For the scene where Woody looks at the merchandise from "Woody's Roundup", mock-ups of the toys were shown to Tom Hanks in the recording booth. Hanks' spontaneous reactions to the toys were recorded and used for Woody's dialogue.

While driving around Al's Toy Barn, the gang drives down the Buzz Lightyear aisle. Tour Guide Barbie tells them "Back in 1995 short-sighted retailers did not order enough dolls to meet demand". This is an in-joke and a fact: When the original Toy Story (1995) was released, toy sellers did not think the movie would be a hit and they indeed did not order enough dolls to keep up with demand. The joke is also a self-deprecating dig at Mattel Toys, which denied use of the Barbie character in the first film, thinking it would be a flop.

The dust in the scene where Woody meets Wheezy set a record for number of particles animated for a movie by computer.

There was some discussion with regard to the song "When She Loved Me" and its place in the film. Randy Newman expressed concern over whether or not young children would be able to sit through the three-minute ballad while both Tim Allen and Tom Hanks admitted to being moved to tears by the scene featuring the song.

When Hamm is flipping through the channels looking for the Al's Toy Barn commercial, all the other stations show clips from shorts and commercials Pixar produced through the years including Luxo Jr. (1986), Red's Dream (1987), Tin Toy (1988), and Knick Knack (1989). There is also a logo for the NeXT computer developed by Pixar's then CEO, Steve Jobs, as well as a few clips of some of Pixar's television commercials they did, and a brief image of Pixar's old logo.

Continuity

When the toys ride the elevator to Al's apartment, they are on the elevator's roof. Yet as they jump off the elevator and run through the air vent, they exit the vent on the ground floor, not near the ceiling where they should be.

When Andy is playing with Woody at the beginning of the movie, he uses "RC" via his remote to launch Buzz out of a box. RC's remote was left on the road in the final chase scene of "Toy Story" and was not recovered.

When Al is heading down the elevator, Buzz and the others lower Slinky towards the box that holds Woody. Woody is then pulled back into the box by the Prospector. However, earlier Al was seen stacking the toys into a perfect fitting box, it is not possible for the Prospector to have pulled Woody back into the box.

When the impostor Buzz is standing with the toys in the air duct preparing to charge into Al's apartment, his utility belt disappears for one shot, making him look like the regular Buzz Lightyear.

When Woody is being carried to Al's apartment by Al in a zipper bag, he peers out to see what is going on. To do so, he uses both arms to pull apart the two sides so he can see - however, at this point, his arm is ripped and therefore he could not have opened the bag like this (as in many previous and following shots a ripped arm is shown as completely useless to Woody, just hanging by his side).



Factual errors

When the toys see off the flight to Japan, they are overflown by plane coming in to land. The outbound flight would take off at the end of the runway; an inbound, landing plane would land at the other end, not at the spot the other took off from.

One of the baggage handlers says the rest of the luggage will have to go on the next flight. This would not be allowed in real life and doing so can result in disciplinary action as all luggage belonging to its particular owner must be on the same plane.

At the airport, the plane to Japan takes off just seconds before another lands in its place. Takeoffs and landings would not be scheduled in this manner.

Al's plane has lights on in the cabin section prior to takeoff. All planes must have lights out before takeoff when it's dark at night.

At the end, Al is crying because he lost the toys, but being so worried about the toys being damaged he would have insured them. Since the airline lost the toys, he would most likely receive a nice amount of cash for compensation.



Incorrectly regarded as goofs

After Woody's failed attempt to get his missing arm back from Al, the TV turns on by itself, waking Al up. Woody accuses Jessie after seeing the remote in front of her. It is possible that the Prospector could have blackmailed Jessie into keeping quiet about it by threatening to chop her up into pieces with his pickaxe, which is something he actually attempts to do to Woody later on in the movie.

In the first film, Sid burned a dot into Woody's head with a magnifying glass, but now the dot is gone. Since Andy adeptly sews up Woody's arm, it is possible that Andy (or his mother) touched up Woody's burn mark.

Zurg is seen breaking out of his package as the toys leave the store. As the first confrontation with the impostor Buzz states, all rangers are required to be in hyper-sleep for transfer, making it entirely possible that the toys can, in fact, move and be alive while inside their original packaging, therefore making it possible for Zurg to get free and also may be why Stinky Pete could move around if his box had indeed never been opened.

Toys in boxes do not become conscious until they are opened; this is seen in the first movie (when Buzz arrives), and in the toy store. Stinky Pete is in what appears to be an unopened box, but it has been opened. Presumably, doctoring the box to appear unopened was another job by the cleaner.

In the outtake with characters from A Bug's Life, Heimlich is missing his butterfly wings. However, his appearance in this film is non-canon to said film, rendering it a moot point.



