I mainly lurk and like things. But I also write fanfiction (which includes my magnum opus, Visions of Greed the second longest fic in the Once-ler fandom) and I've been trying my hand at fanart too. In addition, I also have a very large collection of fashion dolls along with other collectibles such as plushies including Webkinz and Neopets.
Fandoms: Lorax aka Once-ler fandom (my main hyperfixation ATM), Disney Fairies, Teen Titans 2003, Miraculous Ladybug, Hamtaro, Winx Club, W.I.T.C.H., Angel's Friends, Regal Academy, Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, American Dragon: Jake Long, Sabrina the Animated Series, H2O: Just Add Water
Overall Interests: Fanfiction: Both reading and writing with my favorite genres being: Angst, Whump, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, and Character Studies.
Fanart: I draw traditional but I like any medium.
Fashion Dolls: Barbie, Bratz, My Scene, Ever After High, and more. I also have a lot of dolls from my favorite fandoms. (If any of the above have a doll line there is a good chance I have something from it.)
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Today was Stella’s birthday, but she didn’t feel like celebrating.
A heavy gloom lingered over the palace. Even before sunset, the world already felt dim, cold and colorless. She knew her parents were trying their best for her, but every effort felt hollow, like decorations placed over cracks no one wanted to acknowledge. Her fingers curled around the ring on her hand, a gift from her mother four years ago, back when they had still felt like a family instead of fragments drifting apart. Stella pressed it tightly against her chest, searching for comfort in its familiar warmth.
School had been a disaster. She knew it, no matter how brightly she smiled or how carelessly she joked about it. The only reason she still had another chance was because the headmistress had shown her mercy. But now classes were over, excuses gone, and she could no longer avoid the truth that something inside her wasn’t right.
Somehow, admitting it made everything hurt even more.
The palace halls echoed with silence. Vast corridors that once felt grand now seemed lifeless and cold. Her mother had moved to another palace to care for Stella’s grandmother, while her father had spent days locked away in his office. Whenever Stella caught glimpses of him in passing, he looked different each time, like pieces of him were slowly disappearing.
Needing to breathe, Stella stepped outside. The sunlight touched her skin, and immediately she felt lighter. Warmth flowed through her veins like liquid gold, magic pulsing beneath her skin as naturally as blood. For a little while, she could almost pretend things were normal again.
On impulse, she wandered through the city of Solaria. She smiled for her citizens. Took pictures. Signed autographs. Accepted birthday wishes with practiced grace. Everywhere she went, people adored her. But every laugh felt rehearsed, every celebration staged, as though she were watching herself perform from far away.
Then night arrived. As the last traces of sunlight disappeared beyond the horizon, the warmth inside her faded with it. Her magic weakened rapidly, slipping through her grasp like sand. The emptiness came fast, leaving her cold and unsteady. She hated this feeling.
Her powers were born from both the sun and the moon, but only sunlight had ever come easily to her. Moon magic remained distant and unfamiliar, something delicate and elusive that she could never fully reach. Her mother had promised to teach her someday. But after the separation, her mother had become little more than a voice carried through occasional calls and formal visits, and Stella had never found the courage to ask again. By the time she returned to the palace, exhaustion pressed heavily against her chest. It was late, maybe nine or ten.
That was when she saw her father. For the first time in what felt like weeks.
He stood alone in one of the grand hallways, shoulders slumped beneath the weight of responsibilities Stella could not understand. He looked older than she remembered. His face was hollow, marked by exhaustion, his eyes dull and distant. Even his posture seemed unfamiliar, bent as though the world itself had become too heavy to carry.
Stella stopped cold. She didn’t recognize him. And when his tired eyes met hers, she realized with sudden horror that he barely seemed to recognize her either.
Something inside her cracked. Before he could say a word, Stella turned and ran. She fled through the endless corridors of the palace, tears blurring her vision as panic and heartbreak tangled painfully in her chest. This was not how she wanted her birthday to end. Not like this. Not alone in a home that no longer felt like home.
At last she reached the highest tower. Moonlight spilled across her face in pale silver. Her breathing trembled as she gripped the ring tightly in her hand, and suddenly it began to glow softly against her skin.
Magic answered her desperation before thought could catch up. And in the next instant, Stella vanished. She teleported away without direction, without destination, anywhere that might let her escape the ache in her chest and find even the smallest trace of warmth again.
.𖥔 ݁ 🛸 ˖ִ ࣪ ₊ 🪐.⊹ Why, based on clues given by the Toy Story movies, the Buzz Lightyear toy was not inspired by the movie "Lightyear" but actually by the cartoon "Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command" .𖥔 ݁ 🚀 ˖ִ ࣪ ₊
Buzz Lightyear was a character exclusively made for the movie Toy Story, which was about toys. In the movie he is a famous character from a franchise called "Buzz Lightyear", and he clearly is the protagonist and hero of this franchise, although it's main media is unclear. There are Buzz Lightyear toys, games, backpacks, bedsheets, posters, tons of different products, but we don't surely know what is the main media of this franchise.
