Lightyear

On Wednesday, the Buzz Lightyear origin story finally hits Disney+, and it's worth the wait to enjoy watching at home — even if you didn't really miss that ...

As much as I liked Forky in “Toy Story 4,” the franchise probably should have stopped after “Toy Story 3” (2010) for a perfect coming-of-age trilogy. Sigh. Maybe I’m biased toward the original “Toy Story.” I’ll never forget sitting in the theater watching a style I’d never seen before. My biggest gripe is that “Lightyear” doesn’t include the claw machine’s Little Green Men. Imagine the squeak toys as real aliens! When Buzz says, “To infinity and beyond,” Izzy blankly stares at his hand. “Lightyear” paints a tearjerking montage like “Up,” only this time with two interracial moms raising three generations.) (Notice I said two hurdles: The third “controversy” is stupid, because if you’re bothered by the same-sex romance, well, get with the times.

A deleted scene from act one of Lightyear involving the introduction of Izzy Morrison reveals the secret origin of 'To infinity and beyond!'

Even though the context would have changed, it would have made sense to include similar lines in a scene that eventually made it into the film. The scene, which is the original introduction of Izzy Hawthorne as a child, was cut to tighten up the pacing of the film and is presented in a variety of storyboards, with audio from Evans' performance playing over them. A deleted scene from Lightyear reveals the cut origin story of the catchphrase "To infinity and beyond!"

The previous three Pixar movies — Soul, Luca, and Turning Red — all went straight to Disney+, bypassing theaters entirely. Lightyear was on the lower end of ...

A series of opening title cards explains that in 1995, a kid named Andy got a Buzz Lightyear action figure for his birthday because he adored a movie — this movie. If you’ve already got a Disney+ subscription, what do you have to lose? The previous three Pixar movies — Soul, Luca, and Turning Red — all went straight to Disney+, bypassing theaters entirely.

Giving fans a long-awaited look into the iconic character before he became a popular toy, the Buzz Lightyear origin story was the first Pixar movie in years to ...

Before you get comfy watching Lightyear, you can watch the Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear documentary, which details the creative journey it took to bring Lightyear to the big screen. We know you're ready to fill your nostalgic heart with this intergalactic tale, so we have all the details on when, where and how you can watch Lightyear — along with how you can stream the first four Toy Story movies and more. Disney+ subscriptions cost $8/month or you can get the Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+ bundle for $14/month. Even more picture will be visible in select scenes, so you'll be able to experience the full scale and scope of the picture. You can now watch the prequel spin-off of the iconic Toy Story films at home. Lightyear takes place before the first Toy Story movie and shows how Andy became obsessed with everyone's favorite space ranger.

Lightyear” was the first Pixar movie in two years to make it to theaters. A month and a half later, it finally hits the streaming platform Disney+.

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LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A first-day-of-issue ceremony for a set of Forever stamps featuring Buzz Lightyear from the “Toy Story” films was held Wednesday at the ...

“And Buzz Lightyear certainly fits that description. The Postal Service takes great pride in honoring the very best of the nation through our stamp program. And then there are our STEM Education stamps that emphasize the importance of science, technology, engineering and math.

The stamps display art from Pixar Animation Studios showing Buzz Lightyear in several different poses with the phrase "Go Beyond." The decision to release ...

And now he is the star of his own feature film — 'Lightyear.' The "Lightyear" film is a prequel to the "Toy Story" series of films, based on Buzz's backstory. "He taught us about heroism, loyalty and perseverance.

A series of Forever stamps was released today featuring Buzz Lightyear, the beloved character that originated in Disney-Pixar's 'Toy Story' films.

“He taught us about heroism, loyalty and perseverance. Have your First-Class Mail travel from “Infinity to Forever” with the new “Go Beyond” Forever Stamps featuring the iconic image of Buzz Lightyear. Learn more: https://t.co/lRjAblucs0 “Go Beyond” is a pane of 20 stamps that feature the Space Ranger as seen in this year’s origins movie Lightyear, who in the Toy Story universe inspired the action figure from the classic films.

We open in UNCHARTED SPACE, where Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans) of Star Command (should've been Space Force) is star-trekking his way to an alien planet ...

