Pixar is brilliant; everyone – not just Disney who bought the animation studio a few years ago – knows this. Audiences and critics regularly rave about Pixar films. The makers’ love of and attention to detail in their work is shown in the following examples: here are 25 brilliant details in Pixar films only fans spotted!
#1 The mime on the bridge in Ratatouille is The Incredibles villain Bomb Voyage
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#2 Ernesto’s guitar in Coco has a golden tooth just like Héctor’s on the headstock – a clue that it had always been his instrument
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#3 In the dental practice in Finding Nemo, Buzz Lightyear can be seen in front of the toy box
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#4 Sully’s chair in Monsters Inc. has a cut out on the back for his tail
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#5 The pictures of former captains in WALL-E show people who worked for well over 100 years – thus implying that medical advances have lengthened human lifespan considerably
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#6 This keyboard in WALL-E only has 0 and 1 keys for robot-friendly binary code
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#7 The dead superhero Downburst in The Incredibles apparently used farts to fly and defeat his opponents
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#8 The dogs in Brave are (historically correct) Scottish Deerhounds
All the dogs in Brave are Scottish Deerhounds, a breed authentic to the Medieval period it is set in from r/MovieDetails
#9 In The Good Dinosaur, the continents are so close together because 65 million years ago, when the film was set, the supercontinent Pangea had just separated
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#10 In Cars 2 the company Insuricare is being advertised – this is the same business for which Bob Parr works at the start of The Incredibles
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#11 The landscape in Cars is modeled on the design of classic cars
In „Cars“ the canyons are all old cars and hood ornaments. from r/MovieDetails
#12 The lightning strike in WALL-E fully charges the robot’s batteries
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#13 In Monsters Inc., Boo tries to give Sully a Nemo toy – Finding Nemo came out two years later!
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#14 In Finding Nemo, the dentist leaves the toilet without washing his hands – and then treats the next patients
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#15 Also in Finding Nemo, Bruce mourns the fact he never had a father – this actually happens to all sharks, because the mother shark looks after the babies by herself in nature
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#16 In Coco, there is an advertising poster for the undead version of The Incredibles
In Coco we can see The Incredibles poster from r/MovieDetails
#17 The same Asian takeaway box appears in A Bug’s Life, Ratatouille and Inside Out
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#18 Manny in A Bug’s Life is happily married to a moth because, in nature, female praying mantises eat the males after mating
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#19 The Binford toolbox in Toy Story is a reference to the sitcom classic Home Improvement – Binford is the company, which sponsors the fictional home improvement program of the main character Tim Taylor. Tim Allen, who played this character, also voiced Buzz Lightyear in the original
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#20 The books on the shelf behind Woody show titles of early Pixar shorts
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#21 The picture of stars at the beginning of Toy Story 2 forms the legendary Pixar lamp
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#22 Buzz Lightyear’s batteries in Toy Story 3 were produced by Buy n Large, the company in WALL-E
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#23 Both young Carl’s and Russell’s shirt collars peek out on one side – a sign that the two characters are more similar than they think at first
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#24 Anton Ego’s typewriter in Ratatouille is modeled on a skull and his office is shaped like a coffin
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#25 The small burn on Colette’s forearm came from an oven grate – chefs often have such injuries
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