Lightyear: Why Zurg Looks So Different To Toy Story
Lightyear's Zurg is a far cry from the Toy Story original, but the design change makes perfect sense for Chris Evans' Space Ranger. The first trailer for Disney's upcoming Lightyear playfully teased Emperor Zurg — the nemesis/absent father Buzz encountered in Toy Story 2. A second Lightyear trailer now reveals Zurg in all his Vader-esque glory. In addition to Zurg's drone henchmen, the Zurg Bots, Evans' Buzz Lightyear battles the big boss himself — a towering robotic enemy armed (quite literally) with a heavy three-barreled cannon. Lightyear's trailer doesn't reference Zurg by name, but there are enough visual cues to make that connection - his bright red eyes, the spiky horns, a glowing green weapon, etc.
Nevertheless, Lightyear's Zurg wouldn't even win second place in an Emperor Zurg lookalike competition. Whereas Chris Evans' Buzz Lightyear is almost identical to his predecessor from Toy Story, considerably more creative liberties have been taken with Lightyear's mechanical menace. There's no chunky yellow-toothed grin, Zurg's tunic is replaced by actual legs, and though you can just about glimpse the purple armor, his palette is way more understated than the monster who plagued Rex's dreams in Toy Story 2. Taking Edna's advice, Zurg has also ditched the cape.
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Zurg's redesign is no cosmetic reshuffle — it's a reflection of the direction Lightyear is taking Buzz Lightyear. There remains a touch of confusion over exactly how Lightyear connects to Toy Story, but Angus MacLane (Lightyear director) confirms it's the movie Andy might've seen in cinemas before he became a Buzz fanatic and gave Woody the boot. By that logic, the double-tough android Buzz fires his
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