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Imagine being the last piece of a set lost under the sofa, all alone, never feeling whole forever and living a long long life, because plastic.
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Meh, Mrs. Potato Head doesnt appear to be in pain when she is missing an eye in the third movie. >

Neither does Mr potato head when he repeatedly gets all his parts thrown everywhere. Or buzz when he loses an arm. Or woody when he loses an arm. Or Bo Peep when she loses an arm. Or cruger when he loses an arm. >

Everyone's losing arms. What is this, Star Wars? >

There are several Star Wars references in Toy Story 2.
Source:  I watched it last night with my kids.  And the night before that… and the night before that… and the night before that… >

I always laugh when Zurg tells the Other Buzz that he is Buzz's father, then at the end of the movie Other Buzz is like "I'm gonna go play catch with MY DAD!" >

Always liked that part as well. Makes me irrationally angry watching the new Lightyear movie with my son that they didn't respect Zurg being Buzz's father as canon. >

A lot of that movie didn’t make sense tbh >

It could just take place in a kids imagination.
Disclaimer: I have not seen the movie >

No, it's canonically the movie in the toy story universe Buzz Lightyear is the merchandise of.
They tried a twist in which >!Zurg turns out to be not Buzz father, but Buzz from the future!< but it fell kinda flat since a lot of the stuff in the movie didn't make much sense. >

Not buzz finds the armour, the robots already say Zurg instead of buzz (he mentions they just count say buzz). The armour comes back online in the post credit scene, not buzz isn’t the true Zurg.
Signed; a dad to a 3 year old obsessed with lightyear anything. >

I feel like Legos would be a hive mind creature. All acting individually but coming together to form one being. >

Maybe not the mini figures, i could see them being their own thing >

What would bionicles be then? >

I think they could be sentient since they have more set shapes, idk lol >

I now feel bad for every bionicle monstrosity with multiple heads and arms ive ever created. >

Maybe just the heads are sentient and the rest only works when attached >

So the heads just roll around talking to each other when not in use >

"Yeah man see ya around" Awkwardly rolls away >

I'd think that's more like a sporky thing (was that his name?)  
When you assemble the set, it creates a new, live toy, what happens when you disassemble is my question... >

It "established" from toystory 1, what breaths life into toys is the imagination given to them.. In short If it's a toy, it's alive.
So if you pull the arm off buzz light year it's just an inanimate object with no life of its own since it's the arm of a toy but not normally a toy itself, but sid can stick doll legs on a toy fishing rod and now it's alive and sentient. Anything that can be called a "toy" is alive. Even a spork with a face on it or stinky Pete who wasn't ever directly played with. 
So a lego set has no life on its own in pieces, But once assembled can become alive. It's parts given form. Sure arguably a single piece could be alive.. But really it's just how the writers decide to handle it if we're being honest
Edit: since it keeps getting commented on.. The actual reason is the script calls for it. And nothing written in the script happens ever because it's just a movie. But that's sucking all the joy out of the post and conversation and I don't think you'd be fun at any parties to argue with fan speculation based on what the movies do show.. And how it could apply to what hasn't been shown. >

Yes, that's the premise
But what when you take them appart?
Does it cease to be what it is, no longer exist, until it's again put togheter in other form, and then it becomes something else, OR
Does it cease to be, then when put togheter again in another form, it retains what it was in the past, and recognizes being another form, but still the same toy, OR
Does it not cease to be at all, like a potato head that keeps being, just not assembled anymore
Or whatever else you can think of
Since a lego has no "main part" once you take it apart, what part of it will keep being what it was?
What if the set is assembled into a robot, then days after, taken apart, and assembled as two different robots?
Do they both retain a hive mind of the first toy, or do they become two different, new toys? Or does one of them retains the giant robot being, and the new one just becomes another toy?
I think I'm having a stroke. >

Wait till you start thinking about the Cars + Planes universe. >

Planes establishes that there was both a Cars WW2 and a Cars cold war >

The WW2 part has some implications I don't like >

All I'mma say is if Porsche exists then so must Volkswagen >

There is a Toy Story Tale of Horror or whatever it's called on Disney+ that has a lego set disassemble and reassemble at will. I think the key issue is whether or not it's been taken out of the package, so, all its parts can be together and use that assembly skill >

‘Toy Story of Terror!’ Came here to say this. >

Imagine being in a toy collector's collection. And I'm not talking about Al here either.
You're just put on a shelf in a certain position and remain there for months at a time. Or just stuck in a box after finally being bought. No wonder the Prospector went nuts! >

I mean, this is a major plot point of Toy Story 2... >

And some toys are conflicted about whether or not being on display as a collector's item would be a better outcome or not. >

At least they wouldn't get thrown in the dump and incinerated, at least not as soon >

