Crazy Nate: I’m sure you had that thought growing up at least once, I wonder what my
toys are doing while I’m at school.
Well we can blame Toy Story for making such a timeless classic that ignited our imagination.
But did you also know they left tons of hidden easter eggs all over so we could come back
again and again to try to find them all?
If you are a fan of Pixar or you are one of the luck few that made it to their studio
then you already know that the luxo ball and the lamp are their iconic mascot.
In toy story Both of them can be seen several times.
The ball can be seen chasing the army man in the beginning when they are spying on the
party, and again when the kids run upstairs.
Then it shows up again when Buzz tries to prove he can fly.
Now the lamp Sr, not to be confused by the land jr, not only is in the movie, but ultimately
is the one responsible for knocking Buzz out the window.
When woody is having the meeting you can see a pile of easter eggs hidden behind him.
Red Dreams and Knick Knack, The Tin Toy.
These are all Pixar short films, and for the Author Lasseter is also the name of the Producer
and Director of Toy Story John Lasseter.
Smyrl Smyrl Twist and Twirl is a book referencing to Eliot Smyrl who worked in visual effects
for toy story.
Another one is The adventures of Andre and Wally B. You guessed it, a short film created
by John Lasseter.
The drawing on the wall of woody you would expect that Andy drew it, but in all actually
it was one of the original sketches of woody and was actually going to be what he looked
like.
Originally he was going to be a ventriloquist.
But evolved into a more likable character.
Toy Story is a Pixar movie, however Disney was the larger company that slapped their
name of ownership on it.
In the beginning Pixar and Disney had a rocky relationship.
They didn’t see eye to eye on how Pixar should make their films.
Disney gave Pixar a smaller budget than the traditional hand drawn movies that Disney
was more famous for at the time.
Princess Jasmine: A whole new world!
Crazy Nate: and they even wanted Pixar to lay off a bunch of their people that they
just hired.
Now Pixar asked for two weeks to put together a story that Disney would love, and after
two weeks of hard work day in and day out, they got everyone on board with this tremendous
story.
I think the animators showed a little clue though to how they felt about Disney.
Here's my two points to prove my point.
Get the point?
We can find a Mickey mouse watch that’s actually a wall clock, and that seems like
a normal Easter egg.
Right?
Well let's dig a little bit deeper.
First we need to know that the sun sets on the west side.
So we know that the side of the room the desk faces is the west side because that is the
window that Buzz fell out of, and when they are going to get pizza planet you can clearly
see the side with the window buzz fell out is directly facing the sunset.
That being said...
In the begining we follow Andy’s day, we just got done watching Andy play for what
seemed like hours, then he had a birthday party where they at least had cake if not
lunch and dinner too before even thinking of opening the presents because you can see
his mom setting the table to serve food.
Then after all that time, then and only then do we see the Mickey mouse clock, and the
clock says 12:05.
We all know at high noon your shadow is directly under you and as it gets later in the day
the angle starts getting more and more dramatic.
So basically, based on the shadow from the window, it looks like it’s about 4 or 5pm.
I think this was Pixar’s way of saying to Disney, HEY!
you're behind the times with those hand drawn movies and it's time for you to fully embrace
animated films.
Woody: OH yeah!
Well good writtens, shaloonie!
Crazy Nate: My other point is this.
when Buzz Lightyear is walking away from woody you can clearly see Disney is stamped on his
butt, and later Sid shoots him there with a dart.
Now, if you’ve seen my other Pixar movie review you will begin to wonder are all these
things really just a coincidence, or is there some hidden tension between the two companies?
I’m sure by now with so many successful movies Pixar’s belt Disney and Pixar worked
out their differences and Disney learned to trust and embrace Pixar’s creativity.
Woody: Don't count on it?!AWE!
Crazy Nate: Now the license plate for Andy’s moms van is A113, referencing the room number
for the famous art building once again.
With the battle between Star wars and Star Trek, Toy Story made sure to make a reference
to make both sides happy.
Buzz Lightyear can clearly be seen doing the Star Trek Vulcan salute.
This is supposed to mean live long and prosper, most commonly known as code for Greetings
Star Trek Fan.
Then for the star wars fans like me they have basically the same entire evil plan that Darth
Vader had.
giant laser beam that can destroy an entire planet.
