Toy Story is about panpsychism

Eh, I think it had the opposite effect on me as a child. I wanted to keep my out of style action figures because I felt attached to it, also helped we were POOR

raises hand I have emotional connections to inanimate objects

Incidentally this makes me the kind of consumer that companies hate, and make me hate them back. I still remember when some Apple exec got up on stage and said "we expect our customers to be buying a new computer every 3-4 years" (and that's why we won't build robust computers that are affordable to repair and maintain at home and can be basically bricked by a speck of dust). Fuck that. Today I'm still using my 13-year-old apple laptop every day for all my main tasks and I refuse to buy a new computer because I am heavily emotionally bonded with it. And yes, it's old, components do have finite lifespans.

Key mechanism breaks? Oh no, you poor thing, I'll replace the scissor switch for a component that costs less than a dollar.

Fan breaks? Oh no, my poor little friend, you're sick! I will get you a new fan for $15 bucks and do the surgery to swap out the broken fan.

Battery fails? You poor thing, I'll get you a good quality replacement (pricier, but still markedly cheaper than a new machine. They glue the batteries into the new machines and make it difficult to replace them! But on my model, it's just a few screws to replace it).

Hard drive dies? Well, it was probably time to graduate you to an SSD anyway, and SSDs have gotten cheap.

This also means I refuse to buy a new computer from Apple ever until they start making robust and repairable computers again (they will never) because I simply cannot afford to bond to a machine whose keyboard can become ruined by a speck of dust getting into it and then needing $800 worth of repairs.

I'm careful what I buy, because I don't want to bond with something and then be stuck with it. Only the worthy get to win their way into my heart.

I feel like having an emotional connection to inanimate objects make you want to consume less. Litteraly the reason I installed Linux on my old laptop

He steals it from a yard sale, not directly from a child

Still a dick move

I think it's a bit different when the "people" in question are Mr. Potato Head

This assumes that enslaved peoples were in any way keeping it a secret that they were sapient beings.

You're not wrong but Toy Story is pro slavery and always has been

The toys are sentient but they have no agency of their own, they only want to be property of a child, they're slaves who want to be slaves and hide their own sentience behind a vast conspiracy

The entire premise of Toy Story has rubbed me the wrong way since I was a kid

you don't need to ban teaching people to read if you genuinely believed that in 18 dickety whatever