10 Epic Challenges Toy Story 4 Faces

Though it was announced shortly after the release of Pixar's 2010 masterpiece Toy Story 3 that Tim Allen was contracted for a fourth movie, nobody really took this news seriously: after all, Pixar gave Woody, Buzz and co. the perfect send-off, so why would they dare return to it, right? Well, hearts broke the world over two weeks ago when it was officially announced that Toy Story 4 was actually moving ahead for a June 2017 release, with John Lasseter returning to the director's chair, while Rashida Jones and Will McCormack will write the script. Tom Hanks and Allen are, of course, absolutely certain to return. Despite fans the world over insisting that there was enormous potential to ruin the near-perfect consistency of the original trilogy, Lasseter stood defiant, saying of the new movie, "When Andrew, Pete, Lee and I came up with this new idea, I just could not stop thinking about it. It was so exciting to me, I knew we had to make this movie€”and I wanted to direct it myself". Still, given that the last film Lasseter directed was the mediocre Cars 2, it's hard not to be skeptical that Toy Story 4 is going to be little more than a cash-grab, a lame attempt to milk fans of another billion dollars. Even if it turns out great, TS4 is going to face a mountain of challenges, and here are the 10 biggest ones of all...