The voice of the Evil Emperor Zurg is none other than Director/Screenwriter of Disney's Pixar films Andrew Stanton who is always given a voice part in every computer animated movie.
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Near the end of the picture Al is racing to the airport and the toys give chase in the pizza truck. Spud jams the transmission into gear without using the clutch. (Hey, it's only a cartoon and Goyozas had great transmissions). The entire chase, however, would have been in first gear, but the engine runs at a normal speed. The truck bounces to a stop at the airport and then the engine stops. If they weren't using the clutch the truck and the engine would have stopped (stalled-out) at the same time. See more...
Toy Story 2 (1999) - 30 trivia entries
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The voice of the Evil Emperor Zurg is none other than Director/Screenwriter of Disney's Pixar films Andrew Stanton who is always given a voice part in every computer animated movie.
When we first meet Mrs. Potato Head, if you pause the movie, you can see that she's reading "A Bug's Life".
When Jesse sings the song "When somebody loved me", she and Emily are shown swinging in a tree. This is the same tree as in "A Bug's Life".
When you see Zurg at Al's Toy Barn it says "Zurg Vision" on the back of his head above the little screen. And at the beginning of the movie during the video game, the screen that Zurg watches Buzz on says "Zurg Vision" too.
Tour Guide Barbie's comment about short sighted toy retailers not producing enough Buzz Lightyears in 1995 is a dig at real life toy producers who underestimated the popularity of the first movie.
When Hamm's flicking through the TV Channels The Pixar Film Tin Toy can be seen on one of the channels.
The toy cleaner who comes to repair Woody is the chess player in the preview show on A Bug's Life - in this film he opens a drawer containing chess pieces.
Along with the bouncing ball from Tin Lamp short, The Al's Toy Barn ad also features the grey teddy bear from the original Toy Story (in the beginning when Woody is doing a sound check, there is a shot where the bear is waving high on a shelf).
In the scene where Potato Head is driving the toy car down the aisles of the Toy Barn (after Buzz and the gang split up) and Rex suddenly places the Buzz Lightyear strategy guide in front of his face, if you pause you can see the price for the guide: $15.00 U.S., $50.00 CAN. A little joke on the money exchange between the two countries.
On the original version, when Buzz says "We have a friend in need", the American flag is shown in the background. But due to the world situation, it was changed to a spinning globe when shown overseas.
On the Al's Toy Barn TV ad, when all the specials are shown from out of the egg, you see the exact same ball as in the hopping lamp film at the beginning.
When you see the stars in the opening sequence you can make out a group of stars in the shape of the Pixar lamp.
The dust in the scene where Woody meets Wheezy set a record for number of particles animated for a movie by computer.
On the ground of the planted area the toys walk through before they cross the highway is a rusty tin can. This can was the bug bar in A Bug's Life.
When Etch copies the map off the TV and Buzz points to "Al's Toy Barn" and says "That's where I need to go.", the address listed beside "Al's Toy Barn" is also Pixar's address in California.
There are a two references to the first Toy Story movie: 1.The aliens who says "Strangers. From the outside. Ooooh." 2.When Woody is holding on to the luggage tag at the end.
Just after Buzz, Potato Head, and the others enter Al's Toy Barn (before they get hold of a car or split up), if you look in the background, you can see a rack of toys from "A Bug's Life".
The exact same "EGGMAN MOVERS" truck used at the end of the first movie can be seen on the road the toys try to cross.
More tributes and references to Star Wars: at the beginning of the movie the sound of the laser gun in Buzz's arm is the sound of a Star Wars blaster. Also the sound of the hologram of Zurg's energy source (a battery) is the sound of a light saber.
At the beginning of the film, when Buzz is battling his way into Zurg's fortress, he has to jump onto several floating discs to get to the (battery) power source. He jumps onto five discs before they collapse under him; each plays a note, the first five notes of the theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey".
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