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Woody and Buzz Lightyear share leadership of Andy's toys, and Andy is getting ready to take Woody to Cowboy Camp. A ripped arm during playtime leaves Woody on a shelf, afraid that Andy will throw him away, and there he finds Wheezy, a penguin with a broken squeaker. When a yard sale nearly claims Wheezy, Woody rescues him and is snatched up by a toy collector. Buzz cannot stop the theft, but the trail leads to Al McWhiggin, who runs the Al's Toy Barn store. In Al's apartment, Woody learns he once starred in Woody's Roundup, a 1950s children's Western show, alongside Jessie the Cowgirl, Bullseye the Horse and Stinky Pete the Prospector. Al means to sell the whole set to a museum in Tokyo. Buzz, Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm set out to fetch him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Toy Story 2 (1999)
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- To render the dust seen settling on a toy shelf, Pixar's crew animated just one tiny dust particle and let the computer copy it across the whole shelf, ultimately producing over two million individual dust particles in the finished shot.
- About 1,000 Ultimate Toy Box DVD sets shipped to Costco had a manufacturing error that spliced a scene from the R-rated film High Fidelity, including repeated uses of the word "fuck," into the middle of Toy Story 2, forcing Costco to recall and replace the defective copies.
- Later home-media reissues quietly cut a mid-credits outtake of Stinky Pete flirting with two Barbie dolls and dangling a role in Toy Story 3, after the joke was read as a casting-couch reference amid the MeToo-era sexual misconduct allegations that led director John Lasseter to leave Pixar.
- Audiences gave Toy Story 2 a rare A+ CinemaScore grade, making it the first-ever computer-animated film to receive that top score.
