{"slug":"toy-story-5","type":"movie","title":"Toy Story 5","year":2026,"releaseDate":"2026-06-19","franchise":"pixar","genres":["Animation","Adventure","Comedy"],"creators":["Andrew Stanton","Kenna Harris"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5","hook":"Director-confirmed Gatto teasers hide on Lilypad's screens — plus a TS-A113 photo, a Cast Away gag, and two credits scenes.","intro":"Pixar built *Toy Story 5* around screens — Bonnie's new Lilypad tablet is the villain — and the egg-hiding crew treated every one of those glowing displays as a canvas. Producer **Lindsey Collins** and co-director **Kenna Harris** flat-out told ScreenRant to \"look to the screens\" for teasers of Pixar's next film *Gatto*, and director **Andrew Stanton** admitted the filmmakers don't even know where everything is buried: \"Half the time the crew doesn't tell us.\" That's the level of density we're dealing with here.\n\nThe deep cuts run from a **TS-A113** code printed on a photo of Jessie's first owner Emily to *Eggman Tech*, the Lilypad's manufacturer — a tribute to late Pixar art director Ralph Eggleston that traces all the way back to the Eggman Movers boxes in the 1995 original. There's also a genuinely funny meta layer: the film opens with a crate of Buzz Lightyears shipwrecked on a desert island, a wink at *Cast Away* — the other movie where Tom Hanks was stranded with an inanimate best friend.\n\nBelow are the 20 eggs worth knowing, ordered roughly as they appear, from the island cold open to the Bad Bunny rap that plays out the credits. Outlets like ScreenRant have tallied **over 40 total references**; we've kept the ones that are specific, sourced, and actually findable on a rewatch.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":1084244,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1084244","imdbId":"tt29355505","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29355505/"},"counts":{"eggs":20,"confirmed":2,"community":18,"theory":0,"sources":12},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Toy Story 5 has 2 post-credit scenes.","scenes":2,"description":"Two scenes. Mid-credits: the Hi-Tech Buzz drones descend on a school playground to find new kids — and the tag ends with a legacy villain resurfacing in upgraded form, voiced in an uncredited cameo by director Andrew Stanton. Then, over the closing credits, Lilypad, Forky, Rex, Trixie and the gang perform a full version of the 'Tryna Make Friends' rap from earlier in the film, joined by Bad Bunny's Pizza with Sunglasses. Stay through everything.","detail":"Two, and both sit inside the credits rather than after them — but the second runs to the very last name, so the full sit is required.\n\nThe mid-credits scene picks up the next-generation Buzz Lightyear units the film scattered. [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2026/06/19/toy-story-5-end-credits-scenes-why-you-should-stay-in-your-seats/) describes children coming off a school bus onto the playground, the boy who had been sitting alone getting a Buzz of his own, and the principal ending up with one too; [SlashFilm](https://www.slashfilm.com/2197731/toy-story-5-post-credits-scenes-explained/) puts it as one Buzz descending \"upon a lonely kid on a playground at school\" before \"they all fly down into the hands of children.\" The drone toys are doing precisely what five films have argued toys are for. Then the camera finds one more kid, unzipping a backpack, producing an upgraded **Emperor Zurg** — who delivers the tag's only line, *\"We meet again, my son!\"* [Wikipedia's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_5) cast notes credit the voice to director **Andrew Stanton**, reprising the role he played in *Toy Story 2* \"in an uncredited cameo appearance.\"\n\nIt is played for the laugh rather than the threat, and it is the only forward-looking thing in the picture. Whether it is a seed for a sixth film or the franchise signing off on its oldest running joke, nobody at Pixar has said.\n\nThe second beat runs to the end of the roll. **Lilypad** — the tablet that spends the movie as the antagonist — leads the toys through the friendship rap she assembled earlier in the film. SlashFilm explains the method: she recorded Jessie's words, translated them into Spanish and turned them into \"a rhythmic rap called 'Tryna Make Friends' by Rappin' Cowgirl.\" Bad Bunny's Pizza with Sunglasses anchors the performance, and Forbes lists Rex, Trixie, Dolly, Mrs. Potato Head, Forky and Mr. Pricklepants joining in, with SlashFilm adding Hamm and Buttercup. Given how little screen time most of those characters get in the feature proper, the number works as a curtain call rather than a gag.