

A subplot in the second film featuring another Buzz Lightyear action figure (“Utility Belt Buzz Lightyear”) and an Evil Emperor Zurg action figure helped spur a Buzz Lightyear ABC/UPN spin-off cartoon series set in the universe where he’s an actual spaceman. The plot of the first film is about Buzz Lightyear figuring out that he’s a toy and not an actual spaceman. Buzz Lightyear is one of the protagonists of the Disney-Pixar franchise Toy Story, which is about the secret life of toys apparently they’ve all got souls, even if you make one out of a fork, pipe cleaners and crayon, as we learned in Toy Story 4. Who is Buzz Lightyear? Well, there are a few ways to answer this. The who, what, and why, however, are deceptively complicated to answer.

The “where” is every cinema Disney can get it on. Let’s try to get to the bottom of it with the classic detective questions: Who, what, when, where, why? The “when” is June 17, 2022. Rather, it’s the CGI astronaut adventurer Buzz Lightyear. There is a movie coming out starring Buzz Lightyear, but not the CGI astronaut adventurer toy Buzz Lightyear. I have seldom been so confused by something so simple as I have been by this trailer.
