Toy Story

Old-fashioned Cowboy doll Woody (Tom Hanks) is coordinating a reconnaissance mission around his owner Andy's birthday party in the days before Andy's family move to their new house. To Woody's dismay, Andy receives a new action figure in the form of space ranger Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), whose impressive features soon see Buzz replacing Woody as Andy's favorite toy. Woody - the former de facto leader of Andy's toys including Hamm (John Ratzenberger), Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles), Bo Peep (Annie Potts), Rex (Wallace Shawn) and Slinky Dog (Jim Varney) - is dismayed by his replacement and resentful towards Buzz. Buzz, for his part, does not understand that he is a toy: he believes himself to be an actual space ranger, and sees Woody as an interference in his "mission".

Woody plans to trap Buzz in a gap behind Andy's desk, thus allowing him to replace Buzz on a family outing with Andy, but it goes disastrously wrong and Buzz is knocked out of Andy's room into the driveway outside. The other toys accuse Woody of attempting to murder Buzz out of jealousy, but are unable to punish him before Andy leaves the house with Woody for the outing at the space-themed Pizza Planet restaurant. Buzz sees Andy getting into his mother's car with Woody and manages to climb aboard, where he confronts Woody while Andy's mother refuels the car. The two fight, and accidentally land outside the car, which drives off and leaves the two stranded.

Woody spots a truck bound for Pizza Planet and plans to rendezvous with Andy there. He convinces Buzz that the truck will take them to a spaceship. Once at Pizza Planet, Buzz makes his way into a claw game shaped like a spaceship, thinking it to be the ship Woody mentioned. While Woody climbs in to try and get him out, they are later captured by Andy's neighbor, the toy-destroying child Sid Phillips (Erik von Detten), who plays the claw game and pulls both out.

The two attempt to escape from Sid's house before Andy's family's moving day. There they encounter nightmarish "mutant" toys inhabiting his room, as well as Sid's vicious dog, Scud. Buzz stumbles into the living room, where he sees a television commercial for Buzz Lightyear figures. In denial of his true nature, Buzz attempts to fly but falls and breaks his arm from its socket. Woody is unable to get a despondent Buzz to participate in their rescue, even as the mutant toys repair Buzz's arm and Sid prepares to destroy Buzz with a firework rocket. In the film's turning point, Woody admits that Buzz is a "great toy" and that he stands no chance of being Andy's favorite. Buzz changes his mind and decides that life is worth living even if he's not a space ranger, but Sid wakes up before they can escape and takes Buzz, strapped to the rocket, to his backyard launchpad.

In cooperation with the mutant toys, Woody stages a rescue of Buzz and simultaneously terrifies Sid into running away in fear of his own toys. Woody and Buzz miss Andy's car as it drives away to his new house. Chasing the moving van, they attract the attention of Scud. Buzz saves Woody by tackling Scud but dooms himself. Woody attempts to rescue Buzz with Andy's radio-controlled car R.C. At first, the other toys in the moving van mistakenly believe Woody is attempting to murder R.C. and throw him off the truck, but then they realize Woody is trying to help Buzz and do everything in their power to help them back on. Buzz and Woody attempt to catch up, but R.C.'s batteries run out. Woody realizes that he can ignite Buzz's rocket, and all three toys make their way back to Andy safely.

At Christmas, a reconciliated Buzz and Woody are now both Andy's favorite toys and have become best friends, inspiring confidence among the other toys. Together they stage another reconnaissance mission to determine the threat, if any, presented by the new arrivals - one of whom is revealed to be a puppy.