Who Voices Buzz In Lightyear (Why He Sounds Different)

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Lightyear took the audience back to the Toy Story franchise but in a different way, with a story focused on the character that inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy – however, this Buzz sounds completely different from the one in Toy Story, and here’s why. Pixar continues to dominate the world of animation and brings at least one movie per year, and in 2022, the studio released two movies: an original story in Turning Red, and Lightyear, set within the world of Toy Story and serving as a spinoff and prequel.

Lightyear is the movie that a young Andy watched in 1995 that made him a fan of the now famous Space Ranger, and that’s its place within the Toy Story timeline. Lightyear follows Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear and his commanding officer, Alisha Hawthorne, and their crew as they explore a habitable planet, but after some dangerous encounters with the planet’s hostile lifeforms, they end up stranded on this planet. Buzz and his crew then try to find a way back home, but these attempts lead him to jump many years into the future, where he meets a new crew and comes across the evil Emperor Zurg, who hides a big secret.

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Given that it’s a story separate from the Toy Story saga yet in the same universe, characters like Woody and other toys are not part of Lightyear, and to further separate it from the Toy Story series, Pixar recast Tim Allen and instead Chris Evans voiced Buzz in Lightyear, and while the latter did a great job, this decision drew some criticism.

With Lightyear following a different Buzz from the one seen in the Toy Story saga, it makes sense that Tim Allen wasn’t brought back and instead Pixar cast a different actor, as this further helped separate Lightyear’s