(Where have I heard that one before?) So Lightyear, being a Pixar product, and fodder from the Toy Story universe, surely is a deep examination of culture shock, psychological displacement and the theoretical trauma one might experience from time travel, right? But Incredibles 2 did this type of thing far better, with its assemblage of grippingly memorable action setpieces far outpacing Lightyear’s modest diversions, which offer more than its share of instances of stretching for something just out of reach, always with the stretching for something just out of reach. Our psyches would be runny scrambled eggs, but we are not Buzz Lightyear. He forges ahead, testing and testing the thing over and over again in a montage, until his best friend Alisha (Uzo Aduba) has gotten older and had a child and a grandchild and died. Good thing he has a robot cat named Sox (Peter Sohn) to help him, and to help Disney load up Wal Mart toy aisles. This is what happens when you have the Right Stuff, scads of it even, but not enough of the Right Stuff to meet your unrealistic standards. This puts him in test-pilot mode, just like Earth’s greatest heroes, Neil Armstrong and Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Buzz will use every resource at his disposal to fix the hyperdrive and get these fine folks unmarooned, and sacrifice his every waking moment, and every bit of his personality, and surely his sex life too, in order to do that. Buzz also has a small conglomeration of decidedly non-intrepid ragtag squad of comic-relief misfits backing him up: Alisha’s less-than-a-rookie granddaughter Izzy (Keke Palmer), ex-con Darby (Dale Soules) and cowardly goofus Mo (Taika Waititi). Will their TEAMWORK save the day? With a computer voice counting down to his doom, he grease-pencils the math on his spaceship’s cockpit glass and comes up with a solution to a terrifying predicament and survives. I mean, his intrepidity is off the charts. Which leads us to Lightyear, a narrative within a narrative, being the movie within the Toy Story universe that inspired the manufacture (birth?) of the toy who pals around with Woody and the gang. With one possible exception: Toy Story 4, which brainboggled us mightily with the introduction of Forky, a character who exponentially ramped up the franchise’s signature existentialist ponderings. The Gist: Again, this is a fictional universe within a fictional universe, but outside of an opening title card explaining as much, there is no reference whatsoever to the fictional universe with Woody and Forky in it.

"Lightyear," now streaming on Disney+, isn't quite Pixar at its most emotionally potent. But there's enough emotional potency and clever plotting to make ...

Evans makes a passable attempt at mimicking the distinctive cadence Tim Allen gave the toy Buzz in the "Toy Story" trilogy, but the depth and emotionality Evans brings to the character more than make up for any shortcomings in the imitation department. Winnie’s fascination with the macabre — she’s heard about rivers of blood, and piles of bones from all the babies the Boxtrolls are said to eat — becomes both a funny running gag and a canny bit of characterization in this refreshing, underrated film. The platform gives fans of entertainment, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is available completely free. Starring Evans as the titular space ranger, "Lightyear" is (as the film’s opening text tells us) meant to be the film that Andy, the resident toy-owner of "Toy Story," saw before the events of the first film – in other words, the movie that inspired him to ask his parents for a Buzz Lightyear toy for his birthday. There’s real emotional maturity to the character arc "Lightyear" develops for Buzz; once again, Pixar calls on its uncanny ability to wring tears from an audience regardless of the subject matter. The result is a surprisingly complicated time-travel story that explores grief, self-love and the importance of knowing when to ask for help. "Did they eat your family, and did they let you watch?" Taika Waititi and Dale Soules round out the rag-tag bunch as Mo and Darby, a cowardly, accident-prone trainee and an aging ex-con respectively, who act as the film’s comic relief. It’s not the most kid-friendly of character arcs, but it’s certainly a compelling approach. When he comes to the tragic realization that every attempt to get back to light-speed results in a four-year time jump, Buzz finds himself aligning with an unlikely group of heroes (including the granddaughter of his best friend) to crack the secret to hyper-speed, destroy the terrifying Zurg ship and find a way to return home once and for all. "Lightyear," the latest film from the animation powerhouses at Pixar, must have seemed like a sure thing to Disney executives. It has been republished in light of the film's premiere on Disney+.

The Pixar animated feature "Lightyear," focuses on the adventures of Buzz Lightyear, the character who became beloved by "Toy Story" fans.

