{"id":2463556,"date":"2026-06-17T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2463556"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:27:56","slug":"a-highly-personal-ranking-of-the-10-best-toys-in-the-toy-story-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/a-highly-personal-ranking-of-the-10-best-toys-in-the-toy-story-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"A highly personal ranking of the 10 best toys in the ‘Toy Story’ movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My daughter Katie loved to collect stuffed animals. It was something of an obsession, a harmless one, and we were happy to oblige. By the time she was 8, the menagerie had become so huge that we needed to string up a net over her bed to free up some floor space.<\/p>\n

It was not unreasonable, then, for my wife to ask her one day if she might pick out 10 stuffed animals \u2014 old friends she no longer played with and who had been usurped in the pecking order \u2014 to give away. Katie agreed without protest.<\/p>\n

I listened to this conversation warily, all the while thinking: Why not just string up another net?<\/p>\n

As my wife tells the story (over the years, this has become family lore), sometime later she looked out the bedroom window into our backyard and spied me going through the trash, fishing out a threadbare lion, its once-mighty mane all but vanished.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlenn, what are you doing?\u201d she asked me. \u201cThe child made her choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we used to play tea party with this,\u201d I replied, rescuing the lion and bringing it back inside.<\/p>\n

I tell you this not to say that I was right \u2014 I wasn\u2019t \u2014 but to tell you that nostalgia sometimes gets the better of me. Like Vito Corleone, I have a sentimental weakness for my children and I spoil them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So it won\u2019t surprise you that the \u201cToy Story\u201d movies, with their bittersweet themes about growing up and letting go, have a way of piercing my heart, making me wistful for playtime with plush toys on Sunday afternoons that seemed to stretch forever.<\/p>\n

With \u201cToy Story 5\u201d arriving in theaters Friday, it felt like the right moment to revisit the earlier movies, take in the new one (which, like the fourth, is enjoyable enough but makes you appreciate the perfect journey the original trilogy delivered) and offer a personal ranking of my 10 favorite characters. None of these toys will ever be thrown out.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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