How to watch Toy Story
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If you’re hoping to revisit Pixar’s Toy Story, you’re in luck. New streaming service Disney+ lets you watch this timeless story about the hidden lives of toys from the comfort of your living room or on your favorite mobile device.
Where to stream Toy Story online
You’re now able to stream Toy Story on Disney+ wherever you’re connected to the internet. Disney’s new direct-to-consumer streaming service is now available in the U.S. and Canada and will eventually be rolling out worldwide.
Disney+ is supported on desktop browsers, “a wide range” of mobile devices, smart TVs, and video-game consoles. The subscription-based platform will serve as the new home for Walt Disney Studios films as well as original, exclusive Disney+ content like Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, and a full slate of live-action Marvel shows.
Get Disney+ starting at $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year
What is Toy Story about?
Pixar’s first feature-length movie wasn’t just a one-of-a-kind technical marvel. It was also a heartwarming story about family, the inexorability of change throughout one’s life, and the nature of nostalgia.
Most everyone moves to a new home at some point in their life; most everyone grows out of one phase of their childhood and finds new toys and obsessions to fuel their imagination. And there’s a timeless quality to the picture, despite the cutting-edge nature of the computer animation used at the time. Andy’s (anthropomorphic) toys could be anybody’s toys; there’s a familiarity to his childhood bedroom, his manner of play, his excitement at getting a new spaceman figure, and even his loss of interest in Woody, the cowboy who’d always been his favorite toy before Buzz Lightyear.
When Buzz—who struggles with the news that he’s a toy, and not a real “space ranger”—is held captive by the mischievous neighbor boy, Sid, Woody feels partly responsible. So Woody stages a daring rescue, and helps his newfound friend get to the safety of the toybox on the day of Andy’s big move to a new house.
“Toy Story was a revolutionary film in more ways than one, and a decade and a half later, we’re still thinking about it,” USA Today’s Kelly Lawler wrote recently. “The movie put Pixar on the map, it pioneered computer animation, and it featured all the ingredients we have come to know and love in so many of the Pixar movies that followed: emotional storytelling, action sequences, insights on the human condition, all-star voice cast, and protagonists you never would have thought of yourself. It was hard to top, but eventually they did.”
The movie stars Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, John Morris, Erik von Detten, Laurie Metcalf, and R. Lee Ermey.
How to sign up for Disney+
To start watching Toy Story, you can subscribe to Disney+ today for $6.99 a month or $69.99 per year. Or you can get the service as part of a special value bundle with ESPN+ and Hulu for $12.99 a month in total.
Disney+ is available to watch through the following devices:
- Roku streaming devices
- TVs with built-in Roku
- Apple TV iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch models
- Android phones
- Android TV devices
- Google Chromecast
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 4
- Sony TVs with built-in Android
- See our recommendations for the best streaming devices
If you’re hoping to stream on another device in the future, you can sign up for email updates at DisneyPlus.com to stay in the know.
In addition to its all-new programming, Disney+ offers on-demand access to classic titles like A Goofy Movie, Fantasia, High School Musical, Lilo & Stitch, The Sword in the Stone, Toy Story, Tron, Up, and Wall-E. The extensive library also includes such beloved TV series as Boy Meets World, DuckTales, Kim Possible, Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, That’s So Raven, and 30 seasons of The Simpsons.
By the end of its first year, Disney expects to bring over “7,500 episodes of television and 500 movies” to the service—including Aladdin (2019), Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Dumbo (2019), Frozen 2, The Lion King (2019), Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Toy Story 4, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Get Disney+ starting at $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year
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