While we wait to see if Sid pops up again in Toy Story 4, producer Jonas Rivera has responded to one of the biggest fan theories about the character.
After tormenting the toys in Toy Story, Sid showed up again as a garbageman in the third movie, leading one fan on Reddit to argue that he's doing it to rescue the toys that are thrown away, traumatised by the knowledge that he knows they're alive.
"That is great, I hadn't heard that one. Maybe I should, like, confirm it or something because that is too cool to let go...," Rivera joked to Digital Spy, before confirming that, sadly, it's not true.
"We hear a lot of them and we always joke that everyone thinks we're a lot smarter than we are, we would never have done the math to figure that out. I think that's a little bit of receipt to us that people dig really deep into these.
"Poor Sid, he's the only one that has actually seen the toys alive. We've kind of ruined Sid, I’m actually on Sid's side."
Whether we see Sid again or not, Rivera added that "a lot" of the time spent on Toy Story 4 was balancing the nods to the past – like Sid in Toy Story 3 – with the new characters they wanted to introduce.
"There are a bunch of versions of the movie where we would go too far away from the new characters and it felt like too much sameness. Then there were other times we’d overcompensate and there wasn't enough drive," he outlined.
Toy Story 4 is released in cinemas on June 21.
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