<p>He stripped his room of everything and drove off to college by himself in his own little car.</p>
<p>I found that so sad. D:</p>
<p>That abandoned bedroom, that little car chugging down the street all on its lonesome.</p>
<p>I said to myself, "Surely NO ONE does that."</p>
<p>I thought his mom was so superficial-- pretending to be all nice and nurturing, but then essentially kicking him out of his room and tossing him to the wolves, not caring what became of him.</p>
<p>So is anyone here doing that? Basically clearing everything out of your room and driving to college by yourself?</p>
<p>I'm leaving a lot of stuff in my bedroom... my desktop computer, my books (they're everywhere...), CDs (again, they're everywhere...), assorted shoes, clothes, knickknacks, blankets and pillows, miscellaneous personal items, etc., etc. It's really not going to look all that different except for a lot less clothes in the closet. And I'm driving up to the school with my mom and sister. Even for kids who are flying to their college alone, usually their families give a damn enough to drive them to the airport.</p>
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<li><p>I was really excited because Andy and I went to college the same year… haha i love toy story.</p></li>
<li><p>No. I brought stuff with me but certainly not my whole room. I think in the movie they were just trying to show that Andy had ‘grown up’ from being the little kid, so that the little kids in the audience would understand that he wasn’t coming back and <em>spoiler!</em> that his toys belonged to the little girl.</p></li>
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<p>I didn’t go with my parents. That doesn’t make them heartless or cruel. We have a very close relationship, but honestly it was much easier for me to go without them. </p>
<p>And I have very few things so my room was nearly bare when I left. It’s because I come from a poor family and I don’t really care about materialistic things.</p>
<p>Wasn’t the little sister getting his room after he left? Plus I think a common theme you see in college movies is parents wanting to keep themselves/their families busy in those last few days before college to keep their mind off the sadness.</p>
<p>Maybe Andy’s mom has a little girl to take care of and a job and so she can’t go with him. It’s a movie, lol, there could be a million explanations. And in real life, every family’s different so you might not understand why another family does what they do, but it works for them.</p>
<p>^^ At only the end? You have to watch the whole thing. Your generation grew up with the Toy Story movies. It’s appropriate Andy goes away to college now, alone or not.</p>
<p>Andy and I went to college the same year. This is true for a lot of people on this board. What is unique to very few, if anyone else at all, is that during all the other movies, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” was in english and at the end of Toy Story 3 it was preformed in spanish, while for my whole life my school’s fight songs was always in english and now my college’s fight song is in spanish (and yes it is in the USA). Sure its a bit of a stretch, but it provided the closure I needed to let go of Woody and Buzz.</p>
<p>Toy Story 3 essentially marked the end of my childhood.</p>
<p>But, I’m sort of being kicked out of my house. It’s not like I can’t come back, it’s just that, I’m taking everything I own. I’m clearing out my closet and everything and my sister is going to take over my room. We already share our room, but come this Saturday, it’s going to become her room.</p>
<p>My parents are going with me to move-in, but I had to practically beg my mom to go. My parents didn’t really see any reason for them to go with me. The only reason why my dad was going in the first place was because I’m not bringing a car.</p>
<p>My dad doesn’t even want to come down for Parents Weekend. They didn’t go with me to Orientation.</p>