DISQUS

T-MACK · 1 year ago

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.

Alex · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

Not seeing the hidden Mickey at all. Can you outline?

Peter Sciretta · 1 year ago

I have added a blow-up of the hidden mickey

andrew buckley · 1 year ago

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?

Justin · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

The same guy that made the sounds for Star Wars, made Wall E sounds

Maritza · 2 months ago

WALL-E's pet roach lives in a Buzz Lightyear lunchbox, reference to Toy Story, where one of the kids brings a lunch box as a present for Andy. It's the same design as the bedspread on Andy's bed.

Celli · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

I think you're stretching with that hidden Mickey.

Phil · 1 year ago

The mirror from Presto is in Wall-e's truck.

mark · 1 year ago

You also have the Close Encounters tune when Eve meets WALL-E

emad · 1 year ago

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.

Maya Tutorials · 1 year ago

I like pixars movies a lot.
Where is hidden Mickey ???

Ghost · 1 year ago

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.

N8Lewis · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

When Wall-E enters space and strikes the satellites, you can see that one of them is clearly Sputnik.

Diego · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

dang i just now spotted kelseys comment.. sorry.. :( .. should have read the comments.. :(

Koolaid Dude · 1 year ago

Is it just me or do Wall-e's eyes resemble the binoculars from toy story?

Zack · 2 months ago

Did you ever notice that the binoculars from toy story look just like wall Ea eyes painted blue.

Starry · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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.

Tom · 2 weeks ago

I think I herd it when Eve screams becuase Wall-e got zaped.

zarnold · 1 year ago

@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 · 1 year ago

and there was probably at least one wilhelm scream in the movie

Norman Hayward · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

What about the Macbook that WALL-E destroys releasing all the faulty robots.

Brent · 1 year ago

Anyone who attemtps to watch the "WALL-E BONUS Movie" will have their computer infected by 'Win32/Burgspill!generic'.

Michael · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

The tree from "A Bug's Life" also appears in the credits.

Katrina · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

The Mac chime explains why Wall-e was still operational after 700 years.

The other units had Vista installed. (kidding)

matt · 9 months ago

YOURE A NERD

Derekcat · 1 year ago

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 · 10 months ago

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.

Dave K · 1 year ago

The single red eye of the auto pilot is HAL's eye from 2001

Rob · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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 · 8 months ago

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 · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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.

Demi Adejuyigbe · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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 · 1 year ago

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 · 11 months ago

At the end with the credits, the beam was blue

Alexthetrekkie · 10 months ago

You're right, you're absolutely right - Syndrome called it, 'Zero Point Energy'.

Ralph · 1 year ago

Did anyone notice like in the first 20 mins into the movie they showed the Leopard OSX wallpaper?

I know its pretty obvious!

chris · 1 year ago

Also, Auto is the MacinTalk voice called Ralph, and the cleaner bot uses Fred.

Azar · 1 year ago

@jproductions17

That might be significant in relation to the whole "You've loved red, why not try blue!" thing.

Paige · 1 year ago

I thought the light going around Eve's neck resembled the loading circle on a Mac, but so far, I am the only one who has thought so...

Moheeb Zara · 1 year ago

Is everyone totally forgetting the biggest reference of all? WALL-E is clearly based off of JOHNNY-5 from Short Circuit!!!

Shahed · 1 year ago

There's a point where WALL-E is loading stuff into his lunch basket where you see a bottle of Leak Less brand oil - which was one of the race car sponsors in "Cars".

jproductions17 · 1 year ago

@Azar

I didn't even think about that. If Pixar planned all of that, genius! If we're just looking too much into it, doesn't matter its still pretty cool.

BaHouse · 1 year ago

Take out the W in Wall-E and turn the E backwards makes A-113

JMill · 1 year ago

Just to add to the 2001 references, when we first meet the captain (I'm pretty sure thats the scene) The Blue Danube is playing, which plays when Heywood Floyd is flying in space in the beginning of the future sequence (or whatever you want to call the one right after the apes).
And about HAL/Auto Pilot, they don't only resemble each other, but have the play the same part of following secret orders that actually harm those the main mission is helping. Also the A-113 protocol video is like the hidden orders tape that plays when Dave disconnects HAL.

Also were they calling the Auto pilot Otto or did it just sound like that to me? Because in Airplane don't the call the auto pilot Otto?

JcPl · 12 months ago

Subtitles tell that the Autopilot is called Auto.

huh · 1 year ago

Ya, stretching w/ the Mickey...

Almost all the Disney posters have hidden Mickey's too...

Bnarvaez · 1 year ago

Dont forget wall-e Startup sound which is the apple startup sound

.oz · 1 year ago

I think that there is another Apple easter egg not listed here. When EVE "kissed" WALL-E out in space (or whatnot) I believe the Apple SFX "Glass" was used. Not sure though

Mr.Death · 1 year ago

Sputnik made a apperence as WALL•E flew out on the spaceship.

mattyohe · 1 year ago

Peter S.: I think you have made an incredible exaggeration of just how closely involved Ive was in the design of EVE. You move beyond what the interview says happened, and write:

"Eve was actually designed by Apple’s behind-the-scenes design guru Johnny Ive."

I saw the film tonight and noticed a "Special thanks" to Ive, but I cannot find anything online that attributes design to him. Can you confirm an actual design credit?

Scott · 1 year ago

Not sure if there's an in-depth significance, but there were several times through out the movie that Wall•E reminded me of E.T.

Avadore · 1 year ago

@Moheeb Zara

Definitely based off Johnny-5. Did you notice they both carry lunch pails around on their backs?

Also, in the credits the art begins with cave drawings, followed by hieroglyphics, and then continues on through through the years to Monet-esque and Van Gogh-esque art. Especially evident with the sunflowers.

Andy · 1 year ago

at the beginning when walle is chasing eve [in the stretcher thing]in the space traffic i'm pretty sure one of the yellow scream/laugh boxs used in monsters inc. drives by just before he runs onto th traffic


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Nathanael B. · 1 year ago

@Rob: The fried circuit board EVE pulls out of WALL-E looks an awful lot like an AGP-era graphics card. I didn't get a long enough look at the assorted boards she grabs from the trash heap but they all looked a little familiar.

Also, when the humans are all getting the "contamination bubble" helmets and being wheeled from their quarters, the leftmost door in one shot is numbered 117. Could be a small Halo reference, or just a random number...

mattyohe · 1 year ago

I can confirm a Sputnik-like satellite as well. Odd that it would make an appearance since Sputnik burned up long ago.

paresh · 1 year ago

intresting.

Pete · 1 year ago

I see the binocular and the Johnny-5 similarities, also thought how E is the 5th letter in the alphabet.

Jarrod · 1 year ago

that mention of Hammy is incorrect. it is just a normal ceramic piggy bank with the makeup on. i had my eye on it the whole time.

Brandon · 1 year ago

New Easter Egg(?):

During the scene where Wall E first enters "traffic", one of the robots in the road says something to Wall E angrily. The word he says is distorted because it's a robot voice, but I swear it said "asshole". Did anyone else hear this?

treehugger0123 · 6 months ago

Never thought about that. A more common but similar rumor is when EVE is scanning the last 4 places before she gets trapped by an electromagnet, she says the F-word

oscar · 1 year ago

"Don't Worry Be Happy" might be referencing Knick-knack, but that sounds like a huge stretch to me. It's one of two songs that the real Billy Bass sings. See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTVXfCbos-o

In his Onion AV club interview, Stanton cops to HAL as the Auto Pilot, but denies basing Wall-E on Johnny 5.

annie · 1 year ago

@Ralph:

It's even the screenshot above -



F11 on your Leopard and you'll see the same wallpaper :)

annie · 1 year ago

Oops, img tag didn't work. But you'll see the Leopard wallpaper in the Eve image in the post.

chris · 1 year ago

@Bradon

holy shit dude i thought I was the only one who noticed that... still not sure of that cleaning bot said asshole but it sounded really close to it...

Jay · 1 year ago

When WALL-E first leaves the docking bay and enters that hallway with all of the robots moving really fast, I think I saw Sally from Cars drive by with them really fast.

