Okay, Pixar, we're not sure what the difference is between a First Look and a Special Look, but you've got us - we're really excited about that new trailer.

Disney dropped a new trailer for Pixar's upcoming summer blockbuster Lightyear today, giving us another peek at the story inside the story that inspired the Buzz Lightyear doll in the original Toy Story movies.

In case that wasn't clear: This version of Buzz Lightyear is the one Andy saw that made him wanna buy the Buzz action figure in the first place - and we've gotta say, after seeing this new trailer, we can see why.

It doesn't give you all that much new information: We still know Buzz is stranded with Sox (a robot cat, voiced by Peter Sohn) on an alien planet with some very hostile robots, and that it's kinda his fault. This time around, however, we did get to meet his ragtag team - and that has made all the difference in terms of how excited we are for this movie.

The new trailer introduces the voice talents of Keke Palmer, Taika Waititi, and Dale Soules into the mix, as the team of characters Buzz runs into after he crash lands and ends up stranded - a team who described their level of training as best when Keke Palmer's character said, "we'd LOVE to be rookies."

Face-to-face with evil in the form of James Brolin's Emperor Zurg, Buzz has to do the best he can with the team he has - so he, Sox, Palmer's Izzy Hawthorne, Waititi's Mo Morrison, and Soules' Darby Steel, have to band together and do whatever they can to defeat Zurg and get off the planet safely.

Introducing these new characters is where this trailer wins - because all of a sudden, it's beginning to remind me of the popular video game series Mass Effect, in which you play as Commander Shepard, the prolific captain of one of the best and fastest ships in outer space - in the earlier days of humans' forays into space.

While Buzz's team might have a little less experience than the friends you make in the first Mass Effect game - and while, unlike characters such as Tali and Garrus, Buzz's team appears to be devoid of any alien friends - the way in which he takes control and uses the tools he has at his disposal to band everyone together has major Commander Shepard vibes.

The setting feels familiar too - if you told me The Normandy had crashed into a hostile planet with a few new recruits and Sheperd had to work with them to defeat the enemy and get them all to safety, I'd defintiely double-check if there was a side quest I'd missed in one of the games.

But that's not what really drives it home, though - the biggest similarity to Mass Effect comes from the cool quips you hear passed back and forth in the trailer. The sense of instant cameraderie and ease between these characters is, first of all, a credit to their voice actors - but it also feels a lot like the familiar banter between the crew members on the Normandy.

(Plus, with the promise of a lesbian romance on the screen, we can't help but think of Liara.)

We'll have to wait just a little longer to see if these Mass Effect similarities pan out in the full movie - Lightyear is coming to theaters this summer, June 17. (Prepare to blast off!)

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Chris Evans, Keke palmer, Taika Waititi