In the Toy Story franchise, what are the three-eyed toys from the claw machine called?

In the Toy Story franchise, the three-eyed toys from the claw machine are called the Little Green Men.

They are also commonly called the Aliens, or LGMs, short for Little Green Men. The toys are green, three-eyed squeak toys kept inside the claw machine at Pizza Planet in the original Toy Story. Their repeated devotion to “The Claw” is one of the franchise’s most recognizable running jokes.

The Little Green Men become more than background characters as the films continue. In Toy Story 2, Mr. Potato Head rescues three of them from falling out of a Pizza Planet truck. Mrs. Potato Head then adopts them, and in Toy Story 3 they help save the other toys from the landfill incinerator using a giant crane.

“Martians” and “space aliens” describe what they look like, but Little Green Men is the franchise’s distinctive name. Their unusual design came from early development work on Toy Story, where Pixar considered different kinds of toys before settling on the three-eyed alien figures.