In the 11 years since the last installment of the Pixar franchise, their half-pint custodian, Andy, has grown up, and as he prepares to debark for college, retirement looms for Buzz Lightyear, Jesse, Rex, Ham, the Potato Heads, and the rest of their narrow Toyverse. Such is the cruel afterlife facing the eponymous heroes of Toy Story 3 as the film opens. One might add, in a related vein, that the attics are full of indispensable toys-once central players in a childhood fantasy, now upstaged, outgrown, and consigned to the corrugated purgatory of a cardboard box. As Charles de Gaulle dryly observed, the graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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