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Oh, I'm also removing the "white space" shorts since they're clearly not meant to be canon. IDK what I was thinking including those. That also allows for the Mater's Tall Tales rewriting the universe theory, which seems the most logical (despite how outlandish it seems at face value)
 
Well, that was a flashback. Still seems to be set in August, though. There were a couple number plates, but they were too blurry
 
Well, the protagonist is 19, if ever they give an age for the flashback that'll be real helpful. There was also a brief montage to her hating on the mayor but that seems to all be very recent
 
Protag falls, wakes up and it's evidently spring… not even just an error on the animator's part, she's just as surprised as I am
 
The infamous chalk board with the "put brains in cars" diagram is actually just a bunch of Pixar references. There's WALL-E, the cat from Lightyear, the dog collars from Up, safe to say none of this works from a timeline perspective, assuming this was all thought up by one person, so I'm still going with the Mater's Tall Tales approach
 
The end of the movie is a flash forward to graduation - so 4 years later. The mid credit and post credit scenes both take place before then, since they directly follow up on the events of the main part of the movie. Assuming Mabel's starting middle school in the intro (not sure how to explain it, I just get those vibes from the dialogue) that places the intro 8 years before the main events in August 2015, then the rest of the movie in August 2023, including the post credit scenes, then the ending in June 2027
 
I'm sorry because I know you're getting annoyed at people bringing it up but Ratatouille just plain doesn't happen in the 60's despite the general vibes of it. There's few bit's of actual date evidence in the movie, but those that does point to 2007. Especially the letter written two years before the events of the movie which is dated 2005. I've read your reasoning and I do agree with it, the actual physical evidence (a major plot point) says otherwise.
 
Oliveoil2 said:
I'm sorry because I know you're getting annoyed at people bringing it up but Ratatouille just plain doesn't happen in the 60's despite the general vibes of it. There's few bit's of actual date evidence in the movie, but those that does point to 2007. Especially the letter written two years before the events of the movie which is dated 2005. I've read your reasoning and I do agree with it, the actual physical evidence (a major plot point) says otherwise.
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Ratatouille released in 2007. The date was clearly added by someone on the design team who just needed to put something down. I'm going to assume the movie takes place when it was intended to take place, not based of a design mistake
 
Oliveoil2 said:
What's the theory?
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The later Toy Story movies seem to imply the Toy Story movies take place a year earlier than the number plates in the first couple imply, so the theory goes that the years on the number plates were retconned (or the number plates were just renewed shortly before Toy Story/Toy Story 2)
 
The most popular belief is that the first Toy Story movie takes place in 1996, however this just doesn't line up with later Toy Story movies, so I put them all a year earlier (the wiki probably has them based on the 1996 date, so you can compare there I guess)
 
I'd never even considered anything other than the first movie taking place in 1995. Even the second movie heavily implies it. Barbie mentions that in 1995, retailers didn't buy enough Buzz Lightyear figures to reach demand, and that's why there was a massive aisle of only Buzz's by the time of number two.

There's also lightyear that, while a confusing mess of a movie in it's own right that's already been retconned, did open with saying that in 1995 Andy saw the movie and thats why he got buzz for his birthday.
 
Also i've taken my daughter to see Toy Story 5 a few times. It's a great movie and timeline wise i place it about 2012 personally. As Bonnie is aged up to 8, while she was about 4 and starting kindegarten in the fourth one.
 
Also makes perfect sense story wise, as an 8 year old around then really was the first generation of kids to grow up with ipads. Even though i'm not sure how much pixar really thinks about the timeline, if you do the math it really is perfect. that this movie would happen in early 2010's. 2012 is what makes sense to me, but there is wiggle room to argue for 2011 or 2013 if needed
 
Oliveoil2 said:
Also makes perfect sense story wise, as an 8 year old around then really was the first generation of kids to grow up with ipads. Even though i'm not sure how much pixar really thinks about the timeline, if you do the math it really is perfect. that this movie would happen in early 2010's. 2012 is what makes sense to me, but there is wiggle room to argue for 2011 or 2013 if needed
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Unless we get a birthday short or smt, 2012 seems fine. I may change it to "201X" to leave the wiggle room and put it before Lou, since that definitively takes place in 2012, but I'll leave it as is until I watch it, since I'll do some deeper analysis then
 
Actually, looking at what you did with the timeline it's very different then my interpretation, it'd be before 2012 for yours. Also, are you aware you put toy story 4 so long after toy story 3? Bonnie doesn't age too much between them. She's about 3 in toy story 3 and she's 4, at most barely 5 in toy story 4.
She'd age more significantly between 2004 and 2007. She'd be closer to 6 or 7. Now I don't know exactly what it's like in the US, i know school starts near the end of the year there, but in my country, my kid was 4 when she did kindergarten last year since her birthdays in December, and Kindy starts for some kids when they're 3. I could be wrong but i find it unlikely that an at least 6 year old or at most 7 year old would be starting kindergarten. I also don't think how different she looks in toy story 5 makes as much sense if she aged from only 6 or 7 to 8 than it does 4 or 5 to 8. She's very clearly a lot younger in toy story 4, and is confirmed several times in dialogue to be 8 in five.

So just something to think about after you watch the movie. I think either 3 or 4 might need to move to be closer to the other.
 
Oliveoil2 said:
Actually, looking at what you did with the timeline it's very different then my interpretation, it'd be before 2012 for yours. Also, are you aware you put toy story 4 so long after toy story 3? Bonnie doesn't age too much between them. She's about 3 in toy story 3 and she's 4, at most barely 5 in toy story 4.
She'd age more significantly between 2004 and 2007. She'd be closer to 6 or 7. Now I don't know exactly what it's like in the US, i know school starts near the end of the year there, but in my country, my kid was 4 when she did kindergarten last year since her birthdays in December, and Kindy starts for some kids when they're 3. I could be wrong but i find it unlikely that an at least 6 year old or at most 7 year old would be starting kindergarten. I also don't think how different she looks in toy story 5 makes as much sense if she aged from only 6 or 7 to 8 than it does 4 or 5 to 8. She's very clearly a lot younger in toy story 4, and is confirmed several times in dialogue to be 8 in five.

So just something to think about after you watch the movie. I think either 3 or 4 might need to move to be closer to the other.
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It's based off the time jump from the start of Toy Story 4. I've debated it with myself earlier in this thread, Bonnie's age was a bit of an issue but this was the best way I could find to do it
 
My interpretation is very different. The biggest reason for the discrepancy is that you have Toy story 1 with Andy turning 7 in 1994, I have Toy Story 1 with Andy turning 6 (as shown in scripts albeit not the final one, which purposefully leaves his age ambiguous) in 1995 which we discussed.

This moves Toy Story 3 to either 2006 or 2007.
 
I lean toward 2007, with Toy Story 4 being either the next year or the year after to account for both the time skip, and the shorts and specials. And Toy Story 5 in 2012.
 
Oliveoil2 said:
My interpretation is very different. The biggest reason for the discrepancy is that you have Toy story 1 with Andy turning 7 in 1994, I have Toy Story 1 with Andy turning 6 (as shown in scripts albeit not the final one, which purposefully leaves his age ambiguous) in 1995 which we discussed.

This moves Toy Story 3 to either 2006 or 2007.
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I feel if they made the intentional choice to make it ambiguous, then you shouldn't use the original scripts as a basis - they changed it for a reason. I've based this off a lot of actual dates in the movies, most notably the calendars all being able to align the days the months begin on this way
 

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