Lightyear har visserligen fått hyggliga recensioner, men har inte lyckats uppnå Pixar-filmernas sedvanliga popularitet. En anledning till detta kan vara det faktum att filmen är baserad på en Toy Story-figur, men att filmen ändå inte har något som helst med det universumet att göra.
Det har inte varit helt lätt för regissören Angus MacLane att navigera i detta faktum, detta eftersom filmen både står för sig själv men onekligen även är kopplad till vissa redan existerande förväntningar på karaktären Buzz Lightyear. I en intervju hos Gamespot säger han:
"As a filmmaker you really have to think about what problems you want to solve. When we took on this project we ran into the problem of having to change a side character to a main character and that's a really hard thing. Having worked on [Finding Dory], that was just tremendously hard. But because Buzz's backstory was something I wanted to tell, and because I wanted to do a straightforward sci-fi action adventure, you know, like a nerd/geek film, that was the driver there. So that's what kept it going, even when we still hadn't figured it out. Because I knew what the movie would feel like when it was done. I really wouldn't recommend it. It's so, so hard."
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