At Sunnyside, a group of toddlers play rough with Andy's toys.Buzz asks Lotso to have them moved to the older children's room, but is captured.Lotso, who controls Sunnyside with an iron fist at night when the teachers and students are not around, reveals he sends new toys to distract the toddlers to keep him and his henchmen safe, not caring whether the toys are broken in the process....
He is initially happy to be at Sunnyside, and is visibly sad when Woody leaves, but becomes dismayed after a rough playtime with the toddlers, commenting "Andy never played with us like that!"He is imprisoned along with Andy's other toys by Lotso and his gang.Later, at the garbage dump, Rex is the last to escape the shredder, only barely escaping when he grabs onto a broken fan....
Big Baby was once one of Daisy's toys before he, Lotso, and Chuckles were lost at a rest area.After returning home, Lotso lied to Big Baby that she replaced them and arrived at Sunnyside.While there, Lotso took full control and Big Baby acted as his second-in-command and enforcer at Sunnyside....
At the same time, Mrs. Potato Head (who accidentally left one of her eyes at Andy's house) sees Andy searching for the toys and convinces the toys that Woody told the truth.But before they can leave, Andy's toys are imprisoned by Lotso's gang.At Bonnie's house, before Woody leaves to find Andy, he learns from a toy clown named Chuckles that he, Lotso and Big Baby once had a beloved owner named Daisy....
Ken reveals the truth after she begins to sabotage his Nehru jacket.He is not seen again until Lotso has the toys cornered at the dumpster.Ken comes to Barbie's help by trying to stop Lotso, having realized Barbie through her understanding of civics....
Her statement makes Ken come to her help, which makes Barbie fall back in love with him and hugs him shortly after Lotso forcefully throws Ken to Andy's friends.In the end credits of the film, they are once again in a relationship and change Sunnyside, becoming its co-leaders, after Lotso is defeated.At a party at Sunnyside, Barbie is seen coming down the toy elevator on Ken's Dream House with a gold dress....
Later that night, Slinky reveals that Woody was telling them the truth about Andy's intention to store the toys into the attic.Slinky and his friends have been imprisoned by Lotso's gang.He is shown to be the happiest toy to see Woody return, and assists him in subduing the Monkey toy who monitors the security cameras....
Woody decides to go back to Andy's, but gets stuck in a tree in the process and is brought home by a girl named Bonnie.Meanwhile, the other toys meet a friendly strawberry scented bear named Lotso, who places them in the caterpillar room.The toys realize that the kids in the caterpillar room are too young to play toys and the kids damage the toys....
Daisy is a child girl who appears in flashbacks in Toy Story 3.She owned Lotso, Big Baby and Chuckles in the beginning, but accidentally left them behind at a rest area along the road.In order to pacify her, rather than finding Lotso and the rest of her toys, Daisy's parents instead bought her another Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear, which made Lotso think he had been replaced and forgotten about, and changed him into a sinister, ruthless toy....
After returning home, Lotso lied to Big Baby that she replaced them and arrived at Sunnyside.While there, Lotso took full control and Big Baby acted as his second-in-command and enforcer at Sunnyside.Eventually, Woody reveals to Lotso that Daisy still cared about them, causing Big Baby to regain his memory of his former owner, whom he called "Mama"....
At Bonnie's house, Woody realizes from Chuckles that he, along with Lotso and Big Baby, were once owned and loved by a girl named Daisy.Lotso became Daisy's favorite toy when she unwrapped him on Christmas.During their time with Daisy, Lotso was considered a kind-hearted friend to both Chuckles and Big Baby....
Lotso (who is unaware that the toys are still alive) is eventually found by a garbage man, who recalls that he once had a Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear as a kid, and straps Lotso to the grill of a garbage truck with three other toys before driving away.Lotso was originally going to be in the first film, but the technology to make the fur right had yet to exist for the first and second films, so he was saved for the third film....
Disney was uninterested in the concept and urged Pixar to produce a feature immediately, which became a critical and commercial success.The character of Lotso, however, was adapted for the third installment of the Toy Story series....
Meanwhile, the other toys back at the daycare discover that Sunnyside is "not sunny" for everyone.It turns out that Sunnyside had been turned into a toy prison by Lotso, who had become disgruntled after being lost and replaced by his original owner.The toys are locked in cages and guarded by security toy trucks and helicopters, while Buzz is reprogrammed by Lotso and now thinks his friends are "minions of Zurg" and guards their cages....
Buzz allies himself with Woody and falls in love with Jessie.The toys reach a dumpster, but are caught by Lotso and his gang.As a garbage truck approaches, Woody reveals what he learned about Lotso....
Lotso became Daisy's favorite toy when she unwrapped him on Christmas.During their time with Daisy, Lotso was considered a kind-hearted friend to both Chuckles and Big Baby.One day, Daisy and her family had a picnic in the countryside....
Twitch is a green "insectaloid warrior" action figure with a bug's head, orange eyes with ferocious chomping mandibles, wings, and two muscular arms.He is one of the toy thugs working for Lotso.He helps to reprogram Buzz, and later apprehends Andy's other toys....