The Mutant Toys (sometimes referred to as Sid's Toys) are supporting characters who appeared in the 1995 Disney•Pixar animated feature film Toy Story. They were built by Sid from mixed parts of several toys that belonged to him and Hannah. They live in his house, hidden in the dark corners of his room.
Background[]
- Main article: Babyface
Ducky is a duck head PEZ dispenser atop a baby doll torso with a plunger base. Unlike the rest of the mutant toys who can't speak, Ducky makes duck noises recorded by Clarence Nash.
The Frog is a tin wind-up frog that had all but his left front leg missing. From the back, his frog legs are replaced with mismatched wheels. He is the fastest of the mutant toys.
Hand-in-the-Box is a Frankenstein-like hand stuck on the spring of a musical Jack-in-the-Box that plays "Pop Goes the Weasel". The spring is actually the same model as Slinky's.
Jingle Joe is a toy based off a Melody Push Chime with a Combat Carl head on top. He has a severed Mickey Mouse's arm attached to his right.
Legs is a pair of Barbie doll legs attached to a green toy fishing rod.
Pump Boy is a yellow 1954 convertible car with baby doll limbs instead of wheels. He is also known as Walking car or Mutant Car. He is the second fastest mutant toy.
Rockmobile is a strange combination between three toys; Rocky Gibraltar, Combat Carl, and an unknown housefly/mantis hybrid. He uses the arms from Rocky's torso to walk with Carl's torso atop controlling Rocky's legless body with a steering wheel. His Carl's head was replaced by that of an unconfirmed insect.
RollerBob (sometimes spelled Rollerbob) is composed of the torso of a pilot action figure nailed to a mini school skateboard.
Other toys abused by Sid (seen coming back to life in his backyard) are a burned rag doll, a red pickup truck, two broken and muddy Combat Carls, one armless with a nail in his head, and the other headless with a broken leg, a Squeeze Toy Alien (who originally came with Woody and Buzz after Sid won them in the claw machine at Pizza Planet and given to Scud as a chew toy when he got home), and two headless dolls seen in Hannah's room, named Marie Antoinette and Little Sister.
Role in the film[]
When Woody and Buzz Lightyear first encountered them, they saw them dragging Hannah's Janie doll and Sid's toy pterodactyl away and the two thought they were cannibals who were going to eat them, especially when they blocked the escape route for the duo. Holding Buzz, Woody pushed the button on his back to make his arm chop to back them away as they tried to escape after Buzz realizing that his laser isn't working after aiming it at the mutant toys as he is still unaware that he is a toy. It was later hinted that they blocked the exit for the two new arrivals on account that Buzz and Woody risked encountering and getting torn apart by Scud who was just outside of Sid's room.
However, when the mutant toys later placed Buzz's severed arm back in place, as well as taping the heads of Hannah's Jane doll and Sid's toy pterodactyl back to their correct bodies, Woody was stunned to see that they were actually quite harmless, and not cannibals as he had initially thought them to be. After Sid took Buzz (whom he had strapped his new rocket to) outside to be blown up, the mutant toys agreed to cooperate with Woody in his plan rescue Buzz from Sid's clutches while also seeing this as their own chance to get revenge on him.
Working together, they first drove Sid's dog, Scud, who had stationed himself outside Sid's room, away and out onto the front porch so they could safely escape into the backyard. Once outside, they moved into their final positions, from where they emerged out, surrounding Sid, as Woody told him how much they don't like being mutilated and that they'll find out if he didn't take good care of his toys because "we toys can see everything." Woody then scared Sid away with his own voice, "So play nice," and caused him to retreat in fear of his own toys (considering everything he had done to all of them).
They all rejoiced victoriously and Buzz thanking Woody for saving him, but the celebration is cut short as Woody and Buzz witness Andy's mom's car leaving Andy's old house next door as Woody and Buzz start to leave Sid's house as the mutant toys are last seen seeing Woody and Buzz leave for Andy's car as Woody and Buzz bid farewell to the mutant toys.
Disney Parks[]
The Mutant Toys have made several non-walkaround appearances in the theme parks.
One of the games in DisneyQuest's Create Zone was Sid's Toy Maker, which allowed guests to create their own mutant toy and purchase the parts to actually build their creation.
At Hong Kong Disneyland, large statues of the Mutant Toys are installed to decorate Toy Story Land for the Halloween season.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- They are based on a mutant hybrid species known as "Beast Folk" from the 1896 sci-fi novel The Island of Doctor Moreau.
- Even though they are technically not mutant toys, Hannah's Janie doll and the Pterodactyl toy were temporarily "mutated" when Sid replaced Janie's head with the Pterodactyl's in an attempt to "make her better". Both parts were separated seconds after and put back to their original places by the other mutant toys later (around the time before they fixed Buzz).
- It was hinted that the mutant toys were blocking the exit for the two new arrivals on account of that Buzz and Woody risked encountering and getting torn apart by Scud who was just outside of Sid's room.
- In Episode 1 of Woody's Big Escape, Babyface and Ducky were apparently renamed to "Spider Baby" and "Duck Man" for unknown reasons. Roller Bob and the Frog are the only names unchanged, despite the fact that Woody says Ducky's name in the film.
- The mutant toys had appeared in Andy's room in a number of shorts in Toy Story Treats. However, they are not considered to be canon since the toys belonged to Sid, and Woody, Buzz, and the others had already moved to their new home with Andy.
- In Toy Story 3: The Video Game, there is a card of the mutant toys.
- None of the mutant toys can speak, and there is no given reason, although Ducky makes quacking noises, and Legs makes weakling fishing poles noises.
- This was likely cut to save time during production due to the budget and limitations of computer-generated animations back in the 1990s.
- A possible in-universe reason is that they may have lost their voice upon being mutilated by Sid, or the trauma has left them silent. Also because of the fact that the Little Green Man Sid won at Pizza Planet originally spoke until Scud chewed him up and stayed silent for the rest of the time, so this may very well be the explanation.
- The mutant toy named Shakes was scrapped from the film.
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