Revealing mistakes

As Woody first sees all the "Woody's Roundup" posters and records, one of the record covers that has Jessie and Woody playing instruments, uses the "and" twice together in the top text caption: "Saturday Morning's favorite Cowboy & and his pals join their musical talents to bring you...."

When the cargo door of the plane closes on Woody and Jessie, watch the bottom of the door. There is a rendering error as it passes through the conveyor belt.

After Woody hits his head on the dresser and falls to the floor, Buzz jumps on the race car and rides it down the track. As he goes through the loop, his arm passes through the loop of the track.

When Buzz is using Mr. Spell to figure out what the 'LZTYBRN' on the license plate means, the 'B' and 'R' blocks have the exact same scuffs around the borders of the blocks.

When Woody is trying to reach Al to recover his arm, the bowl falls to ground and you later see the entire floor covered with more Cheetos than what was in the bowl. You also see them more spread out deliberately making it more difficult to get to the sleeping man.



Anachronisms

A white truck has an airbag deploy when rear ending a green sedan from a low speed. The truck also appear's to be a 1979 Toyota Truck with Toyota not having airbags in the U.S. model until the 1995 Tacoma.

On the original 2000 DVD, the clip-on that plays before the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command movie trailer is "Coming soon to own on video and DVD." This movie was released on August 8, 2000, so the clip on should have been "Now available to own on video and DVD."

The cover of Life Magazine has a headline which reads "Sputnik - First Photos Revealed" and is dated 12 January 1957. Sputnik was not launched until 4 October 1957.



Audio/visual unsynchronized

When Hamm is flipping through the channels, he goes too far and says he needs to go around again. When he does, the commercial comes on and everyone says "Stop!" However, for about a second Hamm can still be seen clicking, but the channel does not change.

When Woody kicks the record player up to "78", the stylus moves far across the record, yet the song continues uninterrupted.

When Woody and Bullseye approach the sleeping Al to retrieve Woody's arm from Al's pocket, Al spills his bowl of cheese puffs all over the floor. A moment later, when Al is awoken by the television turning on, he jumps up from the couch and finds Woody on the floor, picks him up, and returns him to his display case. However, the crunching of Al stepping on the spilled cheese puffs is never heard.

When the impostor Buzz knocks over Woody in Al's apartment, the laser on his arm is heard without him pressing the button to activate it or the laser light being seen.

When Andy's toys and Utility Belt Buzz saw Zurg, they gasped before he arrived on the elevator.



Errors in geography

When the toys steal the pizza truck, the truck has amber rear side markers. However, US-Spec requires vehicles have red rear side markers; amber rear side markers are Euro-Spec.

In the international release, when Buzz holds his heroic speech about having a friend in need and not giving up until Woody is back in Andy's room, the globe superimposed over him still shows the Soviet Union and even Germany divided into East and West despite the movie being produced well after the end of the Cold War.



Plot holes

When Woody is rescuing Jessie from the plane, he extends his pull string to hook the ring on a bolt and swing to safety. However, after he unhooks the ring, none of his trademark sayings are heard as the string retracts.

Al is on a plane for Japan but the next morning he's on TV very sad in a chicken suit. The flight to Japan and back would take longer than this, not including the time it takes to produce and air a commercial.

After Andy's mom realizes that Woody somehow got downstairs and into Al McWhiggin's hands, she takes Woody and puts him in the cash box for safe keeping. After Al steals Woody, Andy's mom is never seen worrying or calling the police to report theft. Nor does she say anything to Andy (as Andy arrives home from cowboy camp all cheerful and eager to see Woody). It seems strange that she went through the entire length of the movie not knowing that Woody had been taken/stolen and didn't do anything about it. It's hard to believe that she didn't notice the wide-open cash box without Woody inside.

At the end after Woody uses his pull string as a lasso the string retracts, but he doesn't say any of his phrases that are heard when his string is pulled.

When a little girl pulled Woody's pull-string, his voice box said, "There's a snake in my boot!" But when Woody met Jessie, she pulled his pull-string, and the same phrase was repeated. In real life, the Sheriff Woody dolls shouldn't repeat the same phrases. First, they have to say different phrases. Afterward, they can repeat them.



Character error

Although time has passed and seasons changed in between first and second movie, Andy's little sister, Molly, hasn't grown up at all.

Someone turns on the TV causing Al to wake up. Woody blames Jessie, but it was The Prospector who climbed out of his box to turn on the TV. However, Jessie did not see The Prospector who was nearby and in line of sight of her location.

When Mr. Potato Head tells Rex that "Woody's been shelved", he is seen plugging in his right ear, despite the fact that it has been attached the whole time. It was his left ear which Andy had removed moments before, as well as various other parts.

When the toys are running through the vent in Al's apartment, Utility Belt Buzz pressed down on his left arm to fire his laser and the sound is also heard. However his laser is on the right arm.

Woody wasn't wearing his hat when Slinky tried to grab him.