Lotso? What are they thinking?

[chrisw127]

My seven-year old wants a Lotso so he can rehabilitate him. He was really upset when he ended up on that truck!

 

[Planogirl]

Well I can tell you one kid that is anxious to meet lotso - mine!
She is a HUGE TS fan, and just loves Buzz. He has always been the number 1 character for her to see at WDW...he is truly her highlight there.
But she is a VERY caring little 6 year old, and as bad as Lotso is she only feels sympathy for him for being abandoned and feeling unloved. She says, he just needs a hug.

And she is constantly telling me how it upsets her, where he ended up at in the end.
So ther you go.....it is the bleeding hearts who still love Lotso.

That's sweet.

 

[Planogirl]

My seven-year old wants a Lotso so he can rehabilitate him. He was really upset when he ended up on that truck!

That's nice too.

Isn't it funny how many of the young kids want to help Lotso?

 

[lilybrooke14]

I know Lotso was dastardly and awful. I still would absolutely get my picture taken with him and his bright pink strawberry scented evilness. Yes. Yes I would. I absolutely adore the big Lotso they've got at Target and go play with him every time we head in there. He's overpriced, but he cracks me up. Evil strawberry scent and all.

 

[HMGar]

The comedian with the puppets? If so, I'm a huge fan.

No but a strawberry scent is pumped into the area, so I've heard, I never noticed it though.



EXACTLY!!! Haha, I don't know how much I like Lotso, he made me mad. To me he's diffrent then other villians, and not by his looks, perhaps because the dislike comes from the emotional connection I had with Woody Buzz and the Gang if you get what I mean.

 

[kswm30b]

I love meeting villains (the Villains Mix & Mingle is one of my favorite things!) but one of the first things after seeing TS3 was "why is Lotso the meet and greet!?" I think the reason why I have an issue with it vs other villains is that we've grown to love Woody, Buzz, and the others over 3 movies, so it feels different than all the other villains being evil against a character we've gotten to know over only one movie.

Also, I don't understand the "poor Lotso" comments. Yea, what happened to him was bad, but he was completely evil at the daycare center. And then, after pulling Woody into the dumpster (and, in turn, the rest of the gang), Woody STILL risks his own life to save Lotso, and then Lotso STILL won't help them, basically killing them (if the LGM weren't there.) So while he has an "excuse" for why he was evil at the daycare center, you would think someone being selfless to save his life would have changed him, but the fact that it doesn't makes him pure evil, IMO, and worse than other villains.

I'm a character meeting junkie, so I'll probably go meet him in September, but I won't love it, lol.

 

[WdwforLife]

I would have loved to get Ken and Barbies autographs.
I don't care for Lotso either, It's like Disney is saying that
what he did in the movie is OK. I don't want to glorify that
uncaring behavier. There are plenty of people who like that
behavier, just look at how people treat each other today,
with a "Me 1st attitute".
I won't be getting his Autograph.

Yes. There should be a law against preventing toys from escaping from evil daycares! Who's with me! We all need to write a letter to our local congressman and get this expedited asap! It's like Barbie said: Authority should derive from the consent of the governed not from the threat of force!

Also, so it's okay to kidnap children and tie them to a mast on a pirate ship? Or to steal a 16 year old girl's voice? Or to steal Dalmatian puppies to make a fur coat? Or to cast a spell on a girl when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel? Or try and stop your step daughter from meeting the man of her dreams? I wouldn't think so and yet...we still get our pictures taken with these guys. Interesting...

 

[PrincessArlena'sDad]

I think the problem people are having with Lotso is that he's acting like a big, cudly, good bear, when he's a villain.

All the other villains act like, well, villains.

Also, as for feeling sorry for him: Peter Pan had the same thing happen to him (at least, according to Robin William's Hook), and he didn't turn out like Lotso!

 

[boyob13]

I still believe that Disney only chose Lotso for a meet and greet character based on the fact that he's cute, fuzzy, and huggable. I highly doubt Disney had any other purpose for him.

Saying that Disney is encouraging his behaviour is like saying they're encouraging Frollo's. Besides, why would you not get a picture with him when all the stuff he did was fictional? (The answer probably involves "hurting beloved childhood characters" )

 

[ShannonMB]

Lotso was playing a ROLE in a movie, and he's a great actor because he has lots of you thinking he's like that in real life. He's probably a really great guy in person!

