So what you’re telling me is that Buzz Lightyear was played by Steve McQueen’s son, Chad McQueen, the actor who played Dutch in the Karate Kid. He would’ve been 35 at the time of Lightyear’s release in-universe, and he raced just like his father until 2006 after crashing during training for the Daytona 24 hour race. It took him a year to finish his physical rehabilitation, and by that point he became the owner of McQueen Racing, LLC, a custom motorcycle and car company. Cars 3 might as well have been based on that part of his life.
Buzz and Zurge Play the roles as father and sun play catch. So how can they say woody do something no you ever does. Maybe seeing that is what made Woody's Buzz encourage life with another fallow toy
I mean the buzz lightyear was very loosely based off of Star Wars which the OG trilogy started in the 70’s and the prequel trilogy was late 90’s- early 00’s, so I wouldn’t be surprised that the Pixar universe movies would be somewhat more ahead of the time than ours. I think that in-universe, the lightyear movie had a LOT of practical effects like a remote control puppet of Sox and giant suits for zurg and other robot characters along with early cgi effects like laser blasts, just like Star Wars does behind the scenes. But reality is that it’s just a cgi animated movie. I miss the times when Pixar would make fake bloopers and in universe marketing like interviews, they were so fun.
Anyone else think Buzz (or the actor who plays Buzz) looks a lot like Mr Incredible? If Dash grew up to be a speed loving actor (similar to mcqueen/newman/cruise) could the actor be Dash? Does that timeline even work?
The superhero, Thunderhead, died on November 15th, 1958, according to Edna Mode. So that means Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl got married shortly before that, presumably a year ago (1957). The film then flashes forward 15 years in the future, bringing us to 1972, and Dash is 10 years old at this point, so he was born in 1962. So, if Lightyear is a movie within the Pixar universe that premiered in 1995, by subtracting 1995 from 1962, we get 33. So, Dash would be 33 years old at that point so the timeline fits up for Dash to have played Buzz. I love this idea so much.
@@sadhbhcorr942 the more I think of it, the more I actually love it. His mother even describes him as being a "bit if a showoff" and :?"competitive". Now I am not calling actors those things but surely the best racers are competitive. Dash also loves cartoons and movies and geeks out at the super villan house the family stays in in I2.. he also adores his Dad's old car.
@@kellylouisefoley6442 That is so true. He really wanted to fight crime with his family and be better than everyone else. So, I can imagine Dash as a grown up wanting to become the lead actor in a popular blockbuster film because everyone would adore him. That feels very in line with his characters. I also imagine him in a lot of sports and/or other action movies. The Parr family are literally in Coco, as a painting on a wall in the Land of the Dead. So, that could imply they became famous worldwide and Dash is remembered for his acting role.
You’ve convinced me that Lightning was the consciousness of a former Racecar driver, but I see almost nothing in this video that connects that to Buzz other than that an actor could theoretically also become a racecar driver. This was a video about how Lightning is Steve McQueen, not about how he is Buzz. What you need to be able to do is show that Buzz is also Steve McQueen in the Pixar universe.
Amen. They probably didn't go that far because Steve McQueen died in 1980 and could not have played Buzz (and probably wouldn't have been willing to if he were alive).
@@carlrood4457 In their defense, I think they were simply trying to set a real-world precedent if their idea seemed unrealistic at first, and I think they did well in setting that precedent. So Lightning McQueen's former human self wouldn't have been Steve McQueen himself, just a Pixarverse analog for him. However, I do agree with Katie Robinson that they could have done more to directly link Buzz's actor in Lightyear to the Cars universe, which is pretty impossible because it doesn't seem like we'd see much of this actor outside of his role in the in-universe Lightyear film. Maybe we'll see references to this actor or the Lightyear film in future Pixar projects going forward, but at this moment this theory's main premise seems fairly flimsy. If it were actually a video on McQueen's real-world inspirations, then it'd make significantly more sense.