Matt · 1 year ago

Terry Gilliam's film Brazil is also referenced early on. WALL-E watches Hello Dolly on an ipod using a magnifying screen similar to those seen in Brazil. (using the criss-cross style extenders). Additionally, the early trailers for the film used Michael Kamen's famous "typewriter" score because Kamen did the score for the Incredibles and was set to do this score before his death in 2005.

Additionally, towards the end of the film, the captain makes an "all hands" call to the ship and the whistle sound effect is the same that all the Star Trek's used for the same calls. In all fairness though, it's a pretty standard Naval whistle.

Nate · 1 year ago

Ya, a confirmation to the Incredibles "zero point energy" thing.

Also, much of the plot was allegorical to the story of Noah and the ark in the Bible. Noah sent out various ravens, doves until one returned with a sprig from a tree. And this meant that the flood is over and they could "go home" back to living on the Earth's surface, instead of a ship. I haven't had an English course in a while, but this is definitely allegorical, whether intentionally or coincidentally.

BW · 1 year ago

If we are just picking out any movie and TV references, let's not forget that the small evil purser robot on the Axiom was called "Gopher". Fred Grandy played Gopher in "The Love Boat".
Fred also became a Congressman in 1986. Just another actor turned politician.

WM · 1 year ago

This may be a bit far, but for a part of the movie Wall E was going around with a few towels on his head. Perhaps a reference to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

Derek 8-Track · 1 year ago

I saw Flounder from The Little Mermaid in WALLE's collection

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

I thought the Sputnik appearance was funny... and then I was puzzled, too... since it' dropped from orbit only months after it was sent up.

Then I realized its presence in the film is a historical homage as much as a joke. During the production of *THIS* particular PIXAR film, NASA's 50th Anniversary of the Space Age commemoration began on October 4th, 2007, the 50th anniversary of Sputnik's launch into orbit.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/SpaceAge/

As far as homages go, this was more than appropriate. It was essential. After all, no Sputnik = no WALL-E !!

Martha Bridegam · 1 year ago

Lots of Hitchhiker's Guide references in this. Especially the vapid obese Golgafrinchans in their spaceship tastefully decorated with "Hessian wall weave" (whatever that is) who crash-land on an uninhabited Earth and wander around slowly learning to be practical. The cheery useless captain and the reference to "the ship's jogging track" have to be intentional nods.

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

I don't remember hearing the Glass alert sound in the film. Instead, I distinctly heard the Ping sound.

The voice credit for Otto/Auto is given as MacInTalk (not MacTalk) and is essentially the OS X voice called Ralph... perhaps with a few rough edges thrown in for good measure.

Ralph has been telling me the time every 15 minutes for almost 6 years, so I know him well. My friends and family have said all along that his voice is "creepy". LOL!

PowerLlama · 1 year ago

According to interviews, Jonathon Ive didn't actually help much on the design of Eve. He only came in for one day, and didn't say much.

U.S.O. Project · 1 year ago

BEN BURTT: the Wilhelm Scream it’s definitely not in WALL-E.

[via http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_14930.html]

terrence · 1 year ago

The toaster in Wall-E's truck really reminded me of the one from the Brave Little Toaster. Probably wouldn't have thought that if I hadn't heard several Pixar teammembers had worked on that movie, but I wonder if recognizable CG versions of the other appliances can be found in the junk as well?

Omar Jasso · 1 year ago

@annie
The picture of EVE in the article with the default 10.5 background behind her isn't a scene taken from the movie; it is an image created by Maximilian Larsson, who created a set of icons for Adium. Check it out at http://mxmln.blogspot.com/2008/04/wall-e-eve-ad...

Tim Trueman · 1 year ago

Did everyone miss the pong score reference to the year of the first Pixar movie (Toy Story 1995)?

Marko · 1 year ago

Although I never saw it in the movie, I kept wondering if one of the cubes of garbage would have the eyeball from Boo's costume sticking out of it like the compressed cube in Monster's Inc.

Maritza · 2 months ago

I think it is a reference to Monster's Inc. They are in essence both "cubes of garbage". Very clever!

gonzo · 1 year ago

I saw a Dinoco lighter in among the BnL lighters in his box.

Adam · 1 year ago

As a bit of historicity it might be appropriate that Wall-E was trying to play pong with EVE, as that is a direct reference to Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak who worked on the home version of Atari's Pong.

Alec-kzam · 1 year ago

Wall-e's reboot sound is from the Apple IIc / cx desktops from the late 80s.

Nick · 1 year ago

Eve! Eve Is the EGG.

Danny · 1 year ago

@Matt: "Additionally, the early trailers for the film used Michael Kamen’s famous “typewriter” score because Kamen did the score for the Incredibles and was set to do this score before his death in 2005."

Giachinno did the score for the Incredibles.

es · 1 year ago

Why are we calling the piggy bank character from Toy Story "Hammy"? His name was "Hamm".

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

@Alec-Kzam,

I've never heard an Apple ][ start up. WALL-E sounded like Mac OS X to me.

NeeAnderTall · 1 year ago

BURN*E the robot that got locked outside...reminded me of Fred Flinstone pounding on the door after getting locked outside by his pet Dino.

SoCalian · 1 year ago

Did anyone else think that the scene when they first approach axiom was at all similar to the opening credits of Star Trek Deep Space Nine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsOE73pxpys

nrfx · 1 year ago

@Brandon
Yes! I absolutely heard him say that, it might have been muffled, garbled, but thats what i heard as well. Maybe we just expected to hear it but...

Moheeb Zara · 1 year ago

In traditional logic, an axiom or postulate is a proposition that is not proved or demonstrated but considered to be self-evident. Therefore, its truth is taken for granted, and serves as a starting point for deducing and inferring other (theory dependent) truths.

also axiom is an audio company.

robert dean · 1 year ago

"....Also, in the credits the art begins with cave drawings, followed by hieroglyphics, and then continues on through through the years to Monet-esque and Van Gogh-esque art. Especially evident with the sunflowers."

to continue with this I would note that Wall-e is then rendered in 8-bit graphics that were found on the early atari games, thus catching up with how stories are now being illustrated by humans - the birth of digital story telling - ala PIXAR.

Maury · 1 year ago

Wally B! Anyone remember "Andre and Wally B"? I believe it was John Lasseter's first project at pixar - in the mid 80's, when it was still part of lucasfilms. Well, Wally B is breifly shown flying around in the closing credits. "Wally B" is a bee. http://www.pixar.com/shorts/awb/index.html

hari edo · 1 year ago

Another Pizza Planet reference - the ship that delivers Eve to Earth (and then takes Wall-E and Eve to Axiom) is shaped exactly like the plastic rocket on top of the Pizza Planet Delivery truck.

Aaron · 1 year ago

Another reference to the film Brazil is greeter a desk along with the elevator...

Dave S. · 1 year ago

Did anyone else notice that in the videos where Fred Willard is speaking as the president, his head obscures the "Buy 'n Large" seal behind him in just such a way that the letters "BU" and "RGE" stand out pretty plainly for most of the scenes. It seems obvious to me that this was quite intentional, however a Google search turned up only two other individuals suggesting this observation. But I'm so sure of the intention that I'd go so far as to suggest that the name "Buy 'n Large" was picked specifically so that "BUsh geoRGE" could be plainly highlighted in those scenes. Sort of goes against Lasseter's statement that there were no intended political statements in this film.

Watts · 1 year ago

Dave S., no offense, but that's REALLY stretching to try to find an anti-Bush "statement" in the film.

Steel · 1 year ago

I might be imagining things but when Wall-E is following EVE on Earth, I thought the music sounded like a score from Raiders of the Lost Arc.

Kagero · 1 year ago

Is it just me or does AUTO have an uncanny resemblence to GLaDOS from Portal?

