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Balding Woody is a reaction image meme of Woody from the Toy Story 5 trailer taking his hat off and looking downward from a behind-the-back angle, revealing that he is balding. The trailer was released on February 19th, 2026 and the balding scene inspired reactions and memes about going bald on social media.

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On February 19th, 2026, the trailer for Toy Story 5 was released online, including by the Pixar YouTube^[1] channel, garnering over 890,000 views in about four hours. At the 1:20 timestamp, Woody turns his back to the other toys and takes off his hat, revealing a bald spot on his head as the paint on his hair fades away. The spot shines and blinds the other toys.

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On February 19th, 2026, shortly after the trailer was released, X^[2] user @DiscussingFilm posted two images of Woody's balding head, writing, "First look at Woody’s balding ass head in ‘TOY STORY 5’," garnering over 303,000 likes and 23,000 reposts in under a day.

Later that day, Redditor u/the_n3rd_dad posted a meme using the image to the /r/memes^[3] subreddit captioned, "Not Woody going bald too!! It's hard out here for us 1900's survivors," garnering over 2,100 upvotes in under a day.

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