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Well why are tablets sentient but not TVs? Why not computers? Why not cars? Why not game consoles?
They're sentient if the child thinks of them as such. Andy's etch-a-sketch was used in play as a character, so it gets thoughts. The Lilypad, with its decorative face and hands, gets the same thing.
Really, the only gap in this logic I can think of in the toy story universe is the shipping crate of buzzes that no child has even seen yet, but besides them, toys tend to wake up and be alive when interacted with, either by a child or a toy that has itself come alive from a child. S Even sitting on a store shelf, a child will still see the toy and imagine on occasion, so this still works for Stinky Pete.
I think buzzes were awake before because he had a tv show.
Easiest explanation is the factory they were made in uses child labor
Oh man that works so well.
If you want a less dark explanation, I think the toys are powered by both individual and collective imagination. Really popular toys like Buzz gain sentience immediately, because there are masses of children already thinking of them that way so much so that proximity isn't needed. Non-toy items like Forky can gain toyhood and sentience from a concentrated dose of imagination. Most toys would be somewhere between those two extremes.
You could also go a step further and say collective imagination results in a lower quality sentience, explaining all the Buzzes, green aliens, etc. starting out less self-aware.
Also, a horde of Buzzes is really fucking creepy. Like plastic ants
Seriously?
this is why not cars.