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title: 'TOY STORY 5 BREAKDOWN: Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!'
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# TOY STORY 5 BREAKDOWN: Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

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## Summary

This video provides a detailed breakdown of all the Easter eggs, callbacks, references, and hidden details in Toy Story 5. The host, Eric Boss, goes scene by scene to uncover everything from the opening island sequence to the mid-credits scene, including the never-before-found Gato reference and a joke for Conan O'Brien's character.

### Key Points

- **Opening Scene with 51 Buzzes** [00:30] — The film opens with 51 high-tech Buzz Lightyear toys stranded on a tropical island, a nod to Castaway. Their chest consoles have the space command sigil, unlike the 1995 Buzz's sticker.
- **Jessie's Backstory and Pixar Address** [02:06] — Jessie's backstory is expanded with a flashback to Emily, showing an emotional goodbye. Emily's address, 1200 Ranch Road, is a reference to Pixar's address.
- **Bonnie's Imagination Animation Style** [04:14] — Bonnie's imagination is shown in a pastel chalk design, inspired by Ralph Eggleston's lighting tests for the first Toy Story.
- **Lilypad and the Ribbit Website** [05:18] — Lilypad, a tablet toy, is introduced. It has a website called Ribbit (a Reddit spin) and shows an eBay page for Jessie with a $0.00 bid.
- **Smarty Pants Character Introduction** [11:03] — Smarty Pants, a potty training helper voiced by Conan O'Brien, is a key character. His design and jokes are highlighted.
- **The Velveteen Rabbit Reference** [16:34] — The book The Velveteen Rabbit is read aloud in a tent, connecting to the film's themes of toys and unconditional love.
- **Buzz's Drone Function** [21:49] — The high-tech Buzzes unlock a drone function by scanning a QR code, allowing them to fly, a callback to Buzz's original inability to fly.
- **Lotso Easter Egg** [22:25] — Lotso appears still tied to the grill of a garbage truck, hinting at his continued presence.

## Transcript

I found every Pixar Easter egg in Toy
Story 5, including the exact
never-before-found Gato reference and a
crazy joke the animators slipped in for
Conan O'Brien's character, Smarty Pants.
And I actually found Lotso in this
movie. I wish I was kidding. I'm Eric
Boss of the New Rockstars channel and
this is a breakdown of all the Easter
eggs, callbacks, references, and details
you missed in Toy Story 5. I loved this
movie and there were so many hidden
details in every scene that I just had
to break it down scene by scene. So,
let's get started. Toy Story 5 opens
with a point of view shot of one of the
high-tech edition Buzz Lightyear's
looking up at a palm tree from under his
helmet on a remote tropical island that
their shipping container apparently
washed up on. Yeah, these Buzzes' fates
are kind of similar to another Tom Hanks
film, Castaway. But, it's interesting
how we start this movie from a point of
view of both a Buzz and a Jessie and a
Woody all either in or looking up at a
tree. Right away, we see this Buzz's
chest console lights up with the space
command sigil, whereas the 1995 Buzz's
chest just has a sticker. This movie
will set out to show that not all
tech-enhanced toys are evil. When used
properly and in moderation, they can
serve other needs for a child. These
high-tech Buzzes really serve that
thematic mission. And it's pretty cool
how this fifth movie totally gets the
assignment of restoring Buzz Lightyear's
reputation as the coolest toy ever.
Similar to the opening sequence of
Wall-E, also directed by Andrew Stanton,
we get this really fun non-verbal
sequence of these Buzzes waking each
other up and scouting the island.