Recently, in 2022, the movie Lightyear came out, describing itself as the reason for Andy to love his Buzz Lightyear toy. But the movie is extemely different than what is shown in Toy Story, and in the year 2000, many years before the release of Lightyear, a cartoon was made with the same premise, called Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. In this case, the show is extremely more accurate to the Toy Story franchise. In this post I would like to describe what brought me to this conclusion.
.𖥔 ݁ ⭐️ ˖ִ ࣪ ₊⊹ Children's cartoons on TV and how this affected their popularity during the 2000s:
Not all of this was shown in the Toy Story movie, but I decided to use this as a period context:
It would be easy to assume that the Buzz Lightyear franchise's main media is the videogame that Rex played but Andy didn't had a videogame at the first movie, and he was a huge fan of Buzz Lightyear already.
In the 90's and 2000's people watched TV quite often. There were schedules for TV programming and many people had routines that aligned with these schedules, for example to watch a specific program at a specific time. I can't speak for the north-american lifestyle, but in Brazil this was a very common part of the 90s/2000s. Children would rush home from school at lunchtime (when school ended) to get home in time to watch the new episode of their favorite cartoon. Since this program was on almost everyone's TV, all the children followed it and were collective fans, something that no longer happens today because of the Internet and streaming (everyone likes different things and belongs to different groups/fandoms). When a program was a hit with children on TV, the network would show advertisements for toys and products related to the program, which were probably manufactured after they noticed how successful the program was, and then finally exhibit movies about the same franchise. This happened a lot in Brazil with Monster High, Dragon Ball, Naruto, and others. Children would buy the products and show them to each other at school, like the craze for Pokemon and Naruto card collections that everyone bought and exchanged.
This was common until the 2010s, which also occurred with Miraculous Ladybug, Monster High, Ever After High (the cartoons were shown on the same TV network as the product commercials, most of the children watched the cartoons and then bought the products, taking them to school and showing them to their classmates who shared the same interest, this included toys). The same kind of excitement was not seen with movies though, at least not as often as with cartoons (but there are exceptions), because while cartoons were shown every day in people's homes, movies were shown mainly in theaters, then later bought in VHS or rented, which make Buzz less likely to be from a movie, based on his popularity.
Considering that:
All of Andy's friends at his birthday party seemed as excited as he was to get a Buzz Lightyear toy;
That Buzz Lightyear toy commercials were on TV as seen in Sid's house (on the very channel that Sid's father was watching, showing that this commercial was not restricted to just cartoon channels but also national broadcasters that broadcast programs for adults (it was a common practice to have a cartoon time in those channels during the 90s and 2000s));
That at first the number of Buzz Lightyear toys produced was not enough to meet demand (as stated by the Barbie tour guide), shows that this franchise was extremely popular;
That we see so many different Buzz Lightyear products at Al's Toy Barn that there is an entire aisle dedicated to just toys featuring the franchise's protagonist, and besides that, there are Zurg toys and magazine guides for the video game in separate aisles, meaning that they were so popular that they were all around the store (like Monster High and other franchises);
It is highly likely that Buzz Lightyear is a character from a cartoon that airs on a major channel network that everyone watches, thus bringing his show to the attention of children, which would explain the great popularity of his franchise.
Personal experience moment: My childhood was during the peak of Monster High in the 2010s. The cartoon was shown on the second most famous open network in Brazil (SBT) and basically all the girls watched it. On the same network, they showed commercials for the dolls, and since most of the girls were fans of the cartoon, they fell in love with the dolls. Soon at school, during the back-to-school period, notebooks, backpacks, and pencils with a Monster High theme began to appear (and in stationery stores). Monster High dolls started to appear in gift shops or toy stores. When a classmate arrived at school with a new Draculaura doll, it was a celebration for most and a source of envy for some. Since the internet was already at everyone's hands, there were online games, websites, review and unboxing videos, and makeup tutorials inspired by Monster High. In addition, we also bought collectible cards, children's makeup with a Monster High theme, and everything with the Monster High logo on it. The TV commercials were changing to more recent ones about new doll releases, there were entire aisles and shelves dedicated to Monster High in toy stores, Monster High themed bedrooms and birthday parties, and in 2014 we reached a point where Monster High was more popular than Barbie herself. Monster High movies also had a spot on the TV network that aired the cartoons, and we (children) rented and bought DVDs of these movies to watch at home. Monster High's fame lasted some years and was quite consistent, but over time it faded and today it has its own niche community. I think the same happened with Buzz Lightyear in the early 2000s, except that it's franchise lasted longer and became a classic, instead of only having a niche community.
.𖥔 ݁ 🛸 ˖ִ ࣪ ₊⊹ Cartoons based on toy lines:
Following the same line of reasoning, it is very common to create cartoons with the intention of selling toys. It is so common that many franchises start with the toys and then create media around them to serve as marketing for the main product. Mattel does this quite often with Barbie (and their Barbie movies), Monster High, Ever After High, but also My Little Pony, Yu-Gi-Oh, Beyblade, Pokemon, Trolls, Bratz, and more.
