Toy Story premise makes no sense

 So all toys are actually alive, but they - ALL of them for the
WHOLE history of toys on the whole planet? - hide that fact
from their slavemas... I mean, 'owners'.

Now, there are SO many questions that should be answered,
but this movie doesn't bother answering.

01) WHY do they all follow this rule? Are there no
rebels?

02) What is the REASON for the rule? Why would it be beneficial for the
'owners' to think something living is actually non-living? Wouldn't that
just create unnecessary danger?

03) Who created this rule and why?

04) If all toys are alive, are there inanimate objects that are not alive?

What creates 'life' for the toys, and why doesn't it create life for
anything else?

05) Is it possible to manufacture things that are not alive, or is everything
that is manufactured alive somehow? Are all plastic bags alive? Computers?
Hairdryers? Why only toys?

06) How does this happen, exactly? How can any soul, let alone an individual,
seemingly human soul, incarnate into a bunch of manufactured plastic without
chakras or meridians, and why would they, when they clearly ALSO incrnate
into proper human bodies, that governments recognize have ACTUAL RIGHTS?

07) Buzz doesn't think he's a toy, but voluntarily follows this arbitrary
rule anyway? What are the consequences for breaking the rules, and why
is everyone so scared of breaking them, that they follow them even when
they don't think they are a toy?

If there can be one toy that doesn't think they're a toy, then there
should be millions of them, historically speaking. NOT ONE OF THEM
broke the rule?

08) Why and how can the toys mold the hard plastic they are made
out of, just to create facial expressions and such? Wouldn't the
toymakers KNOW exactly what kind of plastic they are using, and
wouldn't it be way too hard and inflexible to allow that constant malleability?

 Even if it was softer plastic, would it really snap back like a
living skin or an actual human face, when a toy smiles or whatnot,
and then closes their mouth? Why wouldn't it just BREAK or CRACK?

I mean, in my opinion, it can't even BE plastic, all the toys
must have been made mainly out of some kind of RUBBER for any
of this to be possible.

Think about the toy soldiers; mom steps on one, it makes a
CRUNCHING sound, and then listen to the sound when she kicks
them away. Definitely hard plastic. Then they start moving
and speaking, and they move as if they're even more malleable
than rubber. What kind of plastic is it?

09) The human can move the physical body's limbs and such,
because there are MUSCLES that expand and contract based on
electrical signals sent to them by the soul, through the brain
and such. Anything that moves in the physical world, must have
some kind of power like this to make it move, even windmills
have wind that pushes the blades.

WHAT makes the toys' arms, legs and other bits move? They don't
have physical brains, which isn't 100% necessary to be able to
think on the physical level, but without any kind of brain system,
it would be pretty darn challenging. What enables these toys to
think and move, if they don't have muscles or brains?

09b) What about talking? How can they produce voice without vocal
cords?

 People of this planet already know so much about how the
human bodily system moves, how voice is produced and all that,
and this movie throws ALL of that away and just .. magically
makes these abilities possible?

 Where does this magic come from and who created and orchestrates it?

10) Talking about voice, the whole voice amplification thing
 makes no sense. Why would Woody need his voice to be amplified,
 when everyone else can hear everyone else's voice just fine
 without it.

Also, if they really need his voice to be amplified, then it
means his voice levels are raised considerably, which means Andy
and his mother would definitely be able to hear them.

 What kind of sense does it make that they try to hide and sneak
around as much as possible so they can't ever be seen move by
a human being..

 (and the methods they do it with are SO sloppy, historically
speaking, it's NOT plausible, believable or credible in ANY
way, shape or form that ALL THE TOYS OF THE WORLD ON ALL
COUNTRIES IN ALL THE YEARS they toys have been a thing,
have ALWAYS been 100% successful in avoiding being seen,
even accidentally - furthermore, they need someone to SCREAM
at them for them to even know to go 'back to their places'

 - what if some toys have bad memory and simply can't remember
in a panicky situation where their place was? THIS HAS NEVER
HAPPENED ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD OF BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND HUNDREDS
OF YEARS?!

