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:
- 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.
- 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.