According to the crew, there are exactly
51 Buzzes here. They start a campfire
and before you ask, "How did these toys
start a fire?" Um, did we forget the
critical moment in the first Toy Story
film when Buzz's dome focused sunlight
to ignite the fuse? That's how. These
embers flowed up to the brightest star,
giving these Buzzes the star of their
star command that will bring them
ultimately to Jessie, who got her
star-shaped sheriff badge from Woody in
the final scene of Toy Story 4. And you
know Pixar's overlords at Disney were
thrilled that this movie ties in with
the studio's motif of every animated
movie having a wishing star. That's the
one wish star of all Disney wishers. We
transition to the blue sky with puffy
clouds that really perfectly matches
Andy's wallpaper, but we angle down on
the tree many years prior where Jessie's
owner Emily left her behind. We hear the
notes of "When She Loved Me" and yes,
many of us were crying at this point,
but then this scene kind of
recontextualizes exactly what went down
there. Jessie who just wasn't left in a
box, she really did have this emotional
goodbye with Emily. On the inner flap of
Jessie's jeans, thankfully never found
by Al in Toy Story 2 cuz you know that
guy would still be hunting her down to
this address. Emily wrote her name in
1200 Ranch Road. The address number of
1200, no coincidence. Pixar Animation
Studios is at 1200 Park Avenue in
Emeryville, California. But for the
first time, we see and hear Jessie's
pull string phrases. Yeah, for every one
of these films since Toy Story 2, Jessie
has had a pull string, but it has never
been pulled until this movie. Emily
pulls it here and we hear Jessie go,
"Friends forever, partner." Later in the
movie when Blaze pulls the pull string,
Jessie says, "I ain't afraid of nothing,
partner." And "Yeehaw, that's right."
It's going to be really fun to hear how
these two particular phrases come back
throughout the film to bring Blaze and
Bonnie together. When Emily holds her
face to Jessie for the last time,
Jessie's plastic smile gives way to an
affection and glance. Emily promises to
never stop loving Jessie even if she
can't see her all the time. The
directors of every Toy Story film have
made it pretty clear that this series is
a metaphor for parents and children and
how it's really a parent's job to just
always be there for a kid even when the
kid outgrows them. As this was the first
Toy Story movie that I saw after
becoming a parent, howdy howdy howdy did
this one hit different. So, Emily's
words here form a kind of message back
from the kid to the parent. Just because
I don't call or FaceTime you all the
time doesn't mean I'm not thinking about
you all the time. And on the final swing
of the tire as Emily says, "I'm gone."
In the blinding sunlight, we transition
to the present day when Bonnie completes
the thought. We're going to see
throughout this movie how Jessie cannot
get this memory of Emily out of her
head. Emily's living rent-free in this
plastic dome. But here, Bonnie is
staging Forky's wedding to Karen
Beverly, Forky's new partner from the
final minutes of Toy Story 4, and all
the other toys left at Bonnie's house in
Toy Story 4 are in attendance, for the
most part. We see Jessie, Buzz,
Bullseye, Rex, Mr. Pricklepants,
Buttercup, Dolly, and one alien who
never talks in this movie, maybe because
Pixar fired the guy who voiced him.
Dolly now has glasses that Bonnie drew
on her that Dolly claims helps her
actually see better. We're really here
in Bonnie's imagination. This film's VFX
supervisor Thomas Jordan told TechRadar
that the creative team experimented with
different animation styles to show this
and ultimately settled on this great
pastel chalk design inspired by the
pastel chalks used by the late great
artist Ralph Eggleston for the very
first Toy Story film in order to do
lighting tests. And notice later when we
see Blaze's imagination, it has a very
similar pastel chalk design, though with
just a few differences. This was the
animator's way of showing that these two
girls would ultimately be compatible.
Bonnie made Rex the maid of honor who
gets poisoned from the wedding cake. And
notice how Rex turns blue with purple
polka dots, the same color scheme of
Sulley from Monsters Inc. Bonnie's a shy
girl who's not great at breaking the ice
and can't immediately befriend the
Jackson twins across the street. And
Jessie does some digging and learns that
all the homes in town have been taken
over by these green devices, tech. This
bad news comes to her from this
abandoned bath toy, Captain Suds. We
first met Captain Suds in the 2012 Toy
Story short Party Saur Rex. Other
tech-fearing toys include a turtle
sandbox, a transformer-looking toy, and
a very funny Energizer Bunny type thing
who's obsessed with the tap tap tapping
and retreats into the bushes like the
Homer Simpson meme. So, Bonnie's parents
buy her a Lilypad tablet. The Lilypad
based on the brand of LeapFrog. It comes
in a Ship It box. Ship It is a shipping
company that was first seen in
[clears throat] Toy Story of Terror.
