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Disney donates space-flown Buzz Lightyear toy to Smithsonian [i]Buzz Lightyear has gone from being a fictional space ranger to a real space artifact. A 12-inch (30.48-centimeter) action figure of the animated astronaut, which previously spent 15 months orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station, was donated on Thursday (March 29) to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. John Lasseter, the animator who created Buzz Lightyear and who is now the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, handed the toy-turned-artifact to curators before an audience of museum visitors. "I am wearing blue gloves," Lasseter said, holding up his covered hands. "I don't have a problem, it's just that Buzz Lightyear is normally used to small sticky hands in life, but now that he's been in orbit and he's now a part of the Smithsonian, they have us wear gloves to play with him."[/i]
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