Super Bowl LVI: Every Trailer To Expect At 2022's Big Game". Screen Rant. February 7, 2022. Archived from the original on February 26, 2022 . Retrieved June 14, 2022. Bill Hader as Benny Featheringhamstan / The Rookie, a new recruit partnered with Buzz and Alisha. Hader previously voiced Axel the Carnie in Toy Story 4 (2019).

Sox resembles a ginger and white robot cat with green eyes and wears a blue collar with his name engraved on a tag. One year later, the crew has constructed a new colony to conduct repairs. However, after a four-minute test flight, Buzz finds that four years have passed on T'Kani Prime, due to the effects of time dilation from having traveled at relativistic speeds. Buzz is introduced to an orange robotic feline Sox and continues testing the hyperspace fuel. With every test, four more years pass on T'Kani Prime, until eventually over sixty-six years have passed. During the test, the colony develops, with Alisha raising a son with her wife Kiko, subsequently dying of old age, while Sox improves the fuel's composition, allowing it to obtain faster-than-light speeds. Pixar Created a Fully Virtual IMAX Camera to Shoot Lightyear". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on May 31, 2022 . Retrieved June 15, 2022. With Buzz captured, Darby asks Sox to know if he could help fly the Armadillo, which Sox tells her that there is no fuel inside just before she gets into an argument with Mo, blaming each other for getting in this situation. However, when Izzy notices the door open inside Zurg's ship, Izzy tells Darby, Mo, and Sox to enter inside the ship to go into space and help rescue Buzz just as Sox follows alongside the Junior Patrol. Grobar, Matt (July 19, 2022). " 'Lightyear' Gets Disney+ Premiere Date". Deadline. Archived from the original on July 19, 2022 . Retrieved July 19, 2022.

Lightyear' Is a Safe Return to Pixar's Retro Era". Thrillist. Archived from the original on June 15, 2022 . Retrieved June 15, 2022.

Domestic 2022 Weekend 24". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on June 29, 2022 . Retrieved June 23, 2022. Giardina, Carolyn (January 9, 2023). " Everything Everywhere All at Once Leads Sound Editors' Golden Reel Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on January 9, 2023 . Retrieved January 26, 2023. Pierre, Mekishana (February 25, 2023). "2023 NAACP Image Awards: Complete Winners List". Entertainment Tonight. Archived from the original on February 26, 2023 . Retrieved February 26, 2023. Uzo Aduba as Alisha Hawthorne, Buzz's best friend, commanding officer and Kiko's wife, who is one of Izzy's grandmothers. [5] Despite being an intelligent robot and able to talk, Sox still behaves like a real cat, rubbing against people's legs, purring when he gets affection, and getting distracted by laser points.In case the marketing hasn't made it clear, Lightyear is the movie that Andy would have seen that got him obsessed with Buzz Lightyear. It's a movie that would have been released in the world of Toy Story, but with no story connection to the events of the Toy Story series. Har-Even, Benny (March 29, 2022). "Lightyear In IMAX Will Feature 1.43:1 Aspect Ratio Scenes". Forbes. Archived from the original on March 14, 2022 . Retrieved March 29, 2022.