what makes something a toy in the toystoryverse

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is a Slide a Toy

do slides come to life and talk during the night

Uriel

A slide is play equipment.

3cl1ps3

Slides eat children who are foolish enough to go on them during the night.

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so we all know that the first requirement of a Toy is that it's something that is Made, the making is what pours the soul in and makes something like forky or sporky or whatevva da fuk his name was

but how little making is required

is a ball and stick a Toy

discrider

A hockey puck is a toy, so yes.

Cristoval

The same thing that makes a vehicle a vehicle in the Cars universe I hope this has answered your question.

Speed Racer

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so we all know that the first requirement of a Toy is that it's something that is Made, the making is what pours the soul in and makes something like forky or sporky or whatevva da fuk his name was

but how little making is required

is a ball and stick a Toy

I think it's some combination of making and anthropomorphizing on behalf of the child/children

If an object is "brought" to life through play then it really comes to life. For instance, Bopeep ISN'T a toy, she's a lamp, but she was played with like a toy and that gave her life

If you're just playing with a ball and stick then they're just a ball and stick. If you are imagining that the ball and stick have personalities, they become toys

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Speed Racer wrote: »

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so we all know that the first requirement of a Toy is that it's something that is Made, the making is what pours the soul in and makes something like forky or sporky or whatevva da fuk his name was

but how little making is required

is a ball and stick a Toy

I think it's some combination of making and anthropomorphizing on behalf of the child/children

If an object is "brought" to life through play then it really comes to life. For instance, Bopeep ISN'T a toy, she's a lamp, but she was played with like a toy and that gave her life

If you're just playing with a ball and stick then they're just a ball and stick. If you are imagining that the ball and stick have personalities, they become toys

We do see toys that are still in-packaging as having Toyness before they have the opportunity to be physically handled by children though

So now we're entering into territory where we have to ask if it requires a Child to imagine them as having play, or if the adults making them being conscious of them being toys also provides the spark

Uriel

The toys are possessed by demons

discrider

Speed Racer wrote: »

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so we all know that the first requirement of a Toy is that it's something that is Made, the making is what pours the soul in and makes something like forky or sporky or whatevva da fuk his name was

but how little making is required

is a ball and stick a Toy

I think it's some combination of making and anthropomorphizing on behalf of the child/children

If an object is "brought" to life through play then it really comes to life. For instance, Bopeep ISN'T a toy, she's a lamp, but she was played with like a toy and that gave her life

If you're just playing with a ball and stick then they're just a ball and stick. If you are imagining that the ball and stick have personalities, they become toys

So a bat or at least the ball is a Toy.

Veldrin

Do any of the living toys in the Toy Stories have neither eye and/or limb analogues?

Madican

Does it have to be a toy played with by a child or do more adult toys count, like cars and power tools.

discrider

Well, I'd argue the hockey puck has neither when humans are around, but I have no evidence.
There appears to be a toy car with limbs instead of wheels in Sid's room, which might imply normal toy cars with wheels and no limbs or eyes are Toys.

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Veldrin wrote: »

Do any of the living toys in the Toy Stories have neither eye and/or limb analogues?

the etch a sketch

Uriel

Why do the cars in cars have seats?

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Uriel wrote: »

Why do the cars in cars have seats?

vestigial evolutionary trait that just isn't selected out

Madican

Uriel wrote: »

Why do the cars in cars have seats?

Why do they have locks on their doors

Uriel

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Why do the cars in cars have seats?

vestigial evolutionary trait that just isn't selected out

Like an appendix? Do they ever get them removed? You'd figure a high performance race car like lightning would benefit from less weight.

Juggernut

If a child plays with it it becomes a living, feeling being with consciousness. No exceptions.

Existence is suffering. They all want to die.

Garthor

do sex toys count

discrider

Eh, vestigial in a 'we just overthrew the car-people oppressors' way I think.

King Riptor

The hockey puck is clearly supposed to be some weird mascot merch not an actual puck.

