10 Reasons Why Lightyear Failed

10. It Wasn't About OUR Buzz Lightyear

One of the more blatant reasons that Lightyear didn't make a dent with the millions and millions of Toy Story fans is that it isn't about our Buzz Lightyear.

Fans of course love the character, but the version presented here - a human astronaut voiced by Chris Evans - is such a far cry from the charmingly neurotic toy we know and love that he's near-unrecognisable beyond the perfunctory invocations of the character's classic one-liners.

Knowing that the goofy Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story films was inspired by a relatively po-faced version of the character from a 1995 movie isn't as appealing as Pixar thinks, and simply, fans are only really interested in the Buzz they've grown up with.

Had Lightyear been styled instead in the vein of the Star Command movie and TV show, with Buzz presented similarly to his Toy Story self, than it surely would've had an easier time getting people's attention.

As it stands, Disney and Pixar vastly overestimated the general audience's interest in a more realistic proto-Buzz.