50 Fun Facts About Toy Story 4

Who directed Toy Story 4?

Josh Cooley was hired as John Lasseter's co-director and ended up running the whole film when Lasseter stepped aside, a feature debut on a series he first saw in high school.

Which 2019 horror film shared Toy Story 4's release date and mocked it with posters of slain toys?

Child's Play, the Chucky reboot, opened on the same day, June 21, 2019, and made a joke of it: each new poster showed the killer doll finishing off another Toy Story favourite.

What are Forky's arms made from in Toy Story 4?

Pipe cleaners: to find his look, Pixar's artists sat round a table gluing real Forkys together from sporks, googly eyes and craft scraps, and one animator made dozens more while working on the film.

Which Arrested Development star voices Forky in Toy Story 4?

Tony Hale was the first actor Pixar thought of, having played the panicky Buster Bluth, and he took the job with the words "A utensil's existential crisis? I'm in!"

Bo Peep stood in the bedroom of which member of Andy's family before she was given away?

His sister: Bo ran the toys in Molly's room much as Woody ran Andy's, until she was given away to another family, which is why she is missing from the third film.

Who voices Duke Caboom in Toy Story 4?

Keanu Reeves sold Pixar on his take over lunch, climbing onto a table in the studio atrium to strike stunt poses; the poses went straight into the character.

Duke Caboom is a daredevil toy from which country?

Canada: Duke is billed as the country's greatest stuntman, but the toy could never land the jumps its own TV advert showed, so the boy who unwrapped him gave up on him almost at once.

Which Mad Men star voices the doll Gabby Gabby in Toy Story 4?

Christina Hendricks longed for a ventriloquist's dummy all through childhood and owns one now, so a red-haired doll with a gang of dummies felt, she told Pixar, like playing herself.

Which comedy duo voices carnival prizes Ducky and Bunny?

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele recorded face to face in one room, rare in animation, and improvised so freely that the film's editor said it couldn't all fit in the movie.

What is the name of the antique store where Woody goes looking for Bo Peep in Toy Story 4?

Second Chance Antiques is where she herself sat gathering dust for years, until she decided not to wait for a buyer and walked out to live without an owner.

The toy-shredding cat that prowls the antique store in Toy Story 4 has which fearsome name?

Dragon mauls any toy that crosses her path, and after she nearly kills the whole rescue party the others refuse to go back inside, leaving Woody to return with almost nobody.

In Toy Story 4, what kind of toy is Bo Peep's friend Giggle McDimples?

A tiny policewoman toy: she had no job at first, until Pixar made her head of Pet Patrol, telling her actress they wanted the smallest toy in the series to hold her own in a male-dominated field.

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.

What does Buzz Lightyear treat as his 'inner voice' in Toy Story 4?

His own push-button phrases: after Woody talks about listening to the voice inside him, Buzz takes it literally and starts pressing his chest buttons for advice, like a Magic 8-Ball.

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

Through unused archive audio: his family asked whether a performance could be built from old recordings, so Pixar combed 25 years of his outtakes from the films, video games and theme parks.

Mel Brooks, Carol Burnett and Carl Reiner voice Bonnie's outgrown baby toys alongside which fourth comedy legend?

Betty White plays a teething-toy tiger called Bitey White; all four toys pun on their actors' names, and they sit in Bonnie's closet to show Woody what being outgrown looks like.

What animal is Bo Peep's motorised getaway vehicle disguised as in Toy Story 4?

A skunk: Bo and Giggle cross the playground in their "Skunkmobile", a motorised toy dressed up as one so that any human who spots it keeps well clear.

Which Pixar veteran co-wrote the Toy Story 4 screenplay with Stephany Folsom?

Andrew Stanton, a writer on every Toy Story film, began outlining a fourth straight after writing the third, and the project was kept so quiet that Pixar's own presidents only heard once a treatment was finished.

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

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack denied a report that a studio chief's unwanted advance drove them out; they said they left because women and people of colour lacked an equal creative voice at Pixar.

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

A romantic comedy was how Pixar first sold it, a love story for Woody and Bo Peep; a new director then threw out most of that script, though their reunion stayed at the heart of the film.

Which songwriter scored Toy Story 4, as he had all three earlier films in the series?

Randy Newman, on his ninth Pixar film, wrote new themes for newcomers such as Gabby Gabby and Forky, and brought in an accordion for Duke Caboom's memory of being rejected by his owner.

Which country singer performs 'The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy' over Toy Story 4's end credits?

Chris Stapleton got the end-credits version of a song its composer also recorded himself; it is Woody's own story, a cowboy who was lonesome until friends came along.

Which Toy Story 4 song earned a Best Original Song Oscar nomination?

I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away is sung in the film by the man who wrote it, and he performed it at the Oscars too, where it lost to Elton John's song from Rocketman.

Which animated sequel took over the June 2018 release date that Toy Story 4 gave up?

Incredibles 2 swapped dates with it in 2016 because the superhero sequel was running ahead of schedule, so Woody's return slipped a further year to June 2019.

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

El Capitan Theatre, Hollywood, belongs to Disney, which stages most of its premieres there; the first Toy Story had its own premiere in the same hall in November 1995.

Which long-running Pixar tradition did Toy Story 4 break when it reached cinemas?

