61 Hidden Pixar Easter Eggs for Clever Fans With Eagle Eyes

In addition to being featured in the Pixar logo, the lamp from "Luxo, Jr." has made some surprise appearances in the movies as well. For example, in a scene in Wall-E, the robot fashions a statue of EVE using parts left hanging around, and one arm is a Luxo lamp. (The other looks like Guido's paint brush from Cars.)

In Toy Story, the characters head to a sci-fi-themed pizza restaurant called the Pizza Planet. The pizza delivery truck—a yellow truck with a rocket on top—has worked its way into almost every Pixar movie since. It even finds its way into movies where it would seem impossible: There's a pizza-planet-truck-shaped asteroid in The Good Dinosaur, a truck tattoo in Toy Story 4, and, in Brave, it shows up as a wooden carving.

You probably didn't give a second look to the logo on the takeout container in Incredibles 2, but it turns out that Pixar has been using that same pagoda design for years. You can spot it in Toy Story 4 inside the antique-shop owner's fridge, Inside Out when Riley's family gets Chinese food, among the mess in Luigi's apartment in Ratatouille, in the Pizza Planet truck in Toy Story 2 (Easter eggs within Easter eggs!), all the way back to A Bug's Life, where it doubled as Manny the Mantis' "Chinese Cabinet of Metamorphosis."

It's clear from the outset that Bonnie's tablet in Toy Story 5 is a Lilypad that looks like a frog. (There's even a Reddit-style informational message board called Ribbit.) But not every kid has the same animal avatar as Bonnie. In her group chat, you can see that there's a ladybug, a blue bird, and—hey!—a beaver that looks like the robotic creature from Hoppers. When she goes on a sleepover with the girls, you can see Chelsea's tablet is in the shape of a Beaver the way Bonnie's is in the shape of a frog. (If they were really attuned to kids' tastes, they would have gone with a highland cow or a capybara.)

One thread throughout Toy Story 5 involves the Buzz Lightyear we've come to know and love meeting up with a bunch of newer, higher-tech Buzz Lightyears that aren't quite as self-aware as he is. At one point, our Buzz tells the group a hard truth then says, "Search your feelings, you know it to be true." That's an Easter egg for fans of a different Disney universe, since Darth Vader says those exact words to Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back. Add it to the list of many parallels between Buzz Lightyear/Emperor Zurg and Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader.

At one point, the Buzzes are all on a mission, trying to travel in a hurry—except they all have to freeze simultaneously when a vehicle whizzes by. Of course, it's the Pizza Planet truck, which travels on without stopping to see why a fleet of Buzz Lightyears are strewn about by the side of the road.

At the end of Hoppers, when Dr. Sam talks about some of the projects she might want to pursue in the future, she wheels out a blackboard with some ideas sketched on it. The blackboard is full of Easter eggs for inventions we see other Pixar movies, like a dog collar that can help dogs talk (similar to the one in Up) or a robotic cat (like Sox from Lightyear). The talking collar is Dr. Sam's idea #113, the Pixar magic number.

To prove Mabel's animal-loving bonafides, Hoppers begins with a flashback to her elementary school days, when she tries to liberate all of the class pets. One of them is a turtle named Crush, an obvious nod to the laid back sea turtle from Finding Nemo. The lamp next to the tank should look familiar by now too.

Elio's directors admitted that they've slipped the famous Pixar Easter eggs into the film. "We definitely have the classics: the Luxo Ball, A113," Madeline Sharafian told Screen Rant. She also nods at a longstanding Pixar tradition of hiding a character from the next film in the current one. "We do have a hint toward our next film," she said in the same interview. "It’s in the universe somewhere. It’s a character, and it’s for the film Hoppers. It’s on screen for a pretty long time and kind of featured, which is rare." For those who have already seen Hoppers, when the Golden Voyager record starts to play, they'll immediately be able to recognize Tom, the low-key lizard. (Lizard. Lizard.) There's also a file on Melmac's computer that says "Hop_Script," so maybe he helped work on the film,

As for some of the other classics, they can look to Elio's alien-and-cryptid-themed backpack for an easy-to-spot one: a patch that says "Area 113." Then keep eyes peeled around Melmac's house for the Pizza Planet truck, and Olga's desk for the Luxo lamp.

In Elio, the young alien aficionado actually gets to befriend an affable extra-terrestrial named Glordon. Glordon—with his purple color, scaly texture, pointy teeth and flipper-like appendages—looks a little familiar, doesn't he? He looks...

...like Boo's costume in Monsters, Inc! It's not an exact match—Glordon doesn't actually have eyes, after all, and he has less fringe up top—but it's enough to make you wonder if Sully has had any contact with the Communiverse.

This Easter egg is more for alien fans than Pixar stans. Elio, who is obsessed with alien abduction, decorates his room with space-themed ephemera—including something that bears a strong resemblance to Mulder's "I Want to Believe" poster from The X-Files. (Elio's just says "Believe," but it's close.) Now that Disney bought 20th Century Fox, The X-Files is on Disney's Hulu, so perhaps Elio has been catching up on old episodes.

When Riley's emotions get suppressed in Inside Out 2, not only are they trapped in a jar—that jar is locked in a vault. And that vault is numbered with roman numeral ACXIII. Wait a minute—"A" isn't a roman numeral! CXIII translates to 113, so they're in vault A113. (There it is again.)

A113 isn't the only Pixar Easter egg staple in Inside Out 2, either: Look on Coach's desk, where she keeps her all-important notebook. It's illuminated by a Luxo lamp.

Those well versed in Pixar's history know that Apple founder Steve Jobs was an early leader in the company, and they like to pay tribute to him when they can. In the scene when Anxiety appears on a big screen to ask everyone in Imagination Land to brainstorm disastrous scenarios that could come to pass in Riley's future, one of the characters reacts in a way that recalls a famous Apple ad from 1984. It's a deep cut, but the parents in the crowd might get it.

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Looking around the Fireplace shop in Elemental, you're going to want to get your pausing thumb ready. There are so many visual gags and puns, especially when it comes to the brand names of all the different products.

But when you get a look at the magazine section, that's when you really get to see the Easter eggs. One issue of a magazine looks like it has Arlo from The Good Dinosaur—which makes sense, since Elemental shares a director with that movie. There's also a different issue at the bottom that has a robot that bears a resemblance to Wall-E.

Wondering why the magazine, which looks like it's called Future, doesn't have any references to the space-themed Elio? That's because those references are hidden in Wade's flashback (take a look at the posters on the school wall behind him before he gets sucked into the sponge, and you'll see a planet with tentacles on one).

Most of the asides in Lightyear are Toy Story references, not exactly Easter eggs. (Though the Pizza Planet truck is there when—spoiler alert—Buzz and Sox race to "borrow" a ship after the new commander says Buzz's mission is canceled.)

The whole concept of "crystallic fusion," which Buzz is trying to re-invent in Lightyear after his crew gets marooned on an alien planet, comes from something the toy version of Buzz says to Woody when they're first introduced. (Buzz: "Do you people still use fossil fuels, or have you discovered crystallic fusion?" Woody: "We've got double-As.") When Lightyear's Buzz first lands on the alien planet, he says the terrain seems unstable—exactly what the Toy Buzz says about Andy's room.

Even the concept of "stealth mode" is something Toy Buzz says about his suit in the Toy Story movies. But the best Toy Story reference is a little more subtle. When the crew gets caught in "capture cones," it feels like a throwback to the moment in Toy Story 2 when the crew uses traffic cones as a disguise to cross the street and get to Al's Toy Barn.