NOTE: This article was incarnate of Al McWhiggin from Toy Story 2 Redialed a remake of the movie. The mainstream version can be found here: Al McWhiggin.
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You, my little cowboy friend, are gonna make me big buck-buck-bucks! [laughs greedily] Buck-buck-bucks! [continues laughing] Buck-buck-bucks!
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~ Al telling Woody about his plans for him, and his most famous quote.
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And now, the main attraction!
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~ Al 's second most famous quote.
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Geri: [after fixing Woody] He's for display only. If you handle him too much he's not gonna last. Al: [pushing Geri aside] It's amazing, you're a genius! He's just like NEW!
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~ Al describes Woody "as new" after Geri repairs him.
Al McWhiggin, also known as the Chicken Man, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Stinky Pete) in the 2022 fan film Toy Story 2 Redialed, which remake of the film Toy Story 2.
He is the greedy and treacherous owner of Al's Toy Barn and an avid toy collector who steals Woody in hopes of selling him and the Woody's Roundup gang to Tokyo for money. However, Woody's friends Buzz Lightyear, Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm saw Al steal their friend and went out to rescue Woody and bring him home.
On top of being greedy and a overzealous businessman, he is incredibly silly and childish as a person, many of his traits are very exaggerated and over-the-top that makes him easy to laugh at; examples of these include his lively chicken persona hatching eggs of toys in the commercials, his exuberance and chortling, his occasionally awkward (if expressive) movements when he talked to Andy's mom and when he was on the phone, his poor hygiene like not taking a shower and falling asleep with cheese puffs all over the couch, his hammy overreactions to stuff like Woody's arm coming off, his complaint over going to work on a Saturday, and his humorous failures at convincing Andy's mom to give Woody in the manner of a incompetent buffoon. Despite Al being viewed as a unnerving and hateable mascot to the Toys whom stole Woody without Andy's mom knowing, these factors makes him less of a traditional villain and much more of a selfish jerk compared to Zurg and Stinky Pete, two overarching villains whose villainous actions are taken much more seriously than Al himself regardless of his petty actions and crimes that make him more slimy and underhanded outside of seeming comical and weird.
Biography[]
Before the events of the film series, Al opened his toy store called Al's Toy Barn and made a profit in selling toys (including the famed Buzz Lightyear action figures) from there, proving to be quite a successful business venture. He also turns out to be very obsessed with a TV show called Woody's Roundup from the 1950s. As such, he made a deal with the Konishi Toy Museum in Tokyo to sell them the doll versions of the series' main characters. After searching through yard sales, Al was able to find and buy three of the characters: Jessie the Cowgirl, Bullseye the Horse and Stinky Pete the Prospector. The only toy missing was Sheriff Woody.
Hey, kids! This is Al from Al's Toy Barn, and I'm sitting on good deals. Ow! I think I'm feeling a deal hatching right now. Whoa! Let's see what we got. We got boats for a buck. Beanies for a buck... For a buck-buck-buck! And that's cheap-cheap-cheap! So hurry on down...
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~ Al during a commercial for Al's Toy Barn on TV, advertising him toys before Hamm turns off the TV.]
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Woody in voice box: There's a snake in my boot! Al: Original hand-painted face. Natural-dyed, blanket-stitched vest! Hmm, a little rip. Fixable. Oh, if only you had your hand-stitched, polyvinyl... [gasps as seeing Woody's hat] A hat! I found him! I found him, I found him!
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~ Al's first lines when he finds Woody at Andy's garage sale, and exclaims happily that he found the cowboy.
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I can't believe I have to drive all the way to work on a Saturday. All the way to work!
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~ Al drives to work in car, complaining about "driving all the way to work on a Saturday", ironically only across the street from his apartment.
~ Al being overexcited to take pictures of the Woody band dolls and make money off of it.
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Welcome to Al's Toy Barn. We've got the lowest prices in town. Everything for a buck-buck-buck. [sobs]
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~ Al's final words during a commercial breaking down crying about his failed plan to sell Woody in Japan and because he's broke and sells toys in low prices (as always).
Trivia[]
Al was originally going to have his family: consisting of a father, a mother, a brother, a wife, and a son help him take the Woody's Roundup gang to Japan. But they were all cut from the final film.