It's clear that the Buzz Lightyear toy is a big deal among children, and the commercials that air on TV are probably fueling this. In the 2000s, sensationalist toy commercials were very common, the kind that makes you beg your parents to get that toy for Christmas. There are many toys that are interactive like Buzz Lightyear was, that make noise, have lights and movement, for example, like the commercials for Barbie dolls *which by the way were also part of the Barbie movie collection!*. These toys were so hyped in the commercials that they made children beg to have one (even though after a while you got used to the functions of the toy you had and realized that it wasn't that big of a deal, even though it had all the functions shown in the commercial, lmao).
Barbies were always made first and the movies were the advertising for the toys, and from what we've seen in Toy Story, the Buzz Lightyear toys are the biggest product in their franchise, as their popularity is shown in the TV commercials and the Buzz Lightyear-only aisle at Al's Toy Barn. It is made clear that the Buzz action figures are the most popular and most purchased products from the franchise, as the other Buzz Lightyear products are shown in smaller quantities and in separate aisles (and just like Barbie said in the second movie, initially the quantity did not meet demand, showing that sellers needed even more action figures due to the toy popularity)
(I would like to add that the Barbie movies are animated films and are very popular with children. When I say that Lightyear would not be popular with children, it is because a single, mature, live action film would not be able to hold the audience of children for long nor sell as many toys. Clearly Barbie has a great marketing strategy and the films are many and are as successful as a cartoon would be, with endless content about it.)
That brings us into the next subject:
.𖥔 ݁ 🚀 ˖ִ ࣪ ₊⊹ Target audience for toys are children, just as it is for cartoons:
If the Buzz Lightyear action figures were the most popular products from the franchise, the creators of the franchise would want the children to find them, thus putting commercials on TV and probably, as an incredible marketing strategy, making a cartoon that would bring an even stronger bond between the character and children, besides the fact that most of the children already love cartoons and they're also the main public for them. Movies are also liked by adults, but cartoons... cartoons make children go crazy.
If the owners of the Buzz Lightyear franchise wanted to sell toys to children so badly, then they would make a cartoon and not a "live action" movie (it's live action in the Pixar universe). And even if the Buzz Lightyear franchise wasn't about the toys initially, but rather about the media they were producing around the character, a mature film with real actors and an adult target audience wouldn't make toys sell to children as well as Buzz does in Toy Story 2, making it a virtually impossible probability to happen. Maybe if it was a more immature cartoon film, but that's certainly not the case with Lightyear. Lightyear is too mature for the target audience that Pixar wants us to believe that this film had.
(Furthermore, Andy's childhood and the events of the first Toy Story movie take place around 2000, so that was when Buzz Lightyear was popular in the Pixar universe. But at the same time we see that Buzz Lightyear is still popular in Bonnie's childhood, during the early 2010s, with Buzz Lightyear still being recognized by people and therefore being a famous toy up until that point (as he was recognized in the amusement park), being reinforced by the idea that there is still licensed merchandise being produced of him out there (like the promotion shown in Small Fry and Bonnie's backpack in the special "Toy Story That Time Forgot", her mom wouldn't buy her a discontinued item) showing that Buzz Lightyear products are still being manufactured, and Bonnie herself doesn't seem to care that her toy is "old"; He must still be a popular character, and considering that apparently his franchise has games, backpacks and more merchandise, I believe that his case is similar to what happens with several works nowadays, like Star Wars, superhero movies and even Disney movies themselves. Was such a big thing back then and it's company still keeps making more products of it, keeping it popular for a longer period of time.)
.𖥔 ݁ 🪐 ˖ִ ࣪ ₊⊹ "Lightyear" doesn't look like an early 2000s movie:
Now we need to adress the big elephant in the room. Lightyear looks like a 2020's movie, and not only because of the high definition of the animation.
This movie looks too mature; being a sci-fi movie, visually, looks a lot like the movie Interstellar or The Martian (both having adults as target audience and being produced in the 2010's). In this type of film, the main focus is on science and the characters' plot (on planets that actually exist, if I may say so). These are films that make you think and question theories of physics (I personally don't like them very much). Even though Lightyear is set on a fictional planet, we see that there are influences from Mars in this planet's design, and in addition, the planet's own fauna and flora seem very realistic in some points, something that is far from the surrealism shown in fantasy films from the 80s to the 2000s, in which Lightyear is supposed to be set. The film has a less saturated color palette and a slower, more mature pace, things that appeal better to adult audiences.
Furthermore, this type of plot also follows a more modern pattern, as the protagonist is very human, flawed and less stereotypical than would be expected from a character like Buzz Lightyear (from the Buzz Lightyear franchise, not the toy from Toy Story). I'll go into more detail on this later.
