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Woody: "Uh-oh..."
Slinky Dog: "It's Sid!"
Rex: "I thought he was at summer camp."
Hamm: "They must've kicked him out early this year."
Rex: "Oh no, not Sid!"
―Toy Story

Sid Phillips is one of the main characters in Toy Story. He is mentioned by Buzz in Toy Story 2. He also makes a short appearance in Toy Story 3.

Toy Story[]

"I don't believe that man's ever been to medical school."
—Buzz Lightyear witnessing Sid's atrocious activities

Sid was Andy's next door neighbor, until the Davis family moved out near the end of the film. He wears a black t-shirt that has a skull on it. Sid is introduced near the beginning of the film as a toy terrorizer, when he explodes a Combat Carl with an M-80, with his toy-chewing dog Scud by his side, after he got kicked out of summer camp. Andy's toys are surprised to see him back at his old habits so soon, assuming he got kicked out of summer camp early this year. Later that day, Andy and his family go to Pizza Planet, where Sid also is. After playing Whack-an-Alien, the Crane Game catches his attention. After grabbing an Alien, Sid notices Buzz Lightyear in the Crane Game. When Sid goes after him, not only does he get Buzz, but Woody hooked onto his foot as well (as he tried to save Buzz, but the Aliens wouldn't let him). After skateboarding back home with his new toys in his backpack, he is immediately greeted by Scud, whom he gives the alien to viciously chew. Then, seeing his sister Hannah with her Janie doll, he grabs the toy and runs up to his room, slamming the door in Hannah's face. He then pulls out his Pterodactyl toy as he plays doctor for his "double-bypass brain transplant." After putting the Pterodactyl's head on Janie's body, he opens up the door and shows it to Hannah, who runs off to report to their mother. Sid throws the mutant toy onto the floor and runs after her, claiming Hannah is lying. With Sid gone, Woody explores his room to search for a way out, but the door is locked and he's unable to escape. Trying to find another way out, he then discovers that Sid has disassembled other toys and reassembled them in strange combinations, much to Woody's horror. The next morning, Sid torments Buzz by spinning him on a drill bit (as seen in a deleted scene) and then takes Woody and throws him across the floor, pretending to interrogate him. Next, he opens up the window shade to let the sun in. He then takes a magnifying glass and focuses the hot beam of light on Woody's forehead, until Sid's mom interrupts and says his Pop-Tarts are ready.

Later, Sid returns to his room with a firework rocket he had ordered in the mail, labeled "The Big One." He intends to blow apart one of his toys with the rocket for his own amusement, initially, intending to blow up that "wimpy cowboy doll", but fails to find him (Woody hid underneath a nearby milk crate). However, after unexpectedly stepping on Buzz, he tapes the rocket on Buzz, claiming that he has always wanted to "put a spaceman into orbit". Unfortunately for Sid, he is forced to delay the launch due to a sudden rainstorm or as he puts it, "Adverse weather conditions at the launch site". This delay gives Woody and Buzz time to reconcile and embrace each other's friendship overnight.

The next morning, Sid is woken up by his mutant alarm clock and takes Buzz outside to blow him up. Woody and all of the mutant toys plan a way to exact revenge on Sid for his treatment of them and help Buzz before Sid can destroy him with the rocket. The toys all appear out of nowhere and approach Sid, making him increasingly scared. Woody then tells Sid to take care of his toys, because they will know if he did not. After seeing Woody come to life by saying "So play nice" in front of his face, it's too much for Sid and he screams and retreats back into the house, frightened that the toys have come alive. Hannah, who has just gotten a new doll, then takes pleasure in further scaring Sid with it, thus making him cry after discovering how scared he is.

Sid's rocket is ultimately used by Woody during the move to Andy's new house to help RC, whose batteries have been depleted, back into the moving truck as Woody and Buzz both go skyrocketing, during which Buzz frees himself from the rocket by opening his wings to tear off the tapes that bound him to the rocket (as for the rocket, it climbed up for a few feet higher before exploding into smithereens).

Toy Story 2[]

Buzz: "Come on, fellas. Did Woody give up when Sid had me strapped to a rocket?"
Toys: "No..."
Buzz: "No."
―Buzz reprimands the toys who have requested a rest[src]

Although Sid did not appear in this film, he was mentioned by Buzz Lightyear, who reminded everyone searching for Woody how he didn't give up on Buzz when Sid had him strapped to the rocket.

Monsters, Inc.: Laugh Factory[]

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Sid in the Monsters, Inc. comic book.

Sid made guest appearances in issues 3 and 4 of the Monsters, Inc. comic book mini-series Laugh Factory as the main character, though his name is never actually given (as the monsters do not bother learning it from him). At the beginning of the third issue "Toy Worry", he ducks into Boo's bedroom to hide from Sulley and Mike when they're pursuing him. We learn from Sulley and Mike that Sid has been using the monsters' door-traveling technology to break into kids' rooms and steal their toys. Afterward, Sid escapes with Boo's Jessie doll, and Boo follows him into Monsters, Inc. to help Mike and Sulley capture him. Upon being caught and brought to the CDA, Sid states that he has been stealing the toys in an attempt to "save" the kids from suffering the same incident he did, but the monsters do not believe him. They have Sid thrown back to his home through Hannah's door.

In the next issue's story, Sid breaks back into Monstropolis, and helps Randall and Mr. Waternoose escape from prison. They offer to give him the plans for their door-traveling technology (which Sid plans to get rich off of in his world) in exchange for him helping them get revenge on Sulley and Mike. They manage to capture the heroes along with Celia and Boo (the latter of whom stowed away with Sulley as he was coming back from his last visit with her), but the girls manage to escape back into the human world with Sid and the two villainous monsters pursuing them. Eventually, Celia and Boo manage to find another closet door back to Monstropolis, where they lead Sid, Randall, and Waternoose into captivity by the CDA. In the end, Sid is again sent back home, with the monsters hoping that he has enough of them now.

