Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[Sharpandpointies]

If anything I feel like Canadians would be begging people in the US to stop being so horrible, lol.

Canada is in no place to be pointing fingers...

The ad makes no sense to me, I can't figure out exactly what it is about. But if I see it again non TV I'll try and tape it, then investigate it.

Sounds more and more like a political stunt based on not a whole lot of truth.

[Guy1]

[Tami]

Canada is in no place to be pointing fingers...



Sounds more and more like a political stunt based on not a whole lot of truth.

Okay, I got some info. The ads are sponsored by The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease. Here is a link to the ad and some info.

I'm still very skeptical.

[The Dog]

Seeing your doctor coming at you surfing on a giant needle flying through the air at high speed would be horrifying.

[grampagen]

You can get the jab or Dr. Tao can use his tongue.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

[bruceleegreyhulk]

Ah Tao's new job as a dinosaur veterinarian

[Len Ikari145]

[Hiromi]

Never would have thought I'd wanted this but damn if it doesn't look really good

[Guy1]

To Infinity AND BEYOND!

[Nik Hasta]

Never would have thought I'd wanted this but damn if it doesn't look really good

I had the opposite reaction to be honest. Well, not opposite. It just left me very confused.

I don't get who this is for...? Like it genuinely baffles me that this exists at all. Like, it's got no formal relation to the Toy Story franchise, it's got a completely different tone and aesthetic to what Buzz Lightyear - in the setting of Toy Story the fictional universe - was based on, it's got no Tim Allen and the character is completely removed from the version of Buzz that audiences actually know so there's no real link there either.

It doesn't even tie in with the shortlived Buzz Lightyear of Star Command tv show which was meant to be the thing the toy was kind of based on.

It is literally a film built and founded on the notion of recognisable iconography rather than an actual property.

The Pixar team have obviously put a lot of work and polish into it but I am just conceptually completely stumped by how this came to be. I'm sure it will make a bunch of money and will be... i don't know... perfectly fine? But I am so shaken that this exists, it's almost like a parody of what we would expect from Disney.

[Tami]

Okay, so, first there was a movie about toys. Then there were toys in the stores based on the toys in the movies.

What this is, is a (Movie? Series?) based on the toy which was based on another movies.

It's not all that far off from other toy/movie franchises except that it is kind of backwards???

TBH, I really like the animation and the it looks very interesting.

[grampagen]

According to a piece from Variety:

However, “Lightyear” doesn’t follow the toy-sized, space-faring exploits of Tim Allen’s iconic character. Rather, the 2022 film introduces the “real-life” human astronaut whose adventures inspired the toy line seen in the “Toy Story” franchise.

I'm not so pedantic to nitpick at the deepest lore of Toy Story, but at the same time I kinda hate how that's now a thing.

Andy lives in a world with faster than light travel. I didn't need to know this and I reject it vehemently.

The suits in marketing played themselves in greenlighting something this safe with the brand recognition. Imagine if they made something new?

[Len Ikari145]

Okay, so, first there was a movie about toys. Then there were toys in the stores based on the toys in the movies.

What this is, is a (Movie? Series?) based on the toy which was based on another movies.

It's not all that far off from other toy/movie franchises except that it is kind of backwards???

TBH, I really like the animation and the it looks very interesting.

According to Disney, the movie is a prequel to the Toy Story franchise and the definitive origin story about the real Buzz Lightyear, whose fame - due to his exploits in space - would later inspire the creation of the Buzz Lightyear show/toy brand within said-universe. It's a neat concept IMO. And the creators stated that Tim Allen isn't voicing this Buzz because they consider the toy and the person he's based upon to be two separate people.

EDIT: Dammit, I was ninja-ed by GrampaGen!

[Nik Hasta]

Imagine if they made something new?

Disney make something without a pre-existing level of mindshare?

Couldn't be them.