\n\nNeither scene resolves anything the film left open. If you only have patience for one, take the Zurg tag — it is the one people will argue about. If this really is the last *Toy Story*, though, the rap is the more honest ending: the entire toy box on screen at once, doing a bit, for no reason other than that they can.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"buzz-army-cast-away-opening","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-buzz-army-cast-away-opening","title":"The Buzz Army's Cast Away Cold Open","description":"The film opens on a shipping crate of Buzz Lightyear toys washed up on a deserted island — a deliberate wink at *Cast Away* (2000). That's the film where Tom Hanks spent years stranded with only a volleyball for company. The joke lands twice: Hanks has voiced Woody since 1995, so Pixar is essentially stranding his co-star's action figures in his own movie's scenario. The gag then stacks a franchise callback on top: the marooned Buzzes navigate by following a bright star they solemnly name \"Star Command\" — the same rendezvous point a factory-fresh Buzz was chasing in the original *Toy Story* (1995) before he learned he was a toy. Every Buzz, it turns out, ships from the factory believing his own box art.","scene":"Opening sequence — the crate of Hi-Tech Buzz Lightyears shipwrecked on the deserted island, then marching at night toward a bright star","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","callback","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Toy Story 5: Over 40 Easter Eggs And Pixar & Disney References","url":"https://screenrant.com/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-pixar-disney-references/"},{"label":"The Exploreist — 32 Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Callbacks And Hidden Details","url":"https://theexploreist.com/guides/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-callbacks-and-hidden-details"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"toy-story","referencesWork":null},{"id":"rex-poisoned-sulley-paint","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-rex-poisoned-sulley-paint","title":"Rex Gets Painted Like Sulley","description":"Bonnie paints Rex blue with purple spots — Sulley's exact fur pattern from *Monsters, Inc.* (2001). During her imagination sequence early in the film she stages a toy wedding and casts him as the \"poisoned maid of honor.\" It's a classic Pixar self-homage hidden inside kid-logic play, and it works as a sight gag even if you never clock the reference. Multiple outlets, including ScreenRant and Complex, flagged it as one of the film's cleanest visual eggs.","scene":"Bonnie's imagination sequence near the start — the staged toy wedding, Rex in blue-and-purple paint","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Toy Story 5: Over 40 Easter Eggs And Pixar & Disney References","url":"https://screenrant.com/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-pixar-disney-references/"},{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"monsters-inc","referencesWork":null},{"id":"ship-it-delivers-lilypad","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-ship-it-delivers-lilypad","title":"Ship It Express Strikes Again","description":"The courier that drops the Lilypad tablet at Bonnie's door is **Ship It**, the franchise's own fictional delivery service. It first appeared in the TV special *Toy Story of Terror!* (2013) and returned in *Toy Story 4* (2019), and a Ship It Express storefront shows up again during the ice cream scene. It's become the franchise's in-universe FedEx, and the fact that it's the company that literally delivers the movie's villain into Bonnie's house is a nice dark touch.","scene":"Early in the film — the courier delivering the Lilypad to Bonnie's house; a Ship It Express storefront appears again in the ice cream scene","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook — Where Is the Pizza Planet Truck in Toy Story 5 and 8 Other Pixar Easter Eggs","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/list/where-is-the-pizza-planet-truck-in-toy-story-5-and-8-other-pixar-easter-eggs-in-new-movie/"},{"label":"The Exploreist — 32 Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Callbacks And Hidden Details","url":"https://theexploreist.com/guides/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-callbacks-and-hidden-details"}],"motifs":["product-of-the-fictional-universe"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"eggman-tech-eggleston-tribute","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-eggman-tech-eggleston-tribute","title":"Eggman Tech: A Tribute to Ralph Eggleston","description":"The Lilypad tablet and the Smarty Pants toy are both made by **Eggman Tech**, a tribute to Pixar art director Ralph Eggleston. Eggleston was affectionately nicknamed \"The Eggman\" before his death