They have so many close calls in this movie, they end up in
situations that are not under their control, where someone
would EASILY have seen a toy move, OR the very least not
be where they should have been. The kids run into the room
so fast and there's maybe 'few seconds' for everyone to get
in their 'place'.

Are you telling me they somehow magically can get back to a
specific point and pose in a few seconds every single time,
during all human history, all toys in all the countries in
the world?!

For this kind of ability and panic, for this kind of strict
adherence to the rule, for this kind of work, toil and effort,
there should be a VERY good explanation as to WHY would any
toy bother following the rule instead of talking to the humans
and explaining they are alive!

But it's not even talked about, no toy wonders about it, no on
e says 'look, if I am going to run around like a fool, I would
like to know a VERY good reason for it!' IN ALL TOY HISTORY,
not even one toy has reacted like this or rebelled?

NOT EVEN ONE?!

 DO they have individualities and personalities? IF so, it's
impossible that in all these years, not even one toy wanted
to rebel against or at least KNOW about this rule, and why
they must follow it, when it's in NO WAY beneficial to the
toys, and it only makes humans treat them like soulless objects!

WHY WOULD ANYONE VOLUNTARILY CHOOSE TO BE TREATED LIKE SOULLESS
 OBJECTS?! ISN'T THAT WHY SLAVERY IS WRONG AND WAS ABOLISHED?!)

.. but at the same time, they move COMPLETELY FREELY (not trying
to remember the exact place and position they were in before
they started moving, and always making sure they can easily
and quickly return to that spot and position), they make as
much noise as possible, and they AMPLIFY THEIR VOICES!?

Talking more about voices, why would the soldiers have a
typical 'husky whiskey voice', when they're TOYS made out
of plastic, and not only that, they're VERY, very small
compared to an actual 'soldier'.

How and why can they have EXACTLY a 'human soldier voice'
that has been drinking a lot of whiskey? Shouldn't the
voice be really plasticky, tinny, tiny, whiny, high-pitched
and maybe even metallic? WHY can it be exactly as human voice,
when human voice is produced by COMPLETELY different methods?

Even if we accept that the voices just SOMEHOW can be produced,
be it magic or otherwise, what are the chances that two
COMPLETELY different methods of producing voice will result
in 100% identical voices?

Also, the toy soldiers' assumed brains (which probably don't
exist) would be the size of an ant's head or something. HOW
the heck can they think and talk as if they're human beings
with brains like that?

WHAT the .. how? Why?

Also, if you look how INCREDIBLY close everyone is not only
to each other but Woody, when he's trying to calm them down
about the birthday, and then compare to HOW FAR AWAY he is
when everyone is at the window sill - WHY would he need the
voice amplification in the first scenario, but not in the
latter one?

Why does he need it at all? Everyone seems to hear each other
just fine through all kinds of distances, what the heck is
this voice amp thing anyway?!

11) Assigning evil to a kid and telling he tortures toys makes
no sense. Again, this is the toys' own fault for FORCING
people to think they have no soul or any kind of life!

 Also, are you telling me toys will follow the rule even
when they're tortured or murdered? Wouldn't breaking the
rule be a LESSER evil than exploding to pieces?!

(Also, Woody would clearly let a massive truck drive over
him than break the rule in a way that humans would probably
never find out about? WHAT? Just sneak away from under the
truck before you are crushed, no one will see that, sheesh!

 But nope, the rule is like the prime directive in Star Trek
- you can NEVER, ever violate it, except when you suddenly
decide to do just that. So now it's a rule you can just BREAK,
so WHY IS EVERYONE HELL-BENT ON LETTING THEMSELVES BE
MURDERED RATHER THAN BREAKING IT?)

I mean, SID doesn't know toys are alive, so he's not doing
anything wrong or evil, just being creative with his playtime.
He's simply playing a role of a villain - with the same
logic, James Earl(e?) Jones is evil, because he played
Darth Vader.

If Sid KNEW the toys are alive, he probably wouldn't torture
them, so these toys are being really idiotic and evil
themselves. First they pretend they are NOT alive, then
they accuse someone for torturing toys! I mean, the
contradiction here is staggeringly idiotic, it's like
feminist logic!

Gender is just a social construction, but men should always
pay for everything, including dinners, dates, etc.

