What type of toy is Hamm from Toy Story?

Hamm is a piggy bank in Toy Story.

Hamm is a stylized plastic piggy bank with a cork in his belly, making him one of Andy’s most recognizable toys. He is not a living pig or a stuffed animal; his design is based on the familiar coin bank shaped like a pig. His wisecracking personality and knowledge of household gadgets make him one of the more sarcastic members of the toy group.

John Ratzenberger voices Hamm in the main Toy Story films. Hamm is especially close to Mr. Potato Head, and the pair are shown playing games in the first film. In Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3, Andy also casts Hamm as the villain Evil Dr. Porkchop during imaginative play, often giving him Mr. Potato Head’s bowler hat.

Hamm appears across the Toy Story film series, including Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999), Toy Story 3 (2010), Toy Story 4 (2019), and Toy Story 5. His piggy-bank design is easy to confuse with a generic pig toy, but the cork in his underside identifies his actual function.