Yeah Woody and the gang have been exceptionally long-lived and don't realize how lucky they are to last this long. Woody would have had a kid before Andy (I'd assume, he is an "old" toy from an earlier time) and the others still got to go through at least two kids so far (assuming they were new for Andy and second-hand for Bonnie) but most toys have much shorter life expectancies before being binned. Some not even lasting the day they were obtained. >

Ever see Brave Little Toaster? Those appliances were extremely lucky to have an owner with an unnatural sentimental attachment to appliances >

5 year old me loved movie. I think I drove my mom nuts because I was playing it at least once or twice a day for a month straight. >

Or maybe the perfect way to be a troll. Just leave yourself lying around hallways and high traffic areas. >

An AI Lego set that teams up with Macaulay Culkin, trolling burglars and car jackers. A movie I might watch. >

Has to be macaulay as he is now though, just a random sorta awkward 40-something who goes on random youtubers' channel's. Could bring the brick experiment channel along for the ride to make all the gadgets. >

The bigger question is: does the entire Lego set come to life or just the minifigures? Do we get an animated fire truck or animated little firemen driving a functional firetruck?
Edit: I’m loving all the deep Toy Story lore! >

Don’t the plastic soldiers drive around a non-sentient jeep at some point? I think that answers the question. >

That begs the question, are eyes necessary to be sentient in Toy Story? Miss hooker didn’t have any eyes.. or a lot of Sid’s toys if my memory from 10-25 years ago serves me correctly >

They did before Sid ruined them >

Toy Story 3 with the tortilla and Toy Story 4 with Sporky really open up a lot of uncomfortable questions about how exactly the "living toy" thing works. >

I think the implications in Legos are perfectly clear. Only the minifigures head piece is sentient and able to imbue pieces with life.
Now, what that means in the other scheme of the tortilla or household objects....terrifying. >

The tortilla was never alive, only Mr potato's parts >

No way man. If that were true it would lay flat and he could only flop like a snake. He supports his own weight at one point. Only whatever cosmic horror animates then can do that. >

The Lego Philosophical Conundrum: Purpose or Potential?
Am I made to be one thing? Am I predestined to exist only in one way not determined by me?
Or am I free to be whatever the imagination allows me to become?  Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is free choice.
What I am meant to be, or what I am free to become. >

Is everything awesome? >

yes >

Nah, Lego's are actually a hive-mind. Individually they have little to no sentience, but when formed into colonies they take on the aspects of their appearance. >

I feel like this was an SCP >

The Looping/Race track was an inanimate fucking object in TS1 so I guess construct parts are not alive.
Plus Fork from TS4 only became alive AFTER he was built.
.... I'm sorry I called the race track an inanimate fucking object. >

YOU’RE an inanimate FUCKING object! >

Legos are just rats, and when you assemble them, they become toy version of a rat king >

Portuguese man o’ war. >

There are inanimate toys in the movies, we see Lincoln Logs, Mrs Nesbit and Sister, tea cup sets.
It's safe to assume Legos wouldn't be sentient, but the Minifigures would be >

Nah, imagine the plastic models. The vehicles and airplanes, the Star Trek starships and Gunpla >

Man, that poor person's pile of shame...  Unless they don't gain sentience until put together >

I mean, that zebra from TS4 in the antique shop had half his body ripped off by the cat and they seemed fine. Same for when Woody ripped his arm in TS2 >

Maybe each Lego brick is sentient and they exist as a hive mind when assembled? Maybe Lego structures would try to assimilate other smaller structures? Actually this sounds pretty cool. >

Lego meets the doll house, thus the great toy war began. >

Disassembled is the pure form, it’s bliss. Assembled into a rigid structure is a prison >

Exactly, was OP in agony before his atoms were assembled into his current being? No, that was the last time he was at peace. >

Nah and yah. The individual legos are sub-sentient, and the things they build are mindful of their past lives. As a result, they tend to be attracted to Buddhism. >

I think it is the opposite. When you assemble them they are stuck, but when apart they can become anything. Be like unassembled Lego. >

I'd assume it feels the same as being an unassembled human long before you were born. All your molecules were here already, just not in your shape. >

I imagine the lego pieces as some kind of collective, like the barrel of monkeys >

I always kinda figured Lego, or really any construction set toy, would be more like a hive mind than parts of a whole. >

I bet Legos are a hivemind that can assemble their self at will >

Was there not a short where there was a Lego character? They were able to disassemble and reassemble at will. >

There's a lot of terrifying concepts in Toy Story when you think about it for any amount of time.
For example, toys feel pain. And they feel heat. And they scream in agony.
That means every time you leave a toy in the sun and it gets hot, it's paralyzed but also in extreme pain. Oh, you put a dark toy in the sand on a hot beach? And it gets up to 140-160 degrees? Yeah, it's literally burning, unable to die, unable to move. >

I always just assumed each piece would be its own entity. Because that's kinda how lego works. >

In a “Toy Story of Terror” short on Disney+ there is a Lego character which is seen to be able to self assemble like the Lego movie pieces >

