Toy Story 5 Producer Describes 50 Buzz Lightyears on 50 Horses

Toy Story 5 puts 50 Buzz Lightyears on 50 horses, and the film's producer says that scene would have been out of reach for the first film. Lindsey Collins described the sequence, along with several other behind-the-scenes details, in a panel at Deadline's Contenders Film Los Angeles event, as Deadline reported on 15 November 2026. The 1999 original could render only one Buzz.

The panel also covered the film's new character, Blaze, who arrives as a gift near the end of the story. Pixar built a new tool to draw Blaze's curly hair. The studio had made curly hair before, for its 2012 film Brave, but this character needed a different approach.

Joan Cusack returns as Jessie, the cowgirl toy. Collins said an early version of the ending had Jessie meet a grown-up version of Emily, the girl who owned her before Bonnie, the child who plays with the toys in the recent films. That version did not make the final cut. The finished film closes on a scene of buried treasure under a tree.

Collins also said she did not rule out another film. Andy, the boy who owned the toys in the first three films, has a trilogy of his own, and Collins did not rule out a film that would complete a similar run of "Bonnie years" for the toys' newer owner.

For Pixar's fans, the detail that stands out is the crowd of Buzzes. A single character copied 50 times shows how far the studio's tools have moved in a quarter century. Nothing has been announced about a sixth film.