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Cameos, in-jokes, re-used animation, and other trivia from The Good Dinosaur.

Cameos[]

  • Peter Sohn has indicated that the Pizza Planet Truck appears twice in the film.[1] two appearances are currently known:
    • TheGoodDinosaur-PPT-redcirclepaint

      The Pizza Planet Truck as an asteroid.

      The Pizza Planet Truck makes an appearance as an asteroid in the opening shot, floating in the top left part of the frame.
    • The Rocks of the well where the dino's put their mud prints, you can see the Truck there.
  • The likeness of Hank from the next feature Finding Dory can be seen at the bottom of the river when Arlo learns to swim.
  • TheGoodDinosaurA113

    A113.

    A113 can be seen formed by pickets on the wooden fence surrounding the area of the "cluckers" on Arlo's family's farm.
  • The Luxo Ball appears floating around Arlo and Spot during their hallucination.
  • Also in the hallucination scene, the likeliness of Gus from Partly Cloudy appears as one of the background clouds.
  • There are several allusions to other non-Pixar movies:
    • The T-Rex scene resembles the scene from Jurassic Park.
    • The phrase: "The storm provides" is an allusion to The Big Lebowski, where one famous phrase is: "The dude abides."
  • The monster in the flashback resembles the shark in Partly Cloudy which Peter Sohn directed.

Other trivia[]

  • This is the second Pixar film to be released on November 25th, after A Bug's Life, and the first to be released in November since The Incredibles.
  • Along with Inside Out, it marks the first time that Pixar had released two feature films in the same year.
  • According to the audio commentary, the forces of nature are the main antagonist(s) in this movie.
  • This is the last Pixar film to use the short 2011 Disney logo as a closing logo, until Onward.
  • This is the only Pixar non-sequel/prequel film not to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
  • Bisodon, Jack, Vivian, Sam, Will, and Mary Alice did not appear in the movie despite they were only in the toy production of the film.
  • This is the first film to have the father of the main protagonist die ever since the Disney animated movie The Lion King.
  • It's also the Last Pixar/Disney Animated Movie to Premiere on Starz.

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