New Forever stamps featuring Buzz Lightyear unveiled
A sneak peek of the new Forever stamps featuring Buzz Lightyear from the U.S. Postal Service was revealed at the red-carpet premiere of Disney-Pixar’s “Lightyear.”
The new “Go Beyond” collection is a pane of 20 stamps featuring the image of Buzz Lightyear marooned on a planet 4.2 million light-year from Earth.
Greg Breeding was the art director using illustrations from Pixar Animation Studios.
Additional details about the “Go Beyond” commemorative stamp collection, including the release date, will be announced later this year.
The new film “Lightyear” is a sci-fi action adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy. The new film follows the legendary Space Ranger, voiced by Chris Evans, after he’s marooned on a hostile planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth alongside his commander and their crew. As Buzz tries to find a way back home through space and time, he’s joined by a group of ambitious recruits and his charming robot companion cat named Sox. Complicating matters and threatening the mission is the arrival of Zurg, an imposing presence with an army of ruthless robots and a mysterious agenda. The movie opens in theaters on June 17, 2022.
Disney has a rich history of having characters placed on stamps and not only in the U.S. Mickey Mouse has appeared on stamps in the following countries: Maldives in 1985, Gambia in 1989, Antiqua and Barbuda in 1999 and Portugal in 2001. It wasn’t until 2004 that Mickey and other characters made their way on to stamps from the U.S. Postal Service.
In 1998, a Snow White stamp was issued as part of the Postal Service’s “Celebrate the Century” stamp series that highlighted the most memorable and significant people, places, events and trends of each decade of the 20th Century.