Modern films today often address mental health, trauma, and social pressures, and these subjects were treated more recklessly during the 2000s. Not that I think this is a bad thing, but for a film about a supposedly "very cliché superhero trope" that should look like it was made in the early 2000s, this is a very unusual trait.
The character Buzz Lightyear from the franchise has a very striking personality and visual identity, but somehow Buzz in the Lightyear movie doesn't have the same impact and presence, seeming like a more irrelevant character than he is shown to be in the Toy Story universe. He also only gets to wear his main uniform after the first half of the movie.
Speaking of period contexts, I highly doubt that an action film that came out in the 2000s and was supposed to have a standard hero protagonist (they couldn't even do that lmao) would have female characters that were made so respectfully and important to the plot (😬). In the same way, a film with so much natural representation and diversity would be easily boycotted by Hollywood studios. The writers would have to change the things that bother the studio, which would make the film very different from the initial idea, or else there would be no film. But these arguments about representation in the film are somewhat invalid, since the Pixar universe is fictional and Pixar could very well write that in the 2000s, within its universe, there was not so much prejudice like we had in ours.
I would like to already get to the visual topic, but I need to talk about the classic hero trope first.
.𖥔 ݁ 🌌 ˖ִ ࣪ ₊⊹ Buzz' flawless hero trope shown in Toy Story:
In the first Toy Story movie (and in the next ones) Buzz Lightyear acts like those superhero characters who are protagonists, who knows that they're strong and everything always work out for them in the end. For the most part of the movie that was the comic relief and what moved the plot. Buzz was reckless, made reckless decisions, subconsciously believing that because he was a hero all his plans would always work out and end well. He does risky stunts, makes sudden heroic decisions (like the decision to save a Combat Carl from one of Sid's explosions when all the other toys knew it was impossible to do so and held Buzz back, which led him to lament "I could have stopped it"), he is overconfident and takes risks because he subconsciously believes there will be no consequences, just like all heroes. In short, Buzz Lightyear is a cliché hero.
He has a great sense of optimism, heroism and protagonist syndrome that is backed up by what is shown in BLoSC: things always work out for him because he's great, he's the protagonist, he's brave, and he's the hero. Toy Buzz fits perfectly into the flawless hero trope, which does not happen in the movie Lightyear, because he has tons of flaws and is dealing with personal issues throughout the movie. The character Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story is meant to be a satire of the flawless hero trope (a satire that is very common in out media nowadays, like in the movie Megamind or the cartoon Villainous for example), so his behavior is not consistent with the movie Lightyear.
In Lightyear, Buzz is insecure for a huge part of the movie. Flawed characters/protagonists are not the mistake here, the mistake is that the Buzz Lightyear franchise needed a source media and this source media was supposed to portray a cliché hero, otherwise it wouldn't make sense with the whole Toy Story franchise... which is what was made first. Immediately everything we know about the character Buzz outside of the toy no longer makes sense.
(And the same goes for Zurg. Toy Zurg in Toy Story 2 knew that he was Buzz' father... of course, that could maybe be a lie of his if he's an elder Buzz like in Lightyear, but I refuse to believe that 'BuzZurg' would play with his younger self and call him his son. And he would also look at his body and find it weird. But guess what? The cartoon walks side by side with canon and fits with everything that was shown in Toy Story)
In Toy Story it is implied that even when the toys discover that they're toys, the personality they had still remains in them. Buzz remained brave, tactical, intelligent, analytical, knew how to fight, and takes things very literally (because his *franchise* character only required him to take things literally, he's from a simple *franchise* character, easy to understand!)
I would like to talk more about this in the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command topic of the post, that is after the visuals topic.
.𖥔 ݁ 🌘 ˖ִ ࣪ ₊⊹ "Lightyear" does not match visually with the Buzz Lightyear franchise in Toy Story, while "BloSC" does — The futuristic Y2K neon space theme:
The Buzz Lightyear character and franchise have a very unique visual identity. The references to futuristic depictions from the 90s and 2000s are very clear, and we can already notice it just by looking at the bright colors and fun design in Buzz' uniform. Him and his franchise have very solid design choices: with bright neon colors, it's saturated, futuristic, very fictional and "star wars" inspired, and yet very 2000s coded.
There are other similar real life franchises that can be compared to what Disney was trying to show through Buzz Lightyear, a bit like The Jetsons, but different like Space Channel (I know that there are more, I'm just not very familiar with this genre and I can't seem to find anything in my own cultural repertoire lmao). This post really sums up everything.
I am so frustrated with how little all the big animation studios are willing to experiment with new styles. They’re just…. striving for grit
I made an improvised post where I talk about this specific visual that Disney/Pixar chose for the Buzz Lightyear franchise, and this is backed up not only by the movies but also by the way Buzz is marketed in the Disney parks.
Something that really caches my eye about Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is it's aesthetic. My eyes light up when I see the nostalgic neon s
Quoting myself:
"Something that really caches my eye about Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (the show) is it's aesthetic. My eyes light up when I see the nostalgic neon space theme the series has going on."
