Buzz Lightyear of Star Command | |
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Genre | Science fiction comedy |
Created by | Mark McCorkle Bob Schooley |
Based on | Toy Story by Pixar |
Voices of | Patrick Warburton Stephen Furst Larry Miller Neil Flynn Nicole Sullivan Wayne Knight Frank Welker Adam Carolla Diedrich Bader |
Narrated by | Gary Owens (opening narration) |
Theme music composer | Adam Berry |
Composer | Adam Berry |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 62 [a] |
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Executive producers | Mark McCorkle Bob Schooley Tad Stones |
Running time | 22–24 minutes |
Production companies | Walt Disney Television Animation Pixar Animation Studios (co-production) |
Original release | |
Network | UPN ABC |
Release | October 2, 2000 – January 13, 2001 |
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an American animated science fiction comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and co-produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is a spin-off of Pixar's Toy Story franchise and presents a fictionalized account of the in-universe character Buzz Lightyear. The series was preceded by the direct-to-video film Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, [1] and aired on UPN and ABC from October 2, 2000, to January 13, 2001, as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning and Disney's One Too programming blocks. [2] While the series is 2D animated, Pixar animated the CGI opening title sequence at the beginning of each episode. The program was animated by Walt Disney Television Animation (Australia) Pty., Ltd., Tama Productions, Sunwoo Entertainment, Sunmin Image Pictures, Sae Hahn Productions, Hana Animation, Jade Animation, Wang Film Productions and Toon City.
Developed by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle, who would later create Kim Possible for Disney Channel, the series follows the adventures of Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear. The character first appeared as an action figure (voiced by Tim Allen) in the 1995 film Toy Story . Patrick Warburton voices the character in the television series. A video game of the same name based on the series was released in 2000.
This was the last Toy Story production for nearly a decade until the release of Toy Story 3 in 2010.
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is set in the far future. Capital Planet is the forefront of the Galactic Alliance, a peaceful union of various planets, home to various alien species that coexist in harmony. Star Command is a peacekeeping organization consisting of Space Rangers, who investigate threats to galactic peace. The primary enemy of Star Command is the Evil Emperor Zurg, an intergalactic crime boss and warlord that rules Planet Z, with an empire of heavily armed robots and slave races forced to work in opposition to the Galactic Alliance.
The series follows Buzz Lightyear, an experienced and famous Space Ranger who takes a crew of rookies under his wing as he investigates criminal activity across the galaxy and attempts to thwart Zurg's evil plots to overthrow the universe.
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No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code | Network |
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1 | "The Torque Armada" | Don MacKinnon | Gary Sperling | October 2, 2000 | 003 | UPN |
After Torque’s (voiced by Brad Garrett) arrest at the hands of team Lightyear, Zurg's Hornets spring Torque from a prison transport and have him brought to Planet Z. Zurg fuses a device that allows Torque to clone himself, and the criminal uses his new posse to wreak havoc in the space lanes. After team Lightyear manages to undo their trouble, they and other Space Rangers bring in Torque and his clones. | ||||||
2 | "Gravitina" | Victor Cook | Kevin Hopps & Tad Stones | October 3, 2000 | 004 | UPN |
Star Command is directly in the path of an asteroid field. Buzz and the Rangers respond to the emergency and start to destroy the asteroids, but they keep on coming. The asteroids appear to be under some power source that is aiming them at Star Command. Buzz and XR take off to find the source of the asteroid attack and Mira Nova and Booster stay behind to help Star Command. The source of the attack is an evil, female, big-headed alien known as Gravitina, the Mistress of Mass and she has a big crush on Buzz, thus holding Star Command hostage unless Buzz submits into marrying her. | ||||||
