Brian Earl Spilner said:

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TCTTS said:

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gigemJTH12 said:

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not sure what is so hard to understand for some. this is the real life buzz that the toy was based on.

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That's not quite accurate. This is the MOVIE in the Toy Story reality that the toy was based on.

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Nope, in the Toy Story universe this would be a "real-life" person. Not sure where people are getting the movie thing from.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Lightyear#Trivia

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I explained where they're getting it from above. If Disney wants to say he's "real", they can. It just doesn't make sense.

You're making an assumption because it seems unbelievable to you Toy Story could exist in a world where aliens and interstellar travel exists.

Yes, the same universe where toys come to life and talk. But THAT would just be crazy.

I had literally never heard of that site before, but saw someone post a link on Twitter. Either way, it's an article of real quotes, so I don't understand what the issue is. It just makes zero sense that in the world Toy Story takes place they had interstellar travel and moon bases and what not BEFORE the mid-'90s. Granted, this is a world in which toys are literally alive and can talk, so all bets are obviously off, but it's still pretty clear this movie isn't real-life canon within the Toy Story universe.

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but it's still pretty clear this movie isn't real-life canon within the Toy Story universe.

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Except it's not. Not a single quote by anyone related to the film alludes to that. Evens has said this is the human the toy was based on, and the director said it's a standalone movie. That's it. Everything else is assumptions by the terrible writers of Kotaku.

(And since you say that, Kotaku is one of the worst offenders of taking a single quote, tweet, fan-made art, trailer, or whatever it is, and putting out a thousand word article with a whole bunch of nothing about said thing. It's like in high school reports where you'd just write a bunch of bull**** to reach the word count. Whenever I get Kotaku links I refuse to give them a click and just go straight to the actual thing. I hate them as much as you hate We've got this covered.)

Buzz lands on Earth and accidently sets off some weapon that makes all toys come to life. Stranded on Earth, he becomes a toy maker and makes a toy after himself and becomes rich.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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You're making an assumption because it seems unbelievable to you Toy Story could exist in a world where aliens and interstellar travel exists.

Yes, the same universe where toys come to life and talk. But THAT would just be crazy.

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Well Toy Story already exists in the Pixar Universe which has Monsters that jump out of closets and use children's screams for fuel, so

Is "it's the Buzz Lightyear origin movie" that hard so say?

C@LAg said:

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https://ew.com/movies/chris-evans-pixar-lightyear-trailer/

Per the director:

"'Set in the world of Toy Story' is kind of weird. Another way to get at it, it's a straightforward sci-fi action film about the Buzz Lightyear character," MacLane, who co-directed Finding Dory and multiple Toy Story shorts for Pixar, tells EW over Zoom. "In the Toy Story universe, it would be like a movie that maybe Andy would have seen, that would have made him want a Buzz Lightyear figure."

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called it!

I can't believe anyone even thought it could be anything but this.

HossAg said:

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I can't believe anyone even thought it could be anything but this.

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Some on this thread thought so, and they implied that the rest of us were pretty slow for disagreeing.

I wonder if they will now make a movie in the same universe as buzz that is about his father Zurg and that Spilner will have to make sure we all know is better than what we think it is and also doesn't ruin this one. I wonder.

C@LAg said:

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https://ew.com/movies/chris-evans-pixar-lightyear-trailer/

Per the director:

"'Set in the world of Toy Story' is kind of weird. Another way to get at it, it's a straightforward sci-fi action film about the Buzz Lightyear character," MacLane, who co-directed Finding Dory and multiple Toy Story shorts for Pixar, tells EW over Zoom. "In the Toy Story universe, it would be like a movie that maybe Andy would have seen, that would have made him want a Buzz Lightyear figure."

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So it is literally a commercial for a toy.

It's the Toy Story equivalent of The Transformers movie. Will there be a Micheal Bayish reboot of Buzz Lightyear a few years from now?

Quad Dog said:

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It's the Toy Story equivalent of The Transformers movie. Will there be a Micheal Bayish reboot of Buzz Lightyear a few years from now?

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God, that would be awesome. He'll have flames on his suit and call other characters little biatches. The movie will start with like 60 characters, but only 3 of them will be in the last one-third of the movie.

jeffk said:

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It makes a ton more sense that this is the movie the toy was based on rather than all of the Toy Story films taking place in a world with interstellar travel.

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I think the movie is more likely based on the toy, like an in-world live action adaptation of the kids' show that Andy grew up watching in the 90's, kind of like Detective Pikachu or Sonic the Hedgehog were live action adaptations of earlier animated characters.

Wouldn't be shocked to see an adult Andy taking his kid to see it.

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jeffk said:

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It makes a ton more sense that this is the movie the toy was based on rather than all of the Toy Story films taking place in a world with interstellar travel.

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I think the movie is more likely based on the toy, like an in-world live action adaptation of the kids' show that Andy grew up watching in the 90's, kind of like Detective Pikachu or Sonic the Hedgehog were live action adaptations of earlier animated characters.

Wouldn't be shocked to see an adult Andy taking his kid to see it.

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The quote from the director that's on like half this page, including the post directly above yours says otherwise.

Buck Compton said:

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ABATTBQ11 said:

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jeffk said:

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It makes a ton more sense that this is the movie the toy was based on rather than all of the Toy Story films taking place in a world with interstellar travel.

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I think the movie is more likely based on the toy, like an in-world live action adaptation of the kids' show that Andy grew up watching in the 90's, kind of like Detective Pikachu or Sonic the Hedgehog were live action adaptations of earlier animated characters.

Wouldn't be shocked to see an adult Andy taking his kid to see it.

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The quote from the director that's on like half this page, including the post directly above yours says otherwise.

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No it doesn't.

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Per the director:

"'Set in the world of Toy Story' is kind of weird. Another way to get at it, it's a straightforward sci-fi action film about the Buzz Lightyear character," MacLane, who co-directed Finding Dory and multiple Toy Story shorts for Pixar, tells EW over Zoom. "In the Toy Story universe, it would be like a movie that maybe Andy would have seen, that would have made him want a Buzz Lightyear figure."

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He says, "it would be like a movie that maybe Andy would have seen, that would have made him want a Buzz Lightyear figure." He only says that to explain the concept of what, "Set in the world of Toy Story," means. That's not a definitive explanation of plot, and it isn't, "It's a movie Andy saw that made him want to get a Buzz Lightyear figure."

The Toy Story franchise has a solid appeal for kids and is first and foremost about toys, but it also has a thing for continuity and poignant commentary on growing up and growing old targeted towards adults. From Toy Story 2 and on, you're always watching 2 different movies, one for kids and one for adults. It wouldn't shock me if they made a movie within a movie and pointed to how even though we grow up, we still enjoy many of the same things we did as kids, but often in different ways. Andy would also fit into the early 30's crowd with disposable income that recent live action movies and franchises like Transformers are made to nostalgically appeal to, so it would make a lot of sense.

So your contention is that this is a movie based on the Buzz toy that Andy got as a child instead of the original toy being made to represent a movie character? So basically just a chicken/egg argument?

Either way makes sense to me. Having Andy make a cameo either as a child or an adult would really be the only way to make that distinction obvious right?

TCTTS said:

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Well, would you look at that.

In other words... the thing most of us have been saying turned out to be correct, while the thing that never made any sense was incorrect.

Who would have thought!

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buuuuuut, it just says "like a movie"...what if that movie is actually a biopic about the real buzz lightyear?

seriously though, isn't there a rubber ball in all of the pixar movies that least implies it is all one shared universe.

Some people on this thread need to have a that Shatner SNL appearance truth spoken to them... taking cartoon movies way too seriously.