{"id":206865,"date":"2021-03-30T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=206865"},"modified":"2025-02-16T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T22:21:08","slug":"buzz-lightyear-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/buzz-lightyear-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Facts About Buzz Lightyear From Toy Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
Buzz Lightyear is famous as the spaceman who features in the Toy Story movies alongside Woody.\n
But how did this intergalactic hero end up on earth, and how did he become so famous in the Disney universe?\n
Here are 11 out of this world facts about Buzz Lightyear.\n
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Director John Lasseter wanted to create a character in the Toy Story universe with the same personality of a G.I Joe type of character, being a hero who saves the day, but he wanted a more modern appearance.\n
There weren\u2019t many space characters at the time, so the idea was born to create a character with a G.I. Joe personality, but with a space ranger look.\n
The outfit design was based on the real Apollo 11 astronauts, with the skullcaps, white suits, and clear helmets.\n
It is said that the purple and green on Buzz\u2019s iconic outfit were the choice of Lasseter’s wife.\n
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Buzz Lightyear\u2019s name came from the Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.\n
The character was originally called Luna Larry, but the producers thought that the name sounded a bit too wacky for the character they wanted to portray.\n
After this name change, Pixar producers looked at different space terms to incorporate in the name, and Lightyear was chosen.\n
They then decided to name him after Buzz Aldrin as an homage to the second person to walk on the Moon.\n Buzz Aldrin even took a Buzz Lightyear toy to one of his speeches at NASA to showcase his links to the character.\n Aldrin has never received any endorsement fees for the use of his name.\n This might not have been obvious until the end of Toy Story 2, where Buzz shows how love-struck he is by Jessie.\n But Buzz is attracted to her adventurous personality, and throughout the Toy Story films, he looks out for Jessie and cares for her when she has her panic attacks.\n This affection is shown even more so when Buzz accidentally gets put into Spanish mode, where he refers to Jessie as “my desert flower” and dances around her.\n The couple share many adventures throughout the movies, some more successful than others, but they continue to comfort and stick by each other\u2019s side.\n In the Toy Story movies, Buzz Lightyear has more than just one enemy.\n The likes of Sid Phillips and Stinky Pete are amongst them, but his true enemy is Emperor Zurg, also known as Evil Emperor Zurg.\n Within the Toy Story universe, Buzz Lightyear is archenemies with Zurg as he is the sworn enemy of the Galactic Alliance.\n Their relationship is simple, Zurg is the bad guy, and Buzz is the hero, but they have had several encounters in the movies, making the audience question their relationship.\n In Toy Story 2, Zurg expresses that he is Buzz\u2019s father, but this is most likely a distraction so he can attack Buzz.\n It is suggested that Disney wanted to make a reference to Star Wars, recreating the famous scene with Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, but it is not known if this is true or not.\n Buzz has many famous quotes in the Toy Story movies, but not all were used in the first Toy Story.\n As the movies developed, relationships changed, and the quotes evolved with the characters, but some of his most recognized quotes include;\n “I\u2019ve set my laser from stun to kill,” “my eyeballs could have been sucked from their sockets,” and “this is an intergalactic emergency!”\n The first figure of Buzz Lightyear made in 1995 was released before the Toy Story film, and it was programmed with four quotes.\n These included the famous “to infinity and beyond,” “I am Buzz Lightyear,” “I come in peace,” and “Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!”\n Possibly one of the most famous quotes of all time, “to infinity and beyond,” has been used in pop culture ever since the character made it famous.\n The quote originated from a book title “to infinity and beyond,” written by Eli Maor in 1991, 4 years before the release of Toy Story.\n The book explored the history of infinity and was perhaps the inspiration for Buzz\u2019s quote.\n It has also appeared on t-shirts, merchandise, and even in pop songs. The lyrics “to infinity and beyond” feature in the famous “Singles Ladies” track from Beyonc\u00e9.\n The phrase even made international news in 2008. A father and son duo attempted a 15 hour long treading water record attempt in the Atlantic Ocean, and used it as their safety phrase to keep track of each other.\n If you are familiar with the series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, then you will know that Buzz has an evil version of himself from another universe.\n The evil Buzz Lightyear is said to be even eviler than Emperor Zurg, and in this alternate galaxy takes on the role of Zurg as evil emperor.\n His first appearance is in the episode called “The Lightyear Factor,” where Zurg\u2019s brain pod opens a portal to an alternate universe.\n At the end of the episode, evil Buzz falls into the sun and is presumed dead until he makes an appearance at the end.\n Not only does Buzz feature as a main character within the Toy Story movies, but he has his own feature movie Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, which was released on August 8, 2000.\n This movie was based on a miniseries called “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command,” which was Pixar\u2019s first hand-drawn animated project.\n A video game based on the series was developed by Travellers Tales in 2000 and was released for PlayStation, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast, and Microsoft Windows.\n The game allows you to control Buzz in his race to defeat his enemies.\n Alongside other characters from Toy Story, Buzz has had the opportunity to feature in other Pixar shorts.\n The most memorable shorts he featured in are Hawaiian Vacation as well as Small Fry.\nHis significant other is Jessie.\n
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Buzz Lightyear\u2019s enemy is Emperor Zurg.\n
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The character of Buzz has over 15 quotes.\n
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Buzz\u2019s most famous quote is “To infinity and beyond.”\n
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There is an evil Buzz Lightyear.\n
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Buzz has his own feature film and TV spin-off.\n
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He has featured in other Pixar movies.\n
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