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Published 14:14 IST, December 16th 2020

Chris Evans responds as 'Toy Story' fans not happy about him replacing Tim Allen

Fans of 'Toy Story' film series were not quite happy to learn about Chris Evans replacing Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear; Have a look at the response from Evans

Reported by: Anurag Sharma
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Toy Story is one of the most popular animated film series made in Hollywood. The film series has four successful films with the latest one having released last year in 2019. It was earlier announced by Disney that one of the major characters of Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear, would get its own spinoff film, which got the fans of the animated film series all excited.

However, when recently it was announced that Captain America star Chris Evans would voice the character of Buzz Lightyear, many of the fans expressed their discontent towards it.

Toy Story fans not happy about Chris Evans replacing Tim Allen, Evans responds

Toy Story fans are used to seeing Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear for 25 years since the first film rolled out in 1995. The news of Chris Evans having replaced Tim Allen didn't seem to have gone down well among the fans and they had expressed their dislike of the news. Chris Evans has now given a subtle response to this discontent in his latest Instagram post and has penned down a brief message for everyone in the caption. U

ploading a picture of the character Buzz Lightyear on his Instagram, Chris has said that working with Pixar is a dream come and that he has been a “massive fan” of their work “since the very beginning”. 

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In his long and heartfelt message, Chris continued by saying that his team was extremely excited when they informed that Pixar had offered him this job. He then added that nobody could touch the performance of Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear. He revealed how he couldn’t help smiling throughout the pitch of the spinoff. He ended his long message by saying that he cannot put his excitement into words.

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Chris Evans has gained worldwide popularity by playing the characters of Captain America in several Marvel films, including the character’s 3 individual spinoff films. The actor has assured the fans of Toy Story that the studio is working well in the project. Further details about this spinoff are yet to arrive. 

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Updated 14:14 IST, December 16th 2020

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