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- klausgonzalez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41Interesting.
...by the way, Lightning's number is "95", the year when Pixar made their first feature-length film (Toy Story), in case anybody cares. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36There are a bunch of these on the Pixar page on Wikipedia:
Lightning McQueen is equipped with Lightyear Buzzard tires, a parody of Goodyear Eagle Tires, and a reference to Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. Also, the name McQueen could be an homage to Pixar's late Glenn McQueen as well as Steve McQueen, who was a motorcycle and racing enthusiast.
Some of the racing cars in the teaser trailer have Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life logos on the side as well as 'JLP' for John Lasseter, the director, and CDA (Child Detection Agency from Monsters, Inc.).
Some of the sponsors on the sides of the cars seen in the trailer are references to past Pixar films, for example, '2319' is visible on a car. '2319' was the code of the Child Detection Agency in Monsters, Inc. when a monster came into physical contact with a human child. The King (a fellow stock car)'s main sponsor is noneother than Dinoco, the Gas Station Andy and Family visit in Toy Story. Lightning McQueen's own number (95) is a reference to 1995, the year that Toy Story was released. Chick Hicks' number is 86, the year Pixar opened.
The jackalope from Boundin' can be seen at the beginning of the film on the back of a motor home.
The birds from For the Birds and the Pizza Planet truck can be seen in the Life Is A Highway scene.
The vehicle from Boundin' can be seen in the town of Radiator Springs outside the courtroom.
Car versions of Woody, Buzz and Hamm; Mike, Sulley and the Abdomiable Snowman; and Flik, Circus Bugs and P.T. Flea can be seen during the end credits of Cars.
There is a motor home in the second Piston Cup race at the end and he is surrounded by flamingoes and a pool in reference to the short Knick Knack. - pixarman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31On the "Hippie Van" voiced by George Carlin there was a bumper sticker that said "Save 2D Animation"
I thought that was pretty sweet. - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -8/+35It lost the race
- JangoFett, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31"It lost the race"
I believe it overheated. - gyroscopic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Cool. I'm guessing "84" is a reference to the year the Mac was born.
- deacont23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23You're right. It was rendered on linux.
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/How_Pixar_shaved_9_hours_frame_off_rendering_Cars - Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21T3rry, I think that the Apple thing was an easter egg, not nessicarily something that anyone paid money to have in the movie
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Nice catch.
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20You didn't see the Microsoft car in the race at all because they were still in the pit trying to finish the Windows.
- mlvassallo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18"I was a little disappointed by the pandering to the NASCAR demographic."
It is a movie about CARS! Were you upset that Finding Nemo pandered to Fish lovers? - WilliamTanksley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Why is including NASCAR references in a movie about a high-power high-speed car "pandering"? What were you expecting to be included?
And the dissonance between Route 66 nostalgia and high-powered racing was the *point* of the movie. That's why it exists. - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I caught that when I saw it friday, theres all kinds of little things in there like that yeah the 95 was for toy story and McQueen was named after one of the guys at pixar who died in a car wreck a few years back, not Steve McQueen like my friends all seem to think...
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13It was arbitrarily picked by me.
- batmn42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Also, the "jerk" racing car was sponsred by HTB, Hostile Takeover Bank. Made me chuckle.
- mkpeaches, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8i thought he doesnt own pixar now that disney bought them
he works for them but doesnt own pixar i think
correct me if im wrong ;) - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'm pretty sure most people here understand that he owns both companies.
- iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Fair use dude, now get back to work.
- zachgc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@mkpeaches
Well part of the Disney buying Pixar deal was that Jobs would become Disney's majority stock holder. So in essence now he owns both Pixar AND Disney. - macguy815, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5He admitted in his article that he pirated it for "research's sake"
- I must say though... that does look pretty nice for a pirated version from some kid with a camera in his lap- I'm tempted to go download it myself after missing the little easter eggs when I say it in the theater. - christoffer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Could have a little something to do with:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/adclass/1984_mac_ad.html - BKDotCom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Sounds rational enough.
- fitzfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5mkpeaches is right Disney bought Pixar for like 7 billion, and Jobs had just over half the shares of Pixar.
- AeroSquid, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14You can bet the movie was not rendered with a mac =)
- wyngnut, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Didn't anyone notice this guy admits to downloading a first run movie?
Duh..... - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I hate how we've all accepted the MPAA definition of Piracy.
Piracy should be reserved for the infringment of copyright with the aim of selling for illegal profit.
Maybe what he did was wrong/illegal, but let's not call it piracy. - jocknerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I liked the film, although its not in my top 3 for Pixar. Its about 1/2 hour too long in my opinion. The closing credits were pretty hilarious though. And I love the little insult by the italian car who owned the tire shop to American racing, specifically NASCAR, when Lightning McQueen told him he was a race car on the Piston Cup circuit. The italian car said something to the effect of "you're not F1, i don't care."
- buba447, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No Joe Ranft is the person your thinking of. He died last year. Glenn Mcqueen, who the parent is talking about, was director of animation and died of cancer during the production of Finding Nemo. Joe Ranft died in a car wreck last year.
- NetSliderX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Steve sold Pixar to Disney in exchange for shares in Disney making him the single largest shareholder in the company :)
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Jobs would become Disney's majority stock holder."
But he doesn't own a majority of Disney's stock. I think he owns something like 11 percent.
And he doesn't 'own' Apple. It's a publicly traded company. He's the CEO. - Zipp425, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Interesting. Thanks, I never would have noticed.
- jflint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the Ratzenberger sequence was hilarious
"Wait a second. They're just re-using the same actor over and over again!"
Classic. - harpastum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes, but the dell servers were running linux. Dell = hardware, linux=software, and Dell now offers linux as one of its standard OSes
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very cool. Makes me want to definitely go see this movie now. I wasn't really interested because I thought it was basically just a story about "NASCAR"-like vehicles..but after hearing the references to the other Pixar movies, I might just go see it. Thanks for this. (even if the grainy image is definitely NOT something kosher. haha.) Very cool article. Definitely digg worthy.
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Macs use a specific network?
- macfanboi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4On a side note - Car 84 lost the race, finishing last.
- T3rry, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4he is also the writer of cars
- srg13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Wasn't it 3000 Dell servers?
- Cuww, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The hole referfence to other pixar movies scene is during the credits, it actually made me laugh which was a nice change from some of the movies boring dull moments. Anyway it was a good kids movie but definitely not on par with Pixar's other greats
- nicklinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol, i just watched that movie last night and did not catch that but I when back and their it was. that is awsome.
- alej744, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wish dell would offer Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE, or something besides Redhat, yuck!
- iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you look at almost ALL motion picutres, now-a-days, you'll see a Mac somewhere - it's called product placement, to get the word out. But still, good eye, good catch.
- srg13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Yes, but the dell servers were running linux. Dell = hardware, linux=software, and Dell now offers linux as one of its standard OSes"
I know. I use linux frequently. I was responding to "You can bet the movie was not rendered with a mac =)" - docillenstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's more of a chance of seeing a Powerbook in a film than any other type of PC
- buba447, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually he said "Your not Ferrari i don't care."
- nugge7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1cute.
- spookshowbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As a lover of all things Disney, Pixar, Apple and Nascar, this movie was awesome!
Other noteables: an Apple truck on the highway, racing legend Richard Petty voiced "The King", his wife, Linda Petty voiced "Mrs. The King", Dale Earnhardt Jr. voiced "Junior" (had had the proper paint scheme), Bob Costas voiced commentator "Bob Cutlass", Darrell Waltrip voiced "Darrell Cartrip", and Humpy Wheeler voiced "Tex". - safer9999, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Great eye!
Neal Saferstein - wtfy0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1apple got a lot of facetime in the omen too
- strangewill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So I take it he can turn Disney around? :)
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