
You might be asking, “What? There’s already been four animated Toy Story movies?”
Hey, it’s been seven years since we were talking about Toy Story 4, and now Pixar’s Toy Story 5 is coming this summer. Although the plot seems curiously familiar, the tug that pulls kids away from the toys this time is different. New tech. Like everything else the story is the same, but the times they are a changin’. Wouldn’t it be fun to be around when Toy Story enters the public domain, so we could finally see Woody and Buzz Lightyear fight back against these easily distracted, deranged, sugar-loaded little kids? Call it Toy Story: Retribution. We all might pay to see that.

Until then fans of the franchise can revisit Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz, Joan Cusack as Jessie, John Ratzenberger as the piggybank Hamm, Wallace Shawn as anxiety-prone dino Rex, Blake Clark as Slinky Dog, Jeff Bergman as Mr. Potato Head, Anna Vocino as Mrs. Potato Head, Annie Potts as Bo Peep, Bonnie Hunt as rag-doll Dolly, John Hopkins as the hedgehog Mr. Pricklepants, Kristen Schaal as the triceratops Trixie, Ernie Hudson as action man Combat Carl, and Keanu Reeves as Canadian daredevil Duke Caboom. Greta Lee joins the cast as Lilypad, Conan O’Brien is Smarty Pants, Melissa Villaseñor is a new doll made out of a plastic knife, and Tony Hale is Forky.
Here’s the trailer for Toy Story 5:
Here’s hoping the toys win.
Toy Story 5 comes to theaters June 19, 2026.
C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg

