Toulon shoots himself in 1939 in the first film, then turns up alive in Berlin in 1941 and in Switzerland in 1944 in two later ones, and nobody has ever reconciled it.
Watch these in the order they came out. The story order on this page is real, and it is unwatchable: it opens on a 1902 origin story that was made tenth, then jumps to 1939, then to 1941, then forward fifty years, and it gives away the ending of the first film before you have seen it.
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The 1989 original. Its prologue establishes Toulon, his suicide in 1939 and the puppets, and every later film is either a sequel to it or a prequel arguing with it.
Follows on immediately and gives its own account of where the animating formula came from, which a later film in this list flatly contradicts.
The prequel most people rate highest, and the point where the timeline breaks: Toulon is alive in Berlin in 1941, two years after the first film says he died.
Back to the present day and to a new set of characters. It is the first half of a story rather than a standalone film.
The second half of film four, shot back to back with it. Watching one without the other leaves you with half a plot.
Then what? After that the run gets thin. Curse of the Puppet Master, Retro Puppet Master and Puppet Master: The Legacy are for completists, and The Legacy in particular is largely recycled footage. Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys is a crossover made for television and is generally treated as outside the series. The Axis trilogy, Axis of Evil, Axis Rising and Axis Termination, is a self-contained war story that you can watch as a block whenever you like, with Blade: The Iron Cross and Doktor Death hanging off it. Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is a full restart with different puppets and different rules, so it is a place to start rather than a place to finish.
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