He acts as a ringmaster of sorts and speaks to the guest while on a line to ride the attraction. He is a large semi-digital Audio Animatronic that can truly interact with guests and, as a nod to his origins, pull apart his body pieces. After successfully getting to the RV to the carousel, how to make ball joints for dolls Buzz tells everyone to get to the roof while Forky locks the Andersons out of the car after dealing with the police chasing them. After stacking themselves up, Mr. Potato Head uses literally both of his arms to open up the awning as a bridge between them and the carousel.
She then comes up a plan to pull the curtains to reveal the toys in the shelf, but gets stopped by Mr. Jones. During a struggle, Jessie realizes that Mr. Jones has a weak gag reflex after puking up Combat Carl’s arm. She then throws herself into his mouth, where she pulls out Mr. Potato Head’s slobbery arm. As Mr. Jones pulls Jessie away, she uses the arm as a grip for the curtain, making it fall down. Bonnie sees her toys inside the case before she can walk out and runs into the back to grab her toys.
After a failed attempt to open the lock with a paperclip, Ron’s computer gives an alert, saying that he has a sale. It’s revealed Woody has been bought online for a large price, making Ron package him and puts him with other packages. After Jessie is also bought, she is left outside the case after Ron gets distracted with the tow truck company. Jessie cannot reach the lock, and says she will get Woody so they can reach the handle together. But before she can, a delivery lady arrives and takes the package Woody is in.
Combat Carl then encourages Jessie to sneak into a box so she can rescue Woody out of the truck. After accidentally getting sealed into the box by the delivery lady, Mr. Potato Head gives up, saying that they’re never going to get out of there. After a while, Trixie doubts that they’re coming back, but Mr. Pricklepants claims to be patient, using a movie’s tension as an example. This causes Mr. Potato Head to snap and say that life is not a movie and that Jessie and Woody were not coming back, only for them to run in through the vent moments later.
Nine years later, Mr. Potato Head now lives with the rest of the toys with Bonnie being their new owner. He first appears with the rest of the toys waiting in the closet for Bonnie to finish her breakfast. The toys are cramped and annoyed with one another, with Mr. Potato Head asking someone where his ear is.
At Tri-County International Airport, he, Hamm, Rex, and the Aliens aim for luggage identical to the one the Roundup Gang are trapped in, only to find flash cameras instead. However, they use the cameras to stun a traitorous Stinky Pete before he can finish Woody off with his pickaxe. Mr. Potato Head is a rather cynical Mr. Potato Head doll, of the common design of Playskool. Andy often casts him as a villain in his games, which seems to be the reason for his cynical and irritable behavior. Even though he is sarcastic, cynical, rude , and has an acerbic point of view, he has a good heart deep down, he loves his wife Mrs. Potato Head, and is prepared to go to limitless lengths to save his friends. In the second film, when Woody was kidnapped, he showed some shock and later showed some sadness when Woody refused to go back home.