in 2022. The name is a 31-year callback: the moving company in the original *Toy Story* (1995) was called Eggman Movers. Eggleston was the art director on that first film, so having his namesake company evolve from a moving van to a tech giant quietly mirrors Pixar's own journey.","scene":"Branding on the Lilypad tablet, its packaging, and the Smarty Pants toy","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["trivia","callback","meta"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook — Where Is the Pizza Planet Truck in Toy Story 5 and 8 Other Pixar Easter Eggs","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/list/where-is-the-pizza-planet-truck-in-toy-story-5-and-8-other-pixar-easter-eggs-in-new-movie/"},{"label":"BuzzFeed — Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Details, And Behind-The-Scenes Facts","url":"https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-details-facts"}],"motifs":["crew-tribute","product-of-the-fictional-universe"],"referencesSlug":"toy-story","referencesWork":null},{"id":"finding-nemo-on-lilypads-screen","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-finding-nemo-on-lilypads-screen","title":"Finding Nemo Hiding in Lilypad's Browser","description":"An article on Lilypad's screen carries an image recreating the moment Marlin first meets Dory in *Finding Nemo* (2003). It's a director's signature hiding in plain sight: Andrew Stanton directed both *Finding Nemo* and *Toy Story 5*, and the piece she is scrolling is about the depths of the ocean. Lilypad's browser is a goldmine in general — she also opens Ribbit (a Reddit parody) and IntoPedia (a Wikipedia parody), and lists Jessie on an eBay-style site called e-Bid as a \"Vintage Cowgirl Doll\" with zero bids.","scene":"Lilypad's screen as she scrolls articles researching the toys — freeze-frame the ocean-depths article","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Toy Story 5: Over 40 Easter Eggs And Pixar & Disney References","url":"https://screenrant.com/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-pixar-disney-references/"},{"label":"BuzzFeed — Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Details, And Behind-The-Scenes Facts","url":"https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-details-facts"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":"finding-nemo","referencesWork":null},{"id":"woodys-roundup-1949-clip","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-woodys-roundup-1949-clip","title":"Woody's Roundup, Broadcast Year 1949","description":"Lilypad pulls up black-and-white *Woody's Roundup* footage of Jessie to prove that she is \"very old.\" It's the title sequence of the same 1940s-50s puppet program that drove the entire plot of *Toy Story 2* (1999). It's a cruel move in context — weaponizing a toy's age against her — and a rich one for fans: the last time that footage mattered, it was the Prospector using Jessie's collectible status to trap her. History rhymes.","scene":"Lilypad's screen during her confrontation with Jessie — the black-and-white Woody's Roundup clip","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Toy Story 5: Over 40 Easter Eggs And Pixar & Disney References","url":"https://screenrant.com/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-pixar-disney-references/"},{"label":"The Exploreist — 32 Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Callbacks And Hidden Details","url":"https://theexploreist.com/guides/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-callbacks-and-hidden-details"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"pigeon-piazza-gatto-teaser","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-pigeon-piazza-gatto-teaser","title":"Pigeon Piazza: The Director-Confirmed Gatto Teaser","description":"**Pigeon Piazza**, one of the apps Lilypad demos, shows Saverio Piccionini — a character from *Gatto*, Pixar's Venice-set 2027 film. This one is officially on the record: producer Lindsey Collins and co-director Kenna Harris told ScreenRant to \"look to the screens\" for *Gatto* references, and confirmed another one hides in Blaze's bedroom. Director Andrew Stanton teased that not every egg lives on a screen — and admitted the filmmakers themselves lose track: \"Half the time the crew doesn't tell us.