Since the initial release of The Pixar Theory, there have been countless changes and updates to the Pixar Theory timeline. Since it can get a little complicated (and nutty), I put together a new and improved outline that follows the book and includes all of the recent and upcoming Pixar movies. Enjoy!
Keep in mind that this is not the full theory. There’s plenty I don’t go over here and there are many missing connections between movies I don’t bring up, so if you want the full Pixar Theory experience with connections, Easter eggs, and explanations for what’s going on, click here to check out the book.
Otherwise, enjoy this full look at the Pixar Theory Timeline, starting with The Good Dinosaur.
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And that’s the Pixar Theory timeline. In a nutshell. A very very very long nutshell. Hope you enjoyed reading it as much I did laying it out, and if you have any questions, confusions, or frustrations, feel free to hit me up in the comments or dig into the full book, which does a lot more to explain what in the world is going on in this timeline.
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if you haven’t read Jon Negroni’s “Pixar Theory” be prepared to have your mind blown a little, and to want to rewatch every Pixar film again.
This is awesome!!! Only thing I’d add is Boo being present in Toy Story 3, which suggest her original time line would be 2007-2008ish.(assuming she didn’t time travel as a small child, which I find unlikely.) agian awesome!
That is pretty great, but again the Cars part of it is broken – Hudson won those races during the 1950s hinting the Cars cities were in full force back then – the Cars themselves are of the early 2000s not of an advanced type – but that could be explained by the lack of new cars
I would say Hudson won those races and is more intelligent BECAUSE he’s old enough to remember a time when cars were driven by humans and were “better.” We don’t have to assume that the piston cup didn’t actually happen while humans were around.
Also – in the end credits of Up – the characters go to the weekend opening of Star Wars – 1977 – I don’t think the postcard proves anything timewise – Star Wars is pretty clearly a 1977 thing – the theater itself looks like a 70s/80s theater.
I worked in a movie theater (shocking right) and know that theaters re-release old movies all the time. Up couldn’t take place in the 70s because Russell is using an advanced GPS tracker. Also, Carl is 80+ which means his childhood took place the early 1900s, not late 1800s.
Oh didn’t even think about the GPS – very good catch – I’m still weary on Cars timeline – sure they could be like the toys and be not alive when humans are around, but I’d be really amazed at them morphing everything into a car version of the world, unless it is that cars see things through car eyes and that makes the world have more of those car puns throughout
It also could be one of the many Star Wars Re-releases….
All i want it’s to see all pixar movies again!! I loved this theory!! It’s great! I want a book telling every detail of it!! Will be really a best seller!!
Over the past weekend I watched Brave, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Up, The Incredibles, Wall-E, Cars and Cars 2 – that is a lot of Pixar for one weekend 🙂
hmmm very very interesting. i will reblog and have followed you on twitter @AnimalConSeries. I was wondering about Ice Age yes not a Pixar film but nonetheless Disney (who releases Pixar Films) which features well developed animals that can make boats etc and are smart. thoughts?
Actually Ice age is 20th Century Fox…
oh wow I feel stupid….
well sorry about that.
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This goes along (partially) with my Case for Characters post.
In a bug’s life a human with gum on their shoe steps on one of the characters
Um, that was the film ANTZ, not A Bug’s Life.
Very interesting! I would just point out one thing which seems faulty: in