Pixar Theory Timeline (headcanon)

Currently watching Toy Story 2. Trying to pinpoint what year the Jesse flashbacks take place in, and from an extremely blurry numberplate it appears to be ?4, so I'm going to assume it's 1984.

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I'll also be assuming the "forgotten" montage takes place with 1 year between each clip
 
I can't find any good evidence for when Toy Story 2 takes place. A lot of people are saying it takes place 1-2 years after the first movie, but I can't find any evidence online to support this. I guess I could go off that he's 6, turning 7 in Toy Story and cross reference it with his little-to-no aging…
 
I guess since the LZTYBRN numberplate says Nov 95 I should assume it's one year after the first? I've just looked up what they mean (I'm British) and I'm going to move Toy Story back one year, as I assumed it would mean the last time you had an MOT, and I wouldn't put it past Al to have an expired number plate
 
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I'm actually going to move Toy Story all the way back to '94, so that Al's numberplate's fine, and the August calendar lines up (there are 2 August calendars, both with writing on them, and with different designs, so it's most likely an intentional decision)
 
I looked up flight history to Tokyo from 4 Points Richmond Airport (the flight in Toy Story 2) to get an exact date, not just August. However, it requires a hefty payment to own the data so, while it is definitely possible to find a set of dates it could be set on, I am not paying a few hundred to find out.
 
I can't get screenshots, but a hand-drawn calendar in Toy Story 3 (cross-referenced with the Toy Story 2 one that is still there) places the movie in August, and they say Andy's 17. This would put the movie in 2004, assuming he turns 7 in Toy Story, which lines up with the August calendar nicely.
 
I don't want to just say the shorts are canon, so I wanna theorise with them to fit them in. However, the Pixar series Win or Lose I'm not so sure about, since I have no idea what it's about or how it would fit it in… I guess when I get to it I'll figure it out
 
They say Andy's moving on Friday, though no Friday is marked on the calendar (though others are) so I'm going to assume it's the first Friday of September, so day 1 is anywhere from September 28-30
 
styphlcccs said:
They say Andy's moving on Friday, though no Friday is marked on the calendar (though others are) so I'm going to assume it's the first Friday of September, so day 1 is anywhere from September 28-30
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I can just count back the days until he moves
 
It's hard to tell exactly what the numberplate says as it's very blurry, but I'm pretty sure it's placing the Lotso/Baby/Chuckles flashback in '62
 
styphlcccs said:
It's hard to tell exactly what the numberplate says as it's very blurry, but I'm pretty sure it's placing the Lotso/Baby/Chuckles flashback in '62
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A more clear numberplate says Nov 70, but I don't see 70 in the blurry one, which I'd say is more of a 63 that 62, so I guess it's just a really new car
 
On Day 2, Jesse says Andy's leaving "tomorrow", which was marked as the first Friday of September. This places the movie as happening from September 1 to September 3, and since the August calendar was drawn on a whiteboard it may just be early in the day, before Andy had a chance to change it to September (there's also a digital calendar in Sunnyside, but it doesn't line up with the days correctly anyway so I'm disregarding it's August reading).

I'm pretty confident with all these Toy Story placements, though I'm not so sure on the credit clips, I believe they just take place shortly after, though it would be nigh impossible to get exact dates for it.
I can't believe I'm going to be unironically watching Toy Story Toons now…
 
I couldn't find any concrete evidence, but Small Fry appears to take place at some point after Toy Story 3 (but before Finding Nemo) and Hawaiian Vacation takes place in December that same year (it's snowing a lot and Bonnie goes on vacation to Hawaii)
 
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