We knew that it was going to be about her, and that there was going to be a big reason why Woody is meeting up with her again.” Bo was always in every single version of this. “At the same time, I know that Andrew started thinking of the original outline of this film right after he wrote the third one, so is definitely possible. she’s part of my sister’s lamp,’” recalls Cooley. “I talked to Lee about it - he directed Toy Story 3 - and he said that for him, it was difficult to think about that last scene in the movie where Andy’s handing his toys over to Bonnie and he’s naming off all of the toys, and he’s like ‘This is Buzz, he’s the greatest! And here’s Woody, he’ll stick by you!’ And had trouble with him going, ‘Here’s Bo…. Even Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley had to do his own digging into the mystery. Potts says she was told that Bo was purposefully missing in 3 specifically so that she could return as a surprise in 4.

Bo’s omission from Toy Story 3 has been explained away over the years from a variety of conflicting reasons: One theory claimed that the filmmakers couldn’t justify how Bo’s porcelain would ever survive the climactic scene in an incinerator another filled in the blank that Bo was just absent because she was sold at an offscreen yard sale.

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