The Lightyear Timeline Makes NO Sense | Pixar Film Theory

I always figured that this movie would have served as the inspiration for the Buzz Lightyear toy line in the Toy Story universe, kind of like a movie in a movie situation.

Lightyear is a movie within a movie- He wasn't a "real" person he was a character that inspired the toys. Ya know, how movie tie-in toys usually get made.

The Lightyear movie is like the Woody's Roundup show in Toy Story, it's what the kids in-universe would watch. Then the toy companies made action figures based on the main character of this movie.

I love that they presented one of the possibilities which is LITERALLY the premise of the movie that the creative team has confirmed multiple times, and the movie opens with a title card stating, as told by CinemaCon attendees.

I think it was always meant to be a movie within a movie. When it was announced, Pixar said something along the lines of "Buzz Lightyear was meant to be a toy based off of a popular movie. We thought it was time we made that movie", so yeah. It was always meant to be fictional within the Pixar universe

Easy Lightyear is like the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command movie. A movie within a movie. So it happened in 1995. But there’s a more important issue at hand:Is Zurg Buzz Lightyear’s father?

The toy character is clearly based on what was potentially supposed to be a trilogy, because the story of Buzz Lightyear continues via video games in subsequent movies.

I was under the impression when the first trailer dropped that it was a movie within a movie and with these timeline issues I think that just confirms it. All must bend to the will of the great Pixar Theory! Love you guys!

They’ve confirmed that Lightyear is a movie in the Toy Story Universe that Andy saw that made him want a Buzz Lightyear toy in the first place. So the movie Lightyear does take place in the Pixar universe but it’s a movie in the movie universe that our characters can watch. Chris Evans even said that was the selling point for him when they offered him the role because he didn’t think anyone else should voice Buzz Lightyear besides Tim Allen. Lightyear will not break the Pixar theory

Don’t worry, it technically isn’t canon, it’s just a movie series within the Toy Story series that promoted Buzz Lightyear, just like the Woody show from Toy Story 2.

I assume Buzz not returning after 4 years made them assume the mission failed, and created the toy in memorial for Buzz.

I saw a trailer that said something along the lines of "in YEAR Andy saw a movie that inspired him to buy a special toy. This is that movie." Plus the first two trailers haveBuzz say something about being marooned on "This Planet." It's not Earth - even for the movie. None of this rant makes sense at all.

I could've sworn this was confirmed and thoroughly explained the same day the movie was announced, and I'm 90% sure it was explained again in an interview that same week where one of the creators said something along the lines of "I imagined what movie Andy saw that made him fall in love with the character of Buzz"

Guys, they literally confirmed that Light-year was the film that Andy saw in theaters that made him want the toy back when the film was first announced in 2019!!!! How have you missed that information for 3 years!!!

My personal theory is that Buzz (in Lightyear) was an astronaut in a young adult-ish movie, which is essentially what we watch, and then it got adapted and remade years later into some form of in-universe TV Show, Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command-esque thing. Then, that got more popular and famous than the original, which made the toy line happen, hence Toy Story. Then, at the end of the movie, in some kind of End Credits Scene type thing, we see Andy leaving the cinema (theatre to all you Americans), and saying to his mum (mom to you Americans) "I want one of those! Please please please Mom!" or something, and that's why he gets the toy for his birthday off of his mum. Edit: Oh dang, I hadn't finished the video yet

I've been describing it as Toy Story's Star Wars. Lightyear was released in theatres inside of the Pixar timeline and became one of the biggest hits

I'm fairly certain that the creators have specifically said that Lightyear is a fictional movie inside the Toy Story universe. I remember reading an interview where they said they were even going to avoid referencing Andy and the toys because it would take away from telling the story of Buzz Lightyear.

You missed that the opening of the movie literally says “this is that movie” in reference to it is the movie Andy saw that the buzzlightyear toy is from,

15:30 I love how it was put at the very beginning of the movie.

I’m hoping for the movie within a movie storyline myself. I want it to either start off with Andy going to see the movie with his dad or waking out at the end and we see Andy and his dad. Then taking your theory on Andy’s father, that would possibly the last thing or one of the last things they did together, which is why Buzz is so important to Andy and means so much, it represents a good last memory with his dad. I know your theory says that Andy got Woody from his dad, so I feel like this would be a good explanation as to why Buzz “took over” that role in Andy’s heart and mind