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As the artists and storytellers at Pixar Animation began to crank out successful movies set in
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the fictional worlds of children's toys, sentient cars, and culinary rodents,
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it didn't take long for fans to realize that these stories aren't as separate as they thought.
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Fans have spun wild theories on a single unified "Pixar Universe", blurring the lines between
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Pixar's superheroes, animals, toys, and everyday people. One overall story may be
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impossible to find, but hunting down each Easter egg is more than worth the effort.
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Here are Screen Rant's 10 Amazing Hidden Details In Disney Films Part 2.
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The Illustrated Bug's Life
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A Bug's Life was one of Pixar's earliest films following Toy Story's success, the story of one
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insect's pursuit of a great adventure has proven just as worthy of Easter eggs, and hidden nods throughout Pixar's talented team.
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As proof that the film is still worthy of attention,
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a scene in Toy Story 2 shows even Mrs. Potato Head is a fan, as she reads an illustrated version of A Bug's Life's story.
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Is it merely a nod to an underrated film, or explicit confirmation
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that A Bug's Life is a work of fiction to Andy and his toys…?
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Bugs & Monsters
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There's no doubt that the fantastical adventure based on the monsters that keep children up
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at night caught more attention than A Bug's Life, but the two are directly linked.
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A good chunk of the insect adventure is set in the shadow of a mobile home, parked alongside
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the infamous Pizza Planet delivery truck – which is one of Pixar's signature Easter eggs,
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appearing in nearly every one of their films. When the villain of Monsters, Inc., Randall is sent
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into the home as punishment, he's forced to deal with its gator-hating inhabitants.
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Monsters, Inc. doesn't miss out on its own nod to the movie that started it all, either.
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Where's Woody?
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When Sulley returns the mischievous Boo to her very own bedroom at the end of the first Monsters adventure,
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she isn't ready to leave, showing off her toy collection to what she
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thinks is her big blue "kitty". The "Luxo Ball" from Pixar's earliest animated shorts
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can be seen, but Boo takes particular pride in her cowgirl Jessie doll, well-known to fans of Toy Story 2,
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and apparently a hit with more kids than just Andy.
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Buzz Down Under
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For a movie based in the oceans, Finding Nemo hints at more connections to Pixar's other
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properties than you would expect. When the wayward Nemo finds himself living in a dentist
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office aquarium, viewers are given more than a few glimpses of the waiting room and its
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sometimes terrifying patients. Among the toys scattered around for children to play with
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is the unmistakable profile of Buzz Lightyear, one star of the Toy Story series that was
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apparently even popular in Australia.
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One Incredible Comic
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The Toy Story movies always implied that there were thousands of each toy scattered around
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the world, but another nod in Finding Nemo isn't so easily explained. A young boy can
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later be seen reading a comic book in the dentist's office waiting room clearly showing
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a young Mr. Incredible on its cover. Whether it's a real adventure from the golden age
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of Pixar superheroes, or a sign that The Incredibles are merely comic book characters in Pixar's universe,
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that's for fans to decide.
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Car People
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It may not be the most critically-acclaimed of Pixar's movies, but the commercial power
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of Cars made it an overnight sensation – and the wealth of Easter eggs spread across the studio's other movies,
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shows the designers have a soft spot for the story of humanized vehicles.
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Although the world of Cars is lacking human beings, the characters of the Toy Story
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series are clearly fans: the third film in the series includes a simplified version of the
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star, Lightning McQueen, and a child wearing a t-shirt boasting his logo and number.
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Even Andy is a fan, with a calendar in his room showing a more realistic version of the
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sneezy Snot Rod.
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Jurassic Gas
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As an added bonus, the gas company, Dinoco, seen to sponsor the film's famous Piston Cup,
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is also a gas company in the world of Toy Story. And if viewers look close enough,
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the unmistakable dinosaur on the company's logo can be seen spotted on a lighter in Wall-E's
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collection of human artifacts.
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Incredible Underwear
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The story of a runaway rat with a flair for high-end cooking may not seem to have little in
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common with Pixar's other releases, but it turns out comic book superheroes are just
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as popular in the film's version of Paris as they are in the real one. This is clearly evidenced
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by the "Incredibles" logo on Linguini's underwear.
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A Telltale Shadow
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The timeline of the Pixar universe is also played within Ratatouille, as Remy's
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adventures through Paris end up bringing him dangerously close to an unseen dog.
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But a closer look at the dog's shadow reveals it to be not other than Dug, the fan-favorite
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canine from Pixar's Up, he appears here years before his own movie hit theaters – and
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apparently before a groundbreaking collar allowed him to speak English.
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Wall-E
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As light-hearted and hopeful as Pixar's movies tend to be, Wall-E showed that if every
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story is set in the same fictional world, then all are headed for a seriously depressing end.
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Wall-E has set decades in the future, and shows a single sanitation robot charged with cleaning
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up the Earth after it's been turned into one massive landfill.
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One big box retailer, Buy n Large is to blame for the mess, with their corporate logo spread throughout the movie.
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The BnL logo is shown on Buzz Lightyear's batteries in Toy Story 3. Leaving no doubt that all of Pixar's humans are headed for this fate.
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But at least the humans got to escape Earth. Toy Story's Rex wasn't so lucky,
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he can also be spotted in Wall-E's collection.
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So what do you think of our list? There are far too many Easter eggs to fit in one place,
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