Toy Story 3 and Saying Goodbye
June 20th, 2010 by Febe received No Comments »
I’m going to be honest here. I’ve been accused of having a heart of stone because I next to never cry at movies. There has only been 1 movie to make me bawl and that was American Beauty. I hate computer animated movies with a giant passion. I prefer the classic disney cartoons. However Toy Story was different.
I had a barbie mansion. I had tons of barbies, my brother had a couple ken dolls and lots of G.I. Joes, and we had a couple of NKOTB dolls that acted like Ken dolls. So we had a nice collection of toys to make some pretty crazy storylines. My brother was obsessed with the Back to the future trilogy so our most epic storyline involved some time traveling and the space time continuum. That particular play time spanned to both our bedrooms, involved 2 barbie houses, multiple chairs, and lots of costume design. I still look back fondly to those days when my mom would force us to go to bed and quit playing.
But I rarely think of those days now, I shun cartoons and toys in general. I consider myself an adult 30 year old married woman who gets more excited for christoper nolan movies and my plethora of TV shows.
After seeing the Ken short clips that pixar released, I was actually moved to see toy story 3. There was so many times I lay in bed as a child wishing so hard my toys came alive after I went to sleep. It didn’t help that at the time my favorite book was about two british boys whose dolls came alive in their mansion. Wish I could remember the name of that book..
So toy story series really spoke to me. But like old toys, I forgot how much I liked those movies. Then I saw toy story 3..
I’ll admit I teared up. I didn’t let the tears fall. But I was suddenly overwhelmed with the memories of my childhood toys. My heart broke at the realization they were in my parent’s dark attic. I remember what it felt like when I packed away my toys when I was about 12 or 13 years old. I remember giving away my mansion to a younger female cousin. I remember looking around my room and it feeling so empty and big without my plastic friends. I suddenly wanted to unpack all my toys and set up a small space in our apartment for them.
That’s the beauty of toy story. It speaks to the child in all of us. We all had toys and eventually we had to say goodbye to them for video game systems, computer, iphones, video cameras, computers, laptops, and other things. But to this day, no matter how many cool gadgets I have, no many how many dvds or blue ray movies I own, nothing quite equals the joy I had making kissing sounds with my barbie and ken dolls. Nothing is quite as amazing as the first time I got that one barbie that could move her arms after you pushed a button. Or the thrill of buying new clothes or accessories for the dolls. In my world, only a select few dolls got to wear panties haha. I had to rely on the parents to buy things for me and panties were scarce!
Go see toy story 3. It will warm your heart in ways you didn’t think were possible. I hope to one day see a ken and barbie movie from the pixar people. It would be awesome. Maybe it could involve some time traveling too.