3 | "XL" | Don MacKinnon | Rick Gitelson | October 4, 2000 | 007 | UPN |
After a series of high tech robberies the team decides to put XR as bait to lure the robber who turns out to be a previous experimental robotic ranger XL (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait). Revenge driven, XL kidnaps Commander Nebula, and XR proves himself to Nebula by putting a stop to his manic predecessor. | ||||||
4 | "Little Secrets" | Victor Cook | Nick DuBois | October 5, 2000 | 020 | UPN |
While searching for a spy, Mira, Booster and XR also have to keep Buzz from learning secrets they are keeping from him. | ||||||
5 | "Inside Job" | Victor Cook | Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster | October 6, 2000 | 026 | UPN |
Buzz teams up with Space Ranger Flash Flemming to stop the assassination of the Ambassador of Gargantia. Booster feels pathetic compared to the new recruit, only to discover Flemming is actually a robot suit of Gartantian rebels seeking to kill the Ambassador. | ||||||
6 | "NOS-4-A2" | Victor Cook | Michael A. Medlock | October 8, 2000 | 001 | UPN |
After Team Lightyear rescues a mysterious box from a cargo freighter that is under attack by Warp Darkmatter, they bring the box back to Star Command, unaware that they are actually falling right into Zurg's evil trap. The box contains a robotic energy vampire named NOS-4-A2 (voiced by Craig Ferguson), who was created by Zurg to destroy Star Command using his ability to control any machine he bites, including XR! | ||||||
7 | "The Planet Destroyer" | Don MacKinnon | John Behnke, Rob Humphrey, & Jim Peterson | October 9, 2000 | 006 | UPN |
Zurg has created a Planet Destroying super weapon capable of destroying planets from great distances, including Mira's home world of Tangea. Now Team Lightyear has to find it, before the Alliance signs over their lives to Zurg. Mira meanwhile is strangely certain her people are still alive. | ||||||
8 | "The Beasts of Karn" | Steve Loter | Ken Koonce & Michael Merton | October 10, 2000 | 010 | UPN |
A scientist on planet Karn asks for Buzz's help to stop the poaching of native animals. Booster is kidnapped by said poacher, mistaking him for a rare species. | ||||||
9 | "Tag Team" | Victor Cook | Greg Johnson | October 11, 2000 | 016 | UPN |
Buzz and Warp Darkmatter discover that they were given implants years ago, so the pair team up to discover who gave them the implants and why. They encounter three scientists of an alien race who analyze Buzz and Warp's pasts to determine the utility and purpose of good and evil. | ||||||
10 | "The Main Event" | Victor Cook | Gary Sperling | October 12, 2000 | 019 | UPN |
Buzz and XR find themselves on a barren planet, fighting a series of gladiators. | ||||||
11 | "The Return of XL" | Steve Loter | Cade Chilcoat | October 13, 2000 | 008 | UPN |
XL kidnaps XR and steals a vital component of his. Feeling depressed and neglected, XR runs off to Tradeworld in an attempt to be properly fixed, but only runs into more trouble when XL decides to finish the job. | ||||||
12 | "Lost in Time" | Steve Loter | Bill Motz & Bob Roth | October 14, 2000 | 002 | ABC |
When Buzz travels into a Black Hole, Zurg uses it to trick him into thinking he is in the future and collect all of his secrets in his latest attempt to destroy Star Command. Zurg nearly succeeds as he determines a hidden weakness on the space station, and Buzz's team manage to escape and help him break free from the illusion before Star Command is obliterated. | ||||||
13 | "Strange Invasion" | Don MacKinnon | Greg Johnson | October 15, 2000 | 027 | UPN |
Team Lightyear are pushed into the unexplored regions of the galaxy by a supernova and crash on planet Roswell. Booster befriends one of the locals, Becky, forcing a prison break. | ||||||
14 | "The Taking of PC-7" | Don MacKinnon | Kevin Hopps | October 16, 2000 | 018 | UPN |
