 SPOILER: The plot of the movie is loosely based on the original  treatment for the first Toy Story, which had Tinny (from  _Tin Toy (1988)_ (qv)) getting lost at a rest stop and being found  by a junk man, who throws him into back of his truck. Tinny meets a  ventriloquist dummy and they both decide to stick together. But in  the they end up in a preschool where theyll never get lost or  outgrown.