 

[robinb]

Lotso was playing a ROLE in a movie, and he's a great actor because he has lots of you thinking he's like that in real life. He's probably a really great guy in person!

*snork*

 

[AmberHeartsDisney]

I felt bad for lotso. But he was a bit dark :/

 

[d1gitman]

...It's like Disney is saying that
what he did in the movie is OK. I don't want to glorify that
uncaring behavier...

???are you kidding me??? it's an animated movie.

Besides, Lotso did "bear" the consequences for his actions (sorry for the cheap pun), just like Stinky Pete did.

facing the consequences is for one's actions is more of a lesson to teach than portraying that everything in life is sugar'n'spice and nothing bad ever happens.

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

Someone suggested a Bonnie's room M/ G - we would love that! Mr Pricklepants cracks dh and I up "are you classically trained?"! But dd is dying to meet Buttercup (can't blame her he is cute)!

I do like the idea that Lotso at DHS is Daisy's Lotso and thus nice but it's hard to get there once you've seen the movie. Should be interesting to see if he's still there when we get down there (in September).

 

[ksueboo]

Just to clarify cause I think one or two folks got my point confused. I think Lotso is a GREAT villain in the movie. They really managed to make him unique and interesting, and in the context of the film, I think he's great. I just can't, for the life of me, figure out how they would think ANY kids would want to hug him after he left the others for dead. It's the deviousness of him, the betrayal aspect, the duplicitous nature of him, that I just don't see for a meet and greet to promote the new movie. Now, if we were talking about him in addition to others, I could see it. But could you imagine having Jafar with no Aladdin or Jasmine? I don't know, it just seems to me like he is a very different character than they have had in that spot before.

I agree completely!
Brilliant Character on Pixars part...but poor choice for a Meet and Greet. We will skip that line!

 

[donipan]

I also don't get a cuddly, huggable, sweet Lotso. Aren't the characters supposed to stay in, well, "character"?

As for there not being other new characters in ToyStory3, my son (4) has seen the film once and he is totally obsessed with Twitch and Chunk. I know he'd be ECTASIC to see them in DW... and that he will make me buy the action toys if we see them there His friends also love these characters and/or Sparks (who for some reason I cannot fantom doesn't do it for him...).

A BigBaby hanging around the parks would be a creepy sight indeed

 

[rdominy]

A pp wrote this...
"Also, so it's okay to kidnap children and tie them to a mast on a pirate ship? Or to steal a 16 year old girl's voice? Or to steal Dalmatian puppies to make a fur coat? Or to cast a spell on a girl when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel? Or try and stop your step daughter from meeting the man of her dreams? I wouldn't think so and yet...we still get our pictures taken with these guys. Interesting..."

And that's just it. Most of th etchings other villains do derive from a world of fairy tales. Lotso evil seems a little too "human". My dd3 loves ts1 and ts2 but ts3 scared her. It seemed dark to me and dh too.

It seems like they wrote more for the generation that watched the first one as children (early 20s). I am a firm believer that cartoons can be written for children and adults without alienating one side or the other. IMHO I think it was a bit dark.

 

[KathyK]

My DD (8) has been begging for a Lotso plush ever since she saw the movie. I told her that we would buy one for her when we got to WDW, but I was buying a couple of other things at Disneyshopping.com, and they had free shipping if you bought a Toy Story item. So she got it early. It came yesterday.

OMG. She loves that bear. She says that this is the Lotso before Daisy left him on the side of the road, and he hasn't gone bad. She can't wait to bring him with her everywhere at WDW and have her picture with the real Lotso.

 

[USAswimmer626]

When I first saw pictures of Lotso and read that he would be featured at WDW, I was super-excited! What 16-year-old wouldn't want a picture with a pink strawberry-scented bear!

After seeing Toy Story 3, I wasn't too thrilled with him anymore. He looked less like a cute stuffed animal and more like a terrorist leader riding away on the back of a jeep with his armed guards.

 

[Twingle]

Lotso was playing a ROLE in a movie, and he's a great actor because he has lots of you thinking he's like that in real life. He's probably a really great guy in person!

This is *exactly* what Lotso "mimed" and the CM relayed to me when we were in line last week. I have the Lotso from Target that talks and he is freaky deaky, and scares my brother to death. When I told Lotso I wanted to have a picture looking scared of him he was all for that! The pictures are hilarious - in one I look like I'm running away from him and he's chasing me.

Haven't seen the movie yet, but the meet & greet was great and the CM's and Lotso really got into the whole experience.