Booster and XR take Torque to prison planetoid PC-7, but Torque engineers a jailbreak with the help of a personality changing helmet. | ||||||
15 | "Mindwarp" | Steve Loter | Elizabeth Stonecipher | October 17, 2000 | 017 | UPN |
Klerm kidnaps Buzz and uses his mind to create an army of Slam-Bots. | ||||||
16 | "Mira's Wedding" | Don MacKinnon | Michael Price | October 18, 2000 | 024 | UPN |
Lord Angstrom (voiced by David Warner) arranges Mira to wed Fop Doppler as a distraction for his plot to overthrow King Nova (voiced by John O'Hurley). | ||||||
17 | "Panic on Bathyos" | Victor Cook | Cade Chilcoat | October 19, 2000 | 031 | UPN |
Team Lightyear is sent to Bathyos to find who is helping smugglers steal fusion crystals. | ||||||
18 | "Shiv Katall" | Victor Cook | Bill Motz & Bob Roth | October 20, 2000 | 015 | UPN |
Brain Pod #13 defects from Zurg's service and Zurg either wants him back or destroyed. He calls on the galaxy's most infamous man hunter Shiv Katall to get the job done. When word gets to Star Command that Katall has been called, Buzz goes after him and dismisses the rest of the team. Mira doesn't like this and decides to intervene in the mission and find Katall. When the team does locate Katall, he isn't quite the villain they thought him to be. | ||||||
19 | "Rookie of the Year" | Victor Cook | Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster | October 21, 2000 | 052 | ABC |
Mira, Booster, and XR are all nominated for the "Rookie of the Year" award. Zurg steals a new matter transporter whilst the three become more competitive with each other to impress Buzz the most, leaving them in more than a sticky situation. | ||||||
20 | "Stress Test" | Don MacKinnon | Mark Palmer | October 22, 2000 | 048 | UPN |
After working himself too hard, Buzz is forced to take a vacation to Rhizome, forcing to give up all weaponry. Which puts Star Command in trouble when Zurg uses it as the site to launch his Hyper Death Ray at Star Command. | ||||||
21 | "A Zoo Out There" | Don MacKinnon | Drew Daywalt & David Schneider | October 23, 2000 | 047 | UPN |
Ambassadors are being kidnapped from Capital Planet and Buzz must locate them. | ||||||
22 | "Root of Evil" | Steve Loter | Brian Swenlin | October 24, 2000 | 028 | UPN |
Team Lightyear investigates mutant vegetables that are terrorizing planet Jo-Ad, which come from Booster's family farm. Unaware, Zurg has some help from Booster's best friend. | ||||||
23 | "Super Nova" | Don MacKinnon | John Behnke, Rob Humphrey, and Jim Peterson | October 25, 2000 | 053 | UPN |
To succeed in their latest mission, Mira uses her ghosting powers to walk into a Crystallic Fusion Generator. She emerges as a glowing, hyper-active ranger. Despite her father's warnings on how dangerous this new power is, Mira begins using her new powers to the extreme, eventually falling into the temptation of taking on Zurg by herself. | ||||||
24 | "Downloaded" | Victor Cook | James W. Bates | October 26, 2000 | 039 | UPN |
While trying to preserve the Galactic Alliance's supercomputer from a hit by Darkmatter, XR downloads all the Galactic Alliance files into his brain, making himself a target. | ||||||
25 | "The Plasma Monster" | Don MacKinnon | Michael A. Medlock | October 27, 2000 | 013 | UPN |
While escorting a dignitary's daughter for Star Command training, the team encounters a plasma monster (voiced by Michael Showalter) who, in fact, is Plasma Boy, the girl's boyfriend. Things turn serious after a smitten Booster starts a fight with him. | ||||||
26 | "Wirewolf" | Steve Loter | Ken Koonce, Michael Merton, & Richard Mueller | October 28, 2000 | 011 | ABC |
Space Ranger Ty Parsec helps Buzz fight NOS-4-A2, but a bite from the energy vampire and the radiation on Canis Lunis turns Ty into the Wirewolf. Buzz and his team face the Wirewolf as they work out how to free Ty from his newfound curse. | ||||||
27 | "The Crawling Flesh" | Steve Loter | Michael A. Medlock | October 29, 2000 | 036 | UPN |
Zurg mutates all of Star Command into blob monsters, who must defeat Zurg despite their transformation. | ||||||
28 | "Dirty Work" | Victor Cook | Bob Forward, Ken Koonce, & Michael Merton | October 30, 2000 | 023 | UPN |
When demand becomes high, Cosmo (voiced by Paul Rugg) orders a K-5000 Uni-appliance that multi-tasks all of the kitchen's jobs for his diner. However, when NOS-4-A2 bites it, the appliance seizes entire control of the diner. Team Lightyear, much to Buzz's chagrin, has to rely on Professor Triffid's unique genetic technologies to return the diner back to normal. | ||||||
29 | "The Slayer" | Steve Loter | Ken Koonce and Michael Merton | October 31, 2000 | 051 | UPN |
Buzz and XR team up with a young street girl named Savy SL2 to track down and stop NOS-4-A2 when he goes on a monstrous predatory hunt for robots on Trade World. | ||||||
30 | "The Lightyear Factor" | Steve Loter | Julia Lewald | November 1, 2000 | 056 | UPN |
Zurg accidentally opens a portal to an alternate universe and unleashes an evil, tyrannical Buzz Lightyear onto his world. Now with the evil Buzz in his dimension, the heroic Buzz must fend off the doppelgangers of his friends who want to see Buzz Lightyear destroyed while his team must find a way to survive the new rise of evil. | ||||||
31 | "Clone Rangers" | Steve Loter | Greg Weisman | November 2, 2000 | 032 | UPN |
Zurg creates clones of Buzz, Mira and Booster. However the Brain Pods create the clones at Age 12. Now Team Lightyear has to deal with their villainous matches on the theme park planet Corny World. | ||||||
32 | "Bunzel Fever" | Steve Loter | Jules Dennis, Elizabeth Stonecipher, and Jess Winfield | November 3, 2000 | 044 | UPN |
Team Lightyear has been running themselves ragged trying to catch Torque and XL. However Booster is asked to return home for the Bunzel harvest. Against his grandfather's advice, Booster continues the investigation, catching Bunzel fever mutating him into a feral beast. | ||||||
33 | "Rescue Mission" | Don MacKinnon | Alexx Van Dyne | November 4, 2000 | 014 | ABC |
Buzz is shrunk down so that he can assist them against a threat. However, the threat turns out to be the rest of Team Lightyear, who are stuck helping Cosmo pass a health inspection from Bugs, the people who contacted Buzz. | ||||||
34 | "Devolutionaries" | Chris Rutowski and Don MacKinnon | Doug Langdale | November 5, 2000 | 043 | UPN |
Team Lightyear visits Binipinardia, where they discover Warp Darkmatter is de-evolving people with a new gas. Now XR must lead his de-evolved team to take Warp down. | ||||||
35 | "Head Case" | Don MacKinnon | Jess Winfield | November 6, 2000 | 035 | UPN |
When XR is damaged in a battle, XL kidnaps him while he is being repaired. Now with XL posing as XR to plant a bomb inside Star Command, XR must use XL's body to stop him. | ||||||
36 | "The Yukari Imprint" | Victor Cook | Cade Chilcoat | November 7, 2000 | 038 | UPN |
Buzz and his team offer to protect the ambassador and his delegates. However Booster buys an egg, believing it will hatch into a cute pet. Unaware said egg ends up mass producing miniaturized Booster clones. | ||||||
37 | "The Shape Stealer" | Don MacKinnon | Story by : Greg Johnson Teleplay by : Bill Motz and Bob Roth | November 8, 2000 | 040 | UPN |
Zurg creates an assassin capable of taking over other people's bodies and sends it after Buzz. Unfortunately, it takes control of Buzz and later Star Command. | ||||||
38 | "Star Crossed" | Victor Cook | Greg Weisman | November 9, 2000 | 042 | UPN |
When one of Zurg's brain pods defects, he hires a bounty hunter, Mira's ex-boyfriend, to bring it back. | ||||||
39 | "Haunted Moon" | Don MacKinnon | Mark Palmer | November 10, 2000 | 060 | UPN |
Buzz and his team fight a ghost trying to disrupt their mission to save a planet. | ||||||
40 | "Star Smasher" | Steve Loter | Brian Swenlin | November 11, 2000 | 009 | ABC |
One of the Little Green Men goes missing during an attack and Zurg plans to use his knowledge to create a Flux Gravity Capacitor. With it, Zurg plans to collapse the sun Capital Planet orbits into a black hole to destroy it and Star Command completely. | ||||||
41 | "Stranger Invasion" | Steve Loter | Michael Merton | November 12, 2000 | 050 | UPN |
Booster gets in trouble when he is discovered to still be in contact with Becky from Roswell, even though Roswell is still an undeveloped world. Around that time Zurg invades Roswell and takes it over, with plans to build and deploy a surprise attack fleet to conquer Capital Planet. When Buzz decides to take Booster with him to Roswell's system on a patrol mission to cheer him up, they discover this, and the two must work with Roswell's military at foiling Zurg's plan of converting the planet into a massive duplicate of Planet Z. | ||||||
