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A social media post made the rounds on Reddit after one user shared a video of Woody and Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story franchise "holding on" for dear life to the back of a truck.
Submitted under the username u/white-chedda, the OP (original poster) shared the clip on the r/funny subreddit, captioned: "Saw buzz and woody on a trip." In just a couple of days, the post received almost 28,000 upvotes, as well as 283 comments.
The brief 20-second video shows the two action figures recreating one of the most recognizable scenes from the original 1995 Disney film Toy Story that sees Woody and Buzz Lightyear clinging on to a speeding vehicle traveling on a highway.
As expected, Reddit users took this as an opportunity to make Toy Story-related jokes in the comment section.
"Brooooo, stop watching so he can climb up," suggested one commenter, referring to how the characters in the Disney film drop and lie still when in the presence of humans.
"You need to get [a remote-controlled] car and help them. That might be Andy in the truck moving his stuff to [his] new house," another shared.
"Don't let go buzz!," wrote a user. "Holding on for dear life," said another comment.
"This is oddly wholesome," another commenter wrote.
One user took to the comments to express their concerns for road safety: "It's all fun and games till woody flies through your windshield at 80 mph." However, other Redditors responded by assuring no damage would be done: "Sadly, if it breaks, it'll just maintain some of its forward velocity and faceplant on the road until a full stop."
According to Statista, Disney has been consistently strengthening its position in terms of box office takings in the U.S. and Canada. Apart from 2020 and 2021, when COVID disrupted the movie industry, Disney's share of box office takings in those two markets has been on a rising trend since 2008 and it accounted for over a quarter of the market in 2021.
The original Toy Story earned Disney significant profits—as indicated by IMDb, the film earned global box office revenue of $394 million with an estimated budget of only $30 million.
This wouldn't be the first time a Disney-related video has gone viral. Previously, Newsweek covered a story about a clip showing a 'smug' Disneyland employee interrupting a marriage proposal, causing an uproar online. On another occasion, Newsweek wrote about a TikTok post that showed a Disney World employee having to wrangle a snake at the Florida theme park.
Newsweek reached out to u/white-chedda for comment.
