Why Toy Story 2 is the Greatest Sequel Ever Made

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  @Rockotarthepurplehatguy · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  What do you guys like best about Toy Story 2?

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  @liamweaver2944 · 2 years ago

  My favorite scene is when Buzz goes “Somewhere in that pad of stuffing is a toy who taught me that life’s only worth living if you’re being loved by a kid. And I travelled all this way to rescue that toy. Because I believed him.” Which is already a punch in the gut, and then Woody retorts with “Well, you wasted your time.” Ouch.

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  @salt_factory7566 · 3 months ago

  “We can’t have 5000 buzzes interacting” you won’t believe this

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  @brianabarr7282 · 3 years ago

  Even as a kid, I thought that Toy Story 2 just made Toy Story 1 better. I'm glad they made the sequel, because I don't think the franchise would be what it is today without it.

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  @Wastelander1972 · 2 years ago

  Toy Story: Just because you’re not what you thought you were doesn’t mean you’re not part of a good thing.<br>Toy Story 2: Just because a good thing won’t last forever doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still enjoy it while it lasts.<br>Toy Story 3: Just because a good thing ends, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t good things ahead of you.<br>Toy Story 4: Screw all y’all, I’m leaving and joining the circus with my girlfriend.

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  @sawderf741 · 3 years ago

  &quot;Sometimes you need to feel the consequences of the wrong decision to know it was the wrong decision.&quot; Hits a bit too close to home to be honest.

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  @RoninCatholic · 3 years ago

  One thing my mom praised at the time it was new and I agreed with emphatically is that while Woody and Jessie in the TV show are implicitly love interests, the toys don&apos;t become a romantic couple after bonding and getting to know each other. That Woody doesn&apos;t break up with Bo and start a romance with Jessie - the thought probably doesn&apos;t even occur to him even if it did to some in the audience. Woody and Jessie wind up with a relationship more like a brother and sister, and it&apos;s Buzz that Jessie winds up with a more passionate romantic attraction to as hinted at in the end here and expanded on in the sequels.

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  @taymackay7251 · 3 years ago

  jessie&apos;s backstory literally made me into a toy hoarder and my mom hates me for it to this very day

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  @SparkpadArt · 3 years ago

  Another bit of genius in Stinky Pete&apos;s backstory is how understandable it is <i>why</i> he was unsold for so long. In his show, he was the goofy/annoying comic relief character, and wasn&apos;t as cool, heroic or inspiring as the rest of the Roundup Gang. He wasn&apos;t the kind of person most viewers would aspire to be or tell stories about, least of all children, so of course he would be ignored while every Woody, Jessie and Bullseye went on to enrich someone&apos;s childhood for however long they lasted.

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  @heatherdelihlah3286 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The Jessie backstory scene also perfectly sets up 3, where Andy forgets about all of his toys, because he changed. While woody had the same hope that Andy still cared about them, while he didn&apos;t for most of his toys.

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  @deepwaterrehab7685 · 3 years ago

  Can we talk about the bloopers though?<br><br>Absolute genius adding outtakes to an animated movie 💀💀💀

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  @blueblank8287 · 3 years ago

  Pff, wow, I genuinely never even thought about how “Stinky Pete ends up with the worst owner he could have wanted” before. As a kid, I just thought, “oh no! Now he’s gonna get doodled on and look silly! Haha oh noooooo”, but… it’s not just that: after wanting to be appreciated for so long that his bitterness over nobody wanting to play with him shifted him into single-mindedly focusing on being admired as a perfect, pristine toy by hundreds of people a day instead, well. He finally <b>does</b> find someone interested in playing with him who’s decidedly <b>not</b> interested in her toys being perfect, mint condition specimens of their models.<br><br>TS2 really <b>doesn’t</b> leave any opportunity missed or detail un-played-with, no pun intended.

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