Author's Notes

Russell carrying over A Bug’s Life characters on a clay sculpture is based on how Pixar characters start out as clay sculptures, which the computer later scans.

I know Luca shouldn’t know what a mole crab is (since mole crabs can’t be found in Italy), but in his film, Luca knew what a catfish was, which lives in freshwater. Luca and his kind are saltwater monsters.

In Elemental, Wade is, in fact, afraid of sponges, since he got stuck in one when he was a kid.

In Inside Out 1, Bing-Bong had a magic sack that could hold anything. Joy and Sadness use the sack to store the Core Memories so they don’t have to carry them all the time.

Talk about letting the cat out of the bag.

The jingle that Joe plays on his phone is a special tune that would play during the Walt Disney Pictures logo in front of Toy Stories 1 and 2, A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo, and Cars.

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A lot of people don’t know this, but Frozone’s secret identity in The Incredibles is Lucius Best.

I’m aware that there are some characters that I missed, but there just wasn’t enough room for every single Pixar character. I also made a rule for myself to include no humans from Inside Out.

The Good Dinosaur will forever be remembered as Pixar’s first box-office failure, causing a write-down of 85 million dollars.

If you're wondering where Bruce, Anchor, and Chum are, they’re in Pixar’s swimming pool. Don’t believe that Pixar has a pool? Click the link below!

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The reason why I had the characters spell out ‘40 Years of Pixar’ in this story is because I wanted to differentiate it from Once Upon a Studio. I was also inspired by how in the teaser trailer for Toy Story 3, the characters make the logo for the movie out of whatever they can find, only for Buzz Lightyear to make a better logo.

I decided to have the Cars characters be outside because it would be physically impossible for most of the characters to fit inside a building without leaving tire tracks or destroying some of the building.

I was going to have the red and blue umbrellas from The Blue Umbrella to protect BURN-E and Ember from the big splash, but because of the technical restraints I had for my collage, I decided to use Questa from Elio, instead.

I was going to have Terry count every Pixar character in the photo, but I soon realized that it was just too ambitious of a challenge.

This is what Guido and Guilia’s Italian roughly translates to.

Tell my friends it's time to get ready for the group photo! They're sleeping in the parking lot.

Don't worry, Guido. We'll help you.

A thousand thanks!

It’s Guido.

We had a big party last night and everyone is exhausted from all the hard work.

Hector’s Spanish translates to ‘cowboy doll’ and ‘friend’.

Joe nearly getting run over by Chick Hicks from Cars is a nod to how Joe narrowly dodged death at the beginning of Soul before walking into a manhole.

For those unfamiliar, Rocky Gibraltar was a wrestling action figure that belonged to Andy in the first two Toy Stories.

Well, Part 1 of my tribute to Pixar is completed. Next week, I will review all of Pixar’s movies leading up to Elio, as well as the Toy Story specials. Stay tuned!