Nadine · 1 year ago

The main character is also an homage to Woody Allen, whose eyes look like his and is cleverly named:

W(oody) ALL-E(n)

Jack · 1 year ago

@Nathanael B.
"The fried circuit board EVE pulls out of WALL-E looks an awful lot like an AGP-era graphics card. I didn't get a long enough look at the assorted boards she grabs from the trash heap but they all looked a little familiar. "

I only seen the sequence briefly but when the cards came up I did get a laugh. I have seen them before. One of them (sort of triangle with a trailing strip) is either a modem or 10 mbits network card. I have to double check and I think I still have one around : )

Adam · 1 year ago

that is NOT hammy beside eve's head, its a piggy bank, i was waiting for it the whole movie and when i saw it, i was disappointed because it has big blue eyes and lipstick on

oscar · 1 year ago

When Eve blows a hole through the ceiling of the trash warehouse near the end, the sound of her laser and the explosion is straight out of star wars.

wade · 1 year ago

The pod EVE tries to sent WALL-E back to Earth in looks an awful lot like the pods from 2001.

I might be stretching on this one, but the scene where EVE and WALL-E get back into Axiom looks like the scene in the original Star Wars when the Millenium Falcon lands on the Death Star.

Anyone else notice any any shots that were homages to other famous sci-fi movie shots?

Caitlin · 1 year ago

@Nick

That's funny.

Jenn · 1 year ago

In the first part of the movie when Wall-E is driving back to the truck he's made his home, he rolls over some posters that are on the ground that appeared to have the Monsters Inc logo on them.

Sligo · 1 year ago

I saw what I thought was a very obscure Star Wars reference towards the end of the movie. When the Autopilot was electrocuting Wall-E, they cut to a shot of the police robot and he was silently staring at Wall-E almost exactly like Vader stares at Luke when the Emperor is shooting electric bolts at him in ROTJ. I didn't see any other reason for that shot. I half expected it to grab the Autopilot and toss it down the trash chute.

BUshgeoRGE · 1 year ago

@Watts - I think Dave's point is right on -- one of Willard's lines when he's staying in front of the podium is "stay the course" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_the_course)

Nathanael B. · 1 year ago

@wade: "I might be stretching on this one, but the scene where EVE and WALL-E get back into Axiom looks like the scene in the original Star Wars when the Millenium Falcon lands on the Death Star."

I think I noticed this too, but I wasn't sure if it was just coincidental or intentional. Seems like it could be either, actually...

Melissa · 1 year ago

When WALL-E and EVE go down the trash chute and almost get pushed out, you'll notice that the large machines pushing them out are WALL-A, presumably standing for Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Axiom.

Paul · 1 year ago

When Eve's rocket blasts off the 1st time from Earth...I thought I saw an Apple logo on one of the engine pods/tail fins....


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Steve · 1 year ago

Not sure if anyone else recognized (or remembers!) this, but at the moment wall-e is trying to get out of the escape pod thats about to self destruct, when he pushes all the buttons and the escape pod deploys all of its functons (i.e. rubber dinghy, flags, etc.), it seemed strikingly similar to a scene in The Beatles' Yellow Submarine during the Sea of Monsters, as they attempt to save Ringo...

Alex · 1 year ago

@SoCalian - Funny you should mention that because I thought the sequence when Wall-E is on the ship leaving earth a couple of the shots looked very similar to the Star Trek: Voyager opening sequence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXCP6lJkDZU)

Idol-c · 1 year ago

the bright florescent lines that the robots hover over on the axiom reminded me of tron.

Phil · 1 year ago

During the "hard turn" sequence on the Axiom, I'm pretty sure that there were a few shots mimicking shots from "Titanic". I'm thinking in particular when the stern has gone vertical, and people are starting to fall...

Sam St. John · 1 year ago

Another reference to add -- on Eve's neck underneath her head, there is an animation that looks like the gray bars that light-up and chase eachother when a mac boots up or is processing.

RG · 1 year ago

For all those interested in the Gilliam/Brazil connection, please Netflix the 1943 Busby Berkeley war flick "The Gang's All Here" for the ultimate source.

Not Mickey · 1 year ago

There is NO hidden Mickey. Why is it any time two or more circles appear next to each other someone wants to call it a "hidden mickey." Unless the animators did it on purpose -- which is really doubtful in this instance -- it is NOT a hidden Mickey.

James · 1 year ago

Ahhh, so WALL-E is "Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth"? I thought the big ones were WALL-R, but I didn't get a good look and WALL-A makes more sense.

Kristine · 1 year ago

When Eve reprograms Wall-e at the end of the film, a Flounder toy is in one of the bins. It can be seen very clearly. You can also see it near the beginning of the film too.

Dog · 1 year ago

Does anybody know what Fred Willard is doing in a Pixar flick? I mean, isn't he the first ever non-animated character they've included? Was it really necessary? Why would Pixar spoil their record like this?

Dorgon · 1 year ago

@NotMickey - Of course the hidden Mickey is on purpose! It's not like they just happened to shoot Wall-E in front of that trash pile, and the trash pile happened to have something resembling a hidden Mickey. All of it is put there by someone -- someone had to decide that the hidden Mickey needed to be there.

emdub · 1 year ago

Wall-E looks like a robot ET and also has very similar characteristics and coloring

Corey · 1 year ago

Jake spotted it up above, but he didn't know exactly when it happens: Mike from Monsters' Inc appears on a stick (maybe one of those things you put over the eraser of a pencil) behind and screen right of Wall-E when he's waking up all drowsy in the beginning before he moves off the shelf.

Jason · 1 year ago

Wall-E looks exactly like Johnny 5 from the Short Circuit movies with the exception of his trash compacting midsection. I noticed it when he adjusts his new eye in his home.

anon · 1 year ago

No offense, but you might spell-check your article before posting it.

Craig · 1 year ago

Maybe I just imagined it since I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, but there was a brief scene in the Axiom where a trash vehicle tipped away from camera to dump its load down a garbage chute. I could have sworn it was filled with the little green aliens from the claw game in Toy Story.

Ben · 1 year ago

I think that Hidden Mickey belongs in the "Wishful Thinking" file.

However, I'm pretty sure the dummy Wall E builds for Eve, uses Luxo Jr as an arm.

Ben · 1 year ago

Dave S.,
Like you, I took the letters "BU" and "RGE," rearranged them, and added a few more of my own letters that I pulled out of nowhere, and discovered a subliminal message. Only for me it said, "Dave S's theories about this movie are completely ridiculous and he's only going to see an anti-Bush message here if he stretches his imagination to it's furthest limits and makes on up himself."

Weird, huh?

Cinexcellence · 1 year ago

No Wilhelm? Sadness.

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

Those interested in the "BU" & "RGE" conspiracy theory, check out the TED talk by Rives who "does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning."

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/rives_on_4_a...

Be prepared to laugh.

Kaek · 1 year ago

In the scene where Wall E first enters robot-traffic,a robot transport the monster inc yellow screams containers

Nathanael B. · 1 year ago

@Brandon: It sounds to me like the robot says something more like "aflac", or "aak-aak". It didn't quite sound like hidden profanity to my ears :P

David Putney · 1 year ago

Wall-e's circuit board is blue, like a Mac's.

KenC · 1 year ago

It just occurred to me that EVE is related to the Automator icon in OS X. Anyone looked at the Automator icon closely? Same head as EVE, perhaps not as evolved as EVE, but definitely related.

mnmears · 1 year ago

What, no one's mentioned the Luxo Jr. lamp in Wall-E's abode?

TC · 1 year ago

Fun time waster. I also noticed that the large trash compactors were Wall-A. When the two were side to side, you get "Walla Walla." I think that's the joke/reference. Maybe we are reading too much into this. Anyway, great movie by Pixar. They've done again.

Reiley · 1 year ago

One of the things Wall-E encounters early in the film is a white bobble-head dog that looks just like Bolt from the preview of the movie of the same name (I don't remember if Bolt was in a trashpile or in Wall-E's truck, but he's there).

victor · 1 year ago

You sad bunch of saddo freaks

amanda · 1 year ago

soooo it says that the pizza truck has been in every pixar movie...and i know where it is in both toystories, and finding nemo, and now in wall-e, however..where is it in ratatoulli??

Chris K · 1 year ago

@amanda:
The Pizza Planet truck drive across a bridge that was 'way off in the background while Skinner was chasing Remy through the foreground while riding on that scooter.