There's also a Ship It Express that we
see later in the movie by the ice cream
parlor. Lilypad and many of the devices
are manufactured by a company called
Eggman. Eggman was also the name of the
moving company from the first film, a
reference again to Pixar artist Ralph
Eggleston. As Bonnie gets
screen-addicted
with terrifying accuracy and lack of
blinking, notice how her mom's voice
fades away right as she starts to say,
"And tomorrow we'll talk about" which is
probably Bonnie's mom saying that
they're going to have a talk about
screen time moderation and how social
media and DM apps can be toxic. But,
within seconds, Bonnie doesn't even hear
any of that. You see it's a play with
the lily pad all night, for a while not
even moving from her position, so the
robo back just bumps into her. And the
next morning, we end up echoing back to
the first Toy Story where the new cool
toy is up on the bed while all the other
toys on the floor have to send the
sheriff, this time Jessie, up to check
it out. Lily pad is voiced by Greta Lee.
The VFX supervisor, Thomas Jordan, also
noted that while all the other toys'
eyes when they come to life are somewhat
organic, Lily's eyes are digitized.
Another way of showing her more evolved
status as a tech toy. Lily scrolls
through a website on her screen called
Ribbit. I guess it's a spin on Reddit.
One of the articles reads, "How deep is
the ocean?" And the art we see is
actually a still from Andrew Stanton's
first Pixar film, Finding Nemo. Looks
like Marlin and Dory might have actually
been removed from this reef, but this is
a background that they used. Beneath
that is a post that says, "Ducks win
prizes?" and some duck sketches that
some think could be a reference to the
animated musical code named Ducks that's
rumored to be in development at Pixar.
Lily sends friend requests to the other
girls in Bonnie's dance class, Chelsea,
Cara, and Heidi, the true mean girl
villains of this film. Chelsea's avatar
is a beaver, which could be a nod to
Pixar's previous film, Hoppers. Cara's
blue bird kind of looks like one of the
birds from the Pixar short, For the
Birds. Bullseye shows his host to spell
out D A N Y and then rearranges to Andy,
just like when Andy had first written
his name on his host at the end of Toy
Story 2. Lily brings up an infopedia
page on the Jessie cowgirl doll with
imagery from the old Woody's Roundup
puppet show that we saw in Toy Story 2
and an eBay page for Jessie. And it
reads "$0.00"
meaning no one has bid on Jessie yet. I
mean, based on the passage of time, I
wonder if Al going out of business might
lead to him no longer being with us.
He's otherwise he would have bid at
least a penny for Jessie. Lily gets
Bonnie invited to a sleepover and
Jessie, feeling obsolete, radios over to
Woody's group which split off from the
others at the end of Toy Story 4. Duke
Caboom answers, once again voiced by
Keanu Reeves, and then he goes over to
Bo Peep and Woody, Bo down below by
their skunk race car that they drive
around in, which explains why they're
always avoided. And Woody is up in a
tree saving Dr. Nutcase, a peanut toy in
a luchador mask voiced by Matty Matheson
from The Bear and food content creator.
He's stuck in a kite about to get eaten
by a squirrel who thinks he's a real
peanut. Ducky and Bunny are there
helping with the rescue, returning from
Toy Story 4. But it seems like Jordan
Peele and Keegan-Michael Key did not
return to voice any lines here.
Meanwhile, the high-tech Buzzes make it
to the Port of Oakland. I assume this is
the Port of Oakland due to the fog, the
proximity to Emeryville where Pixar our
animation studios is, and really the
lore every Pixar animator knows that
these shipping container cranes were the
inspiration for the AT-ATs in Star Wars.
Now, George Lucas has said that's a
myth, but I just feel like he's wrong. I
mean, really, unless otherwise stated,
most Pixar movies take place in San
Francisco in the Bay Area. Certainly
Inside Out and Inside Out 2 do, but also
this movie has certain Bay Area
geographical landmarks like the tunnel
north of the Golden Gate Bridge on the
101. That's where Buzz and Jessie kiss
in this movie. And the fact that horse
ranches are nearby to some foggy port.
