toy story 3

Plot

Andy, who is now seventeen years old, has outgrown his old toys, some of which have been either sold or given away. The others have been stored in his toy box and are being kept there while Andy prepares for college. He decides to take Woody with him and packs the other toys in a garbage bag, intending to store them in the attic, but Andy's mom mistakenly puts the bag out on the roadside as garbage. Believing that Andy no longer wants them, the toys sneak into a box to be donated to Sunnyside Daycare. Woody, who saw what really happened, tries to clear up the misunderstanding, but the others refuse to listen.

The toys are driven to Sunnyside where they receive a warm welcome from the daycare toys, led by Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear (a.k.a. Lotso). Woody tries to convince the others to return to Andy, but they feel that they would be happier at Sunnyside, so they let him leave without them. The others soon discover the children Lotso assigned them with are too young, and they are innocently abused and tortured. Meanwhile, Molly's Barbie, who was also donated begins to fall for Ken, who is Lotso's right hand man and is also falling for Barbie. Buzz goes to ask Lotso to transfer them to the older children, but learns they were put in the younger children's room on purpose and is caught by some of the Sunnyside toys and reset to his original, deluded space ranger self.

During his escape from Sunnyside, Woody is found and taken in by a girl from the daycare named Bonnie. One of Bonnie's toys named Chuckles reveals to Woody the truth about Lotso and Sunnyside: Lotso, Chuckles and Lotso's chief enforcer Big Baby, had once been owned by a little girl named Daisy, but Lotso snapped after his owner lost and replaced him, so he took over Sunnyside and turned it into a prison. At the daycare, the others discover that Andy is looking for them when Mrs. Potato Head sees him through her missing eye, which was lost in Andy's room. The toys try to leave but are imprisoned by Lotso and his henchmen, including Buzz in his demo mode.

Woody returns to Sunnyside to help his friends break out, when he runs into Chatter Telephone, who tells him that the only way out of Sunnyside is through a garbage chute. Together, the toys formulate an escape plan involving returning Buzz to normal, and taking out a cymbal-banging monkey in the security camera room. During the escape, the toys accidentally reset Buzz to his Spanish mode during the escape, after which he joins their side (believing they know where his spaceship is) and impresses Jessie. The toys use a garbage chute to reach a dumpster outside the daycare, but Lotso and his henchmen catch them (having beaten Chatter Telephone for telling Woody how to break out). Ken protects Andy's toys, saying that being in love with Barbie has changed him, and that he has turned against Lotso. Woody explains to Lotso's henchmen about Lotso's past, and when Lotso finally goes too far, Big Baby throws Lotso in the dumpster. Lotso pulls Woody into the dumpster just before a garbage truck arrives, forcing the others (besides Barbie and Ken) to rescue him. In the chaos of falling garbage, Buzz rescues Jessie from being crushed, which results in a broken TV falling on him, resetting him to normal, with no memory of his other modes.

The toys arrive at a waste plant where they are pushed onto a conveyor belt. The toys use the ceiling (a magnet) to escape a shredder, but find Lotso stuck under a golf bag calling for help. Woody and Buzz manage to rescue him just in time. Soon the toys discover that the conveyor belt is taking them to an incinerator. Lotso discovers an emergency stop button and gets Woody to help him up the ladder toward it. But when he reaches the button, he betrays his rescuers and refuses to push it, causing them to fall into the chute of the incinerator. They hold hands in solidarity when they realize there is no way out, and are carried slowly towards the flame. At the last minute, they are rescued by a claw crane operated by the squeeze toy aliens. Later, Lotso is found by a garbage man, who ties him to the front of his truck.

The toys return to Andy's house on a garbage truck and prepare to be stored in the attic. Woody decides he and his friends would better serve their purpose elsewhere. He writes a message on a post-it note and sticks it on the box with all the toys inside. After reading the message, Andy takes the toys to Bonnie. He introduces each toy individually and is surprised to find Woody included, but decides to let Bonnie have him. Then together with Bonnie, Andy plays with his toys one more time before he leaves for college. As Andy drives off, Woody sadly waves goodbye to his former owner, and he is immediately comforted by Buzz and then introduces his old friends to his new friends.

As the credits roll, the conditions for new arrivals at Sunnyside has vastly improved. It is revealed that Barbie and Ken are now in charge of Sunnyside and are making it a nice place for toys. The toys now take turns putting up with the younger children rather than forcing a certain group to put up with all of it. The toys at Bonnie's house keep in touch with those at Sunnyside by slipping notes through Bonnie's backpack.