#lotso huggin bear

[strivia]

So, I recently got back from vacation in Vietnam, and I was not prepared for the obsession with Lotso there? He was EVERYWHERE. Decals in store windows and on cars, all manner of things in markets, the toy stores, the book stores, in the claw machine at the coffee farm.

Yes, every Lotso picture here was photographed during my travels by me.

[ultraericthered]

One Villainous Scene: When Love Is Gone

As Valentine's Day is the day of love, my Valentine's gift is not one but two One Villainous Scenes featuring love as the central theme, one leaning on the darkly comical side, the other on just plain dark.

This would be the latter. From the excessive amount of featuring he got in promotion and marketing forToy Story 3, it was clear in 2010 that Lotso Huggin' Bear was one of the film's most major characters, and that they likely had a lot to hide from the audience concering him given how little we were really seeing from him aside from his debut scene. The most common guess was "Lotso is actually the villain!", and....yeah, that turned out correct. It wasn't much a surprise, as it got outed in Lotso's second scene. What turned out to be the real surprise was the extent to which Lotso was a villain. No one was prepared for just how dark, how vile, and how cruel a villain he'd be.

This scene comes right at the climactic point of the film. Woody and the rest of Andy's toys think they're free from Sunnyside Daycare when down comes Lotso and his gang, having tortured their escape plan out of Chatter. Lotso mocks the notion that the toys want to leave Sunnyside to go back to their kid, who "don't want them no more." Woody decrying this statement as a lie prompts the still smug and self-assured Lotso to challenge him "If your kid loves you so much, why is he leavin'? You think you're special, cowboy? You're a piece of plastic! You were made to be thrown away!" There's actually an undercurrent of irritation at Woody when Lotso says this, like it really does bother him that the sheriff would have the gall to believe he's loved enough by his owner to be held in higher regard that your average toy, and never be discarded the way toys so often are.

"Speak of the devil", the garbage truck slowly begins to come down the lane, so Lotso proposes his ultimatum: come back to Sunnyside and be complacent with their stations in communal life together, or get thrown in the dumpster to be picked up by the garbage truck. But then not only do Jessie and Barbie tell him off rather than be shaken by his threats, but Ken, one of his own chief lackeys, comes to stop him from throwing Barbie away and advocates for structural reform to Sunnyside from the dictatorship Lotso's made of it over the years. Note that at this point in the story, we have never seen Lotso get angry. We saw him snap in his backstory, but in the present day events, he has remained mentally fettered, cheerfully authoritative, and in total control at all times. At Ken's show of care for Barbie, Lotso gets even more aggrivated than he was at Woody mere seconds ago, to the point of hurling him across the dumpster to where Stretch and Andy's toys are, and then while his smugness returns as Ken makes his plea, he again dispalys visible anger and displeasure as he argues against the idea that he's the problem with Sunnyside. "I didn't throw you away, your kid did! Ain't one kid ever loved a toy really! Chew on that while you're in the dump!" His mind is made up, and he turns to leave his victims to their coming fate.

"Wait! What about Daisy?" Comes Woody's voice from behind him, and you could almost hear a pin drop at this part. At first Lotso denies knowing what Woody's talking about so as to not expose any of his covered past to his minions, but when Woody presses the matter, the bear claims "and then she threw us out." "No" Woody counters, "she loved you." "She replaced us!" snaps Lotso, prompting Woody to scald him with the truth. "She replaced YOU. And if you couldn't have her, no one could! You LIED to Big Baby and you've been lying ever since!" Woody throwing over Big Baby's heart pin that Daisy wrote her name on is accompanied by more truth that Lotso doesn't want to hear: Daisy loved Lotso as much as a kid could ever love a toy, and it was due to that love for her Lotso Huggin' Bear that her parents bought a replacement Lotso for her after her first one got left behind. Much as she might've also liked Chuckles and Big Baby, only Lotso mattered that much to her that she'd immediately need him back. As a human, she had no way of viewing the Lotsos as their own, different and distinct sentient beings: she just loved Lotso as a toy. Therefore, it was Lotso who ultimately showed he never truly loved Daisy enough to value her happiness over his own, and his friendship with Chuckles and Big Baby proved just as fleeting, as he lied about all three of them having gotten replaced to Big Baby and made Chuckles, who'd seen otherwise, swear to uphold this lie.

