![]() ![]() So did that spider baby awaken with no recollection of its past lives when Sid attached a very dead doll’s head to a very dead Erector set, or does it remember its life as a doll (or its life as an Erector set), however vaguely? When the fishing pole with Barbie legs wakes from uneasy dreams, are they about trout or high heels? We don’t know, because whatever has happened to Sid’s toys has made it impossible for them to tell us, but Woody ultimately uses these surgical horrors as mute, slow-moving muscle, which suggests a Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane type deal: toys artificially Frankensteined into a shambling parody of life, easily manipulated, yearning only for death or vengeance. Toys don’t have brains, and these toys especially don’t have brains-you can see the hair plugs on the inside of the spider baby’s empty head through its eye socket-but they do have memories, even if it’s unclear where those memories are stored. Sid’s man-made monstrosities may not be talkative, but they’re definitely sentient, and they’re definitely made from the scraps of other toys, which raises the question of whose sentience, exactly, they’ve got. ![]()
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