Location from Toy Story by Pixar / Disney
The unnamed suburban region where the entire Toy Story franchise takes place — a patchwork of neighborhoods, strip malls, daycare centers, and landfills that constitute the full geography of the toys' world.
The Tri-County Area is the franchise's entire geography. The toys have never left it (except nearly, when Woody almost shipped to Japan). It contains every meaningful location in their lives: Andy's house, Sid's house, Sunnyside, Al's Toy Barn, Pizza Planet, the Antique Store, the Carnival, and — at the outer edge — the Tri-County Landfill, which serves as the franchise's version of hell. The Landfill is where toys go to die. The incinerator at its center nearly killed every main character in the franchise's most harrowing scene. The conveyor belt leading to the fire is the point where the toys held hands and accepted death — the most emotionally devastating moment in children's cinema. The Tri-County Area is small by human standards. For toys, it might as well be infinite.
A generic American suburban sprawl: tree-lined residential streets, strip malls with chain stores, a Pizza Planet restaurant, a toy superstore (Al's Toy Barn), schools, daycare centers, highways connecting bedroom communities. The Tri-County Landfill sits on the outskirts — mountains of garbage with an industrial incinerator at the center. Everything is unremarkable from a human perspective. For toys, every location is a world.
Also known as: Tri-County, Tri-County Area