"I searched more about it, trying to find a name to define this; it's heavily influenced by 90s/early 2000s design choices, and there's some inspiration from Wacky Pomo but that's not it yet. BLOSC reminds me a bit about futuristic views from the 50's like the aesthetic Googie Kitsch, but I don't feel like that's it. Reminds me a lot of internet nostalgia aesthetics. Also I feel like there is some influence from the 80s in it too, reminds me of malls, arcades and rollerskates, kinda like what FNAF did to his Security Breach game, specially the Fazer Blast part, even though it doesn't appears much in the game (we can see more of it in Help Wanted 2). I found some inspirations of what I'm talking about on Pinterest."
"We can see a lot of influence from the series' aesthetics in the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters ride at Disneyland (I went on that one, at Disneyland Paris)"
"And also in the Alien Swirling Saucers attraction. (I never went to this one)"
Besides that, we have references that are given in the films of what would be the visual identity of the Buzz Lightyear franchise. We can see it in Andy's room during the song "Strange Things" and in other moments of the films (Like in Toy Story 2 and the hallway focused only on Buzz in Al's Toy Barn).
The Buzz Lightyear franchise shown in the Toy Story movies has very solid visuals but Lightyear does not share the same aesthetic (It doesn't even look like a movie that children would be interested in, much less a great hit, even less a movie that would sell so many toys and market itself so differently from it's source material in the first place).
And Buzz Lightyear of Star Command knows that (Weirdly, I couldn't find the intro in english).
The visuals of BLoSC match with what was shown in Toy Story. And in canon, or at least for a long time, all the intros showed Andy's toys watching the show and seeing it as Buzz' cartoon, which means that Andy probably had access to it too, if he owns the VHS tape shown in the debut movie.
.𖥔 ݁ ☄️ ˖ִ ࣪ ₊⊹ Buzz Lightyear of Star Command — The show that wins where Lightyear fails:
The cartoon/show "Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command" started being produced before Toy Story 2 came out, and then Disney decided to hold back the debut to release it after Toy Story 2, meaning that it's creation was being considered between the first and second Toy Story movies (around 1997/98).
The movie Toy Story was about Pixar testing waters first. They were still developing the universe, the characters, the 3D animation (it was the first 100% CGI movie ever made, c'mon!), their own company, and Pixar did not had the fame and fanbase they have today. Of course they had Disney's money, but this does not change the fact that Toy Story was at it's sketch and the people involved were trying to make things work out first. The fictional Buzz Lightyear franchise was only that: Fictional, a fake brand that manufactured toys, that was popular among children, and that looked cool enough to make it believable to the audience that a Buzz Lightyear really was a much-coveted toy among young boys, and rightly so. They wanted us to look at this toy from this fictional brand and think "hell yeah that toy is cool as heck".
Eventually, Toy Story was a success and it blew up. Disney then noticed that there was a demand and a public for the fake brand they created; their fictional brand/toy was so cool that people were actually buying the toys they made based on this fake brand, and then they noticed an oportunity: "what about making it real?"
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command came out in October 2, 2000; after Toy Story 2 that came out in 1999. We also need to take into account that the people responsible for making the first Toy Story movie and who were on Pixar when BLoSC came out are not the people responsible for making Toy Story 4/Toy Story 5 (it didn't came out yet) and Lightyear. Thus, those who started the story are not involved in the project anymore. Many were fired or laid off from the company by Pixar. Which explains how Lightyear doesn't make sense with Toy Story (although I find this debatable; in my opinion, with enough effort, a new team is capable of making a good adaptation, especially of what is expected from a big company like Pixar).
What I find interesting about this show is how it's creators took the information that was given about the Buzz Lightyear franchise within Toy Story and used each of those tips cautiously so that the show would live up to what was indirectly described about it in those films, which makes BLoSC... the perfect Buzz Lightyear source material. Even in Toy Story 3, released in 2010, long after BLoSC came out and looong before the premiere of "Lightyear", this film has so many references about Buzz before discovering that he was a toy, the directors decided not to deny any information given about him that was in the show. Meaning that BLoSC was probably still canon even in Toy Story 3. Gosh, they even mentioned that his character graduated in a Space Ranger academy, just like in the show (Demo Buzz says that under Lotso's manipulation in Toy Story 3, and we literally see scenes of Buzz in his academy years at the episode Tag Team).
I should also mention that the design of the Buzz Lightyear toy is more in line with the cartoon design than the movie design (same with Zurg). Even though in Lightyear it is said that Andy is a fan of Buzz because of the movie, the toy doesn't look as much like the character from the movie as it does from the cartoon. He doesn't even have the same voice actor (okay, Toy Buzz and BLoSC Buzz have different voice actors too, but at least they're supposed to sound similar!). I would be sad if as a kid I asked for a toy of my favorite hero and got a toy that has nothing to do with him. And all of Andy's friends are so hyped about a toy of their favorite hero that doesn't look or sound like their favorite hero? This doesn't make sense at all. Here is a comparision between the two medias and the toy they're about.
