History WesternAnimation / ToyStory3

--->'''Dolly''': You came from Sunnyside?!

--->'''Dolly''': You came from Sunnyside?

** She single-handedly subdued Ken, [[JustForPun tore]] a confession out of him, then got the Buzz Lightyear instruction manual from Bookworm all via improvisation.

* ForWantOfANail:
** Two moments of note directly tie into the toys winds up at Sunnyside:
*** Andy deciding to use a trash bag to pack up his toys (except Woody) to put in the attic.
*** Molly having trouble carrying the Sunnyside box, resulting in Andy abandoning the trash bag to help.
** Had Andy's mom looked in the Sunnyside box when Bonnie's mom opened it, the film (probably) would've been a lot shorter.
** The climax with the journey in the garbage truck and the trip to the dump only happens because of a Little Green Man getting stuck on the dumpster's lid.
** Had Daisy's parents remembered to take her toys home with her, Lotso's StartOfDarkness never would have happened and a lot of unnecessary toy suffering could have been avoided.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Sunnyside Daycare is treated as a sort of nazi concentration camp. Lotso himself is fairly similar to rather Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini or even Adolf Hilter.

* MythologyGag: The [=LGMs=] are portrayed as One-Eyed Bart's (and his wife One-Eyed Betty) accomplices during Andy's playtime.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName[=/=]PuttingOnTheReich: Sunnyside Daycare is treated as a sort of nazi concentration camp. Lotso himself is fairly similar to rather Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini or even Adolf Hilter.

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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: [[BigBad Lotso]], [[CreepyDoll Big Baby]] and especially the [[CymbalBangingMonkey]].

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The toys that are working with Lotso at Sunnyside Daycare. Bonnie's toys treat Sunnyside as a sort of concentration camp. Lotso himself is fairly similar to Josef Stalin.

%%* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Again, hello, [[CymbalBangingMonkey Monkey.]]

* ThreeAmigos: Woody, Jessie and Buzz in young Andy's playtime imagination.
-->'''Spanish Buzz:''' ¿Que vá alli? ¿AMIGOS? ¿O ENEMIGOS?\\
'''Woody:''' Uh, Amigos! We're all amigos!

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%% * MightyRoar: Rex in the opening sequence.

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* HandshakeRefusal: Woody refused to shake hands with Buzz as he was leaving Sunnyside.
* HandSignals: Mr. Tortilla-Head uses baseball signals during the escape sequence.

*** Lotso's backstory. Him getting lost on a trip out and having to make his way back home to the owner he is intensely loyal to: That's the plot of the first movie right there. Him [[ReplacementGoldfish being replaced]] and his IfICantHaveYou: Hey, Woody, remember when you pushed Buzz out the window? His philosophy that all toys are destined to be treated as garbage: Remember when Woody was more willing to go to a museum than to Andy because he was afraid he'd be thrown out eventually? Lotso is [[FutureMeScaresMe Woody from a bad future.]]

* KidsAreCruel: Subverted. The toddlers in the Caterpillar room don't mean to damage the toys they play with. They're simply too young to understand how to properly play without causing significant amounts of damage and wear, and Andy's toys specifically aren't built to be played with by dozens of hyperactive children at once.

* KidsAreCruel: The toddlers in the Caterpillar room don't mean to damage the toys they play with. They're simply too young to understand how to properly play without causing significant amounts of damage and wear, and Andy's toys specifically aren't built to be played with by dozens of hyperactive children at once.

* CompanyCrossReferences: One of the kids in the daycare looks like an older version of Boo from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''. When she first appears, she is reenacting a scene from said film using a couple of toys, specifically the scene where Sully accidentally scares Boo (she even says "Boo! No, no, no! What's the matter?").

* AnachronismStew: The opening scene. There's Woody and Jessie, the cowboy and cowgirl, chasing Potato Head on a 19th-century-style steam train. Then a pink sports car turns up, then spaceman Buzz Lightyear and later Slinky Dog is some sort of high-tech forcefield dog contraption. Hamm has a pig-shaped spaceship, with a cockpit filled with computers, lights and a teleporter and a WaveMotionGun in the snout. Finally, there's Rex, the ''dinosaur''. Justified in that this is all a story made up by a six-year-old (and, incidentally, a retelling of the first two movies' opening sequences blended together) and the ludicrous nature of it is clearly powered by his sense of RuleOfCool.

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: When Lotso returned to Daisy, he discovers that she had replaced him with an [[ReplacementGoldfish identical toy]] in the meantime. Justified trope, as there was no way that Daisy could have expected Lotso to return home by himself.

* ImplausibleCorneredEscape: During the GreatEscape from Sunnyside Daycare, Woody and the three aliens try to sneak behind Big Baby in the yard. They almost passed it but then one of the aliens falls and make and squeaky noise, which catches Big Baby's attention. The camera then takes the perspective of Big Baby and approached the spot where the toys were last seen, only to find it empty. The next shot shows Woody and the aliens hiding under a bucket close by.

* VisualPun: In the Western prologue, Buzz shouts out, “Glad I could catch the train!” as he literally catches the train and flies it out of the gorge.

* FlashbackEffect: The HappyFlashback sequence showing Lotso's backstory with the little girl is overexposed and tinted in yellow color.

* FutileHandReach:
** Woody reaches out for his fellow toys when he sees them getting crushed in the garbage truck early on. Cut to them having escaped behind him.
** Similarly, Barbie figuratively reaches out to the toys and screams "No" when they fall into the garbage truck after failing to escape Sunnyside.

* IWantGrandkids: Keeping with the toys-as-parents metaphor, Woody is initially optimistic about waiting in the attic until "someday, if we're lucky, Andy may have kids of his own."

* FakeVideoCameraView: The mother's camera footage early on of Andy playing in his room has RasterVision, a REC icon in the corner and uses a [[AspectRatioSwitch letterbox format]].