{"id":218219,"date":"2025-10-16T21:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218219\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:14:07","slug":"did-woody-and-buzz-lightyear-get-slightly-updated-looks-as-hype-for-toy-story-5-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218219\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Woody and Buzz Lightyear get slightly updated looks as hype for Toy Story 5 begins?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick! Someone call the Shrek 5 police<\/a>! Someone has updated the looks of Woody and Buzz Lightyear for Pixar<\/a>\u2018s upcoming sequel, Toy Story 5. Now, before you sharpen your pitchforks and march through the streets of Emeryville, California, toward Pixar Studios<\/a>, understand that the changes are minor, and we\u2019re all going to be okay.<\/p>\n

In a new Toy Story 5 banner posted online by The Disney Beat, Woody and Buzz sport slightly different looks. First, Woody no longer wears his Sheriff\u2019s star on his cow-print vest, suggesting there\u2019s a new Sheriff in town. I would guess that Woody passed the torch to Jessie, who\u2019s in charge of the toys in Bonnie\u2019s room in the upcoming sequel. Meanwhile, Buzz has a gold star on his spacesuit, suggesting he\u2019s been deputized, possibly by Jessie. Is this nepotism? We know Jessie has a crush on Buzz, but he\u2019s also a Space Ranger, making him a qualified fit for the job.<\/p>\n

At the very least, the changes made to the characters are a matter of fashion rather than outright augmenting the characters, as DreamWorks did with its Shrek universe. Do you remember how upset everyone became when the images for Shrek 5 were released? That was a sad day for maturity within film fandom, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

Previously, during the Annecy Animation Film Festival in June, Pete Docter revealed that\u00a0Toy Story 5\u00a0\u201cwill explore the challenges faced by the toys in a digital-first world. \u2018It\u2019s Toy meets Tech,\u2019 he said, outlining the film\u2019s plot, which will see the original movies\u2019 team of toys facing up to the challenge presented by the new favorite plaything of their eight-year-old owner Bonnie Anderson: A tech tablet called Lillypad. Woody, Buzz and the rest of the gang will confront a new generation of children more enamored with screens than playthings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toy Story 5 is slated for a\u00a0June 19, 2026\u00a0release<\/a>. Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, and Joan Cusack reprise their roles as Buzz Lightyear, Woody, and Jessie, respectively. Other members of the voice cast include Ernie Hudson, who will take over the voice of Combat Carl from the late Carl Weathers, and Anna Faris, who has been cast in an undisclosed part. It was recently reported that\u00a0Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a>\u00a0joins the cast\u00a0as Smarty Pants, a new addition to the franchise. Andrew Stanton is directing\u00a0Toy Story 5 alongside co-director McKenna Harris, while Jessica Choi produces the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quick! Someone call the Shrek 5 police! Someone has updated the looks of Woody and Buzz Lightyear for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[103532,789,49,48,75,337,105329,62806],"class_list":["post-218219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-animated","tag-animation","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-shrek-5","tag-toy-story-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}