Don Rickles' daughter Mindy wants Disney/Pixar to keep using her father's voice as Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story 5... but WITHOUT A.I.

• The studio only confirmed the 2026 release date for Toy Story 6, though no other casting details were released.
• Mindy Rickles, 57, opened up to TMZ about Disney Pixar continuing to use her father's voice in Toy Story 5
• She hopes that the animation studio would continue using her father's voice, though she hopes that no A.I. is used in the process 

Just one day after Disney confirmed that the long-awaited Pixar sequel Toy Story 5 will be released in 2026, the daughter of the late Don Rickles hopes her father is still a part of it.

The studio only confirmed the 2026 release date for Toy Story 6, though no other casting details or story details were released.

Mindy Rickles, 57, opened up to TMZ about Disney Pixar continuing to use her father's voice as Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story 5.

She hopes that the animation studio would continue using her father's voice, though she hopes that no A.I. is used in the process.

Don passed away in 2017 at 90 years of age due to kidney failure at his home in Century City, California.

The Pixar team was able to use snippets of his voice from unused dialogue he recorded for the first three movies.

There were also snippets he recorded for items from theme parks, video games and even the Disny On Ice: Toy Story show, that was used for Toy Story 4, which was released in 2019, two years after Don's death.

Mindy is hoping that Disney Pixar will employ the same tactics to ensure that he stays a part of the Toy Story franchise.

Still, it's worth noting that Estelle Harris, who provided the voice of Mrs. Potato Head, passed away in April 2022 at 93 years of age.

With both actors portraying the iconic characters having now passed, it's possible Disney may just move on from the characters entirely and write them out of the franchise.

It's also possible that the studio could recast, though there is no indication on how the studio plans on handling this situation quite yet.

The original Toy Story put Pixar on the map in 1995, launching what would become an iconic franchise.

Toy Story took in $394 million worldwide from just a $30 million budget, launching a new franchise around Tom Hanks' Woody and Tim Allen's Buzz Lightyear.

Toy Story 2 debuted in 1999, taking in $541 million from a $90 million budget, though it would be over a decade before the franchise would return.

Toy Story 3 didn't hit theaters until 2010, though it would become the first animated film to earn over $1 billion ($1.067 billion).

It was the highest grossing animated film of all time until it was surpassed just two years later by Frozen ($1.285 billion).

2019's Toy Story 4 also joined the billion-dollar club, grossing $1.074 billion during its theatrical run.