That and loads more Pixar easter eggs here:

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/...

tpg0007 · 1 year ago

Always wondered where they get these specific screen shots so soon after a movie premiered. Request frames from company PR? Take pictures at the theater? Though some of them look a bit too clear for that.

Han · 1 year ago

Okay, so this is a really hard one to see.

If you look at EVE very closely, between her head and her neck (body), you can see this circular light on the edge of the top of her body (around the neck). It's on the edge, going in circles, but it's not a fully connected circle, but it's a dotted circle, but dotted as in a short vertical line that completes a circle.

This is the same as when you boot up Mac OS X. Where you boot up and your in the gray screen area with the Apple logo. On the bottom of the Apple logo, you have a small circle, which is also composed of vertical lines that lights up and goes around in a circle.

Very Apple.

Lou · 1 year ago

Luxo Lamp is in one of the piles of garbage WALL-E is gathering

Jim · 1 year ago

Haha, I think Ben spent more time and energy than it was worth thinking of a way to badmouth Dave S's theory.

Evan · 1 year ago

This may be a stretch, but WALL-E is suspiciously similar to (W)A113. I am not sure what the W signifies, but why go to all the trouble of making up a weird acronym if it has no hidden meaning. What do you all think?

Joe P · 1 year ago

In the musical scene from "Hello Dolly" that is played throughout the movie - the song "PUT ON YOUR SUNDAY CLOTHES" is featured on the Main Street USA music loop played at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.

The song is played quite frequently throughout the entire movie.

Jim Ginther · 1 year ago

Also on Wall*E's shelf, I saw a little figure of "Wally B" from pixar's first short film, The Adventures of Andre and Wally B. Even the name WALL*E is an homage to that short film.

Bonnie · 1 year ago

Anyone notice a Wilhelm scream in the film?

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

@ Bonnie, see the Ben Burtt interview link from U.S.O. Project's comment above:

"BEN BURTT: the Wilhelm Scream it’s definitely not in WALL-E."

Dave S. · 1 year ago

Let me just say that I wasn't in any way looking for an "anti Bush" statement in Wall*E. For whatever reason, when Willard was speaking the BU**RGE just stood out for me. And of course, at first I thought it was a silly coincidence, but then I happened to pay attention to how much his head moved and how it seemed overly orchestrated that his head stay strategically posted over the rest of the letters so BU***RGE stood out pretty plainly throughout his speech.

In fact, I really hadn't thought this was much of a conspiracy theory. It's no stretch to see that Willard's character was modeled after our current president. Especially with his utterance of "stay the course"...not to mention the way one of his "aides" whispers something into his ear similar to the way President Bush was told of the 911 attacks while reading to children. In fact, everyone I've spoken to in person about this "Easter Egg" in the film agrees right off the bat that it's probably true.

I mean, seriously, out of all the Wal-Mart spoof-names you could give a store, the writers choose "Buy 'n Large" and just happen to situate it on a presidential seal *behind* their actor (not in front where it would normally be) in such a way to highlight BU***RGE as a sudden hint toward their intended satire? Is that really a stretch?

kupaka · 1 year ago

@ James

its WALL-A, Waste Allocation load lifter - axiom class.

Matt · 1 year ago

Auto / Otto, in addition to looking like HAL, also resembled Glados from portal, primarily through hanging from the ceiling, using flawed logic, and the partially sealed white casing protecting black components. No indicators were apparent that Auto liked cake, however.

Jack · 1 year ago

Just a fun comment. : )
Sigourney Weaver as the computer.
From Galaxy Quest, her response on repeating the computer. Now she is the computer...

BrLi · 1 year ago

I'd like to address multiple comments on this page. As a close friend of some of the production coordinators in the film, I can confirm and reject a few of your guesses.

First, there is only one "Hidden Mickey" in the film. To find it, look more closely at some of the plastic items in WALL-E's truck, specifically towards the beginning of the movie.

Second, in response to the question about screen captures and PR, Pixar PR does not release screen captures except to qualified media outlets. When this is the case, you will always see Disney/PIXAR on the images. When a director or producer gives interviews, they have pre-selected images to provide to the interviewer for use in articles/segments. This is how images get released. You can, however, request HD images of official PIXAR posters from the PR team.

Third, Hamm is not present, yet Hamm's voice is present in the character "John" aboard the Axiom. The character is conveniently named the same name as the actor lending his voice, John Ratzenberger.

Fourth, Ives did have a large say in the design of EVE. He more or less designed the entire body, especially the curvature which is characteristic of Macs. Standard PCs have traditionally squared off edges.

Fifth, the integration of live action into this film is in preparation for Pixar's initiation of live action films. Soon, the studio will begin releasing films that have little to no animation in them at all, save special effects of course.

Sixth, the use of the name Buy 'N Large is derived from the central idea of the film. The movie was based on the idea that humans have the potential to ruin what they have and, thus, leave machines being more "human" than the humans themselves. Therefore the idea is that humans are "buying large" and purchasing more than they need, just so they can have "stuff."

decitect · 11 months ago

I thought BnL was reference to [Brad] Bird 'n [John] Lasseter...?

David H Dennis · 1 year ago

BrLi, I'm curious about something.

There is of course a whole web site for BuyNLarge:

http://buynlarge.com/

This site obviously cost many thousands of dollars to develop and yet there is not even the smallest reference I can find to Pixar or the movie.

How does a site like that tie into the marketing campaign for the film?

And where do I sign up to buy the robots? :-)

*

For those of you trying to find references to other Pixar films, not only is it a way to keep people entertained through multiple viewings, it also saves Pixar money. Once they create a model like Crush or the toys, they can reuse it in as many films as they like without spending a penny more. So of course it is very much in their interest to save money and generate interest.

D

Yorick · 1 year ago

Just like Wall-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter- Earth unit, the giant Wall-A's have their own meaning. Waste Allocation Load Lifter- Axiom unit.

carni · 1 year ago

Did anyone else notice some direct inspiration in art direction, music, and mood from the Fallout video game series? The usage of old-timey music, crooning love songs, etc., in a post-apocalyptic future is the calling card of the Fallout series, and is used predominantly throughout Wall-E

Evan · 1 year ago

This is the closest that I found to a Pixar reference - given about a 10 minute search:

http://buynlarge.com/NewsCenter.html

See the item under Entertainment - 4D film announced. There they talk about Pix-Vue Animation Studios in Emeryville.

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

@David H Dennis,
I think the cost of the website pales in comparison to the company's buying Buckingham Palace in London for its Worldwide Office. Besides, I'm sure it's learned a thing or two about fudging financial numbers via time travel, since the website is copyrighted 2057!!
LOL!

And @BrLi!
Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU for putting to rest the BU***RGE theory to rest!!

BrLi · 1 year ago

As to the website question, I have no valid answer. I can make a simple guess that it was designed for a low cost due to the fact that the majority of Pixar employees are computer-savy. This being said, it is very possible that it was planned as a marketing technique but was never launched on as big a scale as was originally intended. Do not be surprised if you are directed to it in the future, especially on WALL-E merchandise.

Evan · 1 year ago

Click on the "Buy N Large Store" tab at the top of the page and you are taken to a real store where you can by everything BnL. Dig deeper and you can find all of the other WALL-E merchandise.

decitect · 11 months ago

as of 31 December 2008, www.buynlarge.comredirects to Disney's WALL-E video site...

stamperoo · 1 year ago

not exactly an easter egg per se, but it seemed to me that eve's flight was modelled on a penguin's swimming.

wall-e sometimes moves like a cat (when he chased the first red laser beam) and sometimes like a gorilla (planting his knuckles on
the ground and swinging his body through to take a step).

when wall-e runs over the cockroach the first time, he points behind himself and distinctly tells it to "heel!"

when eve is surprised, a little "re-set" line runs horizintally up her face, through her eyes like a "blink".

in the shots of planet earth, the coastlines & great lakes have subtly changed shape, so that from space, with some cloud cover, north america looks like a skull.

when wall-e is riding on the axiom for that first long sequence through space, he trails his hand through some blue sparkly particles and starts them swirling- that image then dissolves to a different shot of a spirally galaxy shape.... a suggestion that wall-e has set particles in motion that will one day form a new galaxy.

oh- and i absolutely agree with previous posters who thought that when wall-e cuts into traffic, he gets called an a-hole.

