The fifth Toy Story feature, in which Bonnie's toys face Lilypad, a tablet that disrupts their place in the child's life.
The toy box has officially moved from theaters to streaming. Disney confirmed that Toy Story 5 began streaming exclusively on Disney+ on September 23, 2026, placing Pixar's latest sequel alongside the earlier films just over three months after its June 19 theatrical debut.
Toy Story 5 is moving to Disney+ after already proving that audiences were still willing to leave the house for Woody and Buzz. Disney has set a September 23 streaming date for the Pixar sequel, which opened in theaters on June 19 and has since passed $1 billion worldwide.
Toy Story 5 does not magically make a fifth installment necessary. It does something more useful: it finds the right character through whom to express its new fear of abandonment. Jessie already knows what it means to be left behind by a child, and Lilypad turns that old wound into a contemporary problem. The movie repeats familiar franchise anxieties and keeps Woody and Buzz closer to the center than this particular story always requires. Yet Andrew Stanton and Kenna Harris largely avoid an easy anti-screen lecture and let children's imagination make the stronger argument. Pixar is no longer reinventing Toy Story. It proves there is still something specific, funny and sincere to find inside it.