Each time Buzz returns to the planet of T’Kani Prime, his friends have grown older and are settled into life on what had been a hostile planet. Angus MacLane, who directed “Lightyear,” grew up in the Portland area, graduating from Beaverton High School in 1993. People he had known grew older, and other little things changed, which he noticed, even if people in Portland didn’t. In a June interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive, MacLane said some of the inspiration for the “Lightyear” storyline grew out of MacLane’s trips back home to Portland after he had moved to California. • To stream “Lightyear,” sign up for Disney Plus ($7.99 a month, or $79.99 a year). Another option is the Disney Plus bundle, which includes access to Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN Plus ($13.99 a month). After its June release marked the first time since the start of the pandemic that a Pixar animated feature had opened in movie theaters, “Lightyear” is now available to stream at home, on Disney Plus. The film is an origin story for Buzz Lightyear, the character “Toy Story” fans know and love.

The time has come! 'Lightyear' is now on Disney+ and it's time to go to infinity and beyond with Chris Evans as Buzz Lightyear!

Now that Lightyear is on Disney+ though, I hope more people get to watch it and enjoy it because it’s one of my top Pixar movies. I didn’t care about Buzz Lightyear prior to this movie and in rewatching Toy Story this summer, I stand by my love of Woody the Cowboy over Buzz but getting to see this origin made me understand Andy and his love for this character. But also Lightyear is just a fun new space movie and one that was a joy to watch and so more people getting to see it and experience Lightyear for themselves is all the better!

Here's where you can stream Lightyear online, including whether it's on Disney+, plus everything else you need to know about the new Pixar film.

And because of this, Lightyear is slotted in ahead of the actual Toy Story films in the Pixar Universe. All four Toy Story movies are streaming on Disney+. You can also rent or buy them digitally on Amazon. We tell you exactly where Lightyear sits in the full Pixar theory timeline (and in the Toy Story timeline). Basically, Lightyear is a sci-fi film Andy would have seen before the events of Toy Story. Seeing Lightyear likely made him want the Buzz Lightyear action figure. The film premiered on the streaming platform on 3 August 2022. Lightyear is an animated film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. It stars the legendary space ranger Buzz Lightyear - like, the actual character; not the Tim Allen-voiced toy from the 1995 original classic. Instead, it's a spinoff about the story that inspired one of Andy's favourite toys.

“Buzz Lightyear captured our hearts and imaginations in the first 'Toy Story' movie,” said Isaac Cronkhite, the Postal Service's chief logistics and processing ...

And now he is the star of his own feature film —‘Lightyear.’ Buzz Lightyear was first introduced to the world in 1995 when he made his debut in the Disney and Pixar film, "Toy Story" where viewers quickly grew to love his charisma. “He taught us about heroism, loyalty and perseverance.

After being banned from Malaysian cinemas, Lightyear finally makes its way to Malaysians through Disney+ Hotstar, with the film being rated 18+.

With all the controversy surrounding the film’s initial release, this was certainly a safe way to ensure Lightyear’s release in these countries. Films like The Incredibles, Brave and Pixar’s last five films from Onward had been rated PG. This is due to the fact that the film depicted a same-sex relationship, which for a handful of countries around the world, deemed too inappropriate for a film targeted at children.

This exclusive behind-the-scenes clip showcases how Lego played an instrumental role in the production and development of "Lightyear."

The high-flying prequel is set outside the "Toy Story" cinematic universe and depicts the actual movie that Andy saw to make him desire a Buzz Lightyear action figure in the first place. Buzz's robo-cat, Sox, is voiced by Peter Sohn, who's joined by the vocal talents of Uzo Aduba, James Brolin, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Efren Ramirez and Isiah Whitlock Jr. "In between meetings sometimes I'll just do a step or two. These hand-crafted models served to influence the modeling and animation teams in their process of building out the colorful universe of the "Toy Story" spinoff. Zurg Battle $29.99 at Lego.com (opens in new tab) You can even buy some of the Lego Lightyear models of your own now, too!

A spaceship, a Zyclops and a Zurg are all available now on Lego.com.

Zurg is the star of this epic set, which is 261 pieces and rated for ages seven and older. Follow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter @howellspace (opens in new tab). Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens in new tab) and on An illustrated assembly guide will help little builders figure out how to put the Zyclops together, although adults are of course welcome to help. The 497-piece spaceship comes with three Lego minifigures, Sox the robot cat, a weapons arsenal, a display stand and a cockpit that opens for Buzz to sit at the control. The XL-15 is Buzz Lightyear's go-to vehicle as he flies to infinity and beyond. Zurg Battle $29.99 at Lego.com (opens in new tab)

Even though the latest Pixar movie only came out in theaters a few weeks ago, you can watch Lightyear online right now. All you need to see it is a membership ...

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