Also have forest areas where people go
hiking, and just this random elderly
hippie couple in the VW. There's only so
many places in America where you would
find all those things. Though, I will
admit whenever we see the city in the
background of this movie, it's not the
San Francisco skyline. At the sleepover,
Bonnie is immediately judged for still
playing with dolls like Jessie and
Bullseye. So, she says, "Goodbye,
Jessie." And then tosses them in the
backseat and just takes Lily Pad as her
toy of choice for the sleepover. Inside,
these girls all just glue onto their
screens and don't even look at each
other. And they make Bonnie sit on the
floor. Meanwhile, this old couple finds
Jessie and Bullseye and drives back to
the 1200 Ranch Road address. When Jessie
first scans the farm, notice in the
distance is that tree with the tire
swing where she was left, but Jessie's
just too panicked in this moment to
realize the emotional significance of
where she is. Jessie and Bullseye meet a
real horse named Daffodil. Daffodil was
created by the VFX team using an
entirely new rigging system that doesn't
use Pixar's normal lighting system of
Luna or their rendering system of
RenderMan. You can really see it in this
shot after Daffodil has run Jessie and
Bullseye back into the barn and Jessie's
stuck under the hay. She sees Daffodil
and Bullseye shake and stomp in parallel
gestures, but where as Bullseye has the
rag doll movement, Daffodil has a far
more organic musculature to its
movement. Woody and Bo Peep return to
Bonnie's house. Woody wears a kerchief
as a western poncho looking like Clint
Eastwood as the man with no name in the
Sergio Leone movies. Behind him when he
lands, notice how Bonnie has drawn
clouds on the chalkboard reminiscent of
Andy's wallpaper. He has a bald spot on
the back of his head apparently from
taking his hat off and putting it back
on too many times and it blinds
everyone. Actually in the credits we see
Bo Peep using a brown marker to finally
cover Woody's bald spot. Buzz greets
Woody with the same arm laser that he
aimed at Woody when they first met in
the first film. While Buzz claims to be
Jessie's one deputy, Woody gets Buzz to
look away, the same trick Woody played
on Buzz in the first film. BUZZ, LOOK AT
THE ALIEN.
AND IN THIS MOMENT WOODY JUST TAKES ONE
OF KAREN Beverly's other star stickers
and puts it on. Meanwhile Jessie meets
the pig Jimmy Dean, a pretty mean name
for a pig, and Jimmy drops her in
Blaze's old playhouse outside. Inside
are a combat Carl all voiced by Ernie
Hudson. Actually a different model of
combat Carl was blown up by Sid with an
M-80 in his backyard in the first film.
>> Oh no, it's a combat Carl.
>> There's an inflatable flamingo, a garden
gnome, a giraffe xylophone, a stuffed
cow, and a pizza with sunglasses voiced
by Bad Bunny. The design of this
character was actually used as the
mascot of Pizza Putt, an early version
of Pizza Planet when it was going to be
a miniature golf course rather than a
space themed arcade. After an awkward
play tea party, Jessie realizes she's
sitting on Blaze's first device, Smarty
Pants, a potty training helper voiced by
Conan O'Brien, the MVP of this movie if
you ask me. This toy's design is based
on a roll of toilet paper with one
button for number one, one button for
number two, and a middle blue flush
button. Maybe the handle is meant to
hang next to a toilet and the whole
device just kind of occupies a toddler
while it takes them forever to get
something out. Obviously it's a failed
device that didn't work too well. I like
how Smarty Pants yellow handle evokes
Conan O'Brien's iconic hair, which
Smarty Pants actually later dons a
realistic version of in Blaze's
imagination. I also love the running
joke that Smarty Pants says "flush" in
place of another F-word. Meanwhile, the
51 Buzz is run into a deer. This leads
to this hilarious unhinged moment where
all the Buzzes mingle with all the
woodland creatures set to "Love is a
song that never ends" from the 1942
Disney classic Bambi. And while you may
have noticed that one, you might not
have noticed the song that comes right
after it when the human hikers walk up,
the music switches to this very
threatening music. This is actually the
man returns theme [music] from the Bambi
score. Jessie gets inside the main house
and gets new batteries for Smarty Pants,
who also recharges two other tech toys,
Atlas, a GPS device voiced by Craig
Robinson, and Snappy, a toy digital
camera voiced by Shelby Rubara. Each of
these toys represent different eras of
evolving technology. The production
designer said that Smarty Pants would
have been something that Blaze had when
she was two or three, and it would have
been manufactured 5 to 8 years before
that. Potentially like a 15-year-old toy
based off of whenever this movie is set.