\"","scene":"Lilypad's app-demo for Woody and Buzz (the Pigeon Piazza app), plus somewhere in Blaze's bedroom","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","visual"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Where Toy Story 5's Next Pixar Movie Easter Eggs Are Revealed By Directors & Producer","url":"https://screenrant.com/toy-story-5-next-pixar-easter-eggs-gatto-revealed/"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"when-she-loved-me-motif","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-when-she-loved-me-motif","title":"'When She Loved Me' Returns as Jessie's Theme","description":"Randy Newman's \"When She Loved Me\" returns as an instrumental motif tied to Jessie's memories. The Sarah McLachlan ballad scored Jessie's abandonment flashback in *Toy Story 2* and broke a generation of viewers. With Jessie as this film's lead, the melody resurfaces whenever her memories of first owner Emily do, transforming from a song about being forgotten into the spine of a healing arc. It's the film's most emotionally loaded piece of musical continuity.","scene":"Recurring instrumental motif tied to Jessie's memories of Emily throughout the film","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Toy Story 5: Over 40 Easter Eggs And Pixar & Disney References","url":"https://screenrant.com/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-pixar-disney-references/"},{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":["music-cue-callback"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"woodys-poncho-man-with-no-name","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-woodys-poncho-man-with-no-name","title":"Woody's Poncho Is Pure Clint Eastwood","description":"Woody's new poncho is a straight lift from Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's *Dollars Trilogy* (1964-66). For a cowboy doll who has spent five films as the earnest sheriff archetype, dressing him as cinema's most famous drifter-gunslinger signals where his head is at in this story — older, wearier, a little more weathered. Pair it with his fading head-paint \"bald spot\" and the costume is doing quiet character work.","scene":"Woody's new look for much of the film — the poncho ensemble","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"},{"label":"ComicBook — Where Is the Pizza Planet Truck in Toy Story 5 and 8 Other Pixar Easter Eggs","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/list/where-is-the-pizza-planet-truck-in-toy-story-5-and-8-other-pixar-easter-eggs-in-new-movie/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"bambi-love-is-a-song","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-bambi-love-is-a-song","title":"A Bambi Serenade in the Woods","description":"The score quotes \"Love Is a Song,\" the choral piece that opens Disney's *Bambi* (1942), during the Buzz army's forest trek. The roaming Buzz Lightyears encounter woodland creatures, including a stag, as it plays. It's a rare *Toy Story* nod to the Disney animation canon rather than Pixar's own, and the visual grammar — toys dwarfed by serene wildlife — plays like a miniature Bambi homage before the plot barrels on.","scene":"The Buzz army's trek through the woods — listen when the woodland creatures appear","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Exploreist — 32 Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Callbacks And Hidden Details","url":"https://theexploreist.com/guides/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-callbacks-and-hidden-details"},{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"search-your-feelings-zurg-dad","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-search-your-feelings-zurg-dad","title":"'Search Your Feelings' — The Empire Strikes Back, Again","description":"Buzz tells the Buzz army to \"search their feelings, and they'll know it to be true\" — Darth Vader's exact phrasing to Luke. *The Empire Strikes Back* (1980) is the source. The punchline: when Buzz reveals that Zurg is their father, the entire army screams \"NOOOO!\" in unison. It's a double-layered callback, because *Toy Story 2* (1999) already parodied the Vader reveal with Zurg and Utility Belt Buzz. The franchise is now parodying its own parody.","scene":"Buzz's speech to the assembled Buzz Lightyear army","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"The Exploreist — 32 Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Callbacks And Hidden Details","url":"https://theexploreist.com/guides/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-callbacks-and-hidden-details"},{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"atlas-luxo-ball-avatar","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-atlas-luxo-ball-avatar","title":"Atlas the GPS Uses the Luxo Ball as His Avatar","description":"Atlas the retired GPS uses the Pixar **Luxo ball** as his on-screen destination avatar. Voiced by Craig Robinson, Atlas is the device Blaze played with as a kid, and the yellow-and-blue ball debuted in the short *Luxo, Jr.