Toy Story 5

Release Date: Jun 19, 2026
Studio: Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar's Toy Story 5 opened in theaters on June 19, 2026, directed by Andrew Stanton. The film puts the toys in direct conflict with a frog-shaped smart tablet named Lilypad, whose presence means Bonnie is losing interest in traditional play, threatening Woody, Buzz, and Jessie's place in her life. With a $250 million production budget, it is the most expensive film Pixar has ever made, and Randy Newman returned to score it. The Toy Story 5 voice cast reunites Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Joan Cusack with new additions including Greta Lee, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Robinson, while Taylor Swift contributed an original song, "I Knew It, I Knew You," to the soundtrack.
Type: Movie

Toy Story 5 (2026): Pixar’s Screen-Time Reckoning

Andrew Stanton described the film’s central question as an “existential problem”: nobody is really playing with toys anymore. Toy Story 5 builds that anxiety into its plot. Lilypad arrives in Bonnie’s life as a gift, and the toys must confront what it means to stay relevant when technology reshapes playtime. Woody, Buzz, and Jessie have to work out whether they can compete with a device that speaks every language, learns every preference, and never runs out of content. Stanton wrote the screenplay with Kenna Harris, calibrating the story to sit alongside Toy Story 3‘s themes of obsolescence, updated for the screen-time era.

Toy Story 5 Voice Cast: Greta Lee, Conan O’Brien, Craig Robinson and More

The Toy Story 5 voice cast makes its most significant new addition in Greta Lee as Lilypad. Lee earned a Golden Globe nomination for Past Lives and voiced Lyla in both Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its 2023 sequel, so she brings real dramatic range to what could have been a one-note foil. Conan O’Brien voices SmartyPants, a motion-activated toddler’s potty-training gadget; he previously voiced the Riddler in The LEGO Batman Movie, which shows he can calibrate absurdity for a family audience. Craig Robinson plays Atlas, a GPS hippo toy; Robinson voiced Mr. Shark across The Bad Guys franchise and his comedic timing is well-suited to Pixar’s register. Ernie Hudson steps in as Combat Carl, taking over the role previously voiced by the late Carl Weathers.

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