Toy Story 3 was marketed, as I recall, as being more than just a video game replaying stuff from a movie (a lot of times done poorly) and its toy box was the selling point (a limited version of DI's toy box). It had a toy box feature like DI, and I feel the grow and shrink goo being connected to Toy Story in DI comes from there (in DI it's closely linked to Toy Story in Toy Story in Space playset). I remember mixing the green and pink goo together to make this like living almost cylinder of goo with parts of green and pink (I'd even use the wand to give it wings to fly around the toy box).
I remember getting the wii version right away, and finding out how limited it was (which really is foreshadowing DI even with how the wii version isn't the same as wii u, ps3, and xbox, but wii was the newest nintendo console out at the time; while newest, I'm not saying it was new). I really wanted to play the toy box, and ended up buying the ps3 version of the game as well.
I gave that game a good amount of play time, though nothing compared to my fav games (Pokemon, Digimon, Monster Rancher, Smash Bros, Sims, etc). DI has exceeded Toy Story 3. Seeing the Woody's Roundup user submitted toy box really brought back playing that silly game.
Anyway, anyone here play this predecessor to DI?