From winning Oscars to earning billions to making children cry – Pixar's capabilities are well known. But they're also the undisputed kings of the Easter egg - with references so sneaky and frequent that they make even Marvel look like rank amateurs in comparison.
In fact, their 15 feature films and numerous shorts are so bursting with self-referential secrets that there's actually a theory that all the films are set in the same world.
But there are also some strange, surprising and downright creepy nods to things outside of the Pixar-verse - that even fans don't always spot. Read on to find out:
1. 1995
The number 95 recurs throughout the Pixar films – it's Lightning McQueen's number in Cars, and can be seen in Toy Story 3 on the runaway train and on the T-shirt of one of the Sunnyside Daycare children. Why? Because 1995 was the year Pixar released its first feature, Toy Story.
2. Sid's rubbish career
The garbage collector in Toy Story 3 is Sid Phillips, the monster child from the first film. He is voiced by the same actor, Erik von Detten, and is even wearing an identical skull T-shirt. Sid mate, it might be time for a new wardrobe.
3. Read all about it
At the Incredible family dinner table, Bob reads a newspaper with the headline "Catastrophe Seen as Crisis Looms". A very headline appeared in director Brad Bird's earlier Warner Bros movie The Iron Giant, and before that on Jim Dear's newspaper in the 1955 Disney classic,Lady and the Tramp.
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