Lightyear: Every Pixar Easter Egg & Reference Explained
Pixar’s Lightyear is packed with Easter eggs and references not only to the Toy Story saga and other Pixar movies but also to many sci-fi and fantasy classics – and here’s every one of them. Pixar continues dominating the world of animation with compelling stories with relatable characters and always with high quality when it comes to the animation itself. 2022 saw two very different Pixar movies: the first was Turning Red, released directly on Disney+, followed by Lightyear, the first Pixar movie to be released in theaters since Onward in 2020.
Since Lightyear was announced to be in development, there was a lot of speculation about how it connects to theToy Story series, and the opening title card quickly cleared this up by revealing that Lightyear is the movie a young Andy watched in 1995 that made him a fan of Buzz Lightyear. The movie, then, tells the story of Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Chris Evans), who tries to find a way back home after being marooned on a hostile planet with his commander and crew. His attempts to return home lead him to jump many years into the future, where he meets a new crew and comes across an even bigger problem than hyperspace traveling: the evil Emperor Zurg (James Brolin).
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Unfortunately, Lightyear wasn’t the success Pixar was expecting, getting mixed reviews from critics and failing to break even at the box office, becoming the studio’s third box-office bomb after The Good Dinosaur and Onward. Still, Lightyear was a nostalgia trip for the audience with its many Toy Story references as well as references to some sci-fi classics and, of course, the traditional Pixar Easter eggs (of which some could
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