42 | "Eye of the Tempest" | Victor Cook | Robert Askin | November 13, 2000 | 034 | UPN |
Mad scientist Spyro Lepton (Voiced by Ryan Stiles) uses a distress signal to lure Buzz into a trap so he can enact his revenge. With his daughter's help, Buzz tries to stop the newly named Von Madman before his corrupted new form gets the better of him. | ||||||
43 | "Revenge of the Monsters" | Steve Loter | Nick DuBois | November 14, 2000 | 045 | UPN |
XL and NOS-4-A2 infiltrate Star Command to turn Ty Parsec back into the Wirewolf. With NOS-4-A2 now in control of Planet Z converting most of Star Command and the Galactic Alliance into Wirewolves too, XR and Buzz must convince XL to be a space ranger again. The unlikely trio must work together in a final battle against the robotic vampire and his cybernetic werewolves. | ||||||
44 | "Lone Wolf" | Denise Koyama | Eddie Guzelian | November 15, 2000 | 054 | UPN |
Because of lack of evidence, a criminal is about to walk free, making the team depressed. Buzz tells them about how in his initial years when he got depressed due to a similar incident and what inspired him to rejoin Star Command as a Space Ranger. | ||||||
45 | "Planet of the Lost" | Steve Loter | Jan Strnad | November 16, 2000 | 061 | UPN |
While investigating the disappearance of ships around a planet which looks like a desert but shows a significant amount of technology, the team ends up stranded along with all the people who crashed there with Flynn (voiced by Mark Hamill) as their leader, but on detailed inspection they realize that the Shriekers that caused the crash only wanted to trap people and mystery follows. | ||||||
46 | "Revenge of the Raenoks" | Steve Loter | Adam Armus & Nora Kay Foster | November 17, 2000 | 066 | UPN |
Booster is taken prisoner by the Raenoks, who plan to use him for a prisoner exchange to get their leader, Varg, back. Buzz and Mira set out to rescue him, using a new cloaking device developed by the LGMs. | ||||||
47 | "Enemy Without a Face" | Victor Cook | Elizabeth Stonecipher | November 18, 2000 | 030 | ABC |
Team Lightyear is caught between two races who have been at war for 900 years. Team Lightyear discovers it is actually the work of aggression-inducing parasites, which make their way into Star Command, forcing XR to save the day. | ||||||
48 | "The Starthought" | Don MacKinnon | Lisa Klink | November 19, 2000 | 021 | UPN |
Star Command is given a new ship controlled by the mind of the pilot, but Zurg soon takes it for himself, with Team Lightyear and especially Mira having to work out how to stop him. | ||||||
49 | "Millennial Bugs" | Victor Cook | Nick DuBois | November 20, 2000 | 063 | UPN |
Zurg steals fossilized Millennial Bug eggs and attempts to hatch them. | ||||||
50 | "Conspiracy" | Steve Loter | Eddie Guzelian | November 21, 2000 | 033 | UPN |
The Gargantians pose as Buzz in an attempt to get the Galactic President assassinated during the signing of a historic peace initiative. An innocent Buzz is soon jailed for the crime and must break out of prison to find out who is setting him up. | ||||||
51 | "At Large on a Small Planet" | Don MacKinnon | Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster | November 23, 2000 | 058 | UPN |
Ambassador Ursona is kidnapped while on planet Gargantia, forcing Buzz and Booster to shrink down and find him to put a stop to the Gargantian militant movement once and for all. | ||||||
52 | "Sunquake" | Don MacKinnon | Eddie Guzelian | November 24, 2000 | 057 | UPN |
The evil Buzz from another dimension returns and teams up with Gravitina to besmirch Buzz's good name. | ||||||
53 | "Good Ol' Buzz" | Steve Loter | Leslie Nordman | November 25, 2000 | 022 | ABC |
A Buzz from 150 years in the future arrives to help save Mira from being killed. | ||||||
54 | "First Missions" | Victor Cook | Bill Motz & Bob Roth | November 26, 2000 | 059 | UPN |
