#future sequel

... I have some ideas for it.

This isn't very original, plenty of other people have suggested it, but I think it should have a teenage Bonnie meet Andy again (now in his 30s) and pass the toys on to Andy's children.

I think it would be best if Andy had twins: a girl for the female toys and a boy for the males.

When Woody finds out, I can imagine him having a dilemma: being tempted to rejoin his friends and belong to Andy's kids.

This would lead to some reveals about things the fans and even the writers have speculated about for many years.

It turns out that Andy wasn't Woody's first owner: the first was the boy who grew up to be Andy's dad. This explains why Andy's mom calls Woody "an old family toy" in the second film. Andy's dad loved Woody all his life – even when he grew up, he always kept him close as a memento of his childhood, just like Andy was originally going to keep Woody in the third film. (This explains why in the second film, Woody has never fully considered that Andy won't need him anymore when he grows up until Jessie tells him about Emily.) But then, when Andy was about four or five and his mom was pregnant with Molly, his dad got sick, and before he died he gave Woody to Andy.

None of the other toys knew about this until now, because they're all newer toys and never knew Andy's dad. Woody never mentioned it, because he was too devastated by the death of his first "kid": he could only cope with the loss by focusing on Andy. The flashbacks at this point could become some of Pixar's biggest tearjerkers despite the very stiff competition.

So naturally, he would be tempted by the prospect of belonging not only to Andy's children, but to his first owner's grandchildren. Yet how could he possibly leave Bo Peep, or the great life they've been living for years of helping toys and kids find each other?

Meanwhile, on the human side of things, I can imagine teenage Bonnie having to admit to Andy that she lost Woody when she was five. Andy would understand, of course, little kids lose toys all the time, but he would still be sad, and I imagine Bonnie would feel sad too: if she had only been more mature back then, she would have taken better care of Woody for Andy's sake. Andy's son might even be a big fan of cowboys and the Wild West already, so they know that Woody would have been the perfect toy for him.

I think the most satisfying ending would be for both Woody and Bo Peep to decide that after all these years, they're ready to be played with again, and let Andy and Bonnie find them so they can rejoin Buzz, Jessie, and co. The other "lost toys" can continue their mission and stay in touch with them through the walkie-talkies, and it wouldn't make the ending of Toy Story 4 irrelevant because such a long time has passed in-universe since then.

This would bring the entire series full circle.

But we’ll say for the sake of this argument that it ends.

15-20 years from now, Netflix or ABC decides they want to continue this world again.

So we get a new show, and no one really knows what’s happening because they actually manage to keep what’s happening quiet before it starts.

We all sit down to watch it and it’s like “Oh yeah Riley and Maya got married and this is about their kids.”