A short film before the feature was missing this time: the producers said every artist was needed on full-length films, and Pixar's new SparkShorts were being made to stand alone.

Which of these Pixar films reached $1 billion worldwide before Toy Story 4 became the fourth to do so?

Finding Dory got there in 2016; when Toy Story 4 followed three years later, it made Disney the first studio ever to release five billion-dollar films in a single year.

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

An animated film had never opened bigger worldwide: the start edged past the mark another Pixar sequel had set a year earlier, even though the US share came in under Disney's own forecast.

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

Spider-Man: Far From Home opened on a Tuesday to get ahead of the Fourth of July and took $93 million that weekend, ending Toy Story 4's two weekends at number one.

Toy Story 4 overtook which hand-drawn film to become the top-grossing G-rated release in US history?

The Lion King had owned that record for most of 25 years, losing it in 2003 and winning it back in 2011 when a 3D re-release added another $94 million to its US total.

Where does Bonnie make Forky in Toy Story 4?

At kindergarten orientation, a nervous Bonnie builds him from a spork and craft scraps that Woody, stowed away in her backpack, has quietly gathered for her.

Which 2001 animated classic beat Toy Story 4 at the Chinese box office when both opened there on the same day?

Spirited Away, reaching Chinese cinemas for the first time, 18 years late, was out-earning it three to one within hours; Toy Story 4's biggest overseas market turned out to be Japan instead.

Which group called for a boycott of Toy Story 4 over a brief scene showing a same-sex couple?

One Million Moms objected to a few seconds of background action, two women seen with a child at Bonnie's school; the boycott call did not stop the film passing $1 billion worldwide.

Whose son sued Disney in 2020, claiming Duke Caboom copied his father's likeness?

Evel Knievel's son Kelly said his father had not broken his bones and spilled his blood so Disney could cash in; a Nevada judge threw the case out a year later, finding Duke no carbon copy.

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

Lamp Life has Bo tell Woody how she was passed from one family to the next, ended up donated to the antique shop and finally walked out on her own lamp, sheep in tow.

At the end of Toy Story 4, what does Woody choose to become?

A lost toy: with Buzz's blessing he stays behind at the carnival with Bo, and the pair spend their days steering prize toys into the arms of children.

Bonnie's second handmade toy, seen in Toy Story 4's mid-credits scene, is built from what?

A plastic knife: Bonnie brings Karen Beverly home from first grade, and when the newcomer asks how she comes to be alive, a lovestruck Forky has to admit he has no idea.

Toy Story 4's director says his young son first suggested which name for Forky?

Fork Face was the four-year-old's verdict on a picture of the character; that a child of Bonnie's age had never heard the word "spork" persuaded his father she would call him Forky.

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

The Twilight Zone's "Living Doll" has a talking doll menace a cruel stepfather; the film's director wanted the creepy old doll the series had never had, then turned her into someone to pity.

Tinny from Pixar's Tin Toy appears in Toy Story 4 at the club where Woody meets Duke Caboom, hidden in what?

A pinball machine hides the old toys' club. Tinny, the one-man band of a 1988 short, was first meant to lead Pixar's debut feature, until the part was reworked into a spaceman called Buzz Lightyear.

Which child finally takes Gabby Gabby home in Toy Story 4?

A lost girl at the carnival: on her way to a new life with Bonnie, Gabby spots the child crying alone and chooses to be found by her instead, and the girl carries her off to her parents.

Which rock bassist voices the announcer of Duke Caboom's TV advert in Toy Story 4?

Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, barks out the 1970s-style advert in which Duke soars through the air, a jump the real toy could never make once it was out of the box.

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

Rickey Henderson is a hometown nod: Pixar is based in Emeryville, next door to Oakland, and had already written a real Oakland ice-cream parlour, Fentons Creamery, into the plot of Up.

What toy do Woody and Bo Peep rescue from a storm in Toy Story 4's prologue?

RC the remote-control car is being washed away in the downpour when the toys haul him back; minutes later Bo is carried off to a new owner, and Woody chooses to stay with Andy.

To whom does Woody hand his sheriff's badge before leaving with Bo Peep at the end of Toy Story 4?

Jessie gets the badge as he says goodbye, and it is no surprise: Bonnie had already taken to pinning it on her at playtime while Woody sat unused in the closet.

Which Academy Award did Toy Story 4 win?

Best Animated Feature came after defeats elsewhere that season: Missing Link beat it at the Golden Globes, Klaus at the BAFTAs, and it won none of its six Annie nominations.

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

Inside Out brought him the screenplay nomination, and he was still finishing a spin-off short about its characters when the offer came to co-direct the next Toy Story.

In Toy Story 4, what are Bo Peep's three sheep revealed to be called?

Billy, Goat and Gruff are all girls despite the names, and when they bound up to greet Woody after nine years he has to admit he never learned what any of them was called.

Searching for Woody in Toy Story 4, Buzz Lightyear ends up as what?

A carnival game prize: a stallholder finds him on the ground and pins him to the prize wall, where two plush toys who have hung unwon for years take him for a rival.

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

He believes he is trash, a spork made to be used once and thrown out; it takes a long roadside walk with Woody to persuade him he is the most important thing in Bonnie's world.