Lightyear Raises 8 Unanswered Questions About Buzz & Toy Story
Lightyear reunited the audience with Buzz Lightyear but in a very different way than in the Toy Story movies, and it left a couple of unanswered questions about his origins and the connection between Lightyear’s Buzz and the one in Toy Story. Pixar continues bringing at least one movie per year, and 2022 saw the release of two movies: Turning Red, which was released directly on Disney+, and Lightyear, the first Pixar movie to be released in theaters since Onward, and which took the audience back to the Toy Story universe.
Lightyear follows Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Chris Evans) as he explores a habitable planet with his commanding officer, Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba), and his crew, but after some dangerous encounters with the planet’s hostile lifeforms and their ship breaking down, they end up stranded there. In order to find a way back home, Buzz volunteers as a test pilot, but all those attempts lead him to jump many years into the future, where he meets a whole new crew, including Alisha’s granddaughter, Izzy (Keke Palmer), and he comes face to face with the evil Emperor Zurg (James Brolin), who hides a big secret.
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After a lot of confusion over how Lightyear fits into the Toy Story timeline, the opening card cleared all this up by explaining this is the movie a young Andy watched in 1995 that made him a fan of Buzz Lightyear, thus leading to the events of the Toy Story saga. Although it’s a movie separate from the Toy Story series, Lightyear included various references to those movies, but it also made way for various questions about Lightyear’s Buzz and his toy version, as there are a couple of details that don’t match.
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