

The Barbie movie sounds like the stuff of a daydream. There have been more than 40 Barbie movies to date, but instead of a cheap TV film, this Barbie is set to be one of the biggest movies of the year.
It’s directed by one of the brightest lights in modern film-making, Greta Gerwig. And it stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
This is one the most important movies based on a real-world toy ever made. But is it the best? We’ve dug through the archives to find the best toy movies made so far, and we have not made it easy.
Stories based on purely fictional toys like Small Soldiers and, err, Jingle All the Way? They’re out. We’re only including one movie per toy franchise too, in order to avoid stacking the deck with Lego films.
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10 movies based on toys
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Andrew Williams has written about tech for a decade. He has written for a stack of magazines and websites including Wired, TrustedReviews, TechRadar and Stuff.