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Toy Story

Five films, one short that fills a real gap, and one film that is a film inside the films.

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Where to start with Toy Story

Release order for the five numbered films and there is nothing clever about it. The two things worth knowing are that one short fills a genuine gap, and that Lightyear is not what most people think it is.

  1. 1
    Toy Story (1995) Toy Story

    The first computer-animated feature anyone made, and it needs nothing before it. Every later film is built on the rule it sets up about what toys are for.

  2. 2
    Toy Story 3 (2010) Toy Story 3

    Eleven years after the second and the point where the series grows up with its audience. It also hands the toys to a new child, which everything after it depends on.

  3. 3
    Toy Story 4 (2019) Toy Story 4

    Brings Bo Peep back after leaving her out of the third film entirely, and gives Woody an ending. The short Lamp Life is the piece that explains where she had been.

Then what? The second film goes between the first and third. Lamp Life is four minutes and works best straight after the fourth film, even though it covers earlier events, because it is written as a reveal. Toy Story 5 came out in June 2026. Lightyear can go anywhere or nowhere: it is not part of this story.

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