many of the ideas that were not used in Toy Story (1995) appear in this film; the Buzz Lightyear cartoon, the yard sale, and Woody's nightmare.
  
  
• For the scene where Woody looks at the merchandise from Woody's Roundup, mock-ups of the toys were shown to Tom Hanks in the recording booth. Hanks' spontaneous reactions to the toys were recorded and used for Woody's dialogue.
  
  
• The floating rocks in the canyon at beginning of the movie were an accident, but John Lasseter liked the effect, so it was used in the final film.
  
  
• Early drafts of the original Toy Story (1995) had a Barbie doll in the role that became Little Bo Peep, but Mattel refused to license the character to Disney. The huge popularity of the movie (and boost in sales for Mr. Potato Head and other featured toys) led them to agree to have Tour Guide Barbie included in this film.
  
  
• Among the emblems on the Woody's Roundup plates in Al's apartment is a Virginia Tech logo. It is on the bottom right part of the Woody plate.
  
  
• While driving around Al's Toy Barn, the gang drives down the Buzz Lightyear aisle. Tour Guide Barbie tells them "back in 1995 short-sighted retailers did not order enough dolls to meet demand". This is an in-joke and a fact: When the original Toy Story was released in 1995, toy sellers did not think the movie would be a hit and they indeed did not order enough dolls to keep up with demand.
  
  
• Originally, this was going to be a one-hour direct-to-video side project between Disney and Pixar. Eight months before it was due to Disney, Pixar decided that they did not want to ruin their name by creating a sub-par video, so they changed it to be a better, full-length feature.
  
  
• The enormous amount of Sheriff Woody merchandise is a reference to the similarly themed Disney merchandizing phenomenon, Davy Crockett, from the 1950s.
  
  
• The valley that Buzz flies through during the opening sequence, was going to be a river in a A Bug's Life (1998) but was abandoned as the rocks are floating where the river should be.
  
  
• The design of the cleaner character that fixes Woody for Al was based on renowned makeup artist Stuart Freeborn.
  
  
• The car that Buzz and Hamm use to find Woody is a Gyoza (a pun on Toyota). Gyoza is a type of Asian dumpling.
  
  
• According to rottentomatoes in 2007, this is the best reviewed movie of all time.
  
  
• Many people think the Woody's Roundup sequence was filmed with real puppets. But really they took the same CG models and made small changes to make them look like puppets. Then they animated the puppet versions of the characters in a CG black and white set. Then they used this technique called the keno scope effect, which adds scratches, hairs, and pieces of grain to the image to make it look old.
  
  
• In the airport scene, there is a page for "Leon Kritch," an in-joke on co-director Lee Unkrich.
  
  
• In the scene in the airport baggage area, it took an average of 70 hours to render each frame.
  
  
• This is one of three Disney movies to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture. The other two are Beauty and the Beast (1991) and The Lion King (1994).
  
  
• When Ham is flipping though the channels looking for the Al's Toy Barn commercial. All the other "stations" are clips from Disney shorts.
  
  

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