* (1986) before bouncing through nearly every Pixar feature since. Hiding it inside a character's UI rather than a background prop is a genuinely fresh placement. The Luxo pattern reportedly also shows up on the crane's control-panel buttons late in the film.","scene":"Atlas's display screen whenever he shows a destination marker","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"},{"label":"WatchMojo — 10 Things You Missed in Toy Story 5","url":"https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-10-things-you-missed-in-toy-story-5"}],"motifs":["luxo-ball"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"smarty-pants-conan-hair","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-smarty-pants-conan-hair","title":"Smarty Pants Has Conan O'Brien's Hair","description":"Smarty Pants' carrying handle is sculpted into an upright ginger swoop — an unmistakable nod to Conan O'Brien's pompadour. O'Brien voices the talking educational toy. Pixar has a long tradition of designing characters around their voice actors, but building the actor's haircut into a toy's carrying handle is a new one. Once you see it, every shot of the character doubles as a Conan caricature.","scene":"Any shot of the Smarty Pants toy — look at the shape and color of its handle","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","meta","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"},{"label":"The Exploreist — 32 Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Callbacks And Hidden Details","url":"https://theexploreist.com/guides/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-callbacks-and-hidden-details"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"combat-carl-ernie-hudson-tribute","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-combat-carl-ernie-hudson-tribute","title":"Combat Carl Returns — Voiced by Carl Weathers' Real-Life Friend","description":"Combat Carl appears among Blaze's forgotten toys, now voiced by *Ghostbusters* legend Ernie Hudson. The recast is a tribute inside a cameo: Carl Weathers voiced the character in *Toy Story of Terror!* (2013) and *Toy Story 4* (2019) before his death in February 2024 — and Hudson had been friends with Weathers for decades (\"Carl, he had been a friend for 40, 50 years\"). Remarkably, Hudson has said nobody told him whose role he was inheriting; he only learned Combat Carl had been Weathers' part after recording, and figures Pixar wanted him to make the role his own rather than do an imitation. Combat Carl himself dates back to the original 1995 film, where Sid blew one up.","scene":"Combat Carl's scene among Blaze's forgotten toys at the ranch","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Deadline — Toy Story 5: Ernie Hudson Taking Over Carl Weathers' Role Of Combat Carl","url":"https://deadline.com/2025/04/toy-story-5-ernie-hudson-carl-weathers-role-combat-carl-1236373034/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Toy Story 5's Ernie Hudson Didn't Know He Was Replacing Carl Weathers","url":"https://screenrant.com/toy-story-5-ernie-hudson-carl-weathers-replace-not-know/"}],"motifs":["in-memoriam-dedication"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"ts-a113-emily-photo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-ts-a113-emily-photo","title":"TS-A113 on Emily's Photo","description":"Pixar's ritual **A113** appears here as a code reading \"TS-A113\" printed on the photo of Jessie's first owner Emily and her daughter. A113 is the CalArts classroom number hidden in every Pixar feature; the TS prefix is a small franchise-specific twist on the 31-year tradition. Placing it on the single most emotionally significant prop in Jessie's storyline, rather than a license plate or door number, makes this one of the more thoughtful A113 placements in the studio's history.","scene":"Freeze-frame the photo of Emily and her daughter — the code is printed on the photo itself","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Toy Story 5 Trivia","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Toy_Story_5_Trivia"}],"motifs":["a113"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"emilys-house-and-hair-tie","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-emilys-house-and-hair-tie","title":"Emily's House, the Tire Swing, and the Beaded Hair Tie","description":"Jessie recognizes Emily's childhood home by its hill and tire swing, matching the *Toy Story 2* (1999) \"When She Loved Me\" flashback. That's the flashback where Emily left Jessie in a donation box. Inside a time capsule, Jessie finds a beaded hair bobble that belonged to Emily's daughter and wears the beads through the final chase — the abandonment wound from 1999 literally becoming part of her. The film also brings back **Tri-County Charities** — the donation organization from Jessie's *Toy Story 2* backstory — whose donation box and truck figure into Lilypad's own arc late in the film.","scene":"Jessie's arrival at Emily's old house and the time capsule discovery in the third act","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"The Exploreist — 32 Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Callbacks And Hidden Details","url":"https://theexploreist.com/guides/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-callbacks-and-hidden-details"},{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"pizza-planet-truck-freeze","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-pizza-planet-truck-freeze","title":"The Pizza Planet Truck Triggers the Toy Freeze","description":"The Pizza Planet truck is what forces every toy to drop and freeze during the climactic chase. Jessie, Woody, Buzz and dozens of Hi-Tech Buzzes are riding Blaze's toy horses after Lilypad's truck when Jessie yells \"Car!