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30 Pixar Facts That Didn't Make Us Cry a Little Shut Up

By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

July 27, 2022

30 Pixar Facts That Didn't Make Us Cry a Little Shut Up

Pixar's movies have become a major part of a certain demographic's movie diet. If you didn't grow up on Andy's toys coming to life whenever he wasn't in the room-- Maybe you have more affection for the superhero family of The Incredibles, the lovable creatures of Monsters Inc, the post-apocalyptic adventures of the robot Wall-E, or the unfathomable David Lynchian hellscape that the Cars series must be. When your production house has enjoyed that much success over this many decades, each production has it's share of interesting trivia tidbits to collect. We've done our best to gather some of the most interesting facts together here: from production issues, to unexpected tie-in products, to the famous easter eggs that serve as stealthy debuts of future iconic characters.

Pixar's cross generation dominance in the animation landscape may come and go through the years, but these characters and movies have special places in our big dumb hearts.

30 A Bug's Life

PIXAR MOVIES A BUGS' LIFE PRINCESS DOT IS KAIRI FROM KINGDOM HEARTS. No, we're not saying an ant grew up to be a girl (although we can't fully rule it out). Both characters, however, are voiced by Hayden Panettiere. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

29 Brave

CRACKED.COM PIXAR MOVIES BRAVE REQUIRED A NEW SOFTWARE FOR MERIDA'S HAIR. The hair is almost its own character - down to requiring an entire new software just to manage it. — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

28 The Good Dinosaur / Inside Out

The bust of Forrest Woodbush: 2015 5 MONTHS LATER CRACKED.COM A couple dinos from The Good Dinosaur appear as statues in Riley's memory of a trip to San Francisco in Inside Out. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

27 Toy Story 3 / Cars 2

Fin McMissile undercover: 2010 2011 CRACKED.COM In Toy Story 3, Andy has a poster of an oddly un-anthropomorphized version of the Cars 2 co-protagonist. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

26 The Good Dinosaur / Monsters University

The collegiate cameo: 2013 2015 CRACKED.COM The star of The Good Dinosaur briefly appears as a distinctly Pixar-ian toy, inside a Monsters University scare emulator. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

25 Brave / Cars 2

The car-sed tapestry: 2011 2012 CRACKED.COM An unsettling all-car version of Brave's DunBroch family tapestry appears in Cars 2. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

24 Newt / Toy Story 3

The movie that never was: 2010 NEWT XING 5 DE 12 a 21 ET CRACKED.COM Toy Story 3 snuck in a reference to Newt, a film that was supposed to come out in 2011, but instead languished in development hell before being quietly cancelled. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

23 Up / Rataouille

Dug's shadow: 2007 2009 CRACKED.COM Before the world knew he was an adorable, harmless little goober, Up's Dug scared the bejeezus out of Remy in Ratatouille. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

22 Cars

PIXAR MOVIES CARS IMPLIES THERE WAS A CAR HOLOCAUST. Sarge is a World War II veteran - meaning there was a World War II. CURIOS Flais Cafe KM DELLA TAC RUS 66 لاب RADIATO CLASEL SPRINGS 43 ROU Rasteze Photos Rusteze For WULL CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

21 Cars 2

PIXAR MOVIES CARS 2 SHOWS DIFFERENT CARS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. In international releases, Jeff Gorvette is replaced in one scene by a car representing the specific country - which is more work than Spain was ostensibly put into the script. 24 CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

20 Finding Dory

PIXAR MOVIES FINDING DORY RECYCLED THE ORIGINAL FILM'S FLASHBACKS. Marlin's tragic story was at first going to be sprinkled in as flashbacks, but it was made into a prologue to make him more sympathetic. The idea was perfect for Dory's journey, though. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

19 Coco

PIXAR MOVIES COCO USED REAL BONES. Just like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland, Coco used real bones - only this time it was in the recording of the music, and not just laying around for tourists to take pictures of. BAGAAAA CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

18 Soul / Luca

The prescient travel agency: 2020 - TRAVEL THE WORLD = au and Disney PIXAR with ON SALE NOW - THE PoProPosso FBF = - LUCA 2021 CRACKED.COM Eagle-eyed fans have already noticed a New York City travel agency in Soul that advertises Luca Airlines. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

17 Finding Nemo / Monsters Inc

Nemo forced to witness sushi prep: 2001 2003 CRACKED.COM Two years before Finding Nemo, a Nemo-like fish appears wide-eyed and mouth agape in this mural behind a sushi chef in Monsters, Inc. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

