Its easy, sometimes necessary for 3D animation productions to reuse models.  It makes it much easier than modeling and rigging completely new characters.  Thats probably the real reason why we see Bomb Voyage in Ratatouille and Linguini in Lifted.

I can see how fitting in these characters/props from different films can be fun and become a tradtition in its own right, though.

Great stuff, Jim! I had read about a couple of those already, but dang, that was interesting!

The Dude is right. Its a common practice to recycle 3D models. My sister told me that before and she has done 3D animation before.

Interesting article though. For a moment, I really thought there was a WALL-E reference in RATATOUILLE. I did catch WALL-E in the short film though. Some of the other references mentioned in the article I did not know about!

As for Brad Bird inserting little things into his films, upon a recent viewing of Iron Giant with my little niece I was surprised to see he has the 2 old men who commented on the Incredibles'  heroics as "old school" near the end of that movie as the train engineers who run into the Iron Giant near the beginning of his non-Pixar traditionally animated film.

I believe they're Frank and Ollie, Harosa.

It's not simply a matter of recycling. Certain stylistic approaches and/or hardware will produce characters with similiar appearances. It's why Lewis from Meet the Robinsons could easily pass as Syndrome and Mirage's kid, even if that's not the case.:P

Nice list of Pixar easter-eggs....

Jim Hill Media has a really interesting overview of Pixar characters that appear in Pixar films. For example, did you know that the Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story has appeared in every Pixar film to date? I was surprised...

Pixar hace múltiples referencias a sus personajes en cada nueva película. Esta es una detallada lista de esos guiños. En inglés

Hey Jim,

Just another to add to your list today. Actually, it's impossible to see clearly, but if you look closely at Andre's red fez (from "The Adventures of Andre & Wally B.), you will notice yellow some yellow stitching. That is actually the names of all the Pixar employees (at the time).

I heard about this one on a Disney Channel special back in the mid 80's.

There's also a scene in Monsters Inc. where Randall is prepping to go out on the scare floor, and his assistant is pulling down different backgrounds behind him.  He pulls one down and Randall changes into the blue wallpaper with clouds from Andy's room in Toy Story.

Hey Jim, great article today! Maybe an article on how Disney has done this over the years would be fun. Maybe reading where Disney has re-traced previous animated sequences...though Disney did it to save money.

Where's the Pizza Planet truck in Bug's Life?

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Excellent roundup of many of the Pixar inside references! I put together a post with three interesting Brad Bird references from Pixar and his previous work:

http://makkintosshu.dyndns.org/journal/brad-birds-inside-jokes

He was trained by classic animators at Disney, so many of his references are a bit more old-school.

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@Harosa & @Tomoyo, they are absolutely Frank & Ollie.

@driverjase, the "big city" that Flick goes to is underneath the trailer which has the Pizza Planet truck parked next to it.

There is one you forgot.  In Finding Nemo, when they first show a shot of the dentist's waiting room, there is a Buzz Lightyear toy on the floor.  

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Plus: So long, People's Choice Awards.

I think I remember a "Scare Different" ad on the scare floor at some point in Monster's Inc... I think near the end. I believe "Think Funny" was there too...

I also remember Randall using Andy's Cloud Wallpaper as a 'test' camoflauge before a scare floor opening....

In the above mentioned point about when Boo hands the Nemo doll to sully, she also hands him a Jessie Doll...

I think there are quite a few a bug's life references in Toy Story 2....

Great list overall!

This was a great article, and the kind of stuff I love reading on your site Jim!

This was a great article, and the kind of stuff I love reading on your site Jim!

I also noticed when Linguini is thinking about sticking Remy down his pants, you can see (although blurred) that he is wearing Incredibles underwear.

Nice compilation! I swear I never thought that Pizza Planet truck was in the Incredibles.

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