Toy Story explains Bo Peep's missing years in Disney+ short Lamp Life
© Pixar - Disney Disney Plus has now launched in the UK, so Toy Story fans can watch new short Lamp Life that reveals Bo Peep's missing years. Toy Story 4 brought back Bo Peep after she was absent in the third movie, but didn't explain what happened to her beyond being given to the "next kid".
A new Toy Story short, Lamp Life, on Disney+ covers Bo's missing years though, so we now have an explanation for how (and why) Bo went from Andy's house to the playground where Woody reunited with her.
The short opens shortly after the fourth movie ended with Woody filling Bo and Giggle McDimples in on what he's been up to. But Giggle tells him that his story is nothing compared to what Bo's been through.
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So we flash back to Bo's life after she left Woody and went to a new house where the little girl "loved us".
Her life was good for a while, even if "life on a baby lamp isn't that exciting", but it was eventually time for Bo to move on.
She got sold to a few other households before ending up in a free donations box, leading to some unique locations including a student house and a ship.
© Pixar - Disney Lamp Life, Disney+ short, Bo Peep After a time, Bo got found by the owner of the antiques store where "life was so simple", but she realised that she was missing something when she overheard some children talking about the playground.
"The playground... kids everywhere, all the time. Unlimited playtime. We didn't need the lamp. We could be with kids again and be toys," she explains to Woody.
Even though she's technically part of a lamp, Bo just wants to be a toy like Woody or Buzz, so she says goodbye to the lamp and hatches an escape plan with new friend Giggle (we don't see how they meet).
To do that, Bo and her sheep have to get past the antiques store's security system. Before you can say plot hole as the store doesn't have one in Toy Story 4, Lamp Life cuts back to Woody pointing that out, with Bo replying: "Well, not anymore."
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Bo creates an explosion with her lamp by fitting the lightbulb incorrectly and it breaks the security system (how, we don't know), so that Bo, her sheep and Giggle can escape to the playground.
The short ends with Woody amazed by Bo's story and questioning whether it all actually happened. "Yeah, well, more or less," Bo teases.
Lamp Life was actually born out of a cut flashback sequence in Toy Story 4 as writer/director Valerie LaPointe told IndieWire.
"I dug up all of the cut scenes that we had [from the flashback], which were sad, and I was trying to look through the lens of how Bo would look back on her life," she noted.
© Pixar - Disney Lamp Life, Disney+ short, Bo Peep "Her personality would look back and say that she had a hard life, but she came out the other side as a better person, a better toy, she found a new way of life, and she can laugh at it.
"But in recounting what happened to her, the handful of gags were flipped from sad to funny."
Lamp Life (and the entire Toy Story series) is now available to watch on Disney+.
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