\" The battered yellow Gyoza delivery vehicle that rumbles past has appeared in essentially every Pixar feature since the original *Toy Story* (1995). Making the truck the very reason the heroes freeze mid-chase is the franchise treating its own tradition as a plot obstacle.","scene":"The climactic horse chase after Lilypad's truck — the moment Jessie yells \"Car!\"","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook — Where Is the Pizza Planet Truck in Toy Story 5 and 8 Other Pixar Easter Eggs","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/list/where-is-the-pizza-planet-truck-in-toy-story-5-and-8-other-pixar-easter-eggs-in-new-movie/"},{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":["pizza-planet-truck"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"flying-with-style","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-flying-with-style","title":"'Flying, With Style' — 31 Years Later","description":"Woody updates the franchise's most famous line, turning 1995's \"falling with style\" into flying, *with style*. He says it watching the Hi-Tech Buzz drones actually take flight. The original was Woody's cynical deflation of Buzz's delusion; here it's an old toy conceding that the new generation really can do the thing he once mocked. One line of dialogue carries three decades of character history — and stings a little, given the film's obsolescence theme.","scene":"Woody's line as the Hi-Tech Buzz Lightyear drones take flight late in the film","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Exploreist — 32 Toy Story 5 Easter Eggs, Callbacks And Hidden Details","url":"https://theexploreist.com/guides/toy-story-5-easter-eggs-callbacks-and-hidden-details"},{"label":"Complex — Toy Story 5: 20 Easter Eggs and Trivia References You Missed","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/kevin-wong/toy-story-5-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"toy-story","referencesWork":null},{"id":"pizza-with-sunglasses-pizza-putt","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-pizza-with-sunglasses-pizza-putt","title":"Pizza with Sunglasses: A Resurrected 1995 Concept","description":"Bad Bunny voices Pizza with Sunglasses, a one-scene character who returns for the end-credits rap. The design isn't random: per ComicBook, it's pulled from scrapped concept art for the original *Toy Story*, from the era when Pizza Planet was being developed as \"Pizza Putt,\" a pizza restaurant/mini-golf hybrid. That makes this the deepest cut in the film — production art that sat in a drawer for over 30 years finally getting a voice, and a celebrity one at that.","scene":"Pizza with Sunglasses' single scene, plus the end-credits rap number","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","trivia","meta"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook — Where Is the Pizza Planet Truck in Toy Story 5 and 8 Other Pixar Easter Eggs","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/list/where-is-the-pizza-planet-truck-in-toy-story-5-and-8-other-pixar-easter-eggs-in-new-movie/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"toy-story","referencesWork":null},{"id":"taylor-swift-eight-hour-song","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5#egg-taylor-swift-eight-hour-song","title":"Taylor Swift Wrote the End-Credits Song in Eight Hours","description":"\"I Knew It, I Knew You,\" the original song that closes out the credits, was written and recorded the same day Taylor Swift first saw the finished film. Swift described getting \"the songwriter zoomies\" at the screening, going home, and finishing the whole track in roughly eight hours — \"one of the most fun days of my life.