Trivia: Many of the scenes in this film (the Buzz Lightyear video game, the yard sale, and Woody's nightmare) were originally written for the first Toy Story.
Trivia: Directly after Rex lands back in the car in Al's Toy Barn, Tour-Guide-Barbie quotes "remain seated please" then repeats it in Spanish. This is a reference to the safety spiel on the Matterhorn at Disneyland. (In the Spanish version of the movie, she repeats it in French.). (00:45:45)
Trivia: When Hamm keeps zapping on TV, a shot from Pixar's short Red's Dream is visible on it.
Trivia: When Hamm starts zapping on TV to find Al's Toys Factory's spot, a shot from Pixar short's Knick Knack is visible in one of the channels.
Trivia: The toy restorer is Geri from the Pixar short 'Geri's game', which ran in cinemas before A Bug's Life.
Trivia: This film was initially planned to be a direct-to-video release, but because Pixar found the early versions so good, they decided to rework it, improve it, and release it on the big-screen.
Answer: As we learn later, Stinky Pete has his own agenda. He's seizing on the fact that Woody was being sold as a way to convince Woody to go to the museum.