In Nov. 2014, Disney announced there would be an addition to the widely popular Toy Story franchise, arriving in June 2017—which has since been pushed back to Jun. 2018. Over the past year, Disney-Pixar has revealed several different sneak-peaks for the plot, characters, design, etc. One important piece of information the production companies have revealed is that this film will be a standalone sequel. But is this sequel even necessary?

On Nov. 22, 1995 Disney-Pixar released the first feature-length film to be entirely made of CGI: Toy Story. The film was a smashing success, both critically and monetarily—raking in over $361 million around the world. Toy Story became the film of an entire generation, inspiring values of friendship and teamwork from within the film through the camaraderie between the lost toys Buzz Lightyear, a space ranger, and Woody, a cowboy, and their journey back to their owner, Andy. It also opened a whole different method by which movies could be made. For my generation, most of the movies we saw growing up were made by CGI and not actual hand-drawn animation, which had been Disney’s signature for the past nearly 60 years.

A little over 4 years later, on Nov. 24, 1999, the sequel Toy Story 2 was released. This film’s theatrical release would surpass its predecessor at the box office—ultimately grossing $485 million worldwide. It was the second movie I ever saw at the theatre (the first being another Disney animated classic, Tarzan) and my personal favorite the franchise. Once again, Buzz and Woody taught the viewer the importance of teamwork and friendship—just this time going up against Buzz’s archenemy, the evil Emperor Zurg.

Over a decade later, on Jun. 18, 2010, the franchise’s third part opened at the theatre, once again breaking records for the box office power of an animated film, grossing $1.063 billion. Toy Story 3 was the first animated movie to cross the $1 billion threshold, and remained as the highest-grossing animated film of all time, until another Disney smash-hit, Frozen, surpassed it in 2014.

In this sequel, due to Andy’s mom accidentally throwing all his toys away, the toys must fight their way back home, battling against evil toys, led by Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear. At the finale of the film, in a scene which wrenches the viewer’s heartstrings, Andy, on his way to college, gives Buzz and Woody, along with all the other toys, to a young neighbor girl, opening up the possibility for even further franchise additions.

And, what do you know, Disney-Pixar are making another Toy Story movie. Surprised? I’m facetiously flabbergasted! But Disney has to make money, right? Sure, especially with a well-established brand-name franchise, which is guaranteed to attract not only hordes of children, but also droves of ‘90s children, who have reached the adulthood from which Disney allow escape for a few hours.

As soon as I saw the ending of the third movie, I knew there’d have to be a fourth. I mean, they took the time to introduce another child, who was young enough to have plenty of adventures with Buzz and Woody to share with us, if that’s not a setup for a sequel, I don’t know what is.

However, with the great quantities of emotional trauma the last film—and the others for that matter—produced, is another sequel necessary? I think, yes.

I’m an enormous Toy Story fan. Ever since I was 3 years old, I’ve had two life-sized dolls (as a man, I hate admitting it, but there’s no other word for them—they definitely aren’t “action figures”) of Buzz Lightyear and Woody. (When I had to act out Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in high school, I used Woody and a murdered Caesar.) Growing up, the first two movies meant to me more than I can even describe. When the third movie was released, I was 13 and I enjoyed it just as much as the 3 year-old me who watched the second movie completely enthralled.

I think a fourth movie is necessary and I can’t wait until it comes out. There’s so much more to be told about the adventures of Buzz, Woody, and the gang. I want the generations to come to know about those characters, I’m certain they’ll mean as much to them as they did to me.