What happened to Andy’s dad? Andy Sr., already sickly, came down with polio, which meant that all of his belongings had to be burned-including toys. … There are literally thousands of kinds of yokai, and just as many kami. Is Colt McCoy still married? Is Totoro a Kodama?Ī kodama from “Princess Mononoke” and the soot spirits from “Spirited Away.” Probably the most famous yokai in Miyazaki films are the soot spirits in Sprited Away and My Neighbor Totoro or the “kodama” in Princess Mononoke or, again, Totoro. The original script for Toy Story 3 had Buzz and his entire toy line recalled back to Taiwan (where the Buzz Lightyear toys are made) due to a defect. In the same way, Which country is Buzz Lightyear made in? Is Totoro in Toy Story 4? Directors Josh Cooley and Mark Nielsen (directors of Toy Story 4) revealed in an interview that Totoro was not in the fourth film mainly because of copyright reasons and largely due to the fact that they mainly “borrowed” him for the third film. He is seen on a garbage truck as he comes to pick up the trash from Andy’s house (including Andy’s toys who were also in a bag and mistakenly got put outside by Ms. Similarly, Is Sid in Toy Story 3? Sid (now grown up) made a cameo appearance in Toy Story 3, working as a garbageman for Tri-County Sanitation. “We do little homages in our films, and we thought it was a very appropriate homage to let Studio Ghibli know how much they mean to us.” … This was not the first time Pixar paid tribute to the work of Miyazaki. “ Totoro has a cameo appearance in “Toy Story 3,” he acknowledged.