'Lightyear' Hits Disney Plus Wednesday. Here's When (and Why It Took 6 Weeks) Lightyear was the first Pixar movie in years to land in theaters instead of going straight to Disney Plus, but it starts streaming Wednesday. Here's when (and why). Lightyear, the primary Pixar movie because the COVID-19 pandemic started to hit theaters, is lastly coming to Disney Plus greater than six weeks after it