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Toy Story 2 (1999)

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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.
  
  
• The settings on Zurg's gun are numbered to eleven, a reference to Nigel Tufnel's amplifier in This Is Spinal Tap (1984).
  
  
• In the opening sequence, when Buzz is on an alien planet, and ultimately battles the Emperor Zurg, many of the sound effects are directly from the Star Wars trilogy, including lightsaber sound effects, the torture droid's hum, and the scraping metal noise the AT-AT's make as they lumber across the plains of Hoth in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
  
  

• The truck that Buzz and the rest of his pals drive when going to rescue Woody is the same pizza delivery truck that Buzz and Woody climb into at the gas station in Toy Story (1995). See also: A Bug's Life (1998).
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• There is A Bug's Life (1998) calendar hanging in Andy's room.
  
  
• The storybook Mrs. Potato Head reads to the Little Tykes is A Bug's Life (1998).
  
  
• Heimlich the caterpillar from A Bug's Life (1998) can be seen crawling up a branch right before Buzz cuts through it.
  
  
• There are A Bug's Life (1998) toys on display in Al's Toy Barn.
  
  
• Slinky's line, "I may not be a smart dog, but I know what road kill is" is a reference to Forrest Gump (1994), which starred Tom Hanks, the voice of Woody.
  
  
• In Jessie's song "When She Loved Me" the tree with the tire that they swing on, is the same tree that tops Ant Island in A Bug's Life (1998).
  
  
• After Rex jumps out of the car in Al's Toy Barn to chase after the Zurg help book, he runs to catch the car. Mr. Potato Head views him in the review mirror - a reference to Jurassic Park (1993) when the T-Rex chases the crew in the jeep.
  
  
• The partially missing ear on the Rock-em-Sock-em Robot is a reference to the notorious Mike Tyson - Evander Holyfield match, in which Tyson bit off a piece of Holyfield's ear.
  
  
• Before Andy leaves for Cowboy Camp, his shirt and hat bear the logo of the "Triple R" Ranch. This was the name of the ranch from the "Spin and Marty" cowboy TV series on the original "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955).
  
  
• "The Cleaner", the old man who restored Woody, is featured as a chess player in the Pixar short feature Geri's Game (1997). As he opens the drawers of his chest looking for his glasses, the middle drawer contains chess pieces.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• In the scene where Hamm is flipping rapidly through television channels looking for the Al's Toy Barn commercial, many of the images seen briefly on the TV are previous Pixar projects, including Tin Toy (1988).
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• Barbie's dance steps were based on Ann-Margret's moves in Viva Las Vegas (1964).
  
  
• The background for Zurg's planet is exactly the same as the dry riverbed in A Bug's Life (1998), except with different shading and some floating rocks.
  
  
• 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 scene where Zurg identifies himself as Buzz's father is, of course, a reference to The Empire Strikes Back. John Ratzenberger, who plays Hamm, had a small part in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), as Major Derlin.
  
  
• When Al is in the elevator en route to the airport, you can hear an "elevator-music" version of the theme from A Bug's Life (1998).
  
  
• The floating platforms Buzz Lightyear hops on play "Thus Spake Zarasthustra", the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
  
  
• The Green Three Eyed aliens have a circled pizza (pepperoni and mushroom) on their fronts.
  
  
• In the final "Woody's Roundup" episode, Stinky Pete the Prospector attempts to extinguish a dynamite fuse by sitting on it. Having scorched his rear, he exclaims, "My biscuits are burning!" This line was originally used by Yosemite Sam (experiencing a similar predicament) in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• When Buzz says goodbye to Buzz #2 he gives him the Vulcan salute, a Star Trek reference. Earlier, Buzz #2 thinks his mind will be "melded" by Buzz's laser.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• When the toys pull up in the pizza truck at the airport to save Woody, you can hear in the background the phrase "The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only". The voice is very similar to the voice from the movie "Airplane" saying the exact same phrase. This same phrase is also heard in the first "Toy Story" when the pizza truck pulls up in front of Pizza Planet.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• As the green suitcase containing Jesse goes up the baggage conveyor toward the Far East cargo hold, the sound track plays a snippet of music sampled from the theme of Akira Kurosawa's Shichinin no samurai (1954)
  
  
• The truck that drives by just before the toys cross the street under the safety cones is the Eggman Movers moving van from Toy Story (1995).
  
  
• The valley that Buzz flies through during the opening sequence, was going to be a river in a "Bug's Life" 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.
  
  

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