OK, let's get one thing straight -- Wayne Knight is not Al McWhiggin! Sure, he provides the greedy toy collector's voice, but vocal chords are all they share. Wayne -- who you know as Newman, Jerry's nemesis on "Seinfeld," Officer Don on "3rd Rock from the Sun," and the voice of Tantor the elephant in "Tarzan®" -- is a nice guy and he doesn't collect anything! "I've tried, but I couldn't get into it," he says. "I don't hold on to the past because, right now, my present is pretty good!"

How would you describe Al?
Al is a guy who doesn't get it. He's looking so deeply into the knothole of a tree that he has no inkling there is a forest. His [greed] has totally gotten him. He's surrounded by toys he never plays with, that he never thinks about as [anything] other than commodities. I tried to add some humanity to him. In some ways, the Prospector is worse than Al. Al's just trying to make a buck -- he doesn't know toys have feelings.

Who's your favorite villain of all time?
I love Bond villains … when they're cool. So Gurt Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger in "Goldfinger" and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Largo in "Never Say Never Again." And John Lithgow has played some incredibly good villains. I loved him in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension."

Is it more fun playing a bad guy or a good guy?
I don't know -- I play so few good guys! Bad guys are fun. You need somebody to move the [plot] along, and it's easy to let [bad guys] travel all the way to their extremes. Then when you're animating them, you can animate them all juicy, ya know?

Speaking of juicy, when you saw the movie, were you surprised at how gross Al is?
No, no, I wasn't surprised. It was repulsive, but amazing. In that scene when he falls asleep, I wasn't [paying attention to] the belch as much as his pores and the hair on his chin. The different things they've done to model human beings are just [incredible] -- that's the only way I could look at him without feeling really bad.

Are you nervous about kids figuring out you're Al and blaming you for his bad deeds?
I'll have to disguise my voice if I'm shopping at Toys R Us or something, huh? I just hope kids don't reach full maturity and then come after me!

WAYNE KNIGHT (Al McWhiggin) adds humor as the voice of the proprietor of Al's Toy Barn, the Tri-County Area's leading toy emporium. This shifty character will stop at nothing to complete his collection of "Woody's Roundup" toys, and his dream of selling his valuable menagerie to the museum is about to come true when he finds Woody (complete with the elusive hat) at a garage sale.

Hot off his role as Tantor the elephant in Disney's animated summer blockbuster "Tarzan®," Knight continues to play Officer Don on NBC's "3rd Rock from the Sun." He also starred as Newman on the hit comedy series "Seinfeld." Knight's feature film credits include "Space Jam," "For Richer or Poorer," "To Die For," "Born on the Fourth of July," "JFK," "Basic Instinct," "Jurassic Park," "Dead Again," and "Dirty Dancing." He appeared on Broadway in the hit comedy "Gemini" for three years and more than 1,000 performances. Other stage credits include the Broadway production of Larry Gelbart's "Mastergate," "Measure for Measure" at Lincoln Center, "One of the Guys" for the Public Theater, and the Brodway production of the hit show "Art," in which he starred with Buck Henry and George Segal.