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Buzz Lightyear finally gets the origin story his toy never told.

Disney and Pixar dropped the first teaser trailer for “Lightyear” on October 27, 2021, and it landed with a very specific pitch: this isn’t the plastic action figure from Andy’s toy box, it’s the flesh-and-blood Space Ranger that toy was modeled after. The studio is aiming the film at theaters on June 17, 2022, with Chris Evans stepping into the role long associated with Tim Allen’s voice work in the “Toy Story” series. Director Angus MacLane, a Pixar veteran who co-directed “Finding Dory,” built the entire concept around one question about the fictional in-universe movie that made a kid want the toy in the first place.

• Chris Evans voices Buzz Lightyear, taking over from Tim Allen, in a film framed as the “real” human Space Ranger behind the “Toy Story” toy rather than a continuation of the toy’s storyline.
• Angus MacLane directs and Galyn Susman produces “Lightyear,” which is set for a June 17, 2022 theatrical release.
• The 1-minute, 33-second teaser is scored to David Bowie’s “Starman” and introduces a robotic cat companion named Sox, ending on Buzz’s unfinished catchphrase, “To infinity and…”

The Premise Behind the Teaser

MacLane didn’t want a wink-at-the-camera parody of the toy or a rehash of jokes from the “Toy Story” films. He described the goal in plain terms: “If Andy saw a movie that got him excited about getting a Buzz Lightyear toy, what would that movie look like?” That framing turns “Lightyear” into an in-universe artifact — the blockbuster that theoretically existed inside the “Toy Story” world years before Andy ever unwrapped the action figure. It’s a straightforward sci-fi adventure, not a comedy riffing on toy-store shelves.

That approach explains why the teaser plays it completely serious. There’s no joke about laser-light gimmicks or wind-up mechanisms — just a pilot, a mission, and a hostile planet. Fans hoping for callbacks to Woody, Jessie, or Andy’s bedroom won’t find them here, because this film exists one level removed from the toys entirely.

Actual Content of the Footage

The trailer opens on Buzz suiting up for launch before cutting to him piloting an experimental spacecraft on a tight slingshot maneuver around the sun. From there it drops him onto unfamiliar, hostile alien terrain alongside a handful of unfamiliar companions, building toward a shot of Buzz staring down his own classic green-and-white Space Ranger suit — the exact design later mass-produced as the toy generations of kids know. David Bowie’s “Starman” plays underneath the entire sequence, giving the footage a widescreen, almost retro-cool tone that leans into the film’s throwback sci-fi inspirations rather than kids’-movie whimsy.

The one character explicitly named in the material is Sox, a robotic ginger cat who tags along with Buzz. MacLane kept his comments about the character brief but pointed in a specific direction, teasing that Sox is “very funny” — a hint that the film’s comic relief will come from the supporting cast rather than from Buzz himself.

“If Andy saw a movie that got him excited about getting a Buzz Lightyear toy, what would that movie look like?”

Closing on the Catchphrase

The teaser’s final beat is its cleanest hook: Buzz and a fellow ranger start to deliver the line “To infinity and…” before the footage cuts away to the title card, withholding the word every viewer is already saying in their head. It’s a small piece of trailer craft, but it does the job of tying the new, self-serious sci-fi film directly back to the four words that made the toy a merchandising phenomenon in the first place.

Pixar has used teaser drops like this before to build a full marketing rollout — a strategy visible across other recent studio reveals, from Marvel’s first teaser for “Moon Knight” to the title unveiling for Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”. Expect a fuller trailer with dialogue, plot details, and Sox’s actual jokes as June 2022 gets closer, since this first look was built to sell a mood and a voice change, not the story itself.