But what comes next is the real telling bit. Lotso just screams at Woody "She NEVER loved me!", but Big Baby can only start to cry as he looks down at the heart with his ex-owner's name written on it. At the single utterance of "Mama", Lotso's last thread snaps. "What, you want your mommy back? She NEVER LOVED YOU! DON'T BE SUCH A BABY!" And what's striking is the parallel we can draw to the backstory where Lotso first saw he'd been replaced and snapped. To hammer in his lie to Big Baby, he'd said "She don't love you no more!" Notice that phrasing: "no more", signifying that Lotso did believe that Daisy had sincerely loved the three toys but felt like by not going back for them and even replacing him, she'd shown she'd stopped loving them. The love had been passing and transcactional on the kid's end. But the phrasing in this scene is different: she NEVER loved me, and she NEVER loved you. So over time, Lotso stopped believing that the love and affection he'd been shown by his kid was ever genuine. He stopped believing love truly existed, least of all in the hearts of human toy owners, hence "Ain't one kid ever loved a toy really." In his denial that Daisy ever truly loved him, Lotso forgot what the love felt like, and in turn forgot what it was like to love. His ever hardened heart knows only sorrow, frustration, hatred, and pain. When he established his tyrannical rule over Sunnyside, for all his talk of being a happy found family and "no owners means no heartbreak", he had no good intentions behind any of what he's done: he lives his life as a toy perpetually hurting on the inside, and figured that how much less hurt he could feel could only be measured by how much more he could hurt others.

And worst of all, Lotso reveals here that at his now rotten core, he's also a nihilist. Demanding Andy's toys and Ken get pushed into the dumpster and slugging Big Baby with his cane, he rants furiously that toys should not go thinking for themselves, as "We're all just TRASH waitin' to be THROWN AWAY! That's all a toy is!" With Ned Beaty's voice acting sounding totally deranged with rage and almost on the verge of choking up, Lotso loudly declares that he believes nothing in a toy's life truly matters if toys are all made to ultimately meet the end of being thrown out with the trash, and so he values nothing. Not life, not love or friendship, not even himself. In his mind, he exists in a "every toy for themselves" reality, and so if he can't navigate through it by the empowering self-determination of putting himself on top of others and securing that power by pushing others ever further down beneath him, then he might as well not exist at all....for what else then would he even exist as except a piece of disposable garbage?

Lotso is a strikingly dark, twisted character to come out of this franchise, who asserts himself as truly evil by his world's standards. He's such an absolute monster that we can feel nothing but satisfied glee and relief when Big Baby goes full Darth Vader on his fuzzy, strawberry-scented ass, picking him up and hurling him into the dumpster, then closing the lid down on him against his protests. You get what you deserve, Lotso....and not even for the last time either!

OK, here's the "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?" scene since that's no doubt the Losto villainous scene that comes to most minds. This one features the entire legendary sequence, including the well-deserved fate worse than the Caterpillar Room that Lotso ends up meeting.

[dm-me-your-weltanschauung]

So I was watching some pro wrestling, and thought this sign being held up by someone in the crowd deserved to be preserved for posterity. For the non eagle-eyed among you, it reads "Lotso > The Entire Pixar Villain Catalogue."

As far as I could tell, the event at which this appeared had nothing to do with the Toy Story movies, Pixar, or animation.

[legendary-defender-of-fandoms]

Honestly shocked Pixar has more twist villains than Disney, but Disney gets all the flack.

[ultraericthered]

What about Mordu's prototype?

Or this guy?

Or this one? (Kind of blending the prior two together!)

Or THIS ONE?

And arguably, even the bitch who started it all!

On the list of “Disney Villains who Were WAY too Dark for a Disney Movie”

[malaesthetics]

[heardatmedschool]

Resident: Why are you all so afraid of [Attending]? He’s like a teddy bear!

Intern: Yeah, he’s like Lotso from Toy Story.

[izunias-meme-hole]

Lotso Appreciation Post

[ultraericthered]

Lotso is probably the most fucked up and reprehensible character Pixar ever gave us, but Syndrome's got the highest body count, so I'm willing to be it's either of them who wins this.

[stephiethewephie]

Elanor Sunberry

BIG REVEAL TIME!!!

