Pixar movies, in addition to having some of the best plots and characters in current animation, also often contain surprises, references and so-called easter eggs , which make the most die-hard fans play Where’s Wally to try to locate them. If you’ve been curious about them, don’t worry, there’s a video that looks at 25 times Pixar movies connected with each other in this way.
Of course, if there is something that Pixar movies have, it is good scripts, many layers of meaning and details that you discover in successive viewings… In addition to references between them.
As a joke or tribute, it seems that it is a tradition that, among the action of the footage, Easter eggs or Easter eggs are hidden, small surprises to the delight of the most fans.
And aside from the usual pop culture references or jokes, Pixar movies often hint at each other through little details that you’ll miss if you blink.
But, so that this is not the case, a video from the Screenrant website has collected no less than 25 times in which Pixar has done this.
The 25 Ways Pixar Movies Connect With Each Other
The truth is that we recommend that you watch the video because it’s great. If you are not very good with English, you can always activate the automatic translation of YouTube, but, if you do not have time or prefer to read, do not worry, we have already extracted those 25 references for you .
- One of the details that they like to include the most is referring to their first short, Luxo Jr., whose protagonist is the lamp of their logo. But the favorite reference to the short is the multicolored ball that appears there and that also appears in movies like Toy Story or Monsters Inc.
- Lotso, the bear from Toy Story 3 and the main antagonist also appears briefly in Up , in the room of a girl who sees the balloon house go by.
- The same Chinese food packaging appears in many movies , such as The Incredibles , Ratatouille , and for the first time in Critters .
- The Pizza Planet truck , the most famous pizzeria in the Pixar universe and first featured in Toy Story , also appears in all but one Pixar film (including Brave ) , The Incredibles .
- If Pizza Planet is the most famous food chain, the biggest company in the Pixar universe must be Buy and Large . Wall-E ‘s company also makes cameo appearances in Cars or Buzz Lightyear’s batteries in Toy Story 3 .
- In Coco we can see the poster of a movie in the Beyond cinema, it is The Incredibles , in the Day of the Dead version , of course.
- In Finding Dory , the class of kids that visits the aquarium is Riley’s, the girl from Inside Out , and yes, so is she .
- Sully, from Monsters SA appears as a carved drawing in… Brave .
- The shadow of the dog that scares Remy in Rataoutille is that of Dug, the dog from Up .
- This is a rebound, but in the movie Bugs there is a caravan that says Casey Jr. Cookies , it’s a reference to Dumbo , but since Pixar is now Disney, it becomes a self-reference too.
- The Grape Soda brand of soft drink appears in Toy Story and also in Up .
- In the memory orbs from Inside Out , two of the sad memories show scenes from… Up , obviously.
- In Finding Nemo , a boy in the dentist’s waiting room reads an Incredibles comic .
- A Buzz Lightyear doll is also seen there .
- Pixar make many references to their shorts and the protagonist of one, Geri, an old man who plays chess with himself, appears in Toy Story 2 .
- The Toy Story room books also have titles that reference those in the shorts .
- In Onward ‘s Manticore Tavern , opening the kitchen reveals a rat that looks suspiciously like Remy from Ratatouille .
- Del Revés ‘s castle , which is demolished as soon as it appears, is that of Sleeping Beauty , which in turn became the symbol of Disney’s castle.
- In the Toy Story 3 movie, one of the children who enters the nursery like an earthquake wears a Lightning McQueen t-shirt , the protagonist of the Cars saga .
- In Up ‘s travel agency visit , the character from the short Knick Knacks is seen in one of the brochures.
- In Wall-E , one of the many junks the robot keeps on its shelves is Hamm the pig from Toy Story .
- In the same movie, he also has Carl’s cane in Up , which is a future reference since this movie came out a year later.
- In Onward , one of the vinyls is of Dorothea Williams, a character from the movie Soul .
- In Monsters University the dinosaur Arlo (from Arlo’s Journey ) appears as a toy.
- In Cars 3 , when one of the cars he trains for the races gets homesick, the image of Santa Cecilia appears , one of the main places in the Coco movie .
So there you have it, as you can see, Pixar loves to hide hidden references to their own movies. Of course, very subtle and deep, but, in one way or another, their universes remain connected by these small details.