WALL-E Easter Eggs

Pixar is known to fill their films with fun easter eggs and WALL-E is no different. Here are some of the things you probably missed:


The Pizza Planet Truck: The truck has appeared in every Pixar movie since Toy Story (although its pretty hard to find in The Incredibles as its pretty much a blur in a car sequence). “The Pizza Planet actually has a very obvious shot, it’s just probably so quick people aren’t paying attention to it.” The truck can be found in the first 20-minutes of the film as EVE scans the truck as part of her “directive”. It’s really big, almost the full frame on screen.

Hammy: The character John Ratzenberger voiced in Toy Story appeats in WALL-E’s truck. See the photo below, Hammy can be found right to the left of EVE’s head.

A113: What started as an inside joke of CalArts alumni (a reference to the classroom number that was used by Animation students) has been present in not only every Pixar film, but Disney movies, Iron Giant, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Powerpuffgirls and Tinytoon Adventures. “A-113 is obvious in this film,” Stanton told /Film. “It’s the most obvious we’ve ever made it.” In Wall-E, A-113 is actually part of Auto Pilot’s “directive” outlined by BuyNLarge CEO Shelby Forthright’s (Fred Willard) video recording. “Directive A-113” is also one of the tracks composed by Thomas Newman for the WALL-E soundtrack.


2001:
Auto Pilot is an obvious homage to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

John Ratzenberger: Pixar considers the actor to be a “good luck charm”, and Pixar actually has a rule stating that Ratzenberger must be in all of the studio’s films. “John Ratzenberger is probably pretty obvious,” Stanton told /Film. And he is. John Ratzenberger voices one of the few human characters in the film, not so coincidentally named “John”.

Apple: Pixar’s history with Apple is a long one. Steve Jobs, who co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak, bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division in 1986, and served as CEO until Pixar was acquired by Disney in 2006. Apple has been featured in previous Pixar productions like on the hood of one of the race cars in Cars. There are several references to Apple in WALL-E, the most obvious is when WALL-E watches Hello Dolly on an older video iPod. Also, when WALL-E is done charging he makes the Mac startup chime.

Eve was actually designed by Apple’s behind-the-scenes design guru Johnny Ive, the guy responsible for the design of the iPod. Andrew Stanton told Fortune: “I wanted Eve to be high-end technology - no expense spared - and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to be sort of hidden and subcutaneous. The more I started describing it, the more I realized I was pretty much describing the Apple playbook for design.” Auto’s voice is the creation of MacTalk, Apple’s text-to-speach program. An old mac keyboard can also be found in WALL-E’s truck (photo below)

Button: A BuyNLarge advertising jingle can be found at the conclusion of the credits, right after the Walt Disney Pictures logo is displayed.

Orange Caution Cones: The Orange Cones from Toy Story can be found all over abandoned earth, and inside WALL-E’s truck. See photo below.


Skinner’s Scooter: The scooter Skinner used in Ratatouille can be found in the trashpile early in the film. See photo above.

BURN-E: The DVD release of WALL-E will include a short film would be “very connected to WALL-E.” Pixar has done this in past releases with Mike’s Car on Monster’s Inc, Jack Jack Attack on The Incredibles, Mater and The Ghostlight with Cars, and Your Friend The Rat on Ratatouille. The short film on WALL-E will be titled BURN-E. In the feature film there is a sequence where Eve and WALL-E fly around the Axiom Starliner, and enter through a door locking a poor welder bot on the outside of the ship. The bot bangs his fists against the door after he realizes that he has been locked out. You can watch a clip of the sequence here. Apparently the welder bot is actually named BURN-E, complete with a logo on the side of his head. If I were to guess, I would say the short film will follow BURN-E on his journey to break back into the Axiom.


Hidden Mickey: A subtle formation of a silhouette of the head of Mickey Mouse and his two ears can be found in many Disney films. In The Incredibles, when Mr. Incredible was launched off the airplane to the island, several trees on top of a hill form a hidden Mickey. In WALL-E, a hidden Mickey can be found in the background of a scene on earth (seen above on the upper left corner)

Crush the Turtle: Finding Nemo’s Crush the Turtle can be seen in the animated credit sequence.

Incredible Humans?: /Film reader T-Mack writes: “During one of the introductions to the sedentary humans, there is a Sigurney Weaver voice-over detailing cool new fashions - where a quick shot of a billboard featuring three thin models in red jumpsuits appears. The models are uncannily done in a style similar to The Incredibles, with one of the models looking very much like Mr. Incredible.”

