Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, more commonly known as Lotso for short, is the main antagonist of Pixar's 11th full-length animated feature film Toy Story 3. He is a large pink sentient strawberry-scented teddy bear who rules Sunnyside Daycare with an iron first with the aid of his minions - Ken, Big Baby, Stretch, Sparks, Chunk, Twitch, the Bookworm and the Monkey. Ultimately, Lotso's reign of terror ended when Andy's toys arrived, all while serving as the latter group's most hated enemy and Woody's arch-nemesis. He was voiced by the late Ned Beatty, who also played Otis in the 1978 Superman film and its sequel, Charles Meachum in Shooter and Tortoise John in Rango. Toy Story 3's Description“Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear is a jumbo, extra-soft teddy bear with a pink and white plush body and a velvety purple nose. This lovable bear stands fuzzy heads and shoulders above other teddy bears because he smells like sweet strawberries! With a smile that will light up your child's face and a belly just asking to be hugged, Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear is sure to become a bedtime necessity. Stain-resistant. Spot clean plush surface with a damp cloth.” PersonalityAt first, Lotso seemed like a caring, compassionate, friendly, and polite teddy bear, welcoming Woody and the gang with open arms, giving them a tour, and telling the toys that different kids at the daycare center would continue to play with them for years to come and that they would never get rejected. However, this was only a ruse as his true self is actually a tyrannical, cruel, selfish, sadistic, manipulative, and brutal control freak who regularly abused his position, despised children and ruled Sunnyside as a concentration camp. Lotso often imprisoned new toys in the Caterpillar Room so that he could test their ability to endure the abuse of the reckless and destructive children there until the broken toys are thrown away and send to the dump to their deaths, with no remorse for it. This nature was because according to Chuckles, Lotso was originally a good-natured and gentle bear, a friend of both Chuckles and Big Baby. He loved his owner Daisy as much as she loved him, as they did everything together. However, when Daisy forgot them and replaced Lotso with another teddy bear, Lotso felt betrayed and heartbroken. The grief and anger meanwhile drove Lotso to develop a harsh expression of cynicism and a negative philosophy about being a toy, believing that they were nothing special and destined to get thrown out in the trash (which is somewhat accurate considering the fact that toys tend to be given away and sometimes even discarded by their owners when they outgrow them). He even deemed love as a complete illusion, and while he played up his affable image as the ruler of Sunnyside, he developed near fatalists tendencies as he stated that all toys were ultimately made to be thrown away and there was no salvation for them. Lotso also showed no mercy to toys that resisted, opposed, helped other toys escape, and didn't follow his views, with examples being breaking Chuckles the Clown and Chatter Telephone, having Stretch push the toys into the dumpster, disowning Ken for not agreeing with his view that there were a hundred million Barbie dolls, and punching Big Baby with his mallet for being attached to their former owner again. Additionally, by destroying Big Baby's old pendant, Lotso showed that he not only wanted to forget his own relationship with Daisy and pretend it never even existed, but he also wanted to destroy all of Big Baby's ties to Daisy and essentially all toys' ties to their owners. However, despite his claims and great extremes to secure his power, Lotso is ultimately a coward and hypocrite. When welcoming Andy's toys to Sunnyside, he is shown to be contradicting in his statements concerning donations, claiming to Andy's toys that getting donated is the best thing that ever happened to them, and then saying that them getting donated by Andy was his loss and therefore, he can't hurt them anymore, even though he is intentionally hurting them by placing them in the Caterpillar Room. Eventually, when the toys try to escape Sunnyside, Big Baby, having enough with his abuse, throws him in the trash heap and Lotso begs him not to lock him inside and at the landfill. Despite seemingly showing thankful feelings toward Woody for saving him from the shredders, Lotso kept his belief that children would end up throwing away their toys out of boredom and disinterest without realizing the physical and emotional pain they cause to them, as evidenced by his refusal to press the stop button of emergency which, if he had pushed it, would have led to his redemption by sparing Woody and his friends from their ardent death in the incinerator. Overall, Lotso has proven to be both irredeemably and unsympathetically evil. Despite his tragic backstory and any admiration he may have had towards Daisy, Lotso shredded it all up by taking his hatred and rage on other toys that had no involvement with him getting replaced. Furthermore, he refuses to accept the fact that he was the only one who was replaced as he insisted to let his former friends suffer with him, Lotso is more than willing to let other toys suffer or get broken simply out of his hatred of Daisy. Moreover, he happily caused great harm to Woody and his friends, despite the fact that Woody risked his life to save his own fur, and he would not hesitate to betray his own minions or throw away any shed of redemption all for the sake of power and sadism, and by extension, it turns his horrendous treatment of the other toys into his way of angrily lashing out at everyone else with the mindset that if he can't be happy no one can. All this makes Lotso the worst, and by far, the most hated enemy of Woody and his friends. RelationshipsRelatives
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Other AppearancesToy Story 3: The Video GameLotso reappeared in every version of the video game based on Toy Story 3. Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 PCIn the story mode of the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 PC version, Lots-O appears in the Butterfly Room level. In the Toy Box mode, He appears in an area called "The Enchanted Glen" where he comments the pixies have turned townspeople into caterpillars. PlayStation 2 and PlayStation PortableHe also can be seen in the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable version. Nintendo DSHe even appeared in The Nintendo DS story mode which portrays the events of the film as they went on. Just like his own movie counterpart, Lotso pretends to be nice and caring at first only to reveal his true intentions to Andy's toys once Buzz asks him to be transferred from the Caterpillar Room along with his friends. A small but important change in the game is during his betrayal of Woody and the toys, instead of maliciously taunting Woody, he just runs away without even looking at him. Another one is how Woody reacted upon his discovery that Lotso did not want to help: instead of yelling in despair, he is visibly shocked and depressed for a moment, only to be interrupted by the incinerator which the cowboy and the other toys fortunately later escaped from. Lotso's fate is the same as that of his film incarnation, he is found and kept by the garbage man and is last seen attached to the garbage truck with the other toys. Disney ParksLotso makes meet-and-greet appearances at Disney's Hollywood Studios along with Woody, Buzz, and the other Toy Story characters and is part of the Toy Story Block Party Bash Parade (Now known as Pixar Pals Countdown to Fun.) and at Disney's California Adventure. Lotso is a very popular attraction at Hollywood Studios and California Adventure. QuotesTrivia
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