50 Fun Facts About Toy Story 4

Who directed Toy Story 4?

Cooley started as co-director under Lasseter in 2015 and took over as sole director in 2016; it was his feature debut.

In which year was Toy Story 4 released?

It was originally slated for June 2017, then 2018, before Pixar handed the 2018 slot to Incredibles 2.

Which new toy does Bonnie make out of a spork in Toy Story 4?

Forky is convinced he is trash, and Woody spends much of the film stopping him throwing himself away.

Who voices Forky?

Hale had played similarly panicked characters as Buster Bluth on Arrested Development and Gary Walsh on Veep.

Which character returns in Toy Story 4 after being absent from the third film?

Annie Potts was told Pixar left Bo out of Toy Story 3 because they were saving her for the fourth.

Who voices Duke Caboom in Toy Story 4?

Pixar invited Reeves to develop the stunt rider's verbal mannerisms himself, to his surprise.

Duke Caboom is a daredevil toy from which country?

He wears a white outfit and horseshoe moustache, and is a parody of Ideal's Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle.

Who voices Gabby Gabby in Toy Story 4?

Gabby is a 1950s pull-string doll with a factory-defective voice box who wants Woody's instead.

Which comedy duo voices carnival prizes Ducky and Bunny?

Director Josh Cooley said the pair were hired for improvised comedy but ended up driving the story.

What is the name of the antique store where Woody finds Bo Peep's lamp?

Gabby Gabby runs the store's toy population like a godfather, with ventriloquist dummies as her muscle.

What is the name of the cat that prowls the antique store in Toy Story 4?

The grey cat nearly kills the toys during their first attempt to rescue Forky.

Who is Giggle McDimples?

Voiced by Ally Maki, she rides on Bo Peep's shoulder and lives in a folding compact like a Polly Pocket.

Which girl does Gabby Gabby hope will choose her once she has a working voice box?

Harmony is the store owner's granddaughter, and she rejects Gabby even after the voice box swap.

Who voices Bonnie in Toy Story 4?

She replaced Emily Hahn, who had voiced Bonnie since Toy Story 3, and had earlier voiced Maddy McGear in Cars 3.

How did Don Rickles appear as Mr. Potato Head despite dying before recording?

Pixar trawled 25 years of outtakes from the films, games and other media after Rickles' family asked that he be included.

Which four comedy legends voice Bonnie's outgrown baby toys?

Their characters are Melephant Brooks, Chairol Burnett, Bitey White and Carl Reineroceros, stashed in Bonnie's closet.

What kind of toy is Bitey White?

She is one of four baby toys voiced by comedy veterans; Melephant Brooks is an elephant and Chairol Burnett a toddler's chair.

Who co-wrote the Toy Story 4 screenplay with Andrew Stanton?

According to Annie Potts, Folsom rewrote three quarters of the earlier script by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack.

Which writing pair left Toy Story 4 citing 'philosophical differences'?

They were announced as writers under John Lasseter, who was originally set to direct.

Pixar president Jim Morris described Toy Story 4 in 2015 as what kind of film?

Lasseter had pitched it as a love story between Woody and Bo Peep rather than a continuation of the third film.

Toy Story 4 was how-manyth collaboration between Randy Newman and Pixar?

Newman wrote new themes for Bonnie, Gabby Gabby and Duke Caboom, the last using accordions and mandolins.

Which country singer released a version of Newman's 'The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy'?

His version was released as a single on June 5, 2019, ahead of the soundtrack.

Which Newman song from Toy Story 4 was nominated for the Best Original Song Oscar?

Newman performs it himself; the film won Best Animated Feature at the same ceremony.

Which film took Toy Story 4's original June 2018 release slot?

The film was pushed from 2017 to 2018 and finally to June 21, 2019.

Where did Toy Story 4 hold its premiere on June 11, 2019?

It opened wide ten days later, in IMAX as well as standard screens.

Toy Story 4 was the first Pixar film since which movie to play without a short worldwide?

Producers said staff were needed on features, and pointed to the new SparkShorts program instead.

How much did Toy Story 4 gross worldwide?

That edged Toy Story 3's $1.067 billion to make it the franchise's top earner.

Toy Story 4's $244.5 million worldwide opening was a record for what?

Domestically it debuted to $120.9 million, the best opening of the series.

Which film dethroned Toy Story 4 from the top of the US box office in July 2019?

Toy Story 4 had held the number one spot for two weekends.

Toy Story 4 passed which 1994 film to become the top-grossing G-rated film domestically?

The hand-drawn Lion King had held that record for 25 years across two separate stretches.

Toy Story 4 was which Pixar film to cross $1bn worldwide?

It hit the mark on August 13, 2019, and was the 43rd film ever to do so.

Toy Story 4's biggest market outside North America was which country?

Japan delivered $90.1 million, ahead of the UK's $79.9 million and Mexico's $72 million.

Which group called for a boycott of Toy Story 4 over a brief scene with two mothers?

The scene shows a lesbian couple dropping a child at kindergarten orientation.

Whose estate sued Disney claiming Duke Caboom copied his likeness?

A judge dismissed the case in 2021, ruling Duke was Disney's own expression and not a carbon copy.

Which Disney+ short reveals where Bo Peep was before Toy Story 4?

It was released on Disney+ on January 31, 2020.

Which Toy Story character inspires Bonnie's new knife toy in the mid-credits scene?

The plastic knife, Karen Beverly, considers herself trash just like Forky, who instantly falls for her.

What is the name of the plastic knife toy introduced in Toy Story 4's mid-credits?

Voiced by Melissa Villaseñor, she is introduced by Jessie after Bonnie's first day in first grade.

The director's young son originally suggested which name for Forky?

Cooley said his child's unfamiliarity with the word spork shaped the simpler name Bonnie would use.

Gabby Gabby was partly inspired by Talky Tina, a doll from which TV series?

Cooley also cited Vito Corleone as a model for how Gabby controls her dummy enforcers.

Which 1988 Pixar short character runs a club hidden in a pinball machine in Toy Story 4?

Tinny, from Tin Toy, was once planned as Toy Story's lead before Buzz Lightyear took shape.

What was the name of Duke Caboom's disappointed former owner?

Rejean threw Duke away on Boxing Day after the TV commercial's stunts proved impossible.

Who plays Margaret, the owner of the antique store, in Toy Story 4?

Patricia Arquette voices Harmony's mother, and Bill Hader turns up as Axel the Carnie.

Which baseball legend voices an Oakland Athletics bobblehead in Toy Story 4?

Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers also cameos as the Duke Caboom commercial announcer.

What toy do Woody and Bo Peep rescue from a storm in the film's prologue?

The flashback, set nine years earlier, ends with Bo and her lamp being given away while Woody stays for Andy.

Whom does Woody put in charge of Bonnie's toys when he leaves with Bo Peep?

He pins his sheriff's badge on her and names Buzz her second-in-command.

Which Academy Award did Toy Story 4 win?

It beat Klaus, Missing Link, How to Train Your Dragon 3 and I Lost My Body at the 92nd ceremony.

Toy Story 4's director co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay of which Pixar film?

He directed its spin-off short Riley's First Date? before Lasseter invited him onto Toy Story 4.

Bo Peep's three sheep are named what?

Emily Davis voices the three-headed trio in Toy Story 4.

How much time has passed between Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4?

Bonnie is starting kindergarten, and Woody is already feeling left out of playtime.

Why does Forky keep trying to escape in Toy Story 4?

He overcomes his existential crisis on the walk to the RV park, after Woody explains his place with Bonnie.