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I wonder if the license plate is accurate to the movie (it's been awhile since I've seen it), or if that's a LEGO designer easter egg. Either way, there may be something significant about February 7th or July 2nd of 1991.

@MCLegoboy said:
"I wonder if the license plate is accurate to the movie (it's been awhile since I've seen it), or if that's a LEGO designer easter egg. Either way, there may be something significant about February 7th or July 2nd of 1991."

Just watched the scene on YouTube but I can't see a license plate on the truck so I think it's a LEGO easter egg.

@TheOtherMike said:
"The function on this was pretty cool. I still remember buying this one at Toys 'R' Us, and them giving me a big lenticular Toy Story Poster.

@AllenSmith said:
"I think this might be the only actual garbage truck Lego ever made.

All the other ones, even the ones explicitly named "garbage truck," are festooned with recycling symbols so that children will follow virtuous paths in life. Even 10945 , which has multiple bins, at least one of which is surely destined for the landfill, is clearly a recycling truck."

I mean, "Recycling" is right there in the name of 10945 ."

It's called "Garbage Truck and Recycling", which would imply the truck hauls garbage, but that the set also includes recycling bins set out for the recycling truck. Instead, we have "Recycling Truck and Garbage".

Meanwhile, there are 11 other trucks in the database named "Garbage", "Trash", or "Refuse", and not a single one of them is actually a garbage truck, at least as far as the markings on the truck claim.

Then 9 sets named "Recycling Truck" or somesuch.

The funny thing is, most of these trucks, both garbage and recycling, do indeed appear to be just hauling trash.

Hey, I have that one. :-)

Just in time for 60495 !

It just occurred to me that two Toy Story trucks are on the homepage right now: this RSotD and 7598 in the Most Viewed Sets feature.

@LEGOFanInPJ said:
"1. Standing there next to the truck is just2good in a Twitch mask.

2. Product description: Jessie and Buzz Lightyear are stuck in a stinky situation!

No stink, Sherlock.

3. There're obviously no characters of toys from Mattel, Hasbro, etc, in this LEGO set, so did kids playing with it in 2010 use their imagination and pick two microfigures to represent Barbie and Ken?"

Microfigs? Don't be silly. They're way too small to scale accurately. Minidolls might work.

@MCLegoboy:
Jobs bought the company in March 1991, and Toy Story was released in 1995, so best guess would be that the July date is when they signed their distribution deal with Disney.

@LEGOFanInPJ said:
"3. There're obviously no characters of toys from Mattel, Hasbro, etc, in this LEGO set, so did kids playing with it in 2010 use their imagination and pick two microfigures to represent Barbie and Ken?"

My dude, the Twitch-figure that came in this set was the He-Manliest character we had until https://brickset.com/minifigs/tlm131/chainsaw-dave showed up nearly ten years later.

I've always thought that was the best rendition of a garbage truck that LEGO has ever made.

Appreciate the larger 10 wide scale of this city truck, which allows plenty of space for all the unique versions of the Toy story characters in the back. Although Twitch is the only figure who can fit in the cabin to drive.

Kinda wish we had Buzz and Jesse nanofigs to really get the scale of the truck

10 wide... This must be big.

I always thought this was quite big, but I just realized that at this scale relative to the figs it's still a toy sized truck. Fitting, because it indeed is a toy.

Btw those antenna on twitch were horrible then but are a crime now. They get lost easily but even worse, they cost a kidney on the secondary market. Each.
The ones on the Mosquitoids are worse though because you're far more likely to need those. The sets didn't even come with a spare!!!!

It doesn't help we have another 'exclusive' set, so it was only sold in limited places again.

@Pekingduckman said:
"Funny how Lotso's Bigfig is considered an animal and is not in the database, like the Rancor and Wampa Bigfigs."

Is it because he contains no minifig parts? Or does that open up a (garbage) can of worms?

@ambr said:
"Appreciate the larger 10 wide scale of this city truck, which allows plenty of space for all the unique versions of the Toy story characters in the back. Although Twitch is the only figure who can fit in the cabin to drive. "

Only included minifig, maybe, but the Green Army Men were standard minifigs at the time. There are also minifigs from TS4 that should fit.

To me, one of the good set (look, functions, minifigs selection) from that series. There are a few more. I did not buy it because the scale of it is so bad to go with everything else (10-wide). Of course Toy Story does not care about that as all sorts of Toys of different sizes and realms interact together seamlessly. Of course this goes counter-current to my OCD ;-) and back in the days, I could not bring myself to integrate this with other smaller sets.

That was a poor decision, I wish I had that set. The same could be said about the pizza truck - which, on top of being nice, is an interesting build.

That Twitch figure looks familiar...

Time to quote Casey Jones from the original TMNT movie: "Oops!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i0ZTJyNewk