Jeroen · 11 months ago

As to the "galaxy" suggestion, I think Wall.E was trailing his hand through one of the Saturn rings, which actually do consist of particles arranged in disk-like formation. A playful but physically inaccurate display... there is no way these particles would start swirling with no air present.

stamperoo · 1 year ago

you can see the skull-shaped north america pretty clearly at about 16 seconds in this youtube link:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=mC86heBo0d4&f...

when the axiom comes back to earth, the planet is tilted at a different angle, so north america looks more familiar and mercator-projection-like... optimistic!

Art Vandelay · 1 year ago

I believe when the camera first pans in to WALL-E's truck for the very first time in the movie, you can see Rex from Toy Story on one of those rotating shelves.


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Evan · 1 year ago

I can't quite remember, but I believe that in the credits, there is a plant that looks strangely like a piece of Portal cake; can anyone back me up on that? I might have just been seeing things, though.

Also, when the captain talks about what types of plants can be grown, he specifically states "Pizza Plants!" Does that remind anyone else of Toy Story's "Pizza Planet?" Maybe I'm looking to far into that; you all tell me.

Evan · 1 year ago

Has anyone read the privacy policy for Buy n Large?

http://www.buynlarge.com/disclaimer/disclaimer....

tim · 1 year ago

okay, you can easily go further with the auto pilot. he obviously is HAL from 2001, but theres more than that. Not only was the cockpit a circular shape, and not only did they play the "Blue Danube" (not sure how that's spelt) BUT the entire premise with him was EXACTLY like 2001. The auto pilot was told something the pilot wasnt, and because he cant think for himself, tries to pick out the best possible solution, which is wrong for human development. this is in the case of when Auto was told that Earth was unstable for living, and didnt tell the captain. Auto later attempts to stop the captain, for what HE believes is right. Then he is shut off. It is EXACTLY like 2001, but with a different voice and style. the eye is right, though. creepy.

Rocco · 1 year ago

Nobody talked about the biggest reference: the robot "Johnny 5", from "Short Circuit"!!
This movie is awesome...

Klintor · 1 year ago

I can't believe nobody's gotten this one yet! When WALL-E and Eve are flying away from the WALL-A trash compactor bots, the bots wave goodbye. They have three eyes, and wave with the same hands (and same camera angle) as the aliens do in the crane scene in Toy Story to Woody and Buzz.

Impheatus · 1 year ago

Nice Evan! I was just gonna say that. That privacy policy is quite something...

Also nobody has made reference to the "define" command used by Google (don't really know if any other search engine uses it).
In the movie it is activated by voice command when the captain is so interested about Earth he starts saying "define: earth", "define: plant", "define: ocean", etc.

Impheatus · 1 year ago

Just finished playing "Wall*E's Cup Suffle" game from Wall*E's official site:
disney.go.com/disneypictures/wall-e/games/cups
and they say the cockrache's name is "Hal" which may be another reference to 2001's film.

Also both films' tag lines are quite similar in what they try to imply:
2001: Let the Awe and Mystery of a Journey Unlike Any Other Begin.
Wall*E: An Adventure Beyond the Ordinar-E.

heather · 1 year ago

There is a Mickey in the movie and I saw it twice during my second viewing of the film. When we first see inside Wall-e's truck, there is a Mickey Mouse figurine standing on the large rotating shelf. I saw it again when he went back to the shelf to rotate it and look for something else.

BrLi · 1 year ago

Heather is right. That's the one I referenced earlier.

Nick Burns · 1 year ago

@ Tim Trueman, the score on the Pong games was not 1995, but rather 7998. Wall-E makes two more wins to bring the score to 8000 before the camera pans off the TV screen.

Jen · 1 year ago

Another bite of the Apple:

The string of four circular lights that appears on EVE's chest whenever she scans an item is very similar in shape and proportion (though not in color) to the battery status readouts on classic white Mac notebooks like the iBook.

On a Mac notebook, all four lights are green and equally sized. On EVE, when the large final light does turn green, our story undergoes a twist...

Mike · 1 year ago

OK, I need to see a screen shot of the photos of the ship's captains. The very first one looks a lot like a current Disney captain of the Disney Cruise Line named Henry Anderson. I knew Henry when he first came to the USA to work for Disney and help set up the SOP for the Disney Cruise Line. The very first photo of the first captain looks enough like Henry to mention it here, but I would really like to get a screen capture to further confirm my sighting.

Bobbo · 1 year ago

Did anyone else notice that the manual with instructions about how to get back to Earth that the Captain waved around was a dead ringer for the instruction book on how to use the super-suit that was worn by William Katt in the tv series The Greatest American Hero in the 80s?

David in GA · 1 year ago

Re: "Don't Worry Be Happy"--that's a reference to the singing slugs from "Flushed Away." That was an Aardman Animation production, not Pixar, but that appears to be the source.

David in GA · 1 year ago

OK, maybe this is reaching, but it's at least an odd coincidence. "BNL" is the airport code for Barnwell Regional Airport in Barnwell, South Carolina. That happens to be the location of the Savannah River Site, the heavily polluted nuclear weapons plant.

Kekoa · 1 year ago

Just before the ending credits, the view of earth zooms out to a blue dot. This seemed like a reference to Carl Sagan / Pale Blue Dot.

simon kang · 1 year ago

I think I saw Sally in THE LAST SCENE OF THE MOVIE

Guy Vardaman · 1 year ago

My wife spotted this one:
In the lineup of Captain portraits, they get progressively heavier. When the third one (I think) is shown, he has that beard that many of us have grown when we started to gain weight and wanted to hide an embarrassing chin (or two.)
Pixar is so great about really thinking through the characters, the motivations, the beliefs, etc. I am always so happy when seeing a Pixar film, even on repeat viewings, because I always discover more and realize the depth of thought that went into the details!

Denim · 1 year ago

to Azar: no, I didn't see the star ball and after two viewings I realized that I missed it! Is it in fact missing??

buzz · 1 year ago

About the mac sounds, it's not "glass" or "ping" we hear when Eve is "kissing" Wall•E, but the good old "sosumi" that came with the "bomb" when the old macs crashed !

Jessica · 1 year ago

I watched Wall-E for the third time this last weekend and really searched for hidden things as I watched....

I think the current image for the "hidden mickey" is a little bit of a stretch. If you look at the Western US on the globe as it zooms in the beginning, I believe that you can see Mickey's face. It also zooms out as he leaves earth on the rocket, so you get a second chance to look. It might be a stretch, but can anyone confirm it?? :D

omar bautista cruz · 1 year ago

good picture very good

simon · 1 year ago

Just a few Apple references,

The 'dong' is definitely a Mac II startup chime, it's not anything later, not even a Quadra. If you have a Mac II model, you'll know.

The hand on red octagonal background that appears on the security bots screens "Stop!" comes straight from Mac System 6 & 7. It's used for all Warnings and Errors.

Definitely a NuBUS (Mac II expansion) card in one of the replacement cards for Wall-E. Another one was a 2Mb co-axial ethernet card.

babylon redon · 1 year ago

The background in the picture of Eve which is posted above - which I think looks like it was taken from the "dance" sequence in space, (but I don't remember for sure) - is also the background for OS X Leopard's "Time Machine".

Sean · 1 year ago

Has anyone yet found the "pixar ball" aka the "luxo jr. ball" (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1121/1124652907_...) in wall-e?

Ryan Reynolds · 1 year ago

In the third picture on this page, an object just to the right of Wall-E's left hand looks an awful lot like Majora's Mask. A bit surprising.

Jesse · 1 year ago

Damn, wish I'd seen this thread earlier. Can't believe nobody else saw the Fawlty Towers reference. When the captain gets the manual for returning to earth, he misreads the word "manual" as "Manuel" and assumes that's someone he's supposed to summon. He shouts "Manuel! Manuel!" in exactly the same way that John Cleese's character Basil Fawlty did to summon that show's famously bumbling bellhop.