Toys are not alive (as far as any human knows), but someone
can still be accused of torturing them.


12) Why is it all right to break the rule to traumatize Sid
for no reason, but not OK to break it in other, just as bad
or worse, or just one toy's life-or-death situation, or a
torture situation of 10 toys? (Surely Sid must've tortured
more in his lifetime than ten anyway)

Who makes the rules about how and when the rule CAN and CANNOT
be broken, and why is this ONE situation _THE_ONLY_ONE_ that
the rule can be broken in, but throughout human and toy history,
no other situation has been bad enough? What? Seriously?

WHO DECIDES THESE THINGS? Can anyone just decide to break the
rule at any time they wish?

What happens if - and don't tell me this could never happen,
from what this movie shows us, it definitely should, and has
already happened - some toy is SO far from the original place,
they can't make it in time? Do they 'freeze' in the wrong place,
or just give up and talk to the humans and admit defeat? What
happens and why?

Also, WHY DOES THE RULE EVEN EXIST, and who decided it, and WHY
DOES EVERYONE ADHERE TO IT so much that it becomes more important
to them than not being tortured or crushed by a truck?!

And why, at the same time, AT THE SAME TIME!!, is the rule flimsy
and unimportant enough that they can just break it at will to
traumatize a child that didn't know they were doing anything
wrong? It's like you don't tell me you are alive, but you think
I am evil for torturing you? How the hell am I supposed to 'not
be evil' if you don't tell me you are alive so I can even make
that decision?

Am I evil for getting a videotape stuck in a VCR? Does the VCR
get hurt? Yeah, I know no one knows what these things are anymore,
but the point stands. If I format a hard drive, am I being evil?

 None of this makes any damn sense.

13) To get back to the voice projection point - the toys have
a GOOD hearing, they can perfectly well hear hear the mom talk
when she's amazingly far away from them, they can hear woody
yell from all the way from Sid's house.. so WHY would they
need a voice amplification system when they're about 15 cm
away from Woody?

Also, look how far away Woody is when he, not in a very loud
voice, calls for Hanna, while mimicking her mom's voice. I
mean, mimicking, being very far away, and he can still project
his voice, even if it doesn't sound very loud. WHY would he ever
need a voice amp for 15 cm distance?!

WHY!?

14) So every toy in the world - for _SOME_ reason?! - agrees that
they will always pretend they are not alive

(this still doesn't nake any sense to me, as I don't see a benefit
  - wouldn't even the kids be more happy to know their toys are alive?

 As many moral and ethical questions as this would give birth to..)..

However, they have NO qualms about 'fixing' toys. Sid 'unfixes'
toys, the toys themselves fix themselves back. _THIS_ should be
enough to not only break the rule, but traumatize Sid for life!

He worked hard to swap the heads of dolls, the next day it's like
he never did it. Talk about experience worse than Mandela Effect!

Why does _THIS_ kind of meddling not break the rule? Isn't it giving
EVIDENCE that the toys are alive, and thus just as bad a crime?

 Or is it OK to do _WHATEVER_, as long as a human being doesn't
DIRECTLY see you being alivE? So you can redecorate someone's room
without their consent, steal their car and go for a joyride, empty
their fridge, kill their dog.. but as long as no one sees you actually
move, you haven't broken the rule?

See how the 'rule' crap makes NO sense at all, when you think about
it at all?

15) Why does Sid not know about umbrellas? Adverse weather conditions?

 What child ever treats rain as 'weather that prohibits them from going
out'? A kid wouldn't care about rain or thunder, they would REVEL in it,
run around in it and just have fun with the puddles and whatnot.

At worst, he could just bring an umbrella so he can light the match,
then step back and watch the rocket launch and explode.

 I don't really see why he couldn't do this, or wouldn't do it.

 If he's fast, the ground isn't even going to be too wet, because the
rain was just starting. Also, the thunder would give the 'proper setting'
for something like that.

Heck, a creative kid like Sid would even be able to fabricate a mini-umbrella
for the 'rocket', just for fun!

