I shoulda bought one of these in 2013 when they were only $30 for a brand new one.

"Pizza Time Starts"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTksCF6X8Y

Yay, I have this one! Just like the last Toy Story set to be featured. Come to think of it, I’ve collected all the Toy Story 1, 2, and 3 sets back in the day except the RC one and the two buildable figures. I don’t think I’ve ever added them to my Brickset collection though.

Man, I wanted this one

I was searching this set up like two days ago, I really like it.
I wonder if huwbot is tracking what I look at, creepy.

The truck looks nice and decent as it is, but the real value is definetly the awesome minifigs. I love Disney/Pixar minifigs. They have display value even by themselves.

Strange when it comes to scale and the pizza cannon, but that does not mean it’s bad at all. In particular, this was the cheapest way to get Rex and Hamm.

@PurpleDave said:
"*snip*"
Thanks for that! I completely forgot how the pizza truck turned into an Easter egg in other films.

According to Bricklink, this set contains the most pizza pieces.

Hard to believe this is 11 years ago, seemed like 2 years ago lol

I remember I got this one on sale in the supermarket as it was expensive at full retail price. It was great to get Hamm and Rex, both of them were recreated fantastically in Lego. The truck itself was a nice, big, chunky vehicle.

Love this set. Managed to buy it from another Afol who was downsizing his collection. Been setting on my desk for over four years. Excellent design and the minifigs are splendid. Lego does well with the movie licenses.

I love the fact that even without the license, but this is still a pretty good model of an old Toyota. I also love the yellow windshield used for shaping. I love getting windshield pieces in opaque colors.

"Slink, take the pedals. Rex, you navigate. Hamm and Potato, operate the levers and knobs--

"Oh wait, I'm big enough to do all those things myself here, never mind. Also we lost two of the crew due to licensing, so it's probably good that we don't need them all right now."

That was my favourite scene in Toy Story 2 when I first saw it as a kid, I'll be honest. If this set had included figures that were more in-scale with the truck - and, in particular, included Slinky and Mr. Potato Head amongst them - I'm pretty sure I would have sought it out at the time; but the fact that it wouldn't be possible to accurately recreate the scene with it kind of deterred me from doing that.

I get why they couldn't include them, of course; they're both the property of competitors in the toy industry, which would probably have made for a lot of very awkward negotiating to use them. Not to mention, I've no idea how you'd create a slinky out of Lego parts. Still, to me it's not the Woody Rescue Squad with two of its members missing.

Rewatching the scene to make this comment, I also notice that the truck had only one headlight working. One of them in the set could, perhaps, have been a trans-black piece instead of trans-clear, to represent that.

On another note... you know, I never actually had any of these Lego pizza pieces. I always thought they looked cool, but somehow just... never got any sets that actually included them.

Missed this as more interested in 7597: Western Train Chase as seemed better value for parts, figures and play-ability. Even so both of these are the only sets where you can find Rex and Hamm.

@PurpleDave said:
"40 bucks for _six_ pizzas. Besides, that's actually pretty cheap. If the pandemic hadn't thrown everything in a tizzy, I was going to request a $300 pizza for my milestone anniversary luncheon at work. There's a place nearby that makes the world's largest deliverable pizza. It's square, and it's 6' per side."

If you live in the US, you can order a fresh, never frozen New York pizza from Prima Pizza (One day shipping via "Air Prima") It'll cost you about $70 US. I've eaten at the actual restaurant and it's quality stuff.

Back on topic: These initial Toy Story sets were so much better than the 4+ ones that came later for the 4th movie. The Woody and Buss figures had custom head molds and Woody and Jesse had longer legs so the minifigs looked much more accurate, while still keeping that Lego feel. It's too bad those leg pieces weren't used outside of this theme as it would have been cool to see them used elsewhere for giants/tall figures.

Pooof! another supporter! Good luck!

@ClassicDragon said:
"According to Bricklink, this set contains the most pizza pieces.
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Now this is the sort of information that Huwbot should be delivering. Not endless posts of ‘random’ Clickits!

@The_Creator:
It is, unfortunately, unrealistic at the moment, but I’d love to make every major variant of the PPT (excluding TS4, where it’s a tattoo on someone’s calf). Currently I have TS1, with Buzz sitting in the passenger seat next to a stack of pizza delivery bags, and Woody in the truck bed with a brown toolbox. I have TS2, with _all_five_ of the toys who drive the truck. And I have Todd, which basically covers the Cars trilogy. I’m still trying to come up with a solution for making Lotso’s gang on the rear bumper for TS3, but the real challenge would be to make the wood carving from Brave. Clouds from The Good Dinosaur, and the deformed version from Up (they styled it to match Carl’s physique) wouldn’t be hard. But then there’s a variation I can’t even find a picture of, so maybe I imagined it. I swear I once saw a six-wheeled monster truck version in the Monster’s Inc franchise. It’s definitely not from the first film (that has a nighttime shot of the trailer home from A Bug’s Life), and I scoured Monsters U to find it with no luck. Maybe it was from the Party Central short?

@TheOtherMike:
Officially, it’s not a Toyota, though. Yeah, it’s clearly modeled after a Toyota Hilux, but in TS2 they show a fictional brand on the user’s manual.

@ThatBionicleGuy:
In minifig scale, I used a reddish brown nipple tile for the head, I think a 1x1 round plate for the other end, with the spring being represented by 3x 1x1 round plate in whatever silver color was convenient. For me, that was ideal as it allowed me to make him exactly two studs long (excluding the nose), so he’d fit in the passenger footwell of my TS2 PPT. Mr. Potato Head was just a small stack of plates. In scale with the Toy Story minifigs, Id probably do the same for Slinky Dog, but make the spring longer, and maybe add 1x1-1x1 brackets with 1x1 tiles on the “side” for the feet. For Mr. Potato Head, there’s a character in the Yellow Submarine set that looks perfect if you update the paint job.

@Dash_Justice:
But it’s just a regular pizza at that point. This one is big enough to use as a blanket! 36 square feet in one pizza! It’s just not something I could ever order for myself because it would spoil before I could finish it.

@PurpleDave said:
" @The_Creator:
*snip*"
This had a great run-down and brought back a lot of memories:
https://d23.com/where-to-find-the-iconic-pizza-planet-trucks-in-pixar-films/

For some reason I want a UCS Pizza Truck now with a bunch of different Pixar characters to re-create different scenes. haha

@The_Byzantine_Knight said:
"This set should be re-released as a regular minifigure scale set, a polybag mini set, and as a UCS set."

I built this minfigure scale one in 2010. https://brickshelf.com/gallery/ToyKiwi/More-pick-ups/pickup12.jpg

@PurpleDave: I'm aware. Officially, it's a "Gyoza," which let them do the "YO" on the tailgate.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave: I'm aware. Officially, it's a "Gyoza," which let them do the "YO" on the tailgate."

I understand it was based on an actual Toyota once owned by one of the Pixar team, which really did have most of the letters scratched off its tailgate, leaving only YO.