The toys are back in town… but for just how long, exactly? That is the question being asked in the newly dropped first teaser trailer for Pixar’s Toy Story 5, which is set to see Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the gang forced to face their existential fears when a now eight-year-old Bonnie finds herself transfixed by a new toy: a frog-faced, Greta Lee voiced tablet who goes by the name Lilypad. For your first glimpse at the gang’s return — and what sure seems to be their new nemesis — check out the teaser below;
“I was standing, you were there, two worlds colliding,” drift the hard-edged tones of INXS’ ‘Never Tear Us Apart over our first proper look at Andrew Stanton’s Toy Story 4 follow-up. We’ll say! In this tongue-in-cheek glimpse at what OG Toy Story writer (and first-time Toy Story director) Stanton has been cooking up with co-director Kenna Harris and the folks over at Pixar, we see all our faves — Woody and Buzz, Jessie and Bullseye, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, the Aliens, Rex and Slinky, and Forky (accompanied by plastic knife girlfriend Karen Beverly) — recoil in terror as Bonnie fires up her new techy toy. But even if the toys look scared and the intertitles ask whether the age of toys is over, we’re not too worried. Hell, we saw these guys live through the furnace of Toy Story 3, didn’t we?
While this teaser for Stanton’s Toy Story 5 leans into the toys-meet-tech theme Pixar has been teasing since the movie was announced at D23 two years ago though, we don’t believe for a second that the man who gave us Finding Nemo and Wall-E has brought back Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack and co for a simple anti-tech tale. And luckily for us, we won’t have to wait too long to find out just what exactly the filmmaker has in store for us: Toy Story 5 is due to fly — or indeed fall with style — into cinemas on 19 June, 2026. And, of course, we’ll bring you more on the film just as soon as we giddy up and get it!