Editing Buzz Lightyear (section)

=== Design ===
Further changes to the character followed during the development. Lasseter considered a one-man band toy to be an outdated idea and decided to change Tinny to an action figure, similar to [[G.I. Joe]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Garber |first=Megan |date=2014-06-30 |title=Toy Story Was Originally Going to Feature G.I. Joe and Barbie |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/toy-story-was-originally-going-to-star-gi-joe-and-barbie/373675/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref> He said, "we started to analyze what a little boy would get these days that would make him so excited that he stopped playing with anything else." G.I. Joe was Lasseter's favorite character in childhood, but later Tinny evolved into a space hero similar to [[Major Matt Mason]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Busch |first=Jenna |date=2022-06-14 |title=How Buzz Lightyear Evolved From Pixar Short Character To Toy Story Hero |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/894410/how-buzz-lightyear-evolved-from-pixar-short-character-to-toy-story-hero/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=SlashFilm |language=en-US}}</ref> This character then went through various design iterations, initially named Lunar Larry, which was then changed to Tempus and then Morph, who wore a red space suit. Finally, the dummy character was redesigned into a stuffed cowboy doll named Woody and Morph became Buzz Lightyear.<ref name=":1" /> Buzz was designed to be the ultimate child's toy. Lasseter recalled, "We reached back to every favorite idea we could remember. And that of course had to involve outer space". The team knew that being a space hero, Buzz's frame needed to be strong so that it could endure through many space missions, so they designed him with many holes for screws and rivets so that it was clear how he was constructed. They took inspiration from other action figures, incorporating a "karate chop action" into the arms. Buzz was also designed with pop out wings with landing lights to give children the ability to make him fly and a blinking red light bulb on his wrist to act as a laser. A button was included on his chest, which when pushed, provides digitised audio.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Lasseter |first=John |title=Toy Story: The Art and Making of the Animated Film |date=1995-11-09 |publisher=Disney Editions |isbn=978-0786861804 |pages=31–37}}</ref> The lime green and purple color scheme in Buzz's design was created by Lasseter while sketching the character and was chosen as an apology to his wife for working late; lime green was the favorite color of Lasseter and purple was his wife's favorite.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Adams |first=Guy |date=2010-07-16 |title=John Lasseter: To infinity and beyond {{!}} The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/john-lasseter-to-infinity-and-beyond-2028718.html |access-date=2024-06-05 |work=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> The appearance of television actor [[Ed Kemmer]] was also an inspiration for Lightyear. Kemmer played Commander Buzz Corry in ''[[Space Patrol (1950 TV series)|Space Patrol]]'', one of the first science-fiction series on [[Television in the United States|American television]].<ref>Brian Pendreigh [http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/ed-kemmer-tv-star-and-inspiration-for-the-character-of-buzz-lightyear-1.70192 Ed Kemmer TV star and inspiration for the character of Buzz Lightyear] November 19, 2004, The Herald Scotland</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Husband |first=Stuart |date=2015-10-02 |title=The 10 best astronauts |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/oct/02/the-10-best-astronauts-martian-bowie-ripley-2001-gravity |access-date=2024-06-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Buzz Lightyear was named in honor of [[Apollo 11]] astronaut [[Buzz Aldrin]], the second person to walk on the [[Moon]]. The film producers thought that Aldrin had "the coolest astronaut name". Aldrin acknowledged the tribute when he pulled a Buzz Lightyear toy out during a speech at [[NASA]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-07-18 |title=Moon Landing: Toy Story to Despicable Me and other surprising Moon landing films |url=https://www.bbc.com/newsround/49001542 |access-date=2024-06-05 |work=BBC Newsround |language=en-GB}}</ref> Aldrin did not receive any endorsement fees for the use of his nickname.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/magazine/21fob-q4-t.html?_r=1&ref=space|title=Questions for Buzz Aldrin: The Man on the Moon|last=Solomon|first=Deborah|author2=Oth, Christian|date=June 15, 2009 |work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 15, 2009}} Note: nytimes.com print-view software lists the article date as June 21, 2009; main article webpage shows June 15.</ref> In 2009, he admitted to being exasperated by Disney using his name for the character: "You don't want to tangle with Disney, the friend of children. You don't want to challenge their lawyers – for sure, you're going to lose."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Marc |date=2009-07-08 |title=Buzz Aldrin: the dark times that followed that historic flight |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5779145/Buzz-Aldrin-the-dark-times-that-followed-that-historic-flight.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301101232/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5779145/Buzz-Aldrin-the-dark-times-that-followed-that-historic-flight.html |archive-date=2019-03-01 |access-date=2024-06-23 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref>