Toy Story begins in a young boy's bedroom, where the toys come to life when people aren't around. The boy, whose name is Andy, has a favorite toy, a beat-up old cowboy doll named Woody. Pull Woody's string, and he says things like "somebody poisoned the water hole!" and "Reach for the sky!" Woody maintains law and order in Andy's room. He is looked up to and respected by all the other toys, until Andy's eighth birthday when a new toy, Buzz Lightyear, turns Woody's world upside-down. - Toys come to life when people are absent.