What is the logical most granular object with consciousness in the toy story universe? What is the ship of Theseus in this world?
Does plastic have consciousness but no means by which to emote it?
Do all polymers?
Are the lakes of fossil fuels in the ground like Changelings lakes in Star Trek? >

A Lego set would be akin to John Carpenter's The Thing. Individually when separated from the bulk of its collective it maintains a basic survival and self preservation instinct, but when the sum of its pieces are coalesced, it gains insight and the capacity for higher thought. Thanks for coming to my TedTalks. >

maybe it's the other way around and every single brick is sentient and life sucks having your head shoved up another bricks ass while a brick is shoved up your ass assuming your not a top/bottom layer. >

Schrodingers Lego set.
Is it alive or dead? Is it assembled or not assembled? Is it a single autonomous thing or many? It is all of those things until observed. >

Legos are just toys for the toys. They have no life of their own. >

The Halloween special has a shape-shifting character made of LEGO >

That’s not canon >

According to who? Nothing in it is contradicted by canon >

I’m just being a contrarian >

No you're not >

"Look, I came here for a good argument!" >

AH, no you didn't, you came here for an argument! >

They’re all individual toys and they can assemble themselves at will. >

Does each piece have sentience or does the set itself have it's own identity? >

Nah, each individual Lego brick is a separate being unto itself >

I always thought it would be like the power rangers. each piece its own entity >

Was it agony to be a sperm? Single Lego bricks are toy sperm in toy story cannon >

Each piece is an individual. We do enjoy being assembled though, it gives us a sense of community. >

"I don't understand it. The more bits of me there were, the larger my capacity for the perception of pain. As I decayed into pieces smaller than living nerves could possibly distinguish, the character of the discomfort changed — from burning and aching and breaking I might relate to you in human terms — to something worse that I cannot fully articulate: a terrible, maddening stretching of every part of myself from every other part... >

My pet theory is that in the Toy Story universe, Lego are a collective intelligence. >

Like, when do toys attain consciousness? When they are all added to the box? If you lose a piece and replace it does it feel like a prosthetic? >

I think they don’t exist in a conscious state until they are assembled. Otherwise the conception of every single toy would be endlessly traumatic for them, and we also probably aren’t willing no to accept a reality where they actually breed the toys organically. >

I don't feel like Lego pieces would have sentience just by themselves. I feel like they would be in the same boat as the checkers, for example. Lego people obviously would, but other Lego pieces would not have sentience unless they were assembled into something that had eyes or legs. Like how a fork is not alive, but a fork with googly eyes and a mouth can now come to life. However the Etch-A-Sketch is clearly alive, so who really knows. I love exploring the physics of fantasy scenarios! >

Haha yeah
*nervously looking at my unfinished Warhammer joycons >

Etch a sketch was able to use their function so why wouldn’t Lego? >

I think they’d be more like the directional school of fish in Finding Nemo.  Each piece an individual but then assemble themselves in a flash.  Pretty cute. >

I think lego would be like colonial organisms. Single bricks are alive in their own way, but assembled they make a new lifeform basically >

According to Toy Story of Terror, Lego bricks can disassemble and reassemble into any model they want to be so I imagine life for them is better than a normal toy. >

Didn't Forky's thing show that Toys only come to life after they get played with? If I'm taking the canon seriously~ >

You have complete and total nerve sensitivity in your feet. You can feel them. They, from time to time, will itch. You cannot scratch them. >

What about the sex toys? How'd you like to be the vibrator that goes in some 80 year old's arse? >

It’s serving a purpose in making a person happy, which seems to be the default goal of most toys. >

Why does Buzz Lightyear pretend to be a toy when Andy enters the room if he believes he's an actual Space Ranger? >

We are the lego, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. >

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head seem alright disassembling so I think they’re fine lol >

Or are they like Zords?  Independent until they're combined, then they become one until they're split up again. >

This reminds me of the book All Tomorrows, which has a type of human who are tortured to be basically living legos. They’re called Colonials. >

Maybe they don't gain sentience until fully assembled. In the abomination called Toy Story 4, Forky doesn't come alive until the pipe cleaner and googly eyes are put on him. >

or as a wooden block with no eyes, ears, mouth or limbs to see, hear, speak or move
just a prisoner in its own mind unable to percieve or interact with the outside world >

I imagine that each individual brick is their own toy, but that their capabilities and intelligence increase as they come together... Actually that's horrifying >

it be fun to do like a swarm self building thing with them. Maybe all the Lego are just one Lego. >

I take the opposite approach. Separate is their state of being when created. Coming together must be pure ecstacy. >

Have you watched the movies? Do you realize how often they get dismembered and are in fact not in pain? >

Not if every Brick was sentient and they functioned like an ant colony or a wasp nest. >

It’s probably like the Forky affect. Not alive until assembled. >

Smoke Salvia and u could quite possibly become stuck as a lego for what will feel like eternity >

Unless every brick is it's own sentient being. Then were talking about Voltron assembling, right?