Third Plot Point: Just as they’re on the brink of escaping (the false victory), Lotso stops them. The thrust of the “pinch” comes primarily through the telephone toy telling Woody what he’s up against in his “impossible” mission. Second Pinch Point: Woody returns to Sunnyside and launches a plan to help everyone escape. Potato Head sees, through her lost eye, that Andy really didn’t throw them away and that he still wants them. We also get a thematic Moment of Truth (which, sadly, isn’t better integrated in the plot), in which Mrs. Meanwhile, Woody finds out from one of Bonnie’s toys about Lotso’s tragic past-and that the daycare is not a safe place for Buzz and the rest of Woody’s friends. Midpoint: When Buzz tries to convince Lotso to reassign him and his friends to a more “age-appropriate” room, Lotso shows his true villainous colors by having Buzz returned to his factory settings and using him as a guard to keep the others locked in. Meanwhile, the true weight of the pinch point hits when Buzz and the others discover that the “Caterpillar Room” to which Lotso has assigned them belongs to rowdy toddlers who play too rough. This is really only a pinch in that it gets between Woody and his goal, but it does effectively turn his part of the plot. Woody promptly leaves, since he wants to go to college with Andy.įirst Pinch Point: Woody’s journey home goes awry and he’s picked up by the little neighbor girl Bonnie, who takes him home and plays with him. This is the “adventure world” of the Second Act, where they meet Lotso the head honcho bear and his sidekick Ken.
Woody is the one adamantly “rejecting” this Call to Adventure as he insists Andy never meant to throw them away.įirst Plot Point: The toys-including Woody who got trapped in the van with them-arrive at Sunnyside.
Buzz and the other toys decide that, since Andy obviously doesn’t want them anymore, they might as well jump in the “donate” box that’s going to Sunnyside. The main conflict in this story is going to turn out to be escaping from Sunnyside Daycare-but this is the event that incites that. Mom mistakenly thinks Andy means to throw the other toys away and puts them out to wait for the garbage truck. Inciting Event: Andy-all grown up now-puts Woody in the box he’s taking to college and gets the other toys ready to store in the attic.