Toy Story 3 is not without its teary moments. What happens to your toy when you grow up? I reminded of Jollibee's campaign for toy donation for less fortunate children. TBH, I'd rather dish out some cash and buy brand new toys for the less fortunate than to give mine away. Talk about it that you may be willing to give away a new teddy bear from Toy Kingdom or Toys R Us over the teddy bear you slept with. Toy Story 3 really has that theme going on especially Andy is now 17 years old and getting ready for college.
The ending side of Toy Story 3 has him donate the toys to a little girl named Bonnie at the end of the movie. Andy tells Bonnie to take good care of all the toys as they mean a lot to him. What's so sad was that Andy wanted to take Woody to him in college (though Woody temporarily got replaced by Buzz in the first Toy Story movie). However, seeing Buzz and Woody were always together -- he sadly gave Woody away for the best. Somehow, Buzz and Woody just became inseparable to the point that Andy decided to make the right decision by giving them both together.
I think about some toys that I've gotten rid of. Some of them are troll dolls such as the Battle Trolls and the Crystal Crusaders toyline. Both toylines are now forgotten. I still have my Conan the Adventurer toy though the cartoon series is now an old shame to me. I still think about how I eventually no longer have Toy Biz Marvel toys and accidentally destroyed my Wolverine action figure. A stuffed animal may be an inanimate object yet a child can easily give it a "life" of its own. I still feel that a teddy bear is that imaginary friend that' shard to get rid of. A worn-out bear is where I remembered the Chojin Sentai Jetman episode when Ako threw away her worn-out teddy bear. It felt so sad looking at how Ako was still holding to the bell that she put on her teddy bear who ended up becoming the monster-of-the-week. It was so sad really how Ako herself had to see Trash Jigen killed by Maria for being useless to the Vyram cause.
What really becomes my coping mechanism (at times) is to go to Toys R Us or to Toy Kingdom whenever I can. I still feel sad that Nova Fontana and Gift Gate no longer exist. It's so sad really that there's no Santa Claus to run into and suddenly give you back that vintage toy magically. I remembered how I cried (a bit) in The Christmas Chronicles when Santa Claus pulled out some vintage toys from his coat. I really wish my dream of Kurt Russell's version of Santa Claus standing by my bed to give me some vintage toys in good condition was real. It was all a dream and there's always that sad feeling when one departs from childhood toys.
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