Carl and Ellie from Up are shaped like a square and a circle, respectively, and their parts of the house are designed similarly. Even as far as the chairs they sit in are rounded or box shaped.
And apparently, Carl and Ellie knew Andy from Toy Story, as there is a postcard from them on his bulletin board.
The books on Andy’s shelf are also the names of their shorts that appear before the films.
Pixar even went as far as improving Andy’s handwriting to show his improvement as he grows up.
The toolbox in the background is from the fictional company Binford, who Buzz’s voice actor, Tim Allen, works for in Home Improvement.
Edit: Wrote Woody instead of Buzz. I deserve whatever the comments give me.
Buzz’s batteries are from Buy & Large, a company featured in many Pixar films, but most notably in WALL-E.
Pixar adds many homages to classic films, albeit in a more kid-friendly way. This is a recreation of the chestburster scene from Alien.
Here we have Rex acting as the fearsome T-Rex from Jurassic Park.
And the carpet from Sid’s house is the same as the carpet in the hotel from The Shining. Which definitely fits in, with what a twisted sociopath that kid was.
In Coco you can also see the twins from The Shining on a painting in the background.
In Cars 2 there’s a sign for ‘LasseTyre’, a pun on John Lasseter, Pixar’s director.
Everything in the Cars universe is a vehicle, even the flies seen here.
Here we see a car with the Apple logo, and sporting the number 84 as a shoutout to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who was Pixar’s CEO and who released their first computer in 1984.
They also give another reference to Apple in Monster’s Inc., with this ad that wants us to ‘Scare Differently’.
What’s even cooler in that movie is all the accommodations they made for different sized and shaped monsters, such as Sully having a hole in his chair for his tail.
They have multiple sizes of coffee cups for different sized monsters, which is considerate.
The bell in the same movie also has the red paint chipped away where the ringer hits it.
In WALL-E (the best Pixar movie, feel free to fight me in the comments), WALL-E’s batteries are low, until he is struck by lightning, which charges him up as shown on his chest indicator.
The binary keyboard for this robot consists of only 0s and 1s.
Mirage’s number in The Incredibles spells out SUPRHRO on a phone’s keypad.
Anton Ego’s office in Ratatouille resembles a coffin, and his typewriter a skull. So he’s probably not the hero of the story.
And less “blink and you miss it” and more “that’s impressive”, Pixar found a way to give a fish a receding hairline.
The Pixar Lamp is even hidden in the stars during the openning credits for Toy Story 2.
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