I have been teasing this oc for a bit now and here is her grand reveal!

Toy Story 3 is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Lotso is one of my favorite Villains, so I had to Twst him!

Elanor Sunberry

“Welcome to Lots of Hugs Daycare my friends! We’ll make sure you enjoy your stay!”

Age: 34 Birthday: July 13 Height: 180cm Homeland: Sunshine Lands Occupation: Daycare Director Hobby: Baking Likes: Taking care of children Dislikes: Other Adults Favorite food: Strawberry Pie Least favorite food: Packaged Junk Food Special Skill: Childcare Signature Spell: No Owners, No Heartbreak; Elanor creates a cloud of strawberry-scented fog around her. Anyone within the cloud (it can go about 6 ft proximity from all sides) is beckoned to her and becomes dependent/trustful in her depending on their level of vulnerability. Too much exposure to the cloud can cause those caught in it to feel panicked or unstable if someone were to take them away from Elanor. Description: Director and of Lots of Hugs Daycare and Pre-K teacher. The kids in her care look up to her greatly and consider her a secondary parental figure. Her workers however consider her an iron-fisted dictator.

Just like the others, a facts post about her is in the works. So stay tuned for that!

Be prepared for angst!

[whimsi-clown]

Guess who got themselves an early birthday gift >:o]

☆ ~ ∠(ᐛ 」 ∠)＿

[morimementa]

The fact that Lotso went scorched earth because he thought he was replaced was hilarious because any toddler I know that got the exact same bear twice would call them something like Pink and Pink junior and insist on dragging both of them all over the place.

[darkcrowprincess]

@royallydivinelesbian

Character growth with Woody Pride. Character who refuses to change Lotso hugging bear/Lotso. Lotso and Woody are mirrors of each other:

These two characters may be both the hero and the villian of the trilogy(yes trilogy. Don't count the fourth movie. That movie was just for money and unnecessary) but they are both eerily alike. Both Lotso and Woody are favorite toys of their kids. They're both leaders of their families and they are both lost toys. And they were both set aside or replaced by another toy. The difference in them is how they react and grow as a character in result of these similarities. At first Woody was jealous(and angry) and a little depressed (insecure) about being replaced as the favorite toy of Andy by Buzz lightyear. But he eventually(after his adventure with Buzz and having to deal with Sid) he has come to care about Buzz as a friend. They had to depend on each other if they wanted to make it back to Andy. Neither or them could have made it with out each other. By the end of the adventure (and more so the second movie as well) Woody realized that Andy and carring for his friends/family is more important that just being the top toy and getting played with all the time. He let's go of his jealousy and grows as character.

Now onto Lotso. This video perfectly describes how Lotso and Woody are alike but also shows how Woody has grown as a character and Lotso refuses to change. Lotso and his family were lost on an outing by their kid Daisy. By the dirt and damage they had by the time they got back, I'm guessing the journey was probably as hard as woody and buzz's first adventure together. By the time they got back Lotso realized Daisy had replaced him and only him. Which mirrors what Woody has gone through in the first movie. Woody did not only mention Daisy to stop Lotso because he knows his past. I think he mention it because he knows exactly what Lotso is thinking and feeling, he can relate, he's been there. Jealousy and insecurity. Woody has felt everything Lotso has felt. The difference is Woody hasn't let it consumed him. Lotso being replaced has consumed him and made a bitter, cruel, and selfish toy that cares for only himself. He lies, and has put himself on a pyramid. So that no one could ever replace and throw him away again. If he can't have Daisy no one can. If he can't be safe no one can. Even when Lotso has clearly lost he drags Woody into the dumpster with him. Even when Woody has saved his life he doesn't change. He leaves Woody and his family to die to prove some crazy point. That toys ate nothing special. We're all just trash just waiting to be thrown away.

[slashingdisneypasta]

Lotso's Story || Beginning / End

" Something changed that day inside Lotso. Something snapped. - She replaced us. - - No, she only replaced you!- - - She replaced all of us, didn't she?? - - She don't love you no more, now come on! - We were lost, cast off. Unloved, unwanted. Then we found Sunnyside... But Lotso wasn't my friend anymore, he wasn't anyone's friend. "

[meliafola]

I've been so stressed lately that I've been drawing weird things.

[laurenovercalifornia]