While they are pinned down by Zurg's Hornets while protecting Professor Reddshift (voiced by Robert Picardo), to help boost Reddshift's confidence that Buzz will save them in time, Mira, Booster, and XR tell him the stories of when each of them first met Buzz; this inspires Reddshift to help Lightyear in a massive robot battle between Buzz and Zurg. | ||||||
55 | "Large Target" | Don MacKinnon | Story by : Tad Stones Teleplay by : Zach Stones | November 27, 2000 | 046 | UPN |
During a vacation XR impersonates Booster so he can gamble at a casino, but soon attracts more trouble than he was prepared for. | ||||||
56 | "War, and Peace and War" | Victor Cook | Gary Sperling | November 29, 2000 | 064 | UPN |
When the supremely powerful Guzelian tries to usher in a new era of peace, everyone is elated, except for Buzz and Zurg, who agree to work together to find Guzelian's true intentions. Both hero and villain uncover and put a stop to an impending invasion by Guzelian's race, the Heed. | ||||||
57 | "Return to Karn" | Victor Cook | Bill Motz & Bob Roth | December 2, 2000 | 037 | ABC |
Mira and Madame President are shot down over planet Karn and must elude Zurg as he hunts for them. | ||||||
58 | "Speed Trap" | Steve Loter | John Behnke, Rob Humphrey & Jim Peterson | December 9, 2000 | 029 | ABC |
During traffic duty, Team Lightyear finds a ship traveling towards a sun, threatening to destroy it on impact. | ||||||
59 | "Holiday Time" | Victor Cook | Mark Palmer | December 16, 2000 | 062 | ABC |
Buzz and the gang must help Santa (voiced by Earl Boen) to save the holiday from the Evil Emperor Zurg. | ||||||
60 | "Opposites Attract" | Don MacKinnon | Mark Palmer | December 23, 2000 | 041 | ABC |
Gravitina causes Buzz's head to swell to enormous size, like hers, hoping this will cause Buzz to fall in love with her. | ||||||
61 | "Ancient Evil" | Steve Loter | Jim Staahl & Jim Fisher | January 6, 2001 | 049 | ABC |
A group of LGMs awaken the ancient space mummy Natron and Zurg insists Warp bring the mummy to him. With Warp reduced to an old man, Buzz insists on helping his old friend, and the two former partners team up to defeat the ancient evil. | ||||||
62 | "42" | Don MacKinnon | John Behnke, Rob Humphrey & Jim Peterson | January 13, 2001 | 025 | ABC |
A group of Valkyrans attempt to seize control of a cargo ship. At the same time, 42 develops her own personality, and a relationship with XR. |
The series was aired during UPN's Disney's One Too programming block from October 2000 to August 2003. One episode, "Super Nova", aired twice during its original run. It also aired on Disney Channel from June 5, 2006, to May 16, 2008, when it was taken off the air in the U.S. Two episodes, "Conspiracy" and "Inside Job", were rarely seen after the September 11 attacks. The show also aired on Toon Disney from 2003 to 2007 as well as on the network's Jetix block for a brief time in 2004.
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Events in 1954 in animation.
Events in 1953 in animation.
Lightyear is a 2022 American animated science-fiction action-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Presented as a film within a film, Lightyear is a spin-off of the Toy Story film series and centers on the character Buzz Lightyear, who appears in Toy Story as an action figure of his character in Lightyear. The film was directed by Angus MacLane and produced by Galyn Susman, from a screenplay and story written by MacLane and Jason Headley, both of whom co-wrote the latter with Matthew Aldrich. It stars Chris Evans as the voice of the title character, with Keke Palmer, Peter Sohn, Taika Waititi, Dale Soules, James Brolin, and Uzo Aduba in supporting roles. The film follows Lightyear who, after being marooned on the hostile planet T'Kani Prime with his commander and crew, tries to find a way back home while encountering a threat to their safety.
Toy Story 5 is an upcoming American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The fifth main installment in the Toy Story film series and the sequel to Toy Story 4 (2019), it is written and directed by Andrew Stanton. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen are set to reprise their respective roles of Sheriff Woody and Buzz Lightyear from the first four main films, with Anna Faris joining the cast. In Toy Story 5, the toys have to face off against electronic devices.