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When Pixar movies reference or foreshadow each other

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Watching Cars a while back, cos my little girl is mad about it, and noticed the main sponsor for King was Dinaco. Then we watched Toy Story (from ten years earlier) and what was the name of the petrol station that Woody and Buzz get stranded at? Dinaco!

Now did Cars just use the same name or was it planned like that? I remember seeing a documentary from one of the movies that said there was a big business lunch and everyone sat down and came up with story ideas that went on to become the movies that comprised of the first few movies. So not inconceivable.

I also remember in Monsters Inc, when Boo gets back to her own room and starts handing toys to Sully, and she hands him a toy clown fish.

Of course the best one is the credits sequence in Cars, when they rattle through all of John Ratzenberger's roles...
 
Pixar movies have always had sly little nods to each other. Pizza Planet or its truck, for example, is in each of their films (i believe). And it has become tradition to have a reference to their next movie in the one prior, i.e. there's a picture of Finn McMissile from Cars 2 on Andy's desk in TS3, Lotso from TS3 is in a little girls' room in Up, Nemo is in Monsters, Inc, etc.
 
So did anyone spot the Monsters Inc 2 reference in Cars 2?

EDIT: Oh, apparently a movie called Brave is being bumped in it's place, pushing Monsters Inc 2 back to 2013.

Rats.
 
My favourite is that Buzz's batteries in Toy Story 3 are Buy N' Large, which is the massive corporation in WALL-E.
 
Now they just need to exploit the crossover potential that all these references create. I say, Wall-E 2 is about the humans from the Axiom running into a band of feral toys who, after hundreds of years alone, have lost interest in playing possum when humans are around, and the two sides have to fight for control of the Earth.
 
David cgc said:
Now they just need to exploit the crossover potential that all these references create. I say, Wall-E 2 is about the humans from the Axiom running into a band of feral toys who, after hundreds of years alone, have lost interest in playing possum when humans are around, and the two sides have to fight for control of the Earth.
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I'd vote for nightmare fuel for that movie...
Buzz Lightyear... with a machete... :eek:
 
This may be slightly off-topic but Pixar threw in a nod to Japanese Anime fans by including a Totoro stuffed animal (Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro") in one scene. I believe that it was the house where the girl had the porcupine ("Mr. Pricklepants"). Did anybody else catch that?:cool:
 
David cgc said:
Now they just need to exploit the crossover potential that all these references create. I say, Wall-E 2 is about the humans from the Axiom running into a band of feral toys who, after hundreds of years alone, have lost interest in playing possum when humans are around, and the two sides have to fight for control of the Earth.
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Back when Toy Story 3 was in cinemas I posited an allternate ending where the toys ended up on a scrap heap and woke up years later, only to be crushed into a cube by a WALL-E.
 
Regarding the anime nods, Lasseter is a big fan and friend of Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli hence the references. In fact Pixar's next film, "Brave" seems to have some influences from Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away based on the trailers and designs.
 
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