Random trivia bit: The original movie website for TS1 said that Woody’s gun was inside Hamm the piggy bank. How it got there, I have no idea.
Sure, but Bo Peep ends up getting used by Andy as a “damsel in distress” for a lot of his adventures, so she ends up getting “brought to life” that way Etch is still a stretch, but there are too many good jokes involved, so I can forgive that. 
Besides, I doubt the ToyStoryverse is really supposed to make sense… 
Want me to theorise?
i wasn’t aware I had to give you permission.
Wasn’t there also a Speak and Spell that came to life in the first movie?
Mr. Spell was featured in both movies; Woody even makes references to the seminars he gives to the other toys (“Plastic Corrosion Meeting” and “what to Do If You (Or Part of You) Is Swallowed”.
I think you have to have some kind of anthropomorphistic face in order to be alive. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any toys in the movie that were alive that didn’t have such a thing…
Given that Hamm is referred to as "slotted pig’ by the second Buzz in TS2, Woody’s apparent loss of his gun, or symbolic phallus, to the pig is clearly an extension of the castration metaphor referenced earlier: ostensibly an Oedipal reflection of Woody’s fear of transacting a sexual relationship for fear of incurring the wrath of his symbolic father, but on a deeper level as a foreshadowing of his emergent conflict between a “conventional” heterosexual identity and his later clearly established homosexuality.
Assuming that his “gun” vanished down the pig’s “slot” - a clear vaginal metaphor - the trope being referenced is that of the vagina dentata, the toothed {or devouring/castrating} vagina, underscoring Woody’s reluctance or inability to form a mature sexual relationship with a woman: this is further supported by the pig’s traditionally unclean or taboo nature, strongly marked in several cultures. Those with a penchant for wordplay may care to reflect upon the similarities between the words “slot” and “slut” - in either of his incarnations, Woody’s sexual partner Buzz also obviously regards Hamm as being both female and unclean.
Woody has thus been “unmanned” by a female orifice he regards as being both dangerous and repugnant, an establishment early in the narrative of his underlying sexual proclivity: as noted above, he can only be “remanned” by the acquisition of the phallic match - significantly gifted to him by another male in the form of Sid, and used to cement his relationship with Buzz by providing the means of their flight together.
Significantly, however, Woody’s match is extinguished at the moment of their “consumnation”, as his initial distaste for this form of relationship attempts to figuratively reassert itself: it is left to the focussing powers of Buzz’s helmet {an obvious reference to the glans penis, as well as a subliminal pun on “giving head”} to provide the final impetus, or “thrust”.
The answer to the question posed earlier in the narrative, “What to do if part of you is swallowed.”, is thus established to be, in Woody’s case, “relax and enjoy it.”
More applause.
But what about Hamm’s cork?
And where does Potato (ahem) Head and all his moveable parts fit in.
Yeah! Now that is some great reading of depth into the movie. Personaly, I always prefered the one that theorized that Buzz was a deconverting fundamentalist christian, but then I would have made up my own version even if a friend hadn’t already told me that idea.
Other than RC Car, Etch-a-sketch, and Speak-n-spell, of course.
I have a fairly good reason for Buzz: he’s on a secret mission, or so he thinks, so he doesn’t want to reveal himself to the kid.
Don’t know about Zurg, though.
Etch and Mr. Spell do not have faces, but RC Car does. His headlights are the eyes and his bumper forms the mouth.
OK, I’ll give you that one. Seems like a stretch, though.
If I was a kid who had Woody, but he didn’t have his gun, it’s a pretty safe bet that I swallowed it.
In light of Case Sensitive’s post, I’m rather uncomfortable with this admission.
It was at this point that I started laughing uncontrollably.
Best. Post. Ever.
'Course Etch can draw a face and Mr. Spell is able to speak without one.
I don’t believe that the presence or absence of anthropomorphic facial features is the determining factor in whether a toy animates or not. Rather, the question is: Is it the toy iteslf that we are concerning ourselves with, or is it an accessory?
Mr. Spell and Etch-a-Sketch are fully-actualized toys; they are not accessories to some other, more major toy. As such, they are endowed with the ability to animate when nobody (human) is around, their lack of faces notwithstanding.
Sheesh! It’s a cartoon!
::ponders driving over to Pixar and asking John Lasseter what it’s all about::
As for restoration - it’s impossible to restore an item to NIB (new, in box) condition, mainly because no level of restoration can ever allow you to describe an item as NIB. New, in box is just that - new and in the box. Not opened. Not taken out. Nothing’s been lost. At best, the item is restored. Restoration generally means cleaned up, possibly repainted and mended. If a part is lost, (e.g.: a revolver) it’s lost and generally not replaceable. Keep in mind that “restored” items often suffer severe loss of value to collectors since they’re no longer original.
Gah! I hate when people say that! Just for that, I am going to quote my earlier answer, from post 12.