As you may have heard, a new Toy Story short is supposed to appear in front of Cars 2 this summer. If you haven’t already seen it, here’s a short clip.
As you can see, Ken thinks that he’s in Hawaii, when he’s really just in Bonnie’s room. But unable to deal with Ken’s disappointment, the rest of the toys recreate Hawaii in the room for him. One will assume hilarity will ensue.
Normally it bugs the crap out of me when people cast doubt over Pixar’s efforts. It’s usually a case of sour grapes or people being tired of Pixar being awesome all the time. So it pains me to admit that I think it’s a little too soon to see Buzz, Woody and the gang again.
I mean, I’m sure the short will be hilarious. Heck. If it was were seven minutes of Ken throwing poses and saying “Why, hello there…” it would be hilarious. Michael Keaton OWNS that character.
All I’m saying is… give us a chance to miss you.
Right?
What are your thoughts about the new short? Leave your comments below!
Even though it was just this past summer, to me it feels like it’s been much longer since I saw the Toy Story guys. /shrug
Have to agree, it hasn’t even been a year since the tear jerking goodbye. even less since the DVD hit. And (despite some very cute fan art of Buzz and Jesse and their fan-created toy kids on Deviant art) it’s really just a bit too early to be trotting them out again.
Is it possible the lamp people are putting out feelers to bring them to TV? After all, their “Cars Toons” seem to have done them pretty well. could a 22 minute episodic be in the offing?
I would be okay with them bringing them to TV, but only if they can maintain the same quality.
The Cars Toons are at least somewhat consistent because they still have Larry the Cable Guy voicing Mater. But it’s very obvious that Owen Wilson is not voicing Lightning McQueen.
There’s no way Pixar could pull together the cast of Toy Story 3 for television interstitials.
When they first announced a Toy Story short before Cars I immediately went, “Wait, really? Already? I just said goodbye last week!” I’m sure it’ll be great, and I’m sure I’ll enjoy it. I just think it should have been spaced out more. I would have loved to walk in for Monsters, Inc 2 or something in a year or two more and go “hey! alright, it’s Woody!”
I also give it 30 years before we see:
Toy Story – A Holographic Experience
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Honestly, for me, I don’t think it’s too soon. I saw it one time in the movie theater when it first came out, and I haven’t seen it since. For me, the movie was so well done, that I walked out of the movie theater going, “That’s it. That’s goodbye”
The only thing that irks me to some extent is that we said goodbye. Didn’t think that goodbye wasn’t an eternal goodbye. Dunno. Kinda makes me look back on the movie going “Well, I guess it’s not really goodbye. More like, see you later….”
I’m with you. I bought Toy Story 3 on Blu-ray and I can’t bring myself to watch it, even though I know how good it is – and very entertaining. That is, until the last 10 minutes when it kicks you in the side of the head.
Bittersweet, is how I would describe it.