R · 1 year ago

The Escape pod scene also seems related to star wars episode IV, when 3P0 and R2 eject from the ship/

Will · 1 year ago

Just doing a little brainstorming (A horrible idea).

I was trying to tie in some biblical references, because I took a class about looking for some in movies/literature. And I think I have one. Wall-E represents Adam, the only person on Earth, and he is given the gift of Eve, obvious name tie in there. I always thought the plant was an apple tree...but after reading all the other references, I'm beginning to think that the Apple, is not the plant, but the company so constantly referenced in this movie.

Note that I'm not saying this is a religious movie, or that I'm supporting any one type of religion. I'm just trying to see if there's some creationism myth going on in this movie. Any thoughts?

Perin · 1 year ago

One nobody seems to have got yet. The first garbage cube that Wall-E does in the movie contains a Campbell's Tomato Soup can, it is on the right side of the cube on screen.
That specific can became very famous and thus important when portraited by PopArt master Andy Warhol:
http://media.kunst-fuer-alle.de/img/15/g/15_w82...

Mark · 1 year ago

In addition to The Blue Danube, Thus Spake Zarathustra, and Otto, when EVE is in hibernation she resembles the hibernating astronauts on the Discovery One in 2001: A Space Odessey.

Chris · 1 year ago

When I first saw the BnL mothership I was reminded of John Berkey spaceship paintings. I wouldn't be surprised if there were John Berkey starships on the inspiration boards at Pixar.
(search John Berkey on Google Images)

DRU · 1 year ago

I also notice the toaster in wall-e's truck right away. It looks exactly like the old fashioned shiny toaster from the Brave Little Toaster. Some of the Pixar team members worked on the Brave Little Toaster. Also in that film, A113 is the apartment number of the master's apartment. Clearly spoken, and seen on the door. Also Wall-e is undoubtedly somewhat inspired from SAINT (Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport) prototype #5, aka Johnny 5

badcarma · 1 year ago

i believe the scream people were refering to before,is the sound of the cannon blast as it soar in slow motion,in the scene wall-e fires eve cannon ?

also in the beggning of the movie you can see a lot of rubby ducks on one the shelfs at wall-e's home,i believe this is reference to ocean polution,i refer to the acident where a ship payload of rubducks fell into the ocean,and that is a little gag that the ducks finnaly reached the shore.

dscuber9000 · 1 year ago

I took a screenshot of the Rex scene if anyone wants it:
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/816/rexab1.png

Peter · 1 year ago

Do you remember the scene where the autopilot electrocutes EVE on the bridge? This scene and a sudden close up shot of the small robot standing behind the Autopilot reminds me of the Return of the Jedi - when the Emperor was electrocuting Luke and Vader was watching, unsure what to do. But maybe it's a bit farfetched

lol · 1 year ago

There is also a homage to the famous bridge scene in the Woody Allen movie Manhattan. EVE and WALL-E sit on the bench and the scene looks almost exactly the same.

Jessica · 1 year ago

Hi,
I have seen wall-e twice now and i have noticed, that the lunch box that can be seen frequently in wall-e's shelving unit, is covered in what looks like buzz light year "print". It matches andys buzz bed spread.
I also noticed that the Van that the incredibles drive near the end of the movie to get home. It aprears all rusted and smashed up in plane site a bunch of times... if im not mistaken i think its near walle's domain.

Also i noticed that the voice of the first human that wall-e meets is none other than, John Ratzenberger!

Plus i was also saw that the Big and Large logo makes an appearence and obnoxious amount of times....
This is really gunna make me want to sit and count how many i can find, but i think its almost impossible!
if anyone wants to try, id like to know the amount you come up with

i have also noticed the mike anntena topper, the piston cup, rex, A113, eves "MAC" body type... (Locations in previous comments)

Michael · 1 year ago

when wall-e and eve fell down the trash chute, the robots that were doing the airlock disposal were wall-a.

Chris · 1 year ago

Regarding the Marathon door sound, I heard it too! Though its not the first time I've heard that exact door sound in a film or other game. Lots of people copy and/or use (legally) sounds by Bungie, after all the Marathon game series had the best sfx of its day, still pretty impressive.

Chris · 1 year ago

When Wall E finishes charging up, the sound is that of NEWER Mac's, not older Macs. I have several vintage Macs and some brand new ones, I would know....

SueLyn · 1 year ago

This is another big stretch, but I wonder if the "try blue, it's the new red" slogan on the Axiom could be an echo of Picasso's famous statement, "If I haven't any blue, I use red." That quote was on a poster that was popular in the 70s and 80s.

CJO · 1 year ago

There's a shot early on (1st 5 min.) of ruined Earth that looks an awful lot like the view from the north of Bay St. mall in Emeryville (home of Pixar, as well as my home). I saw the movie there, and it was kind of weird.

I recall that the opening sequence of the Incredibles took place in an urban locale with an uncanny resemblance to the Downtown/Lake Merritt region of Oakland, too.

MT · 1 year ago

The motherboard or memory of Wall-e is blue, as in most modern macs. Motherboards in Wintel PCs remain green.

cyb · 1 year ago

This is for Will, who was looking for Biblical references- how about the resurrection theme? Used also in E.T. and Nightmare Before Christmas. The plant (as someone already pointed out) also a Flood motif, had significance in ET as well. Aside: in one shot when ET is in the van, he appears draped in a sheet or towel with his red heart glowing, looked like Jesus.

Did anyone else read that Eve was 'pregnant' with the plant?

TheCustodian · 1 year ago

The Love Boat references are (as mentioned before) Gopher the bot and (which I don't think was mentioned) the Lido Deck, fer pete's sake! :-)

The 'plant found' light on EVE when she is hibernating looks just like the power logo on a white iMac when it is asleep - the pulse is almost exactly the same, and it too is a white LED hidden behind plastic.

Someone already got the OS X 'wait' symbol in EVE's 'neck' area.

I thought the whole trash area on the AXIOM was a nod to the Star Wars trash compactor.

Also, Auto is like HAL in another way - he, too, received 'conflicting secret orders' which cause him to act strangely/harmfully.

M-O is my favorite, favorite, bot ever. I want to hug him.

MO!

John · 1 year ago

I'm not sure that keyboard is supposed to be an Apple one. The major difference between Mac and PC extended keyboards would be a power key in the upper-right-hand corner. Missing on the one in the screencap.

I think the oval-shaped board that EVE shows WALL-E in the trash hold might be video card from a slot-loading iMac.

Both Auto and the button-pushing robot had a strong Portal vibe to them. The profusion of cables hanging out the back of the latter made me think of it.

WALL-E's startup chime has been used on Macs since the late '90s, so I guess folks who havn't heard recent ones would think it's older. I would have gotten a bigger kick out of the movie if it had been a less-common one, like an early Power Mac guitar chord.

ptriz21 · 1 year ago

the sound "hero" in Mac OS is a sound used be EVE...i'm pretty sure

Oliver Wendall Douglas · 1 year ago

#1 - There's no rule at Pixar requiring Ratzenburger be put in feature films. (As clearly stated by Brad Bird in the commentary to The Incredibles, though he ultimately used him anyway.)
#2 - Pixar was named the Pixar division *before* being sold to Steve Jobs, as shown in Lucasfilm Games around the time that use the Pixar name.

yuzzo · 1 year ago

i am positive i saw a buzz lightyear kiddie cup in Wall-e's backpack thing near the start of the film

Paul · 1 year ago

Did no one notice the crashed deathstar early on, before eve goes to sleep outside and wall-e wakes her up?

toaster · 1 year ago

I am surprised nobody has yet suggested that the videotape came out of the toaster in a reference to the Video Toaster, which was the first consumer-accessible video in/out interface for home computers.

Han · 1 year ago

@ Toaster:

can it also be homage to the Toaster Screen saver?

The Toast screen saver from After Dark software company?

Hahaha... i feel like everything is coincidence or we're just trying to make everything relate to anything.

PP7 · 1 year ago

hey also, if u watch toy story, the incredibles and cars, Wall. E appears in all of those films

Robin · 1 year ago

Surprisingly awesome film! :D

It's like what you'd get if you combined Fallout + Portal + Pixar, which is ultimately AWESOME.