There is a video circulating around the web saying that Wall-E was actually in toy story,
and I’m not saying that is possible, but I am saying that I haven’t seen it yet,
and I watched the video that claims Wall-e is in Toy Story, and I hate to say it to you,
but that is a hoax.
They edited the scene to make it look like that.
Here is the original scene side by side with their scene, we'll slow it down a little bit.
No Wall-E, sorry.
Another hoax we need to debunk is that Jessie was in Sids room the entire time, and the
only reason why you couldn't see her is because it was too dark.
But if you turned the brightness up, TADA!
You can see her.
So here we have the lights brought up and there's no Jessie.
That too was a fake easter egg that someone made, and is NOT in the movie.
With many late nights of creating toy story some of the not so rated g humor started slipping
out.
Naturally some of it leaked into the movie.
Like Buzz Lightyear, his ship kinda looks like a can of budweiser can.
and just in case you missed the reference.
Woody makes his own reference to beer.
and then he looks directly at the camera to make sure you didn’t miss it.
Then When Mr Potato Head finds out about a new MrsPotato Head.
Mr spell says hubba hubba in the background.
and when slinky is trying to score points with Andy.
Mr potato head gives the universal sign for calling Slinky a butt kisser.
If you think Mr. Potato head seemed like he was always a little on the grumpy side, thats
because that is the type of personality toy story was going for.
How would you feel if your body parts randomly moved around and fell off of you all the time?
What the Puck?
In the making of the movie Sid was often referred to as Little Jack Nicholson, referring to
an old scary movie about a man that goes crazy with an ax in the Stanley Hotel.
They left a little easter egg to the reference with the carpet.
It’s the same floor from the hotel.
Also did you notice the creative wallpaper in Sid’s house?
That's right, those are marijuana leaves.
Here is a little joke referencing to the Band Megadeath.
This seems like nothing special here, but if you are an animation nerd you will recognize
this tea pot as not just any ordinary teapot.
Oh no, it is the Famous Utah Teapot.
This is another one of those inside jokes with creators to try to find a way to put
the Utah Teapot in their movie.
This thing can be found everywhere, including your screen savers back in the day when all
the lines would go everywhere it would randomly show up.
Notice the handbook Improvised interrogations handbook.
That’s where Sid gets all his ideas from to torture the toys.
TM 31-210 is a Improvised Munitions Handbook used by the military.
Tim Allen did the voice for Buzz Lightyear, but before toy story came out he was most
known for as Tim Allen from the TV show called Home Improvement, where his job in the show
was working on a handy many show, and the name of the tool company was Binford Tools.
So naturally toy story paid tribute making the toolbox made by Binford Tools, and when
woody was trapped, Buzz aka Tim Allen naturally had to be the one to get the box off him.
Buzz Lightyear was named after the second man to land on the moon, Buzz Aldrin.
We later find out that the Dinoco gas station is the same one found in cars.
I also think it was a reference to The Good Dinosaur.
I mean they are both green, and it’s the same type of dinosaur.
Even though the good dinosaur did come out oh Idon't know 20 years later...
If you ever questioned how real that burn was on Woodys head, well don’t.
They actually burned a doll with a magnifying glass just to see what it would look like
in real life.
You can also find Grape soda all over in this movie.
I would argue that this was an easter Egg for the movie Up.
Carl Fredricksen: The Ellie badge.
Campmaster Strauch: Wow!
Crazy Nate: The name of the moving company is also an easter egg.
Even though a lot of people seem to think Eggman movers is a reference to Dr. Eggman
in sonic, however it’s actually a reference to Art Director Ralph Eggleston, at pixar
his login name was The Eggman.
Near the end when they are all trying to get back together, one could argue that this is
the most tense scene in the entire film, the camera jump cuts to the baby in the car listening
to The Lion King, secretly spoiling the end, hakuna matata means no worries.
So obviously everything was going to be ok.
If you ever used a baby monitor before you will know that this is a one way baby monitor,
and they obviously were listening to it the wrong way.
They were talking into the listening end.
When Buzz is exercising on the tredmill you can see Mr. Spell is actually showing how
many calories Buzz Lightyear is burning.
According to Pixar.com Toy story 4 will be released on June 21, 2019.
So you have plenty of time to go back and watch all 3 of the first Toy Story’s.
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know in the comments below what movie you would like to see next, and remember to share
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