WATCH | First look at 'Toy Story 4' - and its newest star

Coming summer 2019 — nine years after the last installment — Toy Story 4 now has a first teaser trailer featuring favourite characters from the franchise, not to mention a newcomer who's set to shake up life for the toys.

The teaser for the Disney-Pixar movie opens with the original toys — Buzz Lightyear, Woody, Jessie, Mr and Mrs Potato Head, Rex the Dinosaur, Hamm the Piggy Bank, Slinky the Dog and a Little Green Man alien — holding hands in a circle as Judy Collins' cover of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now plays.

But there's a new toy in the group — a grouchy spork-turned-craft-project called Forky — and he isn't at all happy about it. He shouts "I don't belong here!", and tries to leave the circle, making the other characters collide with each other and fall.

WATCH | The trailer for Toy Story 4

The voice cast includes Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz, Joan Cusack as Jessie, and Don Rickles and Estelle Harris as the Potato Heads. Tony Hale voices Forky.

Toy Story 4 is coming to cinemas in mid-2019, 24 years after the original Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film and the highest-grossing movie of 1995.

Two sequels were released in 1999 and 2010.