Lightyear to reveal origin of Buzz Lightyear is series of components assembled in a factory

The hugely anticipated Toy Story prequel Lightyear is set to reveal the origin story of Buzz Lightyear.

Beginning in a plastics moulding company in Kansas we see Buzz’s face arms and legs being formed from plastic and then quickly hardened. The White plastic is then spray-painted in Buzz’s familiar green and white colours. Meanwhile, lighting components and speakers are created in different factories and shipped to the Kansas factory, where they are inserted in the newly created Buzz Lightyears.

Finally, the individual dolls are all shipped to a packing facility in New York State where they are packed and stored in a warehouse in preparation for orders into retail.

“It’s always exciting to peek behind the scenes of any kind of manufacturing process,” explained Lightyear director Angus MacLane.

“But with the manufacture of a toy, it becomes a little bit magical.”

He went on to explain why he wanted to make the film.

“Buzz is iconic. He’s a toy that millions of children have played with over the last twenty-five years. To be able to tell his origin story is a privilege.”

He also explained why he fought against fictionalising Buzz’s origin story and telling an exciting adventure story in space.

“This is a film about truth. The truth of Buzz Lightyear is that his origin story is of a series of plastic mouldings that are assembled in a factory. I want people to see that, not to be seduced by the lie of an exciting space adventure.”

Lightyear follows another hugely successful Disney origin story – Cruella – which revealed that the iconic character’s origin was in a series of sketches created in the Disney art studios in the late fifties.