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Toy Story 3 Trivia

Andy has a calendar from Pizza Planet in his bedroom.
At the end of the movie, the Luxo ball can be seen playing with the other toys in the sandbox at the daycare center.
At one point in the film, Mr. Potato Head scurries across a toy piano. The notes the piano plays are the "Petrushka chord," a recurring motif from a ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky about a puppet who comes to life.
Originally, a sequel was planned when it seemed that Disney and PIXAR would split over creative differences in 2004-2005. Disney started up an animation division titled 'Circle 7,' which would have been in charge of churning out sequels for PIXAR films that would not involve the original creators at PIXAR. Entertainment Weekly published an article that said the original plot for Toy Story 3 was going to be about Buzz Lightyear having a defect. Buzz would then be shipped to Taiwan to be fixed, but the other toys find out that the toy company is just replacing the broken Buzz toys with new ones, so they ship themselves to Taiwan to rescue him. This script had to be canned when PIXAR and Disney made amends. Part of their agreement was not to further develop projects that had been planned during their fallout.
In the scenes that run during the closing credits, Slinky Dog says, "Golly Bob howdy!", which is a tribute to Jim Varney's most popular character, Earnest P. Worrell. The phrase was his trademark. Varney was the original voice of Slinky Dog. Slinky also said this line in the original Toy Story, to which Woody responds, "Oh, shut up!"
The first Pixar film to be released in IMAX.
In Andy's room, there is a pennant for "PU." Pixar has a school for their employees to learn more about filmmaking called Pixar University - PU.
Barbie's blue workout outfit is based on the 1984 "Great Shape" Barbie Doll.
Lee Unkrich wanted Lotso to be a toy from the 1980s Care Bears toy line. This idea was not dropped until after the storyboard was completed.
When Woody comes back to Sunnyside to save the toys and enters the Caterpillar room through the ceiling, he lands on top of a shelf and runs past bins labeled "Toys", "Glue", etc. The font used is called "Andy".
Ken wears 21 different outfits.
Lee Unkrich and the animation team agreed to shave their heads before working on the film.
The only Toy Story film not to receive a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
For inspiration for the Sunnyside escape, the Pixar staff watched numerous prison movies. Director Lee Unkrich said: "There are a lot of prison movies out there, and I think we watched every single one of them."
Bonnie's surname is Anderson.
The phrase "I'd like to join your posse, boys, but first I'm gonna sing a little song." had not yet been said by Woody's voice box in the final cut of any Toy Story film until now, but it did exist as far back as Toy Story in a deleted scene where Sid tortures Buzz and Woody.
The number on the locomotive at the beginning of the film is 95, which is a reference to the year that the first Toy Story was released (1995).
The Pizza Planet delivery truck, which has appeared in every Pixar film except The Incredibles, is the truck that Lotso and his friends hitch a ride on in a flashback sequence.
Lee Unkrich who edited the previous films and co-directed the second, was selected to take over the position of director from John Lasseter.
In the South African release, the Chatterbox Phone is voiced by Jeremy Mansfield, a popular DJ known for his telephone practical jokes.
Woody has 229 animation points of movement, or avatars, in his face.
The second Pixar movie to contain subtitles, after The Incredibles.
There are 302 characters in the film.
An early version of Lotso can be seen in the first Toy Story during the staff meeting. Woody asks if the toys "up on the shelf can hear" him, and we see a shot of a big, pinkish bear. John Lasseter wanted to use Lotso in the original Toy Story, but PIXAR had troubles getting the fur right.
When Barbie goes through Ken's clothing collection, she finds a green marching band shirt. The shirt resembles the same style worn by the Beatles on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. As Barbie asks what year the shirt is from, she suggests 1967; the same year the album was released.
The screenplay took 2 1/2 years to write and storyboard.
The first animated film to make one billion dollars at the worldwide box office. The film achieved this on August 27th, 2010.
Buzz has 215 animation avatars in his face.
The instant message Trixie receives from Velocistar237 on the computer reads, "U there? I made it 2 the Dark Fortress!!"
During the early development stages, when the people behind the film sat down to look at their work from the original Toy Story, they found they could not edit any of the old 3D models. As a result, everything had to be recreated from scratch.
The Ken doll in Toy Story 3 is modeled after "Animal Lovin" Ken from 1988.
The Lego train shown in the opening sequence was released as an actual kit by Lego.
The Western opening was an idea originally thought up for Toy Story but was cut.
As of 2010, the highest-grossing animated movie of all time.
This is the first feature film released in Dolby Surround 7.1. The Dolby Surround 7.1 format is made up of eight channels of audio, with the following channel layout: Left, Center, Right, Low-Frequency Effects (LFE), Left Surround, Right Surround, Back Surround Left (new), and Back Surround Right (new).
In an interview with KCRW's movie industry radio show "The Business," Joan Graves, the chair of the MPAA's Classification and Ratings Administration, admitted that (based on the response she and her board have gotten from parents) giving Toy Story 3 a G rating was a mistake, and that it should have gotten at least a PG (especially because of the incinerator scene) and that the lesson learned in that case would be applied to future movie ratings so that movies would no longer be given the "benefit of the doubt" while being rated.
Near the beginning of the movie, a Clemson Tiger's sticker can be seen on the toy box.
Director Lee Unkrich voiced the Jack in the Box that yells "New toys!" to Andy's toys when they arrive at SunnySide.
"Chuckles" the clown appears in the first film on the "last present" as wrapping paper, except he's smiling.
In Andy's room is a street sign with "W. Cutting Blvd" on it. That's the street where the original Pixar studios in Richmond, San Francisco was located.
When Barbie is going through Ken's closet, they come across a blue and gold letterman jacket with a "K" embroidered on the breast and a "State" pennant laying across the front. Michael Keaton, the voice of Ken, graduated from Kent State University, whose colors are blue and gold.
WILHELM SCREAM: During the opening segment of old home footage, when Andy is watching TV with the toys.
Blake Clark became the new voice of Slinky Dog, replacing Jim Varney, who died in 2000. Clark was good friends with Varney prior to his death.
A piece of concept art found in the book The Art of Toy Story 3 shows that originally, Trixie the blue dinosaur was envisioned to be part of Lotso's gang at the daycare center. However, in the final movie she is one of Bonnie's toys and is a friendly character.
The letters/numbers "A113", which appears in most of the Pixar films, makes an appearance on a license plate on the back of Andy's Mom's car. A113 is a reference to the room at CalArts in which the Pixar Animators studied.
Andy's cell phone number (dialed by the toys on the cordless home phone while in the toy box) is 555-8133, another reference to A133. (8 is a standard numeric substitution for the letter "A". (See pager code).
When Barbie is going through Ken's outfits, she declares the space suit is called "Mission to Mars", which was the name of one of the original rides from Disney World's Tomorrowland.
The peas in a pod are based on one of the Vegimals, stuffed toys resembling fruits and vegetables with faces, produced by Freemountain Toys in the late 1970s.
SPOILER: Several toys from previous movies are not present in this film. Bo Peep, Etch, and Wheezy are mentioned. Bo Peep and a few others appear as ghost images when Andy's mom and Andy look at Andy's empty room.
SPOILER: The plot of the movie is loosely based on the original treatment for Toy Story, which had Tinny (from Tin Toy) getting lost at a rest stop and being found by a junk man, who throws him into back of his truck. Tinny meets a ventriloquist dummy and they both decide to stick together. But in the end they end up in a preschool where they'll never get lost or outgrown.