Celebrate the release of Toy Story 5 with the franchise’s record-breaking legacy
Today marks the release of Toy Story 5, the latest instalment in Pixar’s revolutionary film series.
Like its 2019 predecessor, the film focuses on Bonnie Anderson, who is now eight years old, and like many youngsters these days, transfixed by her tablet.
Worried that they’ll lose Bonnie to her new electronic device, the toys recruit their long-time friend Woody and set out on a mission to ensure she doesn’t stop playing with them.
The star-studded cast, led by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen as Woody and Buzz Lightyear, includes a couple of celebrities from our record books.
Hanks holds the most Golden Globe awards won by an individual (eight, shared with Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep), and his co-star Bonnie Hunt, who plays Dolly, is the highest-grossing actress at the global box office (supporting roles) – $9,095,165,716 (£6.6 billion) as of 28 January 2026.
Even the soundtrack features GWR ICON Taylor Swift, who holds over 90 records including the first music tour to gross $1 billion.
Back in November 1995, the original Toy Story hit the silver screens and made history as the first feature-length computer-animated movie.
Also the first Pixar film, Toy Story took four years in the making given how time-consuming computer animation was back then.
The animators had to render a total of 114,240 frames, each of which would take anywhere between 45 minutes to 30 hours!
Their full-length debut was an instant hit, winning director John Lasseter the Special Achievement Academy Award in 1996.
The American animation studio has continued to have success with the franchise for over 30 years, claiming another world record in 2010 with Toy Story 3 – the first animated film to gross $1 billion.
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Did you know that following the release of Toy Story, sales of Hasbro’s Mr. Potato Head increased by around 800 percent?
The iconic toy has remained a family favourite since 1952, and for some people it has even been a gateway into the world of record breaking.
GWR’s youngest serial record holder Lim Kai Yi set the fastest time to assemble Mr. Potato Head (blindfolded) – 9.27 seconds – in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 29 November 2024.
A day later, the Malaysian megastar achieved the (team of two) version of this title with compatriot, Tey E Fund, in 8.37 seconds.
Most recently, on 3 January 2026, Singaporean speedcuber Calen Seah recorded the fastest time to assemble Mr. Potato Head – 4.63 seconds.
The now-16-year-old was 15 at the time and he spent over a year practising, hoping that his rapid speedcubing skills would work to his advantage.
Seah believes he must have assembled his potato pal over 400 times during training.
He told GWR: “I used to watch Guinness World Records videos as a child, even before I began speedcubing on YouTube, and I always imagined what it would be like to actually be able to get a world record for myself.”
After breaking the previous time of 4.75 seconds (by Lim Kai Yi), Seah said: “I felt a sense of accomplishment when I broke it and also a sense of relief, since I [had] been preparing for it for so long.
“It felt slightly unreal too, that I finally had my hands on a Guinness World Records title, which was a childhood dream of mine.”
Read stories about record-breaking films in our Arts & Entertainment section.