Today I present my first ever Buzz Lightyear poster. It hails from 1995.
This joker has hung in several locations over the years. It’s been in Macon, Georgia, Lakeland, Florida, Kansas City, Missouri and now in Saint Petersburg, FL. The best place he hug though was in a little blue and white nursery over the crib of my son James. The whole room was done up like Andy’s room with several shelves lined with Buzz Lightyear memorabilia.
Once the boy learned to stand up in the crib I started noticing a little half circle scratch in the wall near the corner of the poster frame. The pant was being worn off because that little joker was swinging the poster back and forth on the nail.
Buzz Poster hung in my sons room again at age 3 here in Florida… but a bunk bed took away the wall space. He was hanging in my home office, as you can see in the picture, but I recently added an additional Ikea Billy bookshelf to hold all my Buzz crap… and Buzz Poster is now behind my door leaning against the wall.
You can barely see the 1995 there along the bottom. That means it was made in 1995. And though I bought it in 1996 this may be the oldest Buzz collectible I own.
I can’t assume everyone reading this knows… Toy Story came out in 1995. I started collecting Buzz in June of 1996.
Here is a list of things that happened in 1995:
* The Sega Saturn and the Playstation were released in North America.
* Batman Forever, Pocahontas, Apollo 13, A Goofy Movie, Jumanji, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Braveheart and Golden Eye were released.
* Craigslist, GeoCities, MSN, and ebay were founded.
* Mortal Kombat 3, Earthworm Jim 2, Discworld, Command & Conquer, and Tekken 2 were released.
* MST3K, Sienfield, Star Trek: Voyager, Sliders, Hercules, The Drew Carey Show, ER, Home Improvement, Touched by an Angel, and Murphy Brown were all on TV.
* Windows 95, Netscape, JavaScript and the DVD format were introduced.
* And the Internet looked like this:
Now we come full circle. Toy Story, the world’s first completely computer animated feature length movie was released that very same year. The film’s graphics still holds up today. That’s just one of the things that make this movie… and Buzz Lightyear… so amazing to me.
In 1995…
In 1995 I was sharing mp3’s on my own website using my Packard Bell running Windows ’95, programming HTML with Hotdog from Sausage Software, viewing it on Internet Explorer & Netscape, listening to music with RealPlayer, and playing Full Throttle, The Dig & Myst.
What was your geek life like back in good old 1995?
**UPDATE**
I found an old photo of the poster in it’s place on my young son’s nursery wall.