16 Your Friend The Rat / Wall-E

WALL-E's side gig: 2007 WALE 2008 CRACKED.COM Before he was a lovestruck, possibly genocidal protagonist, WALL-E was a futuristic bus driver in the Ratatouille-adjacent short Your Friend The Rat. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

15 Toy Story 3 / Up

Lotso lurks: 2009 2010 CRACKED.COM Toy Story 3's sneak-attack antagonist Lotso had an apt cameo in Up - a forgotten toy, brooding in the corner of a distracted child's bedroom. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

14 Monsters Inc

PIXAR MOVIES MONSTERS, INC. LOOKS A LOT LIKE LITTLE MONSTERS. Pixar can surely be forgiven for occasionally borrowing things from other films - like, say, the plot of 1989's Little Monsters. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

13 Luca

PIXAR MOVIES LUCA IS BASED ON REAL LIFE. Director Enrico Casarosa based the film on his own experiences growing up in Italy. Reports about him being a sea creature are still unconfirmed. CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

12 The Good Dinosaur

PIXAR MOVIES THE GOOD DINOSAUR HAD ITS CAST ALMOST COMPLETELY REPLACED. The cast was replaced after a massive rewrite, with characters being changed or written out d despite the entire film already having been recorded. CRACKED COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

11 The Incredibles 2

CRACKED COM PIXAR MOVIES THE INCREDIBLES 2 HAD A WHOLE MOVIE'S WORTH OF MATERIAL CUT OUT. Brad Bird had to alter the film to have it released sooner, resulting in a lot of material to be cut - which was saved for a third movie. — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

10 Coco / Cars 3

Guitar in the car bar: 2017 5 MONTHS LATER CRACKED.COM The Cotter Pin Bar in Cars 3 dangled the guitar from Coco right in front of our noses. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

9 The Incredibles / Finding Nemo

Mr. Incredible waits patiently: 2003 2004 CRACKED.COM A little kid in the vet's waiting room during the Finding Nemo pelican kerfuffle is reading a Mr. Incredible comic book, over a year before The Incredibles came out. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

8 Coco / The Incredibles 2

Increíbles Dos: 2017 2018 CRACKED.COM In Coco, when Miguel and Hector are heading to the talent show, there's a spooky skeleton-ized poster for Incredible 2 in the alley. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

7 Finding Dory / The Good Dinosaur

Hank's on the banks: 2015 2016 CRACKED.COM We get a quick glimpse of Hank, the seven-tentacled octopus from Finding Dory, when Arlo falls into a pond in The Good Dinosar. — **Source:** **14 Pixar Characters Who Were Secretly Launched**

6 Toy Story 4

PIXAR MOVIES TOY STORY 4 KEEPS MOCKING ITSELF. From having ventriloquist dummies make fun of Woody, to a license plate bearing the famous command code that almost destroyed Toy Story 2, the final film in the series likes to mock what has been, as it finally closes the book on it all. CONTICAR CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

5 Wall-E

CRACKED.COM WALI PIXAR MOVIES WALL-E WAS ONE OF PIXAR'S FIRST FILMS. A Bug's Life, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and WALL-E were all conceived (in that order) during one Pixar lunch in 1994 - but it took until 2008 for the film to finally see the light of day. — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

4 Turning Red

CRACKED.COM PIXAR MOVIES TURNING RED KEPT MEI'S PROVISIONAL VOICE. Teen Rosalie Chiang was hired to record a temporary voice track-but then they found found no actor who could match her performance, so they kept her. — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

3 Soul

CRACKED.COM PIXAR MOVIES SOUL WAS SCORED BY NINE INCH NAILS. Trent Reznor, best known for lyrics we're not sure we're legally allowed to repeat, scored the cute jazz film about a jazz man' soul. — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

2 Toy Story 2

PIXAR MOVIES TOY STORY 2 WAS ALMOST LOST. The film was accidentally deleted and all the back-ups failed, but one employee had the entire movie on her home computer while on pseudo- maternity leave. See? Working from home is good! CRACKED.COM — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

1 Ratatouille

CRACKED.COM PIXAR MOVIES RATATOUILLE ALMOST HAD ITS OWN WINE. The movie was poised to put out the perfect product placement - Ratatouille wine, a white Burgundy. Worries about underage drinking nixed the rat wine. — **Source:** **16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In**

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