@@chansesturm7103 I get what you’re saying, however, Ben at the beginning of the video explained how cars in the Cars movies are created (with their personality and technological limitations stuff), and that is supposed to tie in where the personality and conscience of Mcqueen really are from. Yeah, yeah, I get that it’s a bit of a stretch and it’s definitely not my favorite theory of theirs, but it’s really funny to think that there’s a guy out there in the Pixar Universe who filmed a lot of movies and was a racer AAAAND also happens to play Lightyear
Right? I'd even go so far as to say that he's convinced me that Lightning is the consciousness of Steve McQueen, but he did nothing to prove to me that *the actor playing Buzz* is Steve McQueen, so I don't see how Lightning = Buzz beyond the idea that it's technically possible for someone to be an actor and a racecar driver.
Yeah, hearing all this, that also made sense to me. The point about Glenn doesn't make clear they named the character after him, just a dedication in Finding Nemo (unless I missed something).
Paul Newman and Steve McQueen starred together in The Towering Inferno, one of the best 70's disaster movies. For that movie, they came up with a way to credit them equally., Newman's name was on top to the right, while McQueen's was on the bottom to the left. If you looked at it top to bottom, Newman's name was first. If you looked at it left to right, McQueen's was first.
So does that mean there’s an in universe doc that who buzz has a rivalry with? Woody by chance??? Imagine if Pixar theory was just an animated recollection of two actors turned racing drivers who didn’t enjoy each other’s company in the slightest 😂
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="754">12:34</a> I already knew that, but I still laughed quietly to myself when I heard that. Maybe it was just Ben's delivery, but still. Hearing old information can give new reactions.
I’m all here for super out there theories like this, but I’m not quite convinced. That being said, you guys are still doing great. Also, side note one: instead of a detective hat maybe it should be a tinfoil hat. :). And side note two: “Monty McQueen” would be a pretty cool name. Even if it’s less memorable.
Buuz& Zurge Play the role as father and son so how can they say woody does something no other toy ever does . maybe seeing it was spired Woody's Buzz to encourage woody to choose a life with another to as an equal . instead of acting like an object. And talking about something no toy ever does . In the first movie He flat out tells a human we don't like being blown up . Of course the Omi droid also Breaks his programing self pressure. But woody was saving a friend. And later Even put her directive aside for wall.e
How are they doing great? They put more and more sponsored content into their videos (actual content starts at 4:29), they have Patreon and still run RU-vid ads. Their greed knows no boundary.
@@Exarathas That's not fair to them mate. They sponsor things they genuinely think are important or fun that they often use. The majority of their RU-vid viewers probably aren't on Patreon, and you don't make much at all via RU-vid without sponsorship. You may not love all their content, but they can do great in other ways. Creating a community, sharing good vibes, being positive, relaxing and chilling out over movies that seem to drive many to literally get angry.
I haven't watched these guys in a awhile but I still remember to say "HEY BROTHER" in the intro lol Edit: also there oldest intro has the best song fight me
Great video! But I do want to say, why would we assume it was a live-action movie for Andy? It could've been a cartoon movie. We know he is not, but he doesn't know he is not. It makes more sense that a kid would watch a cartoon movie rather than a live-action movie. As well, not many movies that are about space have toys made, like never seen one for Deep Impact, Interstellar, or Apollo 18. It makes more sense that a cartoon movie gets toys made and the target audience is kids.
I actually feel this is one of the better SCB theory videos I’ve seen in awhile. I also like that you’re in a small way introducing a younger audience to Steve MeQueen and Paul Newman. My only slight criticism would be that there have been more than 2 actors that also raced cars. James Dean, and James Garner for example.
I agree with about 95% of your guys’ theories but this was is a bit of a stretch. However I thank you for teaching my the valuable and crucial fact that Lightnings real first name was Montgomery. I never knew that, so thank you
Omg! Great video! This is my 3 year old’s absolute favorite movie! This was so cool because McQueen and Buzz are the two characters he has been drawn to the most! I can’t wait to tell him!
