Toy Story 2 lead me to ASMR

Leslie Lozada
4 min readJun 24, 2019
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Seeing all the advertisements over the past few months about Toy Story 4 after the franchise had been thought of to be finished with the third movie (and several television specials) lead me back to the movies I loved in my youth once more. Without taking into account the fourth movie (as I haven’t seen it yet), this series of films (Toy Story 1,2 and 3) is considered one of the great animated film trilogies, that keeps getting better with every film. There are several famous scenes that has been taken into the popular culture osmosis, “Infinity and beyond”, the “You are a toy” scene, that scene in the third one about the garbage dump which I dare not to remember again. There is one particular scene that is relevant in the age of ASMR.

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Toy Story 2 came out in 1999, a few years after the first movie, which was haled as a wonder and a successful way of utilizing the then-new CGI animation. At the time that it was showed in theaters, none of the animated Disney movies (as Disney does own Pixar) has ever gotten a sequel released to theaters, with the exception of the The Rescuers Down Under, which was released about 9 years prior. This film, after having the first movie introduced the concept of toys having a mind and independent…

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Leslie Lozada

A writer from the tender age of 10. Writer, editor for Medium and Editor In Chief of NEIU’s Independent. Connection: https://linktr.ee/theLeslieLozada