(L-R): Bullseye, Jessie, and Lilypad in Disney and Pixar's TOY STORY 5. Photo courtesy of Pixar. © 2026 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

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Toy Story 5 is set to demolish the weekend box office with what could be close to a $200 million domestic haul. It’s been seven years since Toy Story 4, and clearly, there’s still a huge appetite for the adventures of Woody and Buzz, though in 5’s case, mostly Jesse. Now, Toy Story 5 has actually set an audience score record on Rotten Tomatoes in franchise history.

As it stands, despite being the lowest critic-scored entry in the franchise (though still high, in relative terms), Toy Story 5 is now the highest audience-scored film of the series. Here are the numbers:

• Toy Story 5 – 95% audience score 94% critic score
• Toy Story 4 – 94% audience score, 97% critic score
• Toy Story 3 – 90% audience score, 98% critic score
• Toy Story – 92% audience score, 100% critic score
• Toy Story 2 – 87% audience score, 100% critic score

It’s certainly interesting that Toy Story 2 has the lowest audience score by a somewhat significant margin, where with 175 critic reviews in to make up that perfect 100%, I believe this may actually be the highest scoring movie on Rotten Tomatoes…ever. I do remember at the time, however, a lot of people being upset about them trying to recreate the magic of the original, and seemingly failing to do so to some extent. That was not the critical opinion, clearly, but I do remember a lot of people thinking it wasn’t nearly as good as the first Toy Story at the time. Though I think it’s certainly aged well.

These are still early numbers. We are comparing scores based on 250,000 reviews to ones with 1000 for early viewers this weekend, but it would be a little surprising if it dropped down to the third movie’s 90%.

Curious about box office? So was I, and now we’re over a 25-year period here, the inflation-unadjusted numbers are certainly something to see. We have

• Toy Story 4 – $1.07 billion
• Toy Story 3 – $1.06 billion
• Toy Story 2 - $487 million
• Toy Story - $237 million

And if you do adjust for inflation, Toy Story 1 and 2 made $518 million and $974 million, respectively. And Toy Story 3 is ahead of Toy Story 4, $1.59 billion to $1.37 billion.

Given these early box office numbers and predicted opening weekend, along with the solid overall moviegoing climate as of late, it’s easy to imagine Toy Story 5 is going to top a billion at the box office like Super Mario Galaxy has this year (as the only film to do it). As for what it ends up at, we’ll see, but it’s clear that audiences are loving it.

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