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Pixar: The TRUTH About Woody’s Holster | Toy Story Pixar Film Theory

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

News, Entertainment News, Tv & Film

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Download the FREE Upside App and use promo code supercarlin to get an extra $.25 back for every gallon on your first tank of gas. Today Ben dives into the world of Pixar to discuss why Woody in Toy Story has holster but, not gun. Did Andy just lose it? Did Al not know Woody was supposed to have it? Does it stand for something more? #supercarlinbrothers #ToyStory Edited by :: Riley Murtagh

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0:00.0

Hey brother. Have you guys ever noticed that in Toy Story, Woody here actually has a holster, but there's no gun that goes with it.

0:09.0

At this point in my adult life, as you can probably imagine, I have seen Toy Story a lot and I mean a lot of times and

0:17.7

I've always just been a little bit confused as to whether or not this is like a mistake

0:21.9

because like fun fact the whole reason that the first ever Pixar movie was about Toys in particular

0:27.6

is because the animation at the time wasn't really up to animating people.

0:32.2

It was really difficult to make them

0:34.0

look realistic. So instead they made a movie about things that are already made of

0:38.8

plastic. Toys. They of course still gave it the old college try with Sid though.

0:44.0

Nightmare fuel aside, people were just kind of hard to animate.

0:48.0

And it's actually this exact same obstacle which led to all of the kids who are attending Andy's party being the exact same model

0:56.4

rig as Andy himself.

0:59.4

This is kind of like one of those blink and you miss it details but once you've seen it you just simply

1:03.2

can't unsee it and it also kind of explains by pretty much every single shot of

1:07.6

Andy's birthday party is like of the waist down lots of legs and feet.

1:13.2

I bring it up though because if you do have like this animation limit in play,

1:17.6

then like why go the extra step to include a holster

1:21.0

when it's just otherwise

1:24.0

completely unused. Like, I mean, sure, there's that one scene

1:26.0

where Sid puts a match in it, which is kind of fun, I guess,

1:29.0

but that match doesn't even end up working.

1:32.0

So you could probably just, you know, cut that out and no problem.

1:35.9

I will tell you what, we have been doing a lot of digging on this particular topic and we have

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