
Just as Toy Story 2 introduced Woody's Roundup, the 1950s children's television show that inspired the Woody cowboy doll, Lightyear is the movie within the Toy Story universe that inspired the Buzz Lightyear action figure coveted by young Andy in the franchise's first film.

"I've always been curious about Buzz's world, like, the world of the Space Rangers and the world of Star Command." "Buzz is a character I've always been pretty interested in and connected to, since I started on Toy Story 2 as an animator, and I've always been kind of drawn to him," MacLane told ET in a recent interview.
