Richard Hogan: Children get such a buzz when they replace tech with play

Playing with toys and losing yourself in your imagination is not just nice for a child, but actually therapeutic and a significant part of their cognitive development, says Richard Hogan

Buzz Lightyear and Woody are facing the rise of tech in Toy Story 5, which is out this summer.

Pixar Animation Studios have always been at the edge of innovation. There is something special about a Pixar film. They generally have real meaning at the centre of their stories.

I remember coming in from a run one evening, many years ago now, and seeing my wife an emotional wreck watching the start of Up when she was about seven months’ pregnant. She looked up at me and explained that (spoiler alert) the couple in the story met when they were kids, got married, struggled to have a child, and then the wife got ill and died.