Rex: /Film reader Alex saw the Rex the dinosaur toy from Toy Story can be seen in WALL-E’s truck. /Film reader RageTreb confirms “He’s pretty obvious– seen on one of the first shelves seen in WALL-E’s truck at the beginning of the movie. He’s behind few other items, but it’s a close-up so he’s hard to miss.”

Bird from Bug’s Life: Alex from FirstShowing says the bird from A Bug’s Life appears in the animated ending credit sequence.

And these are only the easter eggs that we have found so far. Find any WALL-E easter eggs? Post them in the comments!

  • T-MACK
    During one of the introductions to the sedentary humans, there is a Sigurney Weaver voice-over detailing cool new fashions - where a quick shot of a billboard featuring three thin models in red jumpsuits appears. The models are uncannily done in a style similar to The Incredibles, with one of the models looking very much like Mr. Incredible.
  • If I was not mistaken, early in the film, in Wall-E's place, there was a dusty Rex toy, from Toy Story.
    Also, during the end credits, was that the turtle and Nemo from Finding Nemo?
  • RageTreb
    I also saw Rex. He's pretty obvious-- seen on one of the first shelves seen in WALL-E's truck at the beginning of the movie. He's behind few other items, but it's a close-up so he's hard to miss.
  • huh
    Not seeing the hidden Mickey at all. Can you outline?
  • I have added a blow-up of the hidden mickey
  • I saw the Rex too. He was super rusty and dusty... but it made my heart smile, as do all these other things.

    How deliberate do you think the orange caution cones and the moped are?
  • There (like most movies) were a few Star Wars sound effects involved. One I can remember explicitly is the sound as the huge doors burst open when the big trash robots were dumping stuff off of the Axiom.

    I also swore I saw a Buzz Lightyear blanket/curtain/towel hanging on the far wall in the left rear of Wall-E's truck house. It was definitely blueish and looked like Andy's Buzz bedspread from Toy Story.
  • MikeLuna
    The same guy that made the sounds for Star Wars, made Wall E sounds
  • Celli
    I loved the Mac startup!! When I first heard it, it took me awhile to realize that it was a Mac SFX. That was the best! lol
  • CleverNickname
    I think you're stretching with that hidden Mickey.
  • Phil
    The mirror from Presto is in Wall-e's truck.
  • mark
    You also have the Close Encounters tune when Eve meets WALL-E
  • I haven't seen the movie yet but the picture you have of Auto Pilot looks a lot like "Max," the "robot" aboard the alien spaceship in "Flight of the Navigator." ... Which, if I remember correctly, reminds the 12 year old boy (David?) that he can use the "Auto Pilot" to fly the space craft.
  • I like pixars movies a lot.
    Where is hidden Mickey ???
  • Ghost
    I caught this at the last minute, not saying that it is, but when EVE messes up the tape with Hello Dolly on it, Wall-E gets this thing to wind the tape back up and it looked like it was in the shape of R2-D2, and I thought well it would make sense cause of Ben Burtt, but it was all white, I need to see it again to make sure.
  • In Wall-e's truck you can see a red unicycle. This is a reference to one of Pixar's first shorts titled "Red's dream."
  • Jake
    I spotted Mike from Monsters Inc. in Wall-E's home not too far from the beginning, I believe he was in the form of an antenna topper.
  • Kelsey
    When Wall-E enters space and strikes the satellites, you can see that one of them is clearly Sputnik.
  • Diego
    Here's somethin that I noticed.. when wall-e is breaking through the atmosphere and going into space.. the round satellite on his face is sputnik.. the very first satellite ever to be launched in space by the russians.. am i wrong... ???
  • Diego
    dang i just now spotted kelseys comment.. sorry.. :( .. should have read the comments.. :(
  • Is it just me or do Wall-e's eyes resemble the binoculars from toy story?
  • Starry
    It kind of looks like Wall-E picks up and tosses a Piston Cup (from Cars) when hes cleaning up trash at the beginning.
  • Jeff
    I thought the HAL homage was more with the binary typing robot Wall-E teaches to wave when he goes up to the bridge on the elevator with EVE. The giant red eye that types on a giant binary keyboard (I laughed pretty hard to this part, and I think I was the only one who noticed).
  • King Zilch
    So, we know that the legendary Ben Burtt did the sound effects for this movie, and he uses the "Wilhelm scream" in every movie he does. So it must be in there somewhere.

