Toy Story 5 trailer reunites Woody and Buzz as Lilypad upends playtime
A new trailer for Toy Story 5 arrived late on Thursday, reuniting Woody and Buzz and putting a frog-shaped smart tablet called Lilypad at the center of the film’s conflict — the toy story clip also makes clear the movie returns several original voices and heads toward a June 19 theatrical release.
Toy Story reunion and a new antagonist
The 2½-minute trailer opens with Buzz Lightyear saying, "It's been too long cowboy, " and embraces a now slightly balding Woody, a moment that signals the pair’s on-screen reconciliation after Woody left the group at the end of Toy Story 4. The short scene cuts to Lilypad, voiced by Greta Lee, a frog-like tablet with "disruptive ideas" about Bonnie’s play that the toys treat as a new threat to their role; the trailer tees up the question of whether "playtime will ever be the same. "
Trailer details and returning cast
The clip brings back core characters: Buzz (Tim Allen), Woody (Tom Hanks), Jessie (Joan Cusack), Forky (Tony Hale) and Slinky Dog (Blake Clark), and includes a line from Forky — "She thinks you're old because you're bald, Woody" — that underlines the film’s riff on changing toy technology. Mr Potato Head appears and is now voiced by Jeff Bergman following Don Rickles' death, and the trailer features the wisecracking piggy bank Hamm (John Ratzenberger) and Keanu Reeves' Duke Kaboom among the returning faces.
New voices and unexpected toys
Alongside Greta Lee as Lilypad, the cast introduced in the trailer includes Craig Robinson as Atlas, a cheerful talking GPS hippo toy; Ernie Hudson as Combat Carl; Conan O'Brien as Smarty Pants; Anna Vocino as Mrs Potato Head; Shelby Rabara as Snappy, an excitable toy camera; and Scarlett Spears as Bonnie. Additional names announced in the trailer package include Mykal-Michelle Harris as Blaze and Matty Matheson as Dr. Nutcase, and the film will feature another original score by Randy Newman.
Lines that set the tone
Humor and tension land in small, concrete beats: Buzz later declares, "Our mission on this planet, is to make a child happy, " a line that frames the toys’ purpose as Lilypad challenges it. The trailer reprises the franchise’s familiar banter — the toys bicker and then fall back into the old rhythms — and ends on the franchise’s tagline for the new film: "Times may change but friends are forever. "
Toy Story 5 is directed by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Kenna Harris, and the movie is scheduled to open in cinemas on June 19; that release date is the next confirmed milestone for the film’s rollout.
