Need More Post-Barbie Nostalgia? Stream These Top Toy-Based Movies

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We love to talk about movies and TV shows that are based on video games—mostly because they've been almost uniformly terrible. At least until this year, when The Super Mario Bros Movie and The Last of Us adaptation on Max finally put that curse to rest.

But now, all the talk is about a movie based on a toy, not a game. Barbie premiered in a head-to-head fight (or love-fest?) with Oppenheimer, pulling in $155 million(Opens in a new window) on its opening weekend to Oppenheimer's $80.5 million, both of which are record debuts.

This caused JustWatch (Opens in a new window)to wonder: Which movies also based on toys are the most popular of all time? Delving into its on-site popularity scores, JustWatch determined that the combined might of the four-film Toy Story franchise from Disney/Pixar is the big winner. But ahead of the first appearance of Woody and Buzz are two films that have the highest positive scores.

That's right: 2007's Transformers, the original and still best of that series claims the win as most popular. A couple other films in the franchise appear further down in the list. Maybe it's a stretch to call the number-two film toy-based, but no geek will be upset that this year's Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves does so well in any ranking—it's the first film of this type that actually feels like a D&D campaign with snarky friends. Also appearing here to represent the bricks: The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie.

But that's not really as interesting as the second chart from JustWatch, below: It turns out that the new movie is far from Barbie's first foray into film. There are several animated Barbie features currently streaming, most of them available for rent or purchase. And at least one—the first