9 Horrifying Questions About Toy Story That Should Really Bother You

This is the question with perhaps the most horrifying implications. Think about your old toys that you had when you were a child, and think about where they are now. Hopefully, they have been handed down to other children, and your toys get to be played with by children again. 

But realistically, that’s not always the case. Many of my old toys are either in storage in my parents’ basement, or they were thrown out, but in the Toy Story universe, are these toys still alive at these stages?

There’s nothing to suggest that they aren’t. Sure, their bodies could probably decay over many years, seeing that they’re made out of plastic and other material that eventually decomposes over a long period of time. But do they actually die? Toys presumably have no brains or internal organs, so they can’t really die of natural causes or old age like humans and animals. They can’t contract diseases or get heart attacks or strokes.

This is hinted at in Toy Story 2, when the characters are scared of being put into storage, but the gravity in the situation isn’t fully realized (seeing that these are children’s films). Toys going into storage probably means that they are locked away in darkness, outliving their owners until everyone has forgotten about them, but they are still alive, in paralyzing darkness and unable to move, because they are squished at the bottom of a box. That sounds like the most terrible torture in the world.

Being thrown out is slightly better, as they have the chance to escape from the dump, but as we saw in Toy Story 3, they could very easily get incinerated. After that, however, they might still be technically alive, living in constant pain with their body parts burnt off. Wait, maybe that’s worse than storage.

Of course, some people might argue that toys die when their bodies are broken in half. However, this is directly contradicted by the next point.