Besides that, if toy Buzz' memories were from the movie "Lightyear", he would have looked at his own body and have a panic attack because it doesn't look like his uniform in the movie. Why would his chest be so big out of a sudden? And what about his cat Sox that's not with him? And the hair he did not even thought about searching for in his own head? The BLoSC Buzz never even showed his hair, so that is another reason of why he didn't even think about taking his cap off, because he never does (his hair is a mistery). Buzz from the movie Lightyear, however...
I think the picture I chose for Buzz from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command doesn't show his design enough. He actually looks a lot like the toy Buzz' design. Let me add some gifs.
"Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" shows situations similar to what is shown in "Lightyear" too. In both movies, Lightyear lost his partner and has difficulty working on a team, thinking he can handle everything on his own. Eventually in both stories the plot brings him a group of rookies and he learns to accept them as his team while they fight against Zurg. There is also a plot twist at the climax of both films: In BLoSC, Buzz discovers that his former partner Warp Darkmatter was actually alive and working for Zurg. In Lightyear, Buzz discovers that Zurg is actually himself from the future.
(It seems that Lightyear tried to make references and be like a reboot of BLoSC, but the execution was not so good since the work is very far from what is shown as canon in Toy Story)
BLoSC also easily fits in the TV show theory I spoke about earlier in the post. It is possible that this cartoon was shown on a big TV network inside the Pixar universe, the same network where the commercials were shown. It is also possible that the cartoon was made to promete the toy line, similar to other shows that follow the same pattern, considering the relevance of the toy among children and for the brand itself (probably their biggest source of income).
.𖥔 ݁ 🌠 ˖ִ ࣪ ₊⊹ List of things shown in BLoSC that accurate to Toy Story (therefore, better than in Lightyear):
The visual identity (the 2000s futuristic theme);
BLoSC actually looks like it was made in the early 2000s;
The character's designs;
The character's personalities;
The character's lore (Zurg being Buzz' father, Buzz coming from a Space Ranger academy, the cliché hero trope);
The cartoon is easily believable to be loved by young boys and it's target audience is clearly children, while Lightyear is much more mature;
BLoSC came out first and was considered canon for a really long time since when the first movies came out, and the Toy Story movies showed things according to the show itself, which did not happened with Lightyear;
.𖥔 ݁ 🌙 ˖ִ ࣪ ₊⊹ How the company positioned itself on this subject:
According to the Disney Wiki: "Angus MacLane, stated that that the toy version of Buzz in-verse was based on a Buzz Lightyear cartoon in-verse unseen to the audience, not the former itself. That being said, the director does note that he views the in-universe series as not having been produced yet, seemingly establishing Lightyear as having come out within the Toy Story timeline sometime before the events of the original film and, therefore, the previous Buzz spinoffs. In addition, a deleted opening scene for the original Toy Story film shows Andy watching a TV show of the character under the name Buzz Lightyear: Defender of the Universe which show is never seen or mentioned anywhere in the final franchise. Maclane also stated that Buzz's own spinoff itself in-verse was produced in the late 1970s or early 1980s, likely meaning Buzz himself is a cartoon character in-verse produced sometime then long before the events of the original film sometime around the 70s."
We all know that this is an excuse to retcon the fact that BLOSC was the Buzz Lightyear source material in the 2000s. The company had made it very clear that, despite Buzz having tons of merch and games and stuff, BLOSC was "the Buzz Lightyear cartoon". This was only changed after the release of the movie "Lightyear" that it's said to be the new source material for Buzz Lightyear. Disney/Pixar also made a documentary on Buzz called "Beyond Infinity", in which they spoke in detail about the creation of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story and later on the recreation of the character in Lightyear, refusing to include anything that is related to Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and not aknowledging it's existence.
There is an old rumor circling around saying that Pixar didn't liked how Disney made use of their character in BLOSC, since Disney excluder Pixar from the project and hired other studios to animate it, making it something that Pixar wasn't creatively participating. The rumor itself is about John Lasseter, the director of Toy Story, who seems to not have liked the show at all and it's innacuratecy with what he was planning for the character and the Buzz Lightyear source universe.
More can be read about this in this fandom BLOSC article. Quoting: "Lee Unkrich, one of the film editors for Toy Story and later on film editor and co-director of the sequels, originally had concerns about the show because he believed that "traditional, flatter animation wouldn't do justice to Buzz", even though Pixar had always intended for the first Toy Story film to open with a Buzz Lightyear TV show done in traditional 20 cel animation that Andy would be watching. But Unkrich ultimately decided that it didn't matter and was quoted saying that Buzz Lightyear of Star Command "could actually be the cartoon that Buzz originally came from.""