Quite a let down there was no Wilhelm Scream though. I laugh so hard every time I hear it.

dagza · 1 year ago

@PP7 - I noticed that also. I am better than you, however, as I noticed WALL-E in Monster Inc also (23.65 minutes in) and other non-pixar films which I am not going to mention here unless there is demand. Eve also appears in the clone wars cartoon very quickly. I am not sure if either appear in the new star wars film yet. It is obvious from this that planning for these films must begin years before release date.

I also noticed if you type WALL-E into google you get lots of hits about this film. I may be stretching it a little but try it for yourself and you will see!

Also, did anyone notice that an element of this film was set in space / space ships as indeed other films have been? Surely that is too much of a coincidence to be ignored.

Anyway, I'm off to bed once I have put on my tin foil cap.

Tchou · 1 year ago

Another reference to H2G2 movie, when Wall-E is ejected in the pod, the Pod looks like the shuttle from the heart of gold in the movie.
While in Panic (also maybe a reference to don't Panic...) He tries a lots of buttons, deploying al sorts of things like they are in the shuttle and they finish by turning on the wipers, like Wall-E

Steven · 1 year ago

anyone think the BnL trash commercial sounded like something from the Red Green Show? it sounds so much like the rhymes in the commercials from Winston Rothschild of Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services

"To much garbage in your face?
there's plenty of space out in space
B and L star liners, leaving each day,
we'll clean up the mess while you're away"

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

That's an amazing connection you've made, Steven. I'm not sure if it's patterned after WR. Or they could just both be making fun of the formulaic rhymes found in a lot of commercials in general.

It didn't sound like WR when I was watching the movie, but I can imagine him saying it in my head as I read it !! :-D

randy · 1 year ago

hey chris! it is indeed a m-o robot that calls wall-e an asshole in traffic!!! god i love pixar

Tchou · 1 year ago

There are Two flamingoes like the one in knick knack but relly bigs in wall-e'home we can see them when he opens the door for the first time

don · 1 year ago

Just before Wall-e and Eve go into the escape pod on the wall at the bulhead in shades of grey is an image of Old B.O.B. from the 1979 Disney movie The Black Hole.

Tchou · 1 year ago

When Wall-E goes for new tracks from the old wall-e unit, on the other side of the way there is a Barbie from toy story (but man size)...

TTY · 1 year ago

The little computer mice are named REM-E, referring to Remy the Rat from Ratatouille.

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

@ TTY, :-D !!

John Murphy · 1 year ago

There were at least 2 other references to 2001. The first in connection with the initial appearance of Auto as the Blue Danube, a major part of the 2001 soundtrack, was played. When the captain stood they again played some music from 2001 this time the triumphant finale of the same song as when the monolith was revealed.

Scott Craven · 1 year ago

The light bulb WALL-E presents to EVE in his truck, and she illuminates for him a couple of times during the movie, the sound-effect is the hand-held phaser from the original Star Trek TV series

derwood · 1 year ago

John Murphy, you also forgot the Autopilot's single red eye. Very similar to HAL 9000's red eye. The music played while the captain was standing is called "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss.

Eddie Miller · 1 year ago

Wall-E deserves a seqel!!

acorn · 1 year ago

this isn't really an easter egg, just an interesting
fact- it's still pretty cool though.

when it shows the captain first, and he's sleeping,
on the wall behind him are portraits of all the
captains, if you notice the last two (the two fattest
ones) captains, that their names are
Captain Obama and Captain McCain.

anyone else see this? anyone? hellooo?

bluejet · 1 year ago

Apparently the When EVE first talks to Wall-e, she speaks in the language used in starwars by jaba the hutt. But since Wall-e didn't understand her, she spoke in English.

ainawing · 1 year ago

Wall-e takes three satellites out of orbit (he gets hit by them, alright) The last one to disconnect from him is the original Sputnik satellite.

@Impheatus:
The "define" command gets even more obvious, when you take the sophistication of the 'bots voice recognition system into account.

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

This thread has gotten quite long. Please do a keyword search before making any more comments.

PC = CTRL - F then CTRL - G

OSX = Command - F then Command-G

There now are 9 matches for Sputnik.... er... 10.

woonie · 1 year ago

When the captain was asking the computer to define all the Earth-ly terms like farming and dancing, did anyone feel like it is like us spending hours clicking on links from one wikipedia page to another?

a la http://xkcd.com/214/

Tanner · 1 year ago

The scene where Wall-E introduces himself to John and says "EVE?". "No, John!". Wall-E spots EVE being loaded onto a transporter. I think there's a stylized Atari logo on the transporter.

http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wallem...

Michael · 1 year ago

Idk if you noticed this guys, or if you "wanted" to notice this. at the 21 minute of the movie (I think when Eve closes the toilet box searching for the plant) and at 1 hour 14 minute 42 second (when eve is giving walle memory cards to replace the electrocuted one by AUTO, she says "f*ck. New one isn't it? I went to the theatre a second time to confirm this. Both times eve is distressed and she says that word both times.

Michael · 1 year ago

another one, when you look at the captains from earliest to the newest (you know the portraits). As you go along, not only do the captains get fatter, but also more animated. It looks like the first captain looked like a regular photo. Not mentioning the A113 video AUTO shows to the captain. The guy is teal in that video.

acorn · 1 year ago

the robot on the outside of the Axiom is actually called BUNN-E on the side of his head, instead of BURN-E.

tim ball · 1 year ago

does anyone notice the movie refereces? Pans labyrinth with the cockroach, alien with the vault door closing (Sigourney Weaver saving the half android), terminator with towel over head, total recall with tv advertisements and on spaceship etc. Any others?

Danilo Sierra · 1 year ago

There is a reference for 2001 space odyssey, Auto's appearance has a lot to do with HAL 9000

Shane · 1 year ago

One of the last places that EVE scans before getting picked up by the magnet is a Command Module from the Apollo moon missions.

Xikaze · 1 year ago

The small robotic "mice" that are seen swarming atop EVE in the waste chambers are called REM-E.

This is a nod to Remy, the main character in their previous movie "Ratatouille."

Remmy · 1 year ago

Ok... how come NO ONE has noticed the Mikey Pencil Topper in amongst Wall-E's stuff?! It was so blatant yet people see a portion, of a part, of a plume of what could be considered a hidden mickey, but not Mike Wazowski?! Um... hello...

MacSmiley · 1 year ago

It'll be fun when the DVD comes out, when we'll be able to REALLY look for stuff, just like WALL-E himself does!!
:-D

somedude · 1 year ago

nop, its O'Brien and McCrei(probably wrong but not McCain).

Sharkey! · 1 year ago

Haven't heard anyone mention this one yet. When Wall-E's circuit board breaks, the cables inside him are the old rainbow Apple II ribbon cables! That one screams at an old timer like me!

Denrose · 1 year ago

On the shelves in Wall-e's home you can also see the Magic Lamp from Alladin and Lumier the candlestick from Beauty and the Beast. I think I also saw the Merry go Round horse from Mary Poppins in the corner near the video screen. Can't wait to get the DVD so I can go through his home in slow motion!

I am nillok · 1 year ago

if you skip back after you press"play all" in the deleted scenes section of the bonus features, you will find a hidden show "geek-o-rama" talking about all the geeks in pixar.

nesloq · 1 year ago

dvd easter eggs: on the first disc main menu, press right twice on set-up and then up for a title animation test. also press left twice on bonux features and then up for a short featurette called "geek-o-rama".

Christian · 1 year ago

They missed the car oil can (Leak Less) that you see in the beginning of the movie, Leak Less is from the movie Cars its one of the cars sponsors.

Jeff Bassett · 1 year ago

On the main DVD start up disk, let the menu run through 5 times. Takes about 4 minutes. At that time, the BnL logo will get a highlight around it. Used the DVD menu curser to move to it and click on the BnL logo. You will get a 5 minute film on the Geeks that made Wall-e with background filming on the production.

Catrina · 1 year ago

I thought so too. I love Short Circuit. I think that's why I like this movie so much.

jay · 1 year ago

The background thumping rhythm in "M-O" from the soundtrack resembles the background thumping rhythm in "Pink Elephants on Parade" from Dumbo.