16) How do the toys see? Same problems as the vocal cords and muscle
 - not all toys have ANY kind of eyes, but even those that do, have
 plastic eyes with paint on them instead of actual retinas or whatnot.

How do they see, exactly? Are some of the toys blind? Why can't some
toys talk, and some can, even though a mouth .. I mean, there are SO
many problems and questions this movie doesn't answer.

Think about the 'hand-in-the-box' toy. Is the box part of its 'body',
does it hurt if it's pinched or punched? Does it see at all?

Can it even hear? Can it talk? How does it all work?!

17) Didn't they break the rule ALL OVER THE PLACE anyway, so why even
care about it? I mean, _ANY_ time Woody is seen by a human, when Woody
isn't where he's supposed to be, is breaking the rule. The toys are ONLY
supposed to be seen by humans when the toys are at the EXACT places where
HUMANS LEFT THEM.

They are NOT supposed to be seen in someone's backyard where no human
put them in, right? So why is it OK for Woody to just be found by Sid in
his yard BEFORE they supposedly break the rule? This applies, of course,
to Sid finding them in the 'alien toy game' machine and so many other places
as well. Technically, even Andy finding them in the box in the car
_IS_ breaking the rule!

18) The way those 'voices' work in those old toys, is that some actual human
being with a particular voice, with his vocal cords and all, SPOKE those
lines, they were taped or recorded, then they could be replayed by some kind
of audio system of the time when the string is pulled (not sure how, but
perhaps, possibly, some kind of magnetic film or such was involved).

How and why is Woody able to EDIT and ADD to those voices? I mean, even
when he speaks, he doesn't (or at least shouldn't) have the exact same
voice as a human that recorded/taped those voices for the toy corporation,
so how can he 'speak' with the same, exact voice?

Furthermore, why does he have 'two voices' now? I mean, he can speak with
his own voice (for some reason) and then he can ALSO speak with the
'there's a snake in my boots'-voice. If he can do THAT, then why would he
EVER have only the few, set voices, when he could delight kids with
ENDLESS supply of all kinds of sentences with all kinds of intonations!

Is he cruel or what?

Again, the rule makes NO SENSE, when it is of NO BENEFIT TO ANYONE.

Also, it's not explained how he can ALTER PRE-RECORDED SENTENCES AND USE
THE SAME, EXACT VOICE.

19) The toys are seen by a dog. Why does this not count?

The toys are seen by the dog when the toys are running in the middle of a
suburban stroad. HOW does the rule work, exactly? Is it:

1) A human being can't see the toys move, EVER

2) The toys can't see a human being see them

3) It doesn't matter if someone ACTUALLY sees them, as long as the
   toys THINK they weren't seen

4) A being that can't speak and has no credibility CAN see them
   (the toddler in the car saw them move)

or

4) Anyone can see them, and the rule isn't very important?

I mean, they can take a HUGE risk that someone might see them,
why is this allowed, when it can VERY easily end up with breaking the rule?

Of course they already broke the rule, and there were no consequences,
except good ones (from their perspective, but in fact, they did
psychologically torture a being they KNEW was alive, so how are
the toys not WORSE and MORE EVIL than Sid ever was?), so why
even bother following the rule?

They play SO fast and loose with the rule, it might as well not
exist, but yet they treat it as something SO important they will
rather get crushed by a truck or exploded to pieces than break it.

I mean, if Woody wants to get crushed by the truck rather than
move 2 cm away, why would he think it's OK to break the rule
for avoiding being blown up to little pieces? Wouldn't they die
just the same in each case? What makes one case so different
from the other?

20) Why would it be so incredible that Buzz could fly? He might
as well, because all of the toys can ALREADY magically move mass
without any explainable power coming from anywhere. Why would
levitation or flying be more magical than Woody being able to
move its arms?

21) Woody and Buzz look at each other when the camera is zoomed
in on them in the car, while Andy is still HOLDING them.

Andy OR his mother or both could EASILY have seen that! What if
the mother had happened to glance at some mirror or just
looked back for a second and saw that happen? They were
looking at each other, so they could NOT have seen mom turn
her head - unless they don't need their eyes to see, in
which case, why even bother looking at each other?

The premise creates SO many problems, this movie shouldn't
even exist.