The incinerator scene is one of two scenes in Toy Story 3 where Andy's toys prepare for a seemingly unavoidable death, the other being the "death by monkeys" scene in the intro (which turns out to be Andy's playtime).The Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "Stranger Invasion" has Emperor Zurg requesting incinerators instead of a standard garbage smasher in a new base, as they would be far more difficult to escape from.The incinerator scene is the darkest scene ever made in any Pixar film.It is also where Lotso is found and picked up by a garbage man who had once owned a Lots-o'-Huggin Bear as a kid. The claw carries the toys here and they, after rejoining with the Aliens, hitch a ride home via Sid's garbage truck.
Woody, Buzz and the other toys end up here as a result of Lotso's betrayal and face certain, inevitable death until they are rescued by the Aliens operating a giant claw. This is where garbage, cascading down an enormous bowl, is burned to ashes by an incinerator at the very center of the bowl. Slinky gets pulled to the ceiling, prompting the toys to rescue him.Īndy's toys as they almost go into the incinerator at the landfill. To avoid the shredders, the toys must grab metal objects that pull them to the magnetic ceiling. There is a magnetic ceiling that pulls metal objects from a bottom conveyor belt full of garbage. The shredders crush large objects into small chunks. Bulldozers plow garbage onto a conveyor belt that leads to the following locations below. Lotso, Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the other toys get dumped here. This is where garbage trucks, property of Tri-County Sanitation, dump garbage from Tri-County Area.