This will just make it all the more cool when lightning finally meets the progenitor, a millenia-old Woody, augmented by all manner of mechanical parts, and lightning is the the embodiment of the inspiration for one of his early best friends.
great video y'all the theory itself doesn't really connect in my brain but I loved learning about the actors/race drivers it's an extra tad of knowledge I otherwise probably would've never known
Well most folks tend to headcanon the Lightyear film is a 2020's reboot movie instead of the 1995 film it's claimed to be which the show (and first three episodes turned into a pilot movie) Buzz Lightyear of Star Command fits better as the film Andy saw as a kid in 95. And every episode opens with Andy's toys watching the show.
Yeah, that’s what I always said ever since Lightyear was first announced. I just think it makes way more sense if Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is the movie that the toy was based on in 1995, and then at some point after Toy Story 4 the company that makes the Buzz toys saw that their sales were dropping and decided to reboot the movie to try to get a new generation of kids interested in Buzz Lightyear toys.
Steve McQueen was an avid motor cyclist. When he was working his way up, he raced them to earn money. That became the back story of his character in The Great Escape (based on a true story. Look it up and watch the movie). He insisted on a scene of him riding a motor cycle be added to the movie. He also acted as a stunt rider since they didn't have enough stuntmen who could ride as well as him. There's actually a scene where he's chasing himself. However, he did not do the famous jump in the movie, as he was too valuable for something that dangerous.
Kachow kinda makes more sense now what if it was mimicking the sound of Buzz's Lazar. A movie that big would definitely would've made an impact on buzz.
Idk why but I feel like the Pixar theory has just gotten to the point where it’s not realistic anymore and y’all are jus reaching for something that’s not there.
@@saanvitammana271 Yeah exactly. I also like to believe this. It’s just so much fun trying to make out there theories and people who keep complaining about it make me a bit sad.
“The count hasn’t been off for centuries” a jerry from soul The meteor misses the dinosaurs… The songs were supposed to go onto the conveyor belt of afterlife but they do not, the dinosaurs threw the count off
There's a dirt track racer near San Antonio who's name is Lightning McDream, and he races a Lightning McQueen car! He didnt win any, but that's not what matters, he had fun.
I once thought Lightning McQueen could of been based on the motorcyclist Marc Marquez, as they have similar color themes and almost identical numbers. Moreover, both were the youngest at their time to win the championship. However, I later found out that Cars came out over a decade before Marc Marquez’s rise to fame and two years before he began racing.
I think you may have it backwards: a younger guy, who was a great race car driver, would make an excellent spaceship pilot with his better than normal reflexes and vision. Buzz (or the actor playing him) seems a little old to start an entirely new career as a race car driver - plus, as he movie was such a success, he may have been making sequels for years afterwards. Sort of how the best of the best in the Army get picked for Special Forces or the best of the pilots become "Top Gun" pilots. Also, a young guy who was a good race car driver may turn into a good aircraft pilot who could then be recruited for a Space mission. Of course, this depends on if the actor is the one who was a race car driver, then a pilot. If he was just an actor, he could have started by making race car movies like the "Fast and Furious" franchise, then moved on to playing "Buzz Lightyear" type roles.
Yeah but in the first movie when the announcers talk about lighting in the standings of the season they say he showed up unknown but everyone knows him now
(Disclaimer: The following theory has literally nothing to do with the video) Okay... hear me out. Skinner (Ratatouille) is Ercole's (Luca) father. First, Ercole is Italian, and Skinner is French (Italy and France are extremely close to each other.) Also, we see Skinner use the exact same Vespa that Ercole owns, so it's likely Ercole would have inherited it. Even though Ercole claims that he bought it, lying about this seems like such an Ercole thing to do. Also, not for nothing, but they both have VERY similar facial features. Wait hang on... *checks when both movies take place* oh......
For the sake of simplicity, I’ll assume the actor playing Buzz Lightyear in Andy’s universe is Chris Evans. Does that mean that Chris Evans is a variant of Steve McQueen?
