In Toy Story, Hand-in-the-box is first seen when Woody is exploring Sid's room after him and Buzz Lightyear are seemingly trapped there. They are shocked by the appearance of Sid's mutilated toys, with Hand-in-the-box first appearing as a simple jack-in-the-box, but startles Woody with its true presence. After the mutant toys discover a broken Buzz Lightyear, Hand-in-the-box and Sid's other toys swarm him and fix him, as they had previously done with Janie and Pterodactyl.