And we learn that since they're all
Eggman products, they are all compatible
with each other using these cables, and
Smarty Pants can send texts to that same
Eggman Pond Messenger service. Snappy
shows photos from Blaze including one
from Disneyland.
>> Wait a minute, where is that?
>> That's Disneyland.
>> Oh, yeah, that's me in a pocket.
>> Flush, you both went there?
>> Yeah, there's another big Disney plug
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>> [music]
>> Jessie realizes that this was Emily's
old house, and she says that she knew
from the beginning that the dance class
girls wouldn't be right for Bonnie
because Bonnie just has a particular
style of playing that not all kids have.
I like the acknowledgement that it's not
just like kids are mean. I mean, kids
are mean. It's just that Bonnie is
quirky in a particular way. And when
Jessie sees Blades get stood up by a
friend, cry, and then comfort herself by
making her pig talk to her, Jessie knows
that these two girls are going to make
perfect friends for each other. Bonnie
returns from her sleepover exhausted and
bummed after being abandoned during a
game of hide-and-seek. What the hell?
Those three little witches let Bonnie
hide in a coat closet or whatever and
just left her there? I spent way too
long trying to figure out what exactly
happened at that sleepover. My theory is
that they started to play hide-and-seek,
and then they just all got distracted by
their tablets, and seriously forgot that
they were playing, and cared so little
about this newcomer to their friend
group that they just let her be
passively bullied like that until it
became more okay for them to actively
bully her. Lilly swipes through a bunch
of game apps, including this one called
Pigeon Piazza. So, this is the Gatto
Easter egg hidden in the movie. Remember
every Pixar movie has an Easter egg
reference in the next release. So there
would be a Gato somewhere in this movie
and this one detail seems to reference
A, Italy and B, something straight cats
in Italy would be obsessed with pigeons.
Also the animation style of this icon
with the pigeon does kind of look like
the style director Enrico Casarosa loves
to go for. Actually the directors of
this movie Andrew Stanton and Kenna
Harris said that the Gato Easter egg was
one of the lily pad apps so it's got to
be this one. There's another game called
Chicken Farmer and it's the same red
barn and chicken in overalls as Al's Toy
Barn in Toy Story 2. Smarty Pants Atlas
and Snappy use their compatibility to
send a photo of Jessie and Bullseye to
the egg man pond message board. When
Smarty Pants finally sends it with his
very slow upload speed it makes a whoosh
sound effect. Smarty Pants offers Jessie
to play one of his games, pick the poop.
When Jessie says that she'll never play
he teases, "They all say that." And he
rubs the sticky hand in a circle around
the number two button which in the
context of what number two means to
Smarty Pants, what exactly is he doing?
But it's also the kind of thing Conan
O'Brien will do whenever he's being like
weirdly flirty or he'll just kind of
like rub his chest specifically when he
was on Hot Ones and he took the hot
sauce and just started rubbing himself
with it. I really do think the animators
were referencing that particular thing
that he does. The Buzzes meanwhile find
the campsite where one of them was taken
and finds the family in the tent reading
this passage. And they had splendid
games together in whispers when Nana had
gone away to her supper and left the
nightlight burning on the mantelpiece.
And when the boy dropped off to sleep
the rabbit was snuggled down close under
his little warm chin and dream with the
boy's hands clasped close around him all
night long. This is from The Velveteen
Rabbit, the 1922 Margery Williams book
with William Nicholson's actual original
illustrations here in the shot. This
really was the original Toy Story story
about toys feeling unconditional love
for the children who own them. So cool
for them to work it into this movie.
They see on the girl's laptop the pond
post of Jessie and they see her
sheriff's badge associate the star
command and their LED screens all light
back up with this closing tag code
symbol meaning the end of a function and
the start of something new. In this case
the new mission being to find Jessie.
