"Extremely dangerous. Keep out of reach of children... Cool!" —Sid reading the warning label

"The Big One" is a red rocket Sid Phillips ordered in the mail in Toy Story.

Toy Story

Its existence was first hinted at when, upon Sid returning from Pizza Planet with Woody, Buzz, and one of the aliens, he questioned Hannah Phillips, his sister, about whether his 'package' came in the mail, only for her to deny knowing one way or another, causing Sid to decide to "do surgery" on her doll Janie as revenge.

When his package finally does arrive, Sid gleefully opens it to find a firework rocket called "The Big One". After marveling and 'examing' its warning label, decides what unlucky toy will be launched with the firework. After initially choosing Woody or "that wimpy cowboy doll", Sid changes his mind when he steps on Buzz Lightyear's laser. After declaring that he always wanted to "put a spaceman into orbit", Sid duct tapes Buzz to the rocket and nearly has a chance to launch him, but a sudden rainstorm interrupts Sid's plan at the last minute. The next morning, Sid prepares a "launch site". When that is 'completed', he nearly lights the fuse before his toys, the Mutant Toys, led by Woody come to life and scare him to death. After that, Woody and Buzz use the rocket to catch up to the moving truck. He initially tried to use a match to light the rocket's wick, although a passing car had extinguished the match before Woody had a chance to light it, although Woody eventually used Buzz's helmet to focus the sunlight to the wick to light it. Although overjoyed at the success, Woody then realizes at the last second that he might have inadvertently endangered themselves and possibly the other toys due to the nature of rockets exploding upon being lit. However, when "The Big One" shoots towards the sky, Woody thinks his plan to get to Andy had failed stating "This is the part where we blow up!", but Buzz opens his wings and separates himself and Woody from the rocket mere seconds before it explodes into oblivion.

Toy Story 2

In Toy Story 2, Buzz mentions the rocket when he leads Rex, Hamm, Slinky Dog and Mr. Potato Head on a mission to rescue Woody from Al McWhiggin.

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