My Life is Starting Again

So today is the second greatest day of my year so far (besides any "day 3" with a substitute teacher filling in for my Calculus & Economics classes). Today is the debut of Toy Story 3.

The "Toy Story" series has been a focal point in the lives of myself along with many of older adolescents for these three reasons:
1.) Toy Story was the first and last movie good that Pixar made (sorry Bug's Life). Okay, The Incredibles was a solid movie too.
2.) You can drop the name Woody or Buzz at any 9 year old birthday party or open house keg party and people would know who you were referring to. (Too bad I'm not legally old enough to drink a couple beers and go watch Toy Story 3 with a solid buzz lightyear on).
3.) After watching Toy Story 1 & 2 you would quietly sneak into your basement or room to see if you could catch your toys talking and conversing with each other...and that NEVER got old.

The premise in this year's movie is that Andy is going to college and has to get rid of his toys. This brings up the question how old was he when Toy Story was made? (Andy's age in the original Toy Story, Arnold's Last name from "Hey Arnold!" and Nickelodeon's reasoning for taking "Doug" off the air are just a few of my habitual life long questions that I will always want to know).

The original movie came out in 1995. I was close to 4 at the time. Andy was at least past Kindergarten because Mr. Potato Head referred to Woody being Andy's favorite toy since Andy had been in Kindergarten during the first movie. So that would mean Andy had to be at least six for Kindergarten to be over when Mr. Potato Head said that. So now in 2010 when most kids who are going to college in the fall are 18 or 17, like myself, Andy is at least 20.

20?!

This kid had to have been held back one year AND spent a year as a post graduate in hopes of getting an athletic scholarship for him to be a 20 year old freshman. A 20 year old still holding onto his childhood collection of toys is a wee bit preposterous. But then again, none of us had Woody, Buzz and the gang as our toys...

So now my childhood is coming back to me with the releasing of Toy Story 3. If you have any heart, or any childhood left in you, spend the $10.50 and go see it, because trust me, it will be worth it.