Pixar films have long since had a tradition of dropping Easter Eggs into their movies showing cameos of characters from their other films, sometimes before they even come out.
The Pizza Planet Truck is the biggest repeated Easter Egg, first appearing in Toy Story, then in Monster’s inc it is parked outside the camper trailer that Randall is banished to, and is the location for the bug zapper in Bug’s Life and also appears in Ratatouille, and Wall-E. I could go on forever.
So in the grand tradition, Pixar is going to introduce us to another future star of Toy Story 3 in this summer’s Up!
“On ‘Monsters [Inc.]’, when Sulley is putting Boo back in her room, and he’s going to say goodbye to her, she hands him all these toys,” saidd Pete Docter, a director on “Up” and “Monsters,” and a writer on the “Toy Story” films. “One of them was this fish – which was Nemo – but nobody knew it at the time, because ‘[Finding] Nemo’ hadn’t come out yet. We have a similar thing [in ‘Up’].”
He didn’t want to say what/who the new toy character is, but he then gives us enough hints:
“There’s a shot where a little girl is in her room and the house goes by,” the producer said of a seemingly simple reaction scene near the beginning of the film, in which a young girl is surprised by the flying house soaring past her bedroom. “She’s playing with her toys. She’s playing with her little plane. She gets up, and she looks [out the window] – under her bed is one of the new stars of ‘Toy Story 3’.”
So with that said and my tireless finger on the pause button I think I have found him in the second teaser Trailer for Up!
Also notice the Luxo Ball (another Pixar staple) on the floor next to the girl’s plane. Unless they plan on adding something in there later (there is nothing else under that bed), I think we can expect to see a pink teddy bear making its debut in Toy Story 3!
