Article: NEW ADVENTURE: ; Woody and Buzz Lightyear face mortality in 'Toy Story 3'

CANNES, France - Woody, Buzz Lightyear and their plaything pals are coping with abandonment issues in the new "Toy Story" sequel.

Next year's "Toy Story 3" has the gang learning they have reached their shelf life as the young boy who owns them grows up and goes off to college.

"Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child," said John Lasseter, director of the first two "Toy Story" movies and chief creative officer for Pixar and Disney animation. "The thing they worry about the most is all the things in life that prevent them from being played with, and probably the thing they fear the most is being outgrown."

Lasseter and his Pixar colleagues talked up the "Toy Story" sequel at ...

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