Woody and Buzz return: Disney's Toy Story 5 coming to cinemas in 2026
Toy Story 5 is set to hit theatres on Jun 19, 2026, nearly seven years after Toy Story 4, which came out in 2019, and 31 years after the first movie, which came out in 1995.
The last installation of the franchise was Toy Story 4, released in 2019. (Photo: The Walt Disney Company)
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Toy Story 5 will be released on Jun 19, 2026.
The first movie in Pixar's franchise was released in 1995, with the fourth film, Toy Story 4, dropping in 2019 and Disney has now announced that the fifth will be released in 2026.
All four movies so far have featured Tom Hanks as Woody and Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear.
Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in February last year that there would be a fifth movie but did not give any details.
However, in November 2023, Allen revealed he and Hanks had both been approached about reprising their roles.
Speaking on The Tonight Show, the actor said: "Bob Iger, head of Disney, said it was on and actually said it was going to happen. They have reached out to Tom and I to reprise the roles. They’re not saying anything about it. You wonder if four was too many. Is five going to be too much?
"According to the scuttlebutt, the writer that’s doing it wrote one of the better ones and said, ‘If I didn’t get this right, I wouldn’t do it’. It could be a very, very interesting way to reunite it.”
In the fifth movie, Buzz and Woody will need to be reunited after the fourth film ended with them going their separate ways as the pull-string cowboy toy left the rest of the gang to stay with Bo Beep.
The first movie in Pixar's franchise was released in 1995, with the fourth film, Toy Story 4, dropping in 2019 and Disney has now announced that the fifth will be released in 2026.
All four movies so far have featured Tom Hanks as Woody and Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear.
Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in February last year that there would be a fifth movie but did not give any details.
However, in November 2023, Allen revealed he and Hanks had both been approached about reprising their roles.
Speaking on The Tonight Show, the actor said: "Bob Iger, head of Disney, said it was on and actually said it was going to happen. They have reached out to Tom and I to reprise the roles. They’re not saying anything about it. You wonder if four was too many. Is five going to be too much?
"According to the scuttlebutt, the writer that’s doing it wrote one of the better ones and said, ‘If I didn’t get this right, I wouldn’t do it’. It could be a very, very interesting way to reunite it.”
In the fifth movie, Buzz and Woody will need to be reunited after the fourth film ended with them going their separate ways as the pull-string cowboy toy left the rest of the gang to stay with Bo Beep.
Allen has an idea for how to bring the gang back together though, and he thinks their first human owner, Andy, could be the key.
He told That Movie Dweeb: "I don't know if this is where the story is going, but what if the whole story was through Andy as an adult?
"[He] has children, and they just happen to be online, and the kid goes, 'Have you ever seen this toy?'
"And Andy sees that Buzz has got a hand missing and they're selling these vintage toys, and Andy goes and gathers all the toys up.
"He has to go out and find each one of them and put them back together, bring them back to his house, and start the whole thing over again with his son..."
Another film in the franchise is the spinoff Lightyear, which tells the origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy. The film was released in 2022 and starred Chris Evans as the titular character.
He told That Movie Dweeb: "I don't know if this is where the story is going, but what if the whole story was through Andy as an adult?
"[He] has children, and they just happen to be online, and the kid goes, 'Have you ever seen this toy?'
"And Andy sees that Buzz has got a hand missing and they're selling these vintage toys, and Andy goes and gathers all the toys up.
"He has to go out and find each one of them and put them back together, bring them back to his house, and start the whole thing over again with his son..."
Another film in the franchise is the spinoff Lightyear, which tells the origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy. The film was released in 2022 and starred Chris Evans as the titular character.
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