\" The country-leaning sound is a deliberate throwback to her early Nashville era, a fitting match for a cowgirl-led *Toy Story*, and franchise composer Randy Newman discussed the collaboration with Variety. The song debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — Swift's 15th chart-topper and Pixar's first ever.","scene":"End credits — the original song that follows the 'Tryna Make Friends' rap number","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","trivia"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Variety — Taylor Swift Wrote and Recorded 'I Knew It, I Knew You' in 8 Hours","url":"https://variety.com/2026/music/news/taylor-swift-wrote-recorded-toy-story-song-eight-hours-1236785352/"},{"label":"Deadline — Taylor Swift Wrote, Recorded 'Toy Story 5' Song The Day She Saw Movie","url":"https://deadline.com/2026/06/taylor-swift-wrote-recorded-toy-story-5-song-same-day-1236960680/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Toy Story 5?","answer":"We've cataloged 20 verified easter eggs in Toy Story 5, from the TS-A113 code on Emily's photo to the Pizza Planet truck that freezes the final chase. The true total runs higher: ScreenRant counted over 40 Pixar and Disney references, and director Andrew Stanton admitted even the filmmakers don't know them all — 'Half the time the crew doesn't tell us' where eggs are hidden."},{"question":"Does Toy Story 5 have a post-credits scene?","answer":"Yes — two. A mid-credits scene follows the Hi-Tech Buzz Lightyear drones to a school playground, ending with a surprise villain reveal that seemingly sets up a future installment. The full credits then play out with the toys performing the 'Tryna Make Friends' rap Lilypad created earlier in the film, with Bad Bunny's Pizza with Sunglasses joining in before the song ends. It's worth staying in your seat until the very end."},{"question":"Where is the Pizza Planet truck in Toy Story 5?","answer":"The Pizza Planet truck appears during the climactic chase, when Jessie, Woody, Buzz, and the Hi-Tech Buzzes ride Blaze's toy horses after Lilypad's truck. Jessie shouts 'Car!' and every toy drops and freezes — and the vehicle that drives past is the Pizza Planet truck itself. It keeps alive a tradition dating back to the original 1995 Toy Story, with the truck appearing in nearly every Pixar feature since."},{"question":"Is Zurg in Toy Story 5?","answer":"Yes. Buzz invokes Zurg when addressing the Buzz Lightyear army — telling them Zurg is their father, prompting a mass 'NOOOO!' that spoofs both The Empire Strikes Back and Toy Story 2 — and a Hi-Tech Edition Zurg appears in the mid-credits scene declaring 'We meet again, my son!' Director Andrew Stanton reprises the voice in an uncredited cameo, the same role he voiced in Toy Story 2 back in 1999."},{"question":"What is the Gatto easter egg in Toy Story 5?","answer":"Toy Story 5 hides multiple teasers for Gatto, Pixar's 2027 film set in Venice. The clearest is Pigeon Piazza, an app Lilypad shows Woody and Buzz featuring the character Saverio Piccionini; another reference hides in Blaze's bedroom. Producer Lindsey Collins and co-director Kenna Harris confirmed the eggs to ScreenRant, advising fans to 'look to the screens' — while director Andrew Stanton teased that not everything is on a screen."},{"question":"Where is the A113 easter egg in Toy Story 5?","answer":"It is printed on the photograph of Jessie's first owner Emily and her daughter, as a code reading 'TS-A113' — freeze-frame the photo to catch it. A113 is the CalArts classroom number Pixar hides in every feature; the TS prefix is a franchise-specific twist on the 31-year tradition. Putting it on the most emotionally significant prop in Jessie's storyline, rather than a licence plate or door number, makes it one of the studio's more thoughtful placements."},{"question":"Who sings the Toy Story 5 end credits song?","answer":"Taylor Swift. 'I Knew It, I Knew You' was written and recorded on the same day she first saw the finished film — she described getting 'the songwriter zoomies' at the screening, going home, and finishing the track in roughly eight hours. The country-leaning sound is a deliberate throwback to her early Nashville era. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, her 15th chart-topper and Pixar's first ever. It follows the 'Tryna Make Friends' rap number, which features Bad Bunny as Pizza with Sunglasses."},{"question":"Who voices Combat Carl in Toy Story 5?","answer":"Ernie Hudson, taking over from Carl Weathers, who voiced the character in Toy Story of Terror! (2013) and Toy Story 4 (2019) before his death in February 2024. The two men had been friends for decades — Hudson's line is 'Carl, he had been a friend for 40, 50 years' — but he has said nobody told him whose role he was inheriting, and he only found out after recording. Combat Carl himself dates back to the original 1995 film, where Sid blew one up."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-08-12","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/toy-story-5","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/toy-story-5","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}