Speed Racer

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Speed Racer wrote: »

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

so we all know that the first requirement of a Toy is that it's something that is Made, the making is what pours the soul in and makes something like forky or sporky or whatevva da fuk his name was

but how little making is required

is a ball and stick a Toy

I think it's some combination of making and anthropomorphizing on behalf of the child/children

If an object is "brought" to life through play then it really comes to life. For instance, Bopeep ISN'T a toy, she's a lamp, but she was played with like a toy and that gave her life

If you're just playing with a ball and stick then they're just a ball and stick. If you are imagining that the ball and stick have personalities, they become toys

We do see toys that are still in-packaging as having Toyness before they have the opportunity to be physically handled by children though

So now we're entering into territory where we have to ask if it requires a Child to imagine them as having play, or if the adults making them being conscious of them being toys also provides the spark

I think in the case of say a buzz light-year the packaged toys are brought to life not by an individual child but by the collective imagination of all children, as influenced through buzz light-year advertising

A similar thing could likely be said of Stinky Pete, though it is noteworthy that he's retained his sentience decades after he was forgotten by popular culture. This implies that the process is one-way, and once an object gains toy-life it can never lose it

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Uriel wrote: »

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Uriel wrote: »

Why do the cars in cars have seats?

vestigial evolutionary trait that just isn't selected out

Like an appendix? Do they ever get them removed? You'd figure a high performance race car like lightning would benefit from less weight.

well ultimately a car is not well suited to performing optional surgery on someone

Uriel

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Uriel wrote: »

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Uriel wrote: »

Why do the cars in cars have seats?

vestigial evolutionary trait that just isn't selected out

Like an appendix? Do they ever get them removed? You'd figure a high performance race car like lightning would benefit from less weight.

well ultimately a car is not well suited to performing optional surgery on someone

But wasn't that part of the premise of one of the sequels?

BahamutZERO

the answer is Spite

Juggernut

Yes once made, a toy lives as long as its mortal vessel remains intact. Potentially for hundreds of years. Perhaps thousands.

Should this vessel be destroyed entirely where, then, does the soul go? Does it know paradise? Or, being not of the flesh, is it apart from God, and so damned there to Gehenna?

Madican

Juggernut wrote: »

Yes once made, a toy lives as long as its normal vessel remains intact.

Should this vessel be destroyed entirely where, then, does the soul go? Does it know paradise? Or, being not of the flesh, is it apart from God, and so damned there to Gehenna?

Ask Sid

PaperLuigi44

What about collectables

Are most funko pops condemned to speechless agony

BahamutZERO

god I hope so

Whippy

unfortunately toys aren’t real

BahamutZERO

now plastic robot models, on the other hand

The Cow King

Does Goku exist in the toy story universe

Carpy

Veldrin wrote: »

Do any of the living toys in the Toy Stories have neither eye and/or limb analogues?

The RC car?

Madican

Can bootleg toys gain sentience or just their true selves?

see317

Carpy wrote: »

Veldrin wrote: »

Do any of the living toys in the Toy Stories have neither eye and/or limb analogues?

The RC car?

Pretty sure it had headlight eyes.

Javen

If you buy one of those 500 piece model sets is it alive immediately in all of those individual pieces or only after you finish putting it together

BahamutZERO

WE ARE LEGION

Javen

see317 wrote: »

Carpy wrote: »

Veldrin wrote: »

Do any of the living toys in the Toy Stories have neither eye and/or limb analogues?

The RC car?

Pretty sure it had headlight eyes.

I immediately thought of Etch but maybe the knobs would be thought of as limbs of some kind

Javen

Also the magic 8 ball but the movie is actually very ambiguous over whether that’s autonomous or not

Also Mike and Mr Spell and that’s only from the first act of the first movie!

Juggernut

Could a toy play with a toy and thus create life? Is there a toy universe hiding from the toys?

Is existence a never ending Matryoshka doll of toys hiding from toys hiding from toys?