Woody (Tom Hanks)’s Timeline and Summary
- Woody is Andy's favorite toy and pretty much the leader of the other toys in Andy's room. Life is good.
- Andy gets a new toy for his birthday—a Buzz Lightyear action figure—who Woody becomes jealous of almost immediately. Buzz's popularity grows with Andy's toys and—even worse—Andy himself, leaving Woody to question his place in Andy's heart.
- One day, when Woody overhears that Andy can only take one toy to Pizza Planet, he makes a plan to push Buzz behind Andy's desk. But Buzz ends up falling out the window instead. Whoops.
- Woody tries to explain that this whole thing was an accident, but the other toys rebel against him and threaten to throw Woody out the window.
- Andy comes back to his room and can't find Buzz, so he's forced to take Andy to Pizza Planet. In the car, Andy's mom stops at a gas station where Woody sees that Buzz has tagged along on the trip. He tries to get Buzz to come home with him, but the space ranger attacks him.
- Woody and Buzz end up stranded at the gas station, but manage to hitch a ride to Pizza Planet where Woody plans to track down Andy and go back home with him.
- Except Buzz thinks Pizza Planet is a space port and crawls inside a claw machine looking for a rocket ship, so Woody has to run after him.
- Woody tries to get Buzz out of the machine, but Andy's toy-torturing neighbor, Sid, comes along and wins both Buzz and Woody from the machine.
- Sid's house is just as bad as Woody imagined and he watches while Sid decapitates another poor innocent toy.
- Woody tries to escape, but, when Buzz finds out he's not actually a space ranger, Woody has a hard time motivating his sullen toy friend.
- One night, after Sid straps a rocket to Buzz, Woody tries to convince Buzz to make a break for it. Woody finally admits how he feels—Buzz is a cool toy and he just can't compete.
- Before the two can escape, though Buzz is taken out to the backyard by Sid to be blown up. So, Woody rallies Sid's toys for some help freeing him.
- In the backyard, Woody talks to Sid and tells him that his toys don't like being beat up and tortured. No kidding.
- Woody and Buzz rush back to Andy's house where the moving van is leaving. The two toys race down the street after the moving van, but Andy's other toys still don't trust Woody and try to thrown him off the back of the van.
- Eventually, Woody and Buzz light the rocket on Buzz's back and land safety in Andy's car.
- At Andy's new house the following Christmas, Woody's way more mellow about new toys.