Oh, I love those Toy Story mutant toys, too. But they are (by design) just a bit too creepy to fit in with a holly-jolly Holiday Season. They do, however, nicely illustrate my belief that just because we're afraid of monsters, doesn't mean the monsters want to frighten us.

And, like the Misfit Toys, they can be used as metaphor for disability.

But if they're used in that way, the two groups also stand for different aspects of disability: The Misfit Toys are created (born) that way, and the Mutant Toys are survivors of trauma, later in life.

If the Misfit Toys were created as misfits in Santa's Workshop, well... that raises another whole level of troubling philosophical attitudes toward who's acceptible and who's an outcast... >;-P