And the map application they look at has
the destination pin as another Pixar
Easter egg, the Luxo ball, red star on
yellow circle. When we catch up with
Jessie the next morning, Smarty Pants
was right, she's totally DDR-ing on the
Pick the Poop game. And yeah, the old
generation toys all love electronic
games. Ham and Rex played the video game
Buzz Lightyear Attack on Zurg at the
beginning of Toy Story 2. Jessie shows
the tech toys the difference between
games and play. We go into Blaze's
imagination, which again matches the
pastel chalk design of Bonnie's
imagination. Incoming voices, imaginary
Bullseye. Amazing casting there. Jimmy
drags in the tech toys and Smarty Pants
has Conan O'Brien's actual hair. The
whole thing plays out like an espionage
scenario, kind of like the beginning
scene of True Lies. Bullseye himself
gets to be the villain of this. It's
really a continuation of the theme from
Toy Story 4 that anything can be a toy,
even if it was intended for something
else. Like if the kid uses it for
unstructured play, boom, it's a toy.
Lily wakes up from her low battery and
freaks out that the other girls have
multiple inside jokes about breakfast.
The last message reads, "Second
breakfast." Meaning that this mean girl
must have parents who love Fellowship of
the Ring.
>> What about second breakfast?
>> If she really understood the core
message of Lord of the Rings and
Fellowship of the Ring, she would not
treat her friends this way. Woody and
Buzz force Lily to send out the Pond
post of the photo of Jessie and
Bullseye, which prints out from the
printer and gets immediately shredded by
the RoboVac. This got a big laugh from
me, because these things aren't
lawnmowers with blades that chop stuff
up like this. But it's kind of like The
Simpsons, everything that breaks just
explodes into a massive fireball gag. I
love it. Bonnie uses Lily to text Smarty
Pants to meet up to get Jessie and
Bullseye back. And I like how Smarty
Pants starts to add, "Bring money."
Another great joke here. But Bonnie then
gets straight-up cyberbullied by the
other three girls who also saw the Pond
post of Jessie and Bullseye and shared
it back in their group thread with
Bonnie to call Bonnie a baby for still
playing with toys, complete with images
of babies crying. Again, I think this
all started at the sleepover, but also
we got to remember this is a world with
psychopaths like Sid. So naturally,
there would be mean girls like Chelsea,
Heidi, and Kara. So when our already shy
girl Bonnie meets the awesome Blaze who
loves her toys as much as she does. Out
of shame, she claims to not play with
toys like this and that they're just
antiques. Oof, Jessie has to go from
that frozen smile that hides her panic
and heartbreak. And when Blaze lowers
them, Bullseye takes a chance to look
over at Jessie to see if she's okay. And
Jessie will not even turn her head. The
colors are now morbid and dim back in
Blaze's room when Jessie melts down,
first trying to get Bullseye to leave
her behind even though Bullseye knows
he's more at home here with this horse
girl than he is anywhere else. And then
Jessie turns on Smarty Pants and she
nearly like curb stomps his wiring all
over Blaze's floor. Woody, meanwhile, is
taken by the Buzzes and nearly is fed to
Jimmy, but our Buzz explains to these
high-tech models that they are toys,
saying, "Search your feelings. You know
it to be true."
>> [laughter]
>> A reference, of course, to what Darth
Vader says to Luke after he reveals he's
his father.
>> Search your feelings. You know [music]
it to be true.
>> That being the big parallel with Buzz
and Zurg from Toy Story 2 that this
scene brings back at the end when Buzz
tells the others that Zurg is their dad.
And they all collapse in shock. So now,
Bonnie's mom finally decides to observe
her young daughter's first time usage of
social media. And Lily decides to donate
herself to the Tri-County Charity's
Donation Center. This is the same
organization where Jessie was donated in
Toy Story 2. Jessie realizes that on the
tire swing tree, someone had carved,
"Jessie was here." And buried in a lunch
pail of belongings is a message from
Andy Dufresne. Just kidding. These are
all things owned not by Emily, but
Emily's daughter, Jessie. Yes, Emily
named her daughter after her favorite
toy and brought her daughter back to
this beloved spot to play. Since these
Toy Story movies are, again, all
metaphors for parents and children and
the obsolescence parents feel when our
kids grow up, what a beautiful idea that
we can find new joy and purpose in our
children spreading the joy we taught
them with someone else. And I love that
after this, Jessie uses the yellow hair
bubble from the lunch pail that human
Jessie had in her hair in the photo to
tie her own braid. So by doing this,
Jessie finally heals the wound that Toy
Story 2 never, in fairness, truly
healed. It's not about finding a forever
kid, it's about finding a kid you can
help along at the right time in that
kid's life. And the judgment she had for
the devices that she met just being
short-term toys was not warranted.