    I saw the movie twice yesterday (once on a work outing, once with my wife) and was listening for it both times, but I couldn't spot it. But I'd be willing to bet that Burtt camouflaged it with electronic processing. The hunt is on!

    Also, a modified version of the Atari logo appeared on the side of a skyscraper in one of the early scenes on earth.
  • zarnold
    @Justin - yeah, there were definitely star wars effects. One that I'm 99% sure I heard was when WALL-E first saw the laser dot from eve's ship, and made a sound that seemed a lot like on of R2's chirps.
  • zarnold
    and there was probably at least one wilhelm scream in the movie
  • Norman Hayward
    I was the only guy in the theater who laughed out loud when the captain took his first steps and the music was 2001 a space odyssey, the music from the scene with the apes. I also laughed every time he rebooted, made me miss my G3.
  • stevo
    What about the Macbook that WALL-E destroys releasing all the faulty robots.
  • Brent
    Anyone who attemtps to watch the "WALL-E BONUS Movie" will have their computer infected by 'Win32/Burgspill!generic'.
  • Michael
    During the scene where the ship is being turned on it's side and the line "Get ready to have some kids" (or something like that) the first baby in the pile appeared to be the baby from the incredibles/the short with the baby. I swear I saw it, but I haven't seen anyone else talking about it so lets see if anyone else can see it also.
  • Katrina
    The tree from "A Bug's Life" also appears in the credits.
  • Katrina
    Oh ... and as the image of the tree scrolls upwards in the credits, you can see the root system, with the ant colony tunnels.
  • Cameron
    I'm pretty sure I saw a label for "Binary Load Lifter" on the side of equipment at one point, but it was off the screen before my brain had fully processed it.

    Another Star Wars homage was an entire scene of Wall-e on Earth that was very similar to R2-D2 wandering in the rocky area on Tatooine (shortly before getting zapped by Jawas). Even the musical score was similar at this point.
  • Cameron
    The Mac chime explains why Wall-e was still operational after 700 years.

    The other units had Vista installed. (kidding)
  • matt
    YOURE A NERD
  • I'm a pretty deep Mac guy, so only similar people might notice..
    I could swear that the truck door opening noise was taken from Marathon 2/infinity...
  • Alexthetrekkie
    I heard that door opening noise, and thought it sounded similar to the machine on the aeroplane in The Incredibles, that gets stuck because Mr Incredible is incredibly fat.
  • The single red eye of the auto pilot is HAL's eye from 2001
  • Rob
    The singing trout in WALL-E's home sang "Don't Worry, Be Happy," probably a reference to the Bobby McFerrin soundtrack of Pixar's "Knick Knack" short.
  • Rob
    Also, I'd be willing to bet that the circuit boards EVE finds for WALL-E are actual circuit boards from iconic devices, but it would take a serious nerd to figure that one out...
  • Greg
    Two of them were odd shaped, so I couldn't guess what they were, but one of them looked like a graphics card to me.
  • KK
    Another classic Apple reference::

    When Wall-E falls into the trash shoot, a bunch of really old (single click) Apple mice swarm around him on the trash pile!
  • Azar
    Hey, did anyone happen to notice the Star Ball that appears in every Pixar movie. I was looking for it, but then got distracted by the movie itself. Tis really a great movie.
  • The reason that his cockroach friend hid in a "KREMIE" (a.k.a Twinkie) was a reference to the joke that both twinkies and cockroaches are the only thing that will survive a nuclear holocaust.
  • dredx
    when wall-e is trying to wake eve up and they're sitting on top of an old metal box/building/machine... it says "h-ell" something.. don't get the significance except for perhaps the condition of the planet in it's current state?
  • jproductions17
    One of my friends pointed out that the red tracker laser beams that were used to control things was basically the same weapon Syndrome used in Incredibles. Remember his plan was to sell all his technology, so maybe Syndrome works for BnL. Odd thought, but the technology definitely is the same. The only difference was the beam is red in WALL•E and blue in Incredibles.
  • Tuck
    At the end with the credits, the beam was blue
  • Alexthetrekkie
    You're right, you're absolutely right - Syndrome called it, 'Zero Point Energy'.
  • Ralph
    Did anyone notice like in the first 20 mins into the movie they showed the Leopard OSX wallpaper?

    I know its pretty obvious!
  • chris
    Also, Auto is the MacinTalk voice called Ralph, and the cleaner bot uses Fred.
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