Buzz Lightyear, Woody and gang are back.
Minus Hamm, Mrs. Potato Head and Slinky. Slinky is a bit of a fucking traitor (Toy Story), so he can suck it. I want Hamm though. I crave Hamm.
The Toy Story franchise is being revived for a half hour TV special called Toy Story of Terror. Of course it’s going to be released October 16th, because that’s a scary month.
A ten-minute clip was shown by Disney at something called the D23 the other day. For some reason that I must chase up, I wasn’t cordially invited to this event, so it was awkward when I read about it and how awesome and funny it was. I was just sitting there like, “Yeah, whatever, I was busy that day anyway.”
I heard through the internet grapevine that it starts with the toys watching a horror film on a laptop in the boot of Bonnie’s mother’s car, as they travel through a fittingly eerie night. When Bonnie’s mum decides to stay overnight at a motel, Mr. Potato Head goes missing and the gang search for him. If you’re wondering who Bonnie is, she’s the toys’ new owner who nonchalantly accepted the toys from a blubbering and broken Andy (Toy Story 3). It’s at times like that when we have to remember that Andy does not know that the toys are sentient. He thinks they are just toys. Yet he waves at them so solemnly.
The recently introduced toys, Ken (Michael Keaton), Pixie (Kristen Schaal) and Mr. Pricklepants (Timonthy Dalton) return and Carl Goddamn Weathers stars as the new character Combat Carl.
Jessie will be the main character of this special, with some more of her traumatic flashbacks (Toy Story 2) to make teenagers and adults sob. It’s a horror film so we need a female lead as every character is slowly murdered, their mutilated carcasses left hanging by their threads, leaving a blood-caked Jessie forcing her lone self to toughen up and take down the disfigured, near-immortal slaughterer.
Adult Sid? Please be Sid.
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