There's still a function that all of
these objects can play, including
Lilypad. In Lilypad's case, just simply
connecting kids, kids who normally have
trouble breaking the ice. So, they all
rushed to chase down Lilypad and the
donation truck. They stop at a road as a
Pizza Planet truck passes. Yes, the
recurring Pixar movie Easter egg. But
then as the truck goes on the freeway,
we get even more Easter eggs. The street
the overpass goes over has a Dinoco gas
station, a Pizza Planet restaurant with
a full rocket and planet design, and a
Poultry Palace. Yes, three recurring
in-universe chains in Pixar titles. Lily
sees the QR code on the high-tech Buzz's
back and unlocks a new upgrade in all of
them, a drone function, of course.
Finally, the one thing Buzz Lightyear
thought he could do that he actually
could not do, leading to his epic defeat
where Randy Newman said he would go
sailing no more.
That Buzz could only overcome by
settling for falling with style. Those
brilliant bastards finally figured it
out. He's truly a flying toy now. And
what he even calls it in this scene,
flying with style. And I like how many
of the toy horses I get lifted up by the
drone Buzzes. Many of them continue to
gallop in the air because, you know,
they just instinctively want to feel
like they are running. But perhaps the
most haunting Easter egg of this film,
Lotso appears in this movie, right here.
Production designer Bob Pauley said that
Lotso was hidden somewhere in the movie,
and I found him. He's right here as the
donation truck goes into the tunnel, a
garbage truck comes out the other side,
and you can barely make out the purple
blur of Lotso still tied to the grill of
that garbage truck. It has been years
since the end of Toy Story 3 where that
was his fate, and he is still there,
still plotting his revenge. And by the
looks of it, headed toward the
Tri-County City where Bonnie lives. In
front of that tunnel on the 101 freeway
north of the Golden Gate Bridge, Buzz
tries to propose to Jessie, but she cuts
him off with a kiss, and Buzz's leg pops
up with the same speed of his turned on
wings popping up when he first saw
Jessie in action in Toy Story 2. The
toys arrange for Blaze to visit with
Bonnie's dolls, and Blaze recites the
pullstring catchphrase that she heard
from Jessie. Yes, it was Jessie's words
exactly that breaks the ice between
these girls. Bonnie calls after Blaze,
and these two goofballs just match each
other's playful freak well enough to
become besties. The animators and
effects team talked about what they had
to really figure out for the specific
curly hair on Blaze's head, and how each
curl had to be kind of aware of the
other curls in its proximity, and how it
unlocked a whole new way to show
characters of different ethnicity in
future Pixar films. And specifically
this moment of her using it as a beard
to make Bonnie laugh was for the film.
You can see how it was really important
just for this story, too, to get it
right. And we see Bonnie and Blaze's two
imagination chalk pastel worlds come
together in Buzz and Jessie's wedding.
Buzz wears a kilt. Sammy to the
salamander sits in a pew. As Mr.
Pricklepants said earlier, he is the
ordained minister of the ceremony after
Bonnie dressed him as a haunted priest
in the past Halloween. The robe of act
brings the ring down. Yes, Bonnie's
mom's actual wedding ring. But because
this is partially Blaze's imagination,
there has to be a big dramatic twist.
Trixie stops the wedding to say Buzz was
already married to her. Bonnie and Blaze
plan a sleepover, and Bonnie pulls
Jessie's pullstring one more time, and
we hear Jessie's recorded voice say,
"Friends forever, partner." Yes, the
same pullstring phrase that Jessie said
in her last words to Emily. And we pull
back from Bonnie's house as they invite
the Jackson twins over to play. Figured
that problem out, too, didn't we? And
the camera sweeps past Blaze's farm with
a tree and the tire swing. And Taylor
Swift's I knew it I knew you takes us
through the credits. And the mid-credit
scene shows a lonely kid on a playground
as one of the Buzz drones floats down
like an angel to be his best friend. And
then all the kids on the playground get
them, too, as does this teacher. One kid
pulls out an enhanced Zurg figure that
laughs and says, "We meet again, my
son." A voice cameo by co-director
Andrew Stanton himself. Those are all
the Easter eggs I found in Pixar's Toy
Story 5, a movie I very much enjoyed. A
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