Toy Story 3

Disney's John Lasseter spoke to a huge crowd of anxious and waiting fans at this year's D23 Expo, bringing with him a few announcements about the future of Disney and Pixar animation. Chief among these was the lastest update on the hugely anticipated Toy Story 3. Talking about the story itself, Lasseter confirmed that the film will indeed revolve around Andy going off to college and leaving the toys behind for good. "It is," said Lasseter, "For parents who've been through it, a very emotional time, but we had to look at it through the point-of-view of the toys themselves." In addition to the announcement at Comic-Con that Michael Keaton will be providing the voice of Barbie's beau Ken, Lasseter announced a number of other names who'll be providing voices for the film including Jeff Garland, Bonnie Hunt, Ned Beatty and Whoopi Goldberg. He did not give away the identities of the new toys that the actors will play with the exception of introducing one new character: Mr. Pricklepants. The stuffed hedgehog, an overbearing thespian, will be voiced by Timothy Dalton. Lasseter unveiled the first trailer for Toy 3… The trailer begins with VHS-quality home video footage of Andy at various ages – playing with his toys, being measured by this mother against the wall – suddenly interrupted by a cut to a photograph of Andy, now 18, at his high-school graduation. Shots of the toys discussing Andy's coming departure for college are concluded by Andy walking out the door, leaving Woody to climb up to the top-most shelf and sadly survey the empty, memory-filled room. The rest of trailer seemed to indicate that the toys are donated to a pre-school where the rampage of young children dismantle the Potato Heads and beat the toys ragged in the most comically horrific of ways. The toys decide to stage an escape, except that Buzz is injured during the attempt, and after being rebooted by his friends returns to life in "Spanish" mode, walking around like an over-proud matador and speaking exclusively in espanol. Story Courtesy Of IGN.com

Sounds funny.. with my son being a big Toy Story fan me and the rest of the Family will be at theaters to see this. I'll keep you posted as more news becomes available.