I'm gonna say something can I say something? Cars and Cars 3 are CRIMINALLY underrated Pixar films. Are they PERFECT? No. But they're cozy. And that's why they work; they're perfect movies to put on after a long day, or during a rainy day, when you just...need to feel like there's a nice warm blanket around you. Not to mention the animation in the first still looks really good for a 2006 film.
Really good theory, to potentially make this more realistic the race driver “McQueen” in universe became so successful he went on to do the movies he wanted to do in his day dreaming. So instead of movies first racing 2nd, it’s racing first then movies
Harry Potter video idea: In the Prisoner of Azkaban during the bogart lesson lupin says but no one has ever seen a boggart its true form. However, in Order of the Phoenix there is a bogart in the drawing room confirmed by mad eye moody who sees the bogart in the box it's in with his magical eye. The bogart didn't know that moody was looking at it so does that mean that moody is the only person to see a boggart on its true form? (hopefully that made sense)
For me, the first actor-turned-racer to come to mind is Patrick Dempsey. Reading the other comments, racing isn’t that strange of career change for an actor.
Although I can’t say I believe in the Pixar Theory (I can buy the idea that some of these films take place in the same universe but all of them is pushing it a little) i’m always fascinated to see your guy’s fascinating theories about how they could all fit together. It’s very entertaining to see a different way to interpret stories. Keep up the good work.
I'm sorry Ben, but I personally love y'all's "The Cars are actually biological beings" theory from 2016 that answers everything so well. The cars are their own species in a universe parallel to the other Pixar movies and have a mixture of organic and mechanical parts inside them.
But isn’t it still possible that the biological cars in that parallel universe are based off of humans from the main universe? So this theory could still be true, because there would have to be a human Lightning McQueen to explain the merch we’ve seen in movies like Toy Story 3, Finding Dory, etc.
@@MiloMurphysLaw The cars in cars are just knock offs of famous celebrities such as Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) and like Ben said, the two racing announcers shown at the beginning. The product placement could just be because there are real Nascars in the Pixar universe who are not alive. Or maybe there is some Cars movie in the Pixar universe that a kid from Sunnyside Daycare went too and his t - shirt with the number 95 on it is from a fictional character who is not Lightning McQueen.
So Basically, Lightyear is A movie, inside of another movie, and the guy who plays Buzz in said movie inside of another movie is turned into lightning McQueen when the world gets super futuristic and stuff?
Fun fact: Frankie Munez (of Malcom in the Middle fame) is currently a race car driver as well! He doesn’t race in nascar, but he does now race more than act so it counts!
I like how this theory does nothing to say how buzz is this character. Just giving us the story of the creation of lightning. By this logic any actor from light year could have become lightning McQueen
There's one more actor who has become a racing driver, this time within Nascar. Frankie Muniz is currently racing in lower, local divisions of Nascar, trying to at least make his way to the truck series.
I actually like Seamus’s recent idea in his Pixar theory video that the cars movies like light year is a movie in the Pixar universe it makes a lot of sense and helps with a lot of the contingencies that cars introduces
Other Famous Actors who raced cars. James Garner - 1969-1971 24 Hours of Daytona, Patrick Dempsey - 2009 24 Hours of Le Man, 30th, 9th in class, 2011 24 Hours of Daytona, 3rd in class, Baja 1000 off-road race, American Le Mans Series Even Gene Hackman - 1983 24 Hours of Daytona
When you talked about Buzz being live action, it got me thinking: what’s the deal with the B&L CEO videos in Wall E? They’re live action from our perspective. What would that even mean in universe?
I think the entire cars franchise has to be a movie series. The idea that the cars all came to life in succession of being built would suggest that most if not all cars are actually "born" in the junk yard. That's whare broken cars go. That's also ware they would all be returning. That's like everyone being born in a graveyard instead of a hospital. That's just dark. And most of those cars would come to life rusty and broken. Then again in another theory you already suggested that cars reproduce. Speaking of that I remember quote when the were talking about the Sistine chapel. I have to wonder if they saw cars with no pain on them, or if they still saw human paintings and think of them as aliens.
