Toy Story 2/Trivia

General

 * Rex was playing Buzz Lightyear: Attack on Zurg on a Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which is probably a reference to how the first Toy Story video game was released on it.
 * In some US prints, when Buzz gives his speech, it had the US flag, with playing in the background. In some non-US prints, it had a globe with fireworks, with replaced with a generic fanfare.
 * In the Blu-Ray version, the flag is now always replaced with the globe, but is still played in the background.
 * The toy car that Jessie rides to help Buster is the same as her previous owner Emily's as seen in her flashback, sans the wood side paneling.
 * The car that Andy's toys ride to navigate Al's Toy Barn is seen earlier as a Hotwheels-sized car being pulled out of Andy's toy box by the Green Army Men in their search for Woody's hat.
 * It turns out Zurg is Buzz's father, a parody on the relationship between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.
 * When Rex was left behind and start chasing the car, and Mr. Potato Head found him on the backmirror is parody of Jurassic Park.
 * Zurg's robots that appear in Buzz Lightyear: Attack on Zurg have the well known cylon scanner from Battlestar Galactica.
 * During Woody's nightmare, when he's thrown into a trash, some of the severed arms belong to Rocky Gibraltar, Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, Emperor Zurg, Mr. Potato Head, a baby doll, and a robot.
 * For some reason, like the first film, this film was shown only in widescreen for all of its home releases despite A Bug's Life introducing the reframed fullscreen viewing format.

References to Toy Story

 * The Buzz Lightyear: Attack on Zurg opening states that Buzz is in the Gamma Quadrant of Sector 4, which is where Buzz said he was stationed when Hamm asked him where he was from.
 * Also, after Buzz lands on Zurg's planet, he looks around exactly the same way he did when he on Andy's bed and talked to Star Command.
 * Toy Story 2 intentionally reuses scenes from the original Toy Story, with many of Buzz and Woody's roles switched.
 * The prime example of this being when Buzz is trying to convince Woody he's not a collector's item by saying as Woody did at the Dinoco gas station.
 * When Woody is riding Buster down the stairs to rescue Wheezy from the yard sale, Buster bumps into the front door, which causes it creak open.
 * It makes the same creaking sound Andy's bedroom door made when the toy soldiers were going downstairs to see what Andy was getting for his birthday in the first film.
 * After Woody learns that was cancelled and Stinky Pete tells him that soon children only wanted to play with space toys, Woody responds to this by saying.
 * He is referring to when Andy got Buzz for his birthday and he got jealous because Buzz got more attention than him.
 * Woody losing his arm is similar to when Buzz lost his.
 * Buzz encountering Utility Belt Buzz standing tall on the display stand at Al's Toy Barn is done in the same fashion when Woody encountered Buzz standing tall on Andy's bed in the first film.
 * After Utility Belt Buzz threatens to use his laser on Buzz, Buzz sarcastically asks, similar to when Woody called Buzz's laser out in the previous film, describing it as.
 * When Zurg is battling Utility Belt Buzz in the elevator shaft and smashing the buttons on his chest, it's done in the same way Woody was fighting Buzz, skipping the line
 * When Jessie was fighting with Woody after he accused her of turning on TV, she had him in the same position Buzz had him when they fought at the gas station.
 * The Pizza Planet delivery truck Woody and Buzz hitched a ride on in Toy Story was used again in Toy Story 2 by Buzz and the rest of Andy's toys to get to the airport to save Woody.
 * When Andy's toys are leaving, Buzz gives Utility Belt Buzz the same Vulcan salute he gave Woody.
 * Buzz opens the helmet of Utility Belt Buzz, who gasps for air, similar to when Woody opened Buzz's helmet in the first film.
 * Utility Belt Buzz tackles Woody and says after entering Al's room much like Buzz did when he first met Woody and noticed the other toys coming.
 * When Mr. Potato Head tries to open the window and falls out his arms is a nod to Toy Story when he tries to lift a his arms fall off.
 * Both films end with a final dialogue between Woody and Buzz if they are worried about something.
 * During Jessie's flashback, Jessie watches the cowgirl-themed items in Emily's room change much like when Woody watched the cowboy-themed items in Andy's room change to space ranger-themed items in the previous film.

Cameos

 * Early in the movie when everyone is looking for Woody's hat, Mr. Potato Head finds Mrs. Potato Head's ear.
 * The scene cuts to Mrs. Potato Head reading a book version of A Bug's Life.
 * The ball from Luxo, Jr. is shown in the Al's Toy Barn TV commercial.
 * It can also be seen when Buzz Lightyear and the toys enter the toy store, and a container of those balls can be seen to the left of the door when exiting.
 * As Hamm flips through the TV channels looking for the Al's Toy Barn commercial, frames from several Pixar projects go by including Tin Toy, Knick Knack, Red's Dream, Luxo, Jr., Pixar's Listerine commercial and their old logo from the 1980s.
 * Flik and Heimlich from A Bug's Life can be seen close-up in one of the outtakes, returning the favor, after Woody made a cameo in in one of the outtakes for A Bug's Life.
 * Heimlich can also be seen in the actual movie, when he is crawling on a branch just before Buzz Lightyear cuts through.
 * Also in the same scene, the bug bar from A Bug's Life is also visible.
 * The Cleaner who comes in to clean up Woody is also Geri from the short film Geri's Game. In one of his drawers, his chess pieces can be seen.
 * Some merchandise from A Bug's Life can be seen in Al's Toy Barn before Buzz discovers the Buzz Lightyear aisle.
 * Toy versions of characters from The Lion King are seen when Buzz escapes Al's Toy Barn.
 * A113 appears on Andy's mother's number plate on her car like Toy Story.

Recycled animation

 * The tree in Jessie's flashback is the same as that from A Bug's Life.
 * The canyon from A Bug's Life is re-used for Zurg's planet.
 * Note: the floating rocks in the cany\on were inserted by accident, but John Lasseter liked how it looked, so it was used in the final version of the film.
 * Wheezy has the same feet as the Aliens.

Miscellaneous

 * The dust in the scene where Woody meets Wheezy set a record for number of particles animated for a movie by computer.
 * This is the first sequel for both Tom Hanks and Tim Allen.
 * The controller that Rex uses when playing the video game scene is a recolored Super Nintendo controller.
 * During the bloopers reel in the end credits, a few characters mentioned the existence of Toy Story 3. It came true 11 years later after Toy Story 2.
 * Toy Story 2 is the only Toy Story movie to utilize outtakes.
 * According to Pixar's Studio Stories: The Movie Vanishes, Oren Jacob and Galyn Susman tell the story of when someone entered a command on the Unix server that Toy Story 2 was on.
 * This command deletes everything It made all the data disappear in front of their eyes.
 * 20 to 30 people who worked for a really LONG time had their work erased in 20 seconds.
 * The machine was unplugged and plugged back in.
 * This stopped the deletion, but still, most of the film was gone.
 * Fortunately Galyn had a copy of the whole movie on her home computer.
 * The computer was carefully driven to the Pixar office and restored to the servers.
 * When the Barbie backpack containing Stinky Pete arrives on the conveyor belt, the announcer in the background announces the arrival of a flight named LassetAir Flight A113.
 * The LassetAir part is a reference to director John Lasseter, and A113 is the easter egg that has appeared in several Pixar films to date.
 * However, in the DVD version, the part is misinterpreted by the subtitles as Atlantic Air Flight 810.
 * In the scene where Hamm is threatening Stinky Pete with his kung fu, Pork Chop is the only dialogue exchanged directly between actors John Ratzenberger and Kelsey Grammer, both of which are most well known for playing Cliff Clavin and Frasier Crane, respectively, on the 80s TV Series Cheers. Another main character of Cheers was Woody Boyd, played by Woody Harrelson.
 * Ironically, in A Bug's Life, Ratzenberger exchanged much more dialogue with David Hyde Pierce who plays Frasier Crane's brother, Niles, in Frasier's spin-off series. In the Season 9 episode of Frasier, several actors from Cheers reprise their roles, which results in all three of them together for the majority of the episode.
 * In the Cheers episode, Frasier's first wife, Nanny G., is played by Emma Thompson, but 12 years later in the Frasier episode she is played by Laurie Metcalf since Thompson had been cast as Nanny McPhee.
 * In the Frasier episodes and, Frasier and Niles' mother and a look-a-like of their mother are played by Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks' wife.
 * When the toys fall into the luggage room on the conveyor belt, Slink pulls off a label that says LHR, which are the airport initials for London Heathrow, an airport in London, England.
 * In the scene where the toys travel through the Buzz Lightyear aisle, Tour Guide Barbie says this quote: This quote is actually a true fact.
 * Back in 1995, when the original Toy Story came out, business owners underestimated the sale of Buzz Lightyear toys to keep up with demand because they also underestimated the movie's box office performance.
 * Of all the dolls bought by toy stores in the US and Canada, they only ordered 60,000 Buzz Lightyear toys, whereas the company that made them made over 9 million toys.

Godzilla Rex
This is another way of getting Woody into the yard sale box.

It shows some of the characters getting in position for Godzilla Rex to come.

When Godzilla Rex appears the Green Army Men with their guns but it doesn't work.

Everyone runs away from him except Buzz Lightyear has a plunge and shoots it at Godzilla Rex causing Godzilla Rex to go on a Hot Wheel car and knock over some things until he holds on to a chair making it fall on the Toddle Tots Fire Truck which Woody is on and makes Woody fly off the fire truck and goes into a window and slides his way from the roof into the box.

They deleted this scene because they thought it was too coincidental.

It's likely that this scene was animated during the film's direct-to-video production since in the original storyline, Woody falls into the yard sale in a much similar way.

Changed Scenes

 * Originally, when the toys were crossing the road, they were in a different area.
 * It's looked more like a suburb than the city.
 * The original animation had Al not only steal Woody but also restore and repair him on his own.
 * However, as the story went on, it became clear that this couldn't be possible and the decision was taken to add a another character, hence the use of Geri from Geri's Game.
 * In the film's climax when Woody and Jessie escape from the plane via the wheel hatch, the first animation shot had Jessie slip and Woody catching her from falling.
 * Joan Cusack, who provided the voice for Jessie, came up with the idea of having it being switched around and that Jessie saved Woody from falling off.