Besides, the folks from DreamWorks and Industrial Light and Magic have reputations to live up to. The toys are back in town, this time with a real attitude. Imagine stepping on one of those puppies in your bare feet when you get up to go to the bathroom. Globotech is a mega-conglomerate with its fingers in everything from military ordnance to beer and, now, toys. The toy designers are a pair of computer nerds from newly-acquired Heartland Toys.
Night comes and the toys break out of their boxes.
Thanks to their super-duper microchip, the toys actually learn as they go along. With power tools and household appliances fashioned into bazookas and flamethrowers, the commandoes attack the Gorgonites and their human sympathizers with equal abandon. That's the basic story, but it's the sub-plots that make the movie interesting. Given his diminutive frame, his chances aren't too good with the cheerleader Christy, either. Just as the underdog Gorgonites must overcome their programming if they are to win, so must Abernathy overcome the expectation that he will fail.