Tim Allen finally shares his thoughts on the new Lightyear movie

Come­di­an Tim Allen shares his thoughts on “Lightyear” for the first time.

The Home Improve­ment star voiced the char­ac­ter of Buzz Lightyear, a toy astro­naut, in the Toy Sto­ry fran­chise. Pixar’s “Lightyear,” which is in the­aters now, instead focus­es on Buzz, the fic­tion­al movie char­ac­ter who inspired the Buzz toy, and is voiced by Chris Evans.

In an inter­view with Extra that aired this week, Allen attempt­ed to set that record straight while shar­ing his some­what mixed view of the new film.

“The short answer is I stayed out of it because it has noth­ing to do with it [with my char­ac­ter],” he said. “We talked about this many years ago … but the sheet met­al that did the first four films isn’t that. This is a whole new team that real­ly had noth­ing to do with the first films.”

“With­out Woody, there real­ly isn’t any ‘Toy Sto­ry’ buzz,” Allen con­tin­ued, refer­ring to the cow­boy toy char­ac­ter voiced by Tom Han­ks in the Toy Sto­ry franchise.

Not­ing that he expect­ed Lightyear to be a live-action film, he added, “It’s a won­der­ful sto­ry. It just does­n’t seem to have any con­nec­tion to the toy. … It just has no rela­tion to Buzz. I wish there was a bet­ter con­nec­tion to it.”

Watch a clip from Tim Allen’s “Extra” inter­view below. 

“Lightyear’s” some­what con­fus­ing premise has led some fans on social media to accuse Pixar — a Dis­ney sub­sidiary — of replac­ing Allen with Evans.

In June, “Every­body Loves Ray­mond” star Patri­cia Heaton tweet­ed that not cast­ing Allen in Lightyear was a “HUGE mis­take,” adding, “Tim IS Buzz! Why would they com­plete­ly cas­trate this icon­ic, beloved character?”

Lat­er that day, she cleared her mind some­thing by stat­ing that the new film is “an ori­gin sto­ry.” Still, she added, “Why remove the one ele­ment that makes us want to see it?”

Speak­ing to Enter­tain­ment Week­ly ear­li­er this month, Evans admit­ted he has “con­cerns” about tak­ing on the role of Buzz Lightyear giv­en Allen’s “Toy Sto­ry” appearances.

“I love what Tim Allen did and I love what ‘Toy Sto­ry’ meant to me,” he told the pub­li­ca­tion. “You have to under­stand that there will be a lot of peo­ple who have an idea in their head, but this is like when I signed on to Cap­tain Amer­i­ca. They know there’s a die-hard fan base, but that fan base is there because they have an under­stand­ing of what the char­ac­ter already is. So you have to respect that when you make your decisions.”

Mean­while, Dis­ney does­n’t seem to hold a grudge against Allen. Ear­li­er this year, it was announced that Allen would reprise his role as Santa/Scott Calvin in a Dis­ney+ series spin-off of The San­ta Clause.