Kevin · 1 year ago

If you look at the water bottle in the lunch box it has the space ship from toy story on it...

Andy Bilodeau · 1 year ago

The sound when EVE holds the light bulb and makes it light up is clearly the sound of the Star Trek The Original Series phaser fire.

TriplsT · 1 year ago

Actually it was eve that was surrounded by those mice, but I get the point.

TriplsT · 1 year ago

I read somewhere that pixar didn't originally intend that, but many people have mentioned it.

rdibened · 1 year ago

The scene when Wall-E first goes into space has definitely got to be a nod to the opening credits of Star Trek: Voyager. The shots with the ship passing the moon, going under the solar flare, and the planet's rings are the most obvious clues. The orchestral theme, heavy on strings, sounds similar to Voyager's theme. The approach to the Axiom is also reminiscent of the credits of Deep Space Nine, especially the solo horn in the soundtrack at that moment.

Wall-E scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikr_lwKmEU8

Voyager credits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9FU8bmxQs

DS9 Credits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsOE73pxpys

Andrew Macdonald · 1 year ago

A 113 is also used in the incredibles when Mirage give Mr Incredible directions" to the conference room at 2"

Gav. · 1 year ago

When EVE Locks Down and WALL-E plays the old retro tennis games is that an old Atari Console to the right covered in dust.

lizzora · 1 year ago

A possible Matrix reference?

dave · 1 year ago

Another 2001 reference: When the captain is looking up info on earth on the computer (51:41) an EVA helmet from the Discovery is on an upper shelf in the background behind him... Funny, because Kubrick specifically had all of the props destroyed, to never have them appear on film again.

Andy · 1 year ago

when wall-e gets the lighter, one of the lighters ont he shelf has a DINOCO logo on it

Garrett · 1 year ago

Honestly, my first thought of reference to E.T. was when Wall-E was trying to flee from Eve in the superstore. My mind flashed back to E.T. for some reason (it's been a long time since I've seen the movie). Didn't E.T. flee from something and either carts or fluffy animals followed him? My memory is failing, I guess.

Calvin · 12 months ago

It seemed odd that WALL-E would store a VHS in a toaster, until I remembered the Newtek Video Toast program for editing video on personal computers back in the 1980s.

Scrappy_Sue · 11 months ago

I noticed when Wall-E was stuck in the garbage - his body glowed red like ET. I also noticed in the end credits the guy with the net catching fish reminded me of Pocahontas and also the tree at the end reminded me of the Willow in Pocahontas, or like the tree they have a picnic around in Toy Story.

Mark Mandel · 11 months ago

Anybody else think of "The Brave Little Toaster" when Wall-E pops toast (which turns out to be a couple of cassettes) out of an old toaster? (I read the novel -- never saw the film.)

Rebecca · 11 months ago

Did anyone else make the connection between the story line in Wall-E and the story of Noah and the Ark? The Axiom is shaped an awful lot like pictures of the ark. Everyone leaves in the ark and all life on earth is destroyed. Eve resembles the dove that was sent out by Noah to find vegetation. Just as the dove's discovery of the olive branch signals that it was okay to come out of the ark, Eve's discovery signals that it was okay to come out of the Axiom. I don't think this is too far a stretch. Is it just a coincidence, or does anyone think this was intentional?

noodle8 · 11 months ago

when wall]e wakes up from his sleep, you mikey from Monsters Inc. on a stick. :)

Gielles · 11 months ago

When you look at the gallery of previous captains you will see that the captains are captain for periods of at least 130 years. Implying the average age of humans will be al lot higher in the future (say around 160 to 200 years)

Gidman · 10 months ago

I apologize if this has already been said- but that's not Hamm on the shelf when EVE is watching WALL-E do his little hat dance. While it is most certainly a piggy bank, and from a distance, it (sort of) resembles him, a quick zoom on a DVD player (or an Xbox in my case,) shows it to look nothing like Hamm. It has big eyes with lashes and pupils, and a big, girlish grin. So, yes, it's a piggy bank- no, it's not Hamm.

...I've seen this one mentioned a lot, so go take a closer look.

SDM · 10 months ago

the Wilhelm Scream i thought was when WALL-E was leaving the atmosphere, but dont hold me to it.

SDM · 10 months ago

or at least a modified version of it.

Alexthetrekkie · 10 months ago

If you go into the 'Set Up' menu, choose a different language and play the film, after the credits at the end is a little extra showing the cast of the people who dubbed it in different languages, with extra Wall.e animations, with a Wall.a cameo.

canycegirl · 10 months ago

My husband and I think the thermos behind the twinkie that the roach goes in is a Buzz Lightyear Thermos, thus the lunch box is also a Buzz Lightyear lunch box.

Harold · 10 months ago

Dude, I totally keep thinking that, too! (In fact, that's how I found your post -- I was searching to see if there was any info.online indicating this.)

Bergutt · 9 months ago

I think Wall-E head/eyes shape is a ovious reference to Spielberg's ET, and in a more direct way, to a Robot called Johnny 5 from an old movie (witch is also a reference to ET).

Greg · 8 months ago

I think so too, especially since the only people you see in red after that are the ones Wall-E has woken up.

Kweezy157 · 8 months ago

Another easter egg/ reference is on the Pizza Planet photo in this blog. Look at the picture again & you will see that the truck resembles an old Toyota truck. The creators put 'YO' (2 letters in the word ToYOta) on the back which is a obvious reference to the japenese Auto company 'Toyota'. Its either a reference or maybe they didn't want to get charged for copyright.

James · 8 months ago

Which was, in fact, on the antenna of the pink Barbie van from Toy Story. It's in the cubby next to his bed-cubby.

nswartz · 8 months ago

During the final credits Wall-E is "orbiting" around EVA. The style of movement is a tribute to one of the very first video games: Spacewar that ran on PDP-8s in the early 70's. You have to have been into computers real-early to spot it.

mic · 8 months ago

When the captain of the ship grabs the instruction manual, he looks up and shouts "Manuel! Manuel!".
I see a reference to John Cleese's "Fawlty towers" here...

zeek5304 · 7 months ago

theres a penis in the little mermaid

max · 6 months ago

when he opens up the case with the ring, the case says buy n large too!

max · 6 months ago

I would think the wilhelm scream would be when the ship turns over and everybody falls down.

Boober · 6 months ago

Bergutt noted that Wall-E resembles Johnny 5 from "an old movie." I agree. The movie was "Short Circuit," and Johnny's voice was supplied by Wally Cox. In my opinion, Wall-E's name is probably an homage to Wally Cox.

Kirsten · 6 months ago

Ok, when I look at it, I see one of those porcelain piggy bank pigs.... Is it really Ham?

Jessie · 6 months ago

wall-e finds the "piston cup" right before he finds the plant.

Jessie · 6 months ago

i think the wilhelm scream is right after walle gives eve the plant in space after the escape pod explodes.

jcl_joshua001 · 5 months ago

you know from the incredibles...... dash s teacher burnny i think that is how you spell it..... well there is a burn e from wallE

Jasa Pembuatan Web/Blog Murah · 5 months ago

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

carolina munoz · 5 months ago

In Wall-e's Home when putting lighter away it has Dinoco logo on it !!!

cool easter egg! · 4 months ago

heres another Easter egg (very hard to find):
on the menu, when the cursor is on movie, press down 13 times, up 113 times, press left 1991 times, press right 9600 times, then press enter. you will see a message. Find out! (Found by hacking into the dvd)

Note: autoing this will not work, as the dvd will detect patterns, even pseudorandom numbers :|

David Foster · 4 months ago

The large trash compactor robots on the Axiom are labelled WALL-A. Since WALL-E stands for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class", my best guess is that WALL-A stands for "... Axiom Class".

Aiwa · 2 months ago

I might be wrong but when EVE translates directive. The third attempt sure sounds like the HUT's language from Star Wars.

CaCtUs2003 · 2 months ago

Wow. I knew I wasn't crazy when I thought Eve looked like an Apple design lol.

Sean · 1 month ago

The secretary bot's keyboard is in binary. (my favorite part of the movie)