Understandably, it also came as a bit of a shock when news broke that Allen wouldn’t be voicing Buzz this time around - that the character would be played by Chris Evans, instead. So when Pixar and Disney announced that Buzz was getting his own feature film, entitled simply Lightyear, fans were naturally overjoyed. Voiced by Tim Allen, Buzz is goofy, optimistic, relatable, and undeniably lovable.

We certainly made a big deal when it finally showed up in a Lightyear trailer.It’s hard to think of an animated character that is more iconic than Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear. That line delivery is definitely one of the best Buzz Lightyear moments in the Toy Story franchise, so the new movie had to explain why it mattered.

Tim Allen has been synonymous with Buzz Lightyear, to the point where Lightyear star Chris Evans spoke about the importance of doing the line “To infinity and beyond” justice because of how famous Allen made it. Patricia Heaton isn’t alone in this confusion. Based on the movie’s performance with audiences, those sequels are unlikely to happen. It’s basically Pixar’s excuse to make their own sci-fi adventure movie, with an ending that set up potential sequels. As we pointed out in our Lightyear review, the movie succeeds because it found a clever way into the Toy Story mythology, delivering to Pixar fans the movie that young Andy watched as a child that made him want to own a Buzz Lightyear toy in the first place. This was posted on Twitter in a follow up to Patricia Heaton wondering why Chris Evans is voicing Buzz Lightyear in the new film Lightyear, and not Home Improvement star Tim Allen, as the actor has done for decades.

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