Toy Story 3[]

If you are looking for the garbageman who finds Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, see here.

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Toy Story 3- Sid's Cameo

Chatter Telephone explains Sid's cameo in the film.

Sid (now grown up) made an appearance in Toy Story 3, working as a garbageman for Tri-County Sanitation. He is seen on a garbage truck as he comes to pick up the trash from Andy's house (including Andy's toys who were also in a bag and mistakenly got put outside by Ms. Davis, whom Woody hurries out to rescue without being seen). Sid is mostly heard scatting to music and is identified by his skull T-shirt, along with a blue shirt underneath, a yellow vest, goggles, a goatee, a mullet in contrast to his buzzed head as a kid, a backward camouflage cap, and a big set of headphones. He is seen again near the end of the film after the toys escape from the incinerator at the Tri-County Landfill and hitch a ride on his garbage truck to get home. During his brief re-encounter with him earlier, Woody apparently did not recognize him as being Sid as he was more concerned about saving the others.

Erik von Detten reprised his role as Sid for the film as an adult, like the way John Morris did as Andy.

Personality[]

Woody: "That is Sid"
Buzz: "You mean that happy child?"
Mr. Potato Head: "That ain't no happy child."
Rex: "He tortures toys, just for fun!"
―The toys observe Sid from Andy's room[src]

Sid is a young, bratty and somewhat disturbed skate punk with metal braces, whose idea of fun is terrorizing his little sister, Hannah, by taking her toys away and using them for scary experiments like switching out heads or performing operations on them. He also destroys toys in many ways (exploding, burning, or in his "mad doctor" plays).

After his toys turned on him, he vowed never to hurt a toy again. Aside from this, Sid remained mostly the same (especially his love of heavy metal), and eventually became a garbage man.

Trivia[]

  • Sid was used in the Space Shoot game on Novel Games on January 4, 2018.
  • Sid is the only human and non-toy to appear in Toy Story Treats.
  • According to the Toy Story: Animated Storybook, Hamm somehow knows that Sid's last name is Phillips.
  • Sid also appeared in a Toy Story Treat short Woody's Nightmares. In one of the two nightmares that Woody had, Sid was laughing evilly as he had swapped the heads of Woody and Buzz Lightyear (the similar way he had replaced the Janie Doll's head with the Pterodactyl's).
  • It is said that Sid Phillips is inspired by a former Pixar employee who has been known to disassemble toys and use the parts to build strange creations.[citation needed]
  • During production, Sid was nicknamed "Little Jack Nicholson". This might explain why Sid's house has the same rug pattern as the Overlook Hotel from The Shining, in which Nicholson starred.
  • In Monsters, Inc., Claws Ward runs out the door of a kids room on the scare floor. He states that the kid almost touched him. As he runs out, the "Kill'n Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox of Doom" poster from Sid's room can be seen on the wall of the room.
  • Erik Von Detten returned to voice Sid in Toy Story 3. The fact that he is now older than he was when he did the first Toy Story movie had no effect on the character of Sid since he had also grown up. However, his dialogue was just scatting.
    • Sid was also von Detten's last acting role before his retirement in 2010.
  • Sid is the only human character in the Toy Story series who knows toys are alive.
  • According to Hamm and Rex, Sid was supposed to be attending summer camp before they moved in the first movie but was supposedly kicked out for his bad attitude.
  • In a deleted alternate version of the "Play Nice!" scene, Buzz Lightyear calls Sid vicious, possibly a reference to 1970's punk icon Sid Vicious.
  • John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton do not consider Sid a villain and believe he is creative. Nevertheless, Sid is still marketed as a villain and is considered one due to his actions against Woody, Buzz, and other toys.

Other quotes[]

"Yes! He's gone! He's history!"
—Sid, after demolishing a Combat Carl soldier toy
"A Buzz Lightyear?! No way!"
—Sid, after picking an alien from a claw vending machine and discovering Buzz inside
"Oh, a survivor. Where's the rebel base? Talk! I can see your will is strong. Well, we have ways of making you talk. Where are your rebel friends now? Heh, heh."
—Sid, as he plays wild with Woody and singes Woody's forehead with a magnifying glass
"It came! It finally came! The big one."
(He reads the label on the rocket)
"'Extremely dangerous. Keep out of reach of children.' Cool! What am I gonna blow? Man, hey, where's that wimpy cowboy doll?"
(unexpectedly steps on Buzz Lightyear, activating his laser)
"Yes! I've always wanted to put a spaceman into orbit. Ha-ha."
(tapes the rocket onto Buzz's back, but then lightning flashes outside)
"Oh, no!"
(rain begins to fall)
"Aw, man! (slams his head on the window) Sid Phillips reporting. The launch of the shuttle has been delayed due to adverse weather conditions at the launch site. Tomorrow's forecast: sunny. Ha-ha-ha. Sweet dreams."
—Sid, after receiving the rocket, but rain delays his nefarious plot
"I wanna ride the pony..."
—Sid moans in his sleep
"Oh, yeah! Time for lift-off! To infinity and beyond!"
—Sid wakes up and takes Buzz Lightyear out for blast-off
"Houston to Mission Control. Come in, Control. The launch pad is being constructed! Heh-heh."
—Sid, as he prepares to blast Buzz Lightyear into air
"The toys! The toys are alive!"
—Sid, after witnessing Woody and the mutant toys come to life

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