In this scene, Lotso is shown to have been initially unaware of his replaceability. The irony, I think, is that his reaction sees him reproduce the social hierarchies that feed into the social structures that made him replaceable in the first place.
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The first of these, loss of authenticity, seems to be more a problem of identity than the environment, but what I’m going to try and demonstrate is how I see the film tying together the themes of loss of authenticity and the production of waste via the character of Lotso (who is a toy bear), and his psychological reaction to being replaced. What struck me, almost as forcefully as my hand smacking blood-thirsty mosquitoes from my legs, was the film’s preoccupation with some of the effects of mass production particularly, the loss of authenticity, and problems resulting from waste (incineration versus recycling). So began my first and as yet only taste of the adventures of Woody and Buzz in Toy Story 3. That was, however, until the call of a warm summer breeze and the company of good friends at the outdoor cinema trumped my prior reservations about the Toy Story franchise. Suffice to say, the Toy Story craze blissfully passed me by. Chaperoning an annoying younger sibling was the only socially redeemable excuse for going to watch that “doll film”, and being the youngest in my family meant that I had no excuse.
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In 1995 I was more eager to be seen putting lipstick on myself than on a Barbie. The first Toy Story film was released when I was a tween. This is the first of 3 posts that considers how this theme is worked out in the third instalment of the Toy Story saga. “ Reduce, reuse and recycle” seems to be at the heart of Toy Story 3 ‘s “environmental” theme.