Now, that's what the Disney fandom wiki about BLOSC says: "Though the show was produced with Pixar's involvement. John Lasseter's personal dislike for the series has prevented the show's characters from appearing in other Toy Story media. One rare exception was Booster appearing in a story arc in Booml Studios's Toy Story comic series, with the character being quickly dropped in later issues as a result of pressure from Pixar."
The same Disney article mentions the previous subject: "Though Pixar has long had a policy of disowning the series, Angus MacLane, director of the film Lightyear, has connected the two projects more directly in interviews, describing his movie's existence within the Toy Story universe as a 1980s-era live action film franchise that Buzz Lightyear of Star Command served as an animated spinoff to in the 1990s. Within his mindset, the series was sponsored by Pizza Planet, resulting in the Little Green Men being brought into the Buzz Lightyear universe and much like other animated spinoffs of 80s and 90s films, an entirely new cast was created to accompany Buzz and Zurg. [...] However, the titular characters Buzz and Zurg have some differences in designs to their in-verse iconic toy designs in both works, with an example of Zurg's lon Blaster having a different design. [...] Though one possible theory suggests that those lines of them originated from a Buzz Lightyear cartoon in-verse which remains unseen to us. [...] This was seemingly confirmed by the staff of Pixar: Angus MacLane, claimed that that the toy version of Buzz was based on a Buzz Lightyear cartoon unseen to the audience, not the former Itself. That being said, the director does note that he views the in-universe series as not having been produced yet, seemingly establishing Lightyear as having come out within the Toy Story timeline sometime before the events of the original film and, therefore, the previous Buzz spinoffs."
The concept art of BLOSC, also included in the same Disney article, was a more mature first idea of the show. This was shown in the interview video I included previously in the post.
Trying this again because I think I originally reblogged this when tumblr was having problems...(sorry) So um....
Yeah! Wow! I'm not part of the Toy Story fandom (though I've seen the first three movies plus some odd episodes of the show) but this was so fascinating I read through the whole thing. This post was really well done!
I agree with pretty much all of your points here especially that Buzz was more likely to come from a TV cartoon rather than a (live action?) movie. I also feel like if it was true that Buzz came from a show that this would make a him a parallel to Woody, who also had a popular children's show back in his day (Woody's Round Up) So, basically both Woody and Buzz would both be toys of a main character in a TV series that was popular with children but from different generations so to speak.
Wow really? I guess feeling a sense of imposter syndrome when writing is more common then I thought. Although for me personally the feelings are switched around.
Me writing fics: "I love this idea!" "This is going to be so awesome!" "I can't wait to get this done so that way people can read it!"
Me rereading my own fics: "The writing is too stiff and rigid." "The dialogue is terrible." "I forgot add/fix something." "Ugh I can't believe people actually read this trash!"
Hi. Good luck with your fic! I've enjoyed what I read so far and am looking for ward to more! Let me see if I can help you. As a fellow fanfic writer I know how hard it can be...
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about 70s/80s music....all the songs on my Once-ler related playlists are modern (and angsty...very very angsty) But in general I would say yeah Once-ler would like rock music...and perhaps some alternative. Stuff with electric guitars of course since that is what he plays all the time. My personal head canon is that he also might enjoy some techno/EDM music if he frequents nightclubs maybe. I also think he might occasionally listen to/play songs that have a bit of angst to them or have have lyrics that pertain to the struggles of fame when he is having a difficult day.
As for your second question I'm not full vegetarian but I do not eat red meat (some people call this pollo-pescetarian maybe) and the reason why is that eating mammals just seemed..."wrong" to me. (emphasis on "to me". I don't hate on others' choices or anything.) and Its honestly hard to describe it any other way....
I think in the context of your fanfic, with Once-ler having so many animals friends. Perhaps it could simply feel "wrong" to him to eat animals because they are friends to him not food maybe?
Not sure if these were the answers you are looking for but I hop they helped somehow. Hopefully someone else chimes in if they know something.... Once again I wish you the best of luck of your fic!!!
Hey!!! Guys, I have, or used to have, an oc for him etc. I never made a fic though but I had the story planned and some arts. And I made playlists with this premise... kinda.
The playlist itself is very inspired by vintage americana aesthetic, old hollywood, the great gatsby, oldies, lana del rey... if you know a little about these topics you know they wrap very well and Onceler can be easily related to it. I have also an essay about Onceler being a very specific and right example of the men Lana sings about, lol, or at least he fits in those tropes: rich guy, life of money and comfort, dirty money, nostalgic, tragic ending, 60's. But yeah.
The whole subject and inspos are vintage stuff, so vintage songs are included as well, inspired by the old Lorax short by Dr Seuss himself and also on scenarios based on like the great gatsby... vegas, big parties, a short period of time that these people lived but stopped existing. There are Lana unreleased songs that should be here but they are always taken down by Spotify because of copyright, so I have to keep uploading and it's pretty tiring, recently I stopped doing that.
The playlist:
Answering your question: I think he would listen to 60s bands like the Beatles but others as well. Probably would like rock more, like the ones that played during the hippies phase, maybe like Led Zeppelin, or heavier ones.
In big company parties, they would play jazz and 20s songs. These are my headcanons!
You should read my essay about him and Lana del rey, if you're interested just search for "onceler lana del rey essay" in my blog and you'll find it XD
But there is also a post where someone made an 80 page document on Google drive speaking about the vintage references used in Onceler's design and most of them were also related to classic artists. His haircut comes from the Beatles. It's in my blog but I don't remember how to find it anymore. Maybe searching for "Onceler references"...?
Thanks for adding onto this! @sweetmariihs2 It's always nice to hear another fan's perspective! I agree that a lot of the things you mentioned really suit Once-ler's character a lot.
Hi. Good luck with your fic! I've enjoyed what I read so far and am looking for ward to more! Let me see if I can help you. As a fellow fanfic writer I know how hard it can be...
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about 70s/80s music....all the songs on my Once-ler related playlists are modern (and angsty...very very angsty) But in general I would say yeah Once-ler would like rock music...and perhaps some alternative. Stuff with electric guitars of course since that is what he plays all the time. My personal head canon is that he also might enjoy some techno/EDM music if he frequents nightclubs maybe. I also think he might occasionally listen to/play songs that have a bit of angst to them or have have lyrics that pertain to the struggles of fame when he is having a difficult day.
As for your second question I'm not full vegetarian but I do not eat red meat (some people call this pollo-pescetarian maybe) and the reason why is that eating mammals just seemed..."wrong" to me. (emphasis on "to me". I don't hate on others' choices or anything.) and Its honestly hard to describe it any other way....
I think in the context of your fanfic, with Once-ler having so many animals friends. Perhaps it could simply feel "wrong" to him to eat animals because they are friends to him not food maybe?
Not sure if these were the answers you are looking for but I hop they helped somehow. Hopefully someone else chimes in if they know something.... Once again I wish you the best of luck of your fic!!!
I was wasting my time on Youtube (as one does) when I was recommended this video. I clicked on it, and was totally shocked whenever it got to this part where you can see art of the Once-ler, along with other Lorax characters and the truffula trees.
Sadly, I think this is the clearest image of the art in the video, because the person taking it was focusing on the playplace (hence the title) but you can still tell that this Once-ler is likely based on our beloved Oncie from the illumination movie! Since he seems to be a human and is wearing his iconic green jacket! I did try to zoom in and wound up with a blurry image but here you go:
UPDATE: Upon further inspection I think this may have been traced/based on this concept art (specifically the one in the middle of the image below).
The Lorax characters were not the only Dr. Suess characters that were in this restaurant either. As there are also paintings of the Grinch, Max the dog, Cindy Lou Who, The Cat In The Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2, and the characters from Green Eggs and Ham. So I guess the restaurant decided to decorate for Christmas perhaps? I wonder why they went with the human version of Once-ler though? Also, is this image based on fanart or concept art? It looks kind of familiar? Anyways, link to the video is below if you all want to check it out.
These outfits I drew for the Onceler are once again based on @metallicbluemorpho ‘s fic Visions of Greed ((which ACTUALLY ended recently so I very much recommend checking it out now that its completed!)) I consulted the outfits with the author, to get her insight and all that jazz, so that makes them canon to the fic! (STILL CANT GET OVER THAT FACT LIKE HELLO⁉️‼️🙏)
Here are some details about the outfits if you’re curious!
These outfits are based on butterflies! Specifically a common white butterfly and emerald peacock swallowtail butterfly. (Pictures below ⭐️)
They are meant to reflect each other. And show the growth of the character over time! The Yin&Yang symbolism is obvious in my opinion and is reflected thru the change of color, especially thru the gold/silver accessories.
If you wanna know more, then do check out the fanfic its definitelly worth your time! Anyways Terezi out😛
Share your favorite whump creation someone else made.
For this most I'm going to share a few of my favorite Whumpuary 2026 submissions.
A Useless Sacrifice by @mirrormurmur - I'm really digging the royal whump here (I need to read some more of that), the characterization of whumper and whumpee, and the plot twist at the end!
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
can't speak/caught/broken glass submission by @angeygirl -This is such a creative use of all three prompts. I was stunned when I read it.
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · @whumpuary 2: Can’t speak/caught/broken glass
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Crack!
Evan froze. He had been coming around the corne
Unbearable Noises by @mirrormurmur -I like the overall theme and the source of inspiration is rather funny. Quite the clever way of using a real life experience in writing.
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
This gifset by @triwhumphant -Seriously want to know what happened here, really piqued my interest. Also, it reminded me of my own nostalgic whump scenes from media.
💬 3 🔁 2 ❤️ 19 · Day 21: Poison · Attacked from behind | Poison | Red
Power Rangers Samurai 01x17
Various fanfic submissions by @side-shuffling-hyperfixations -I'm not part of the TMNT fandom but I know enough to get by and I really enjoyed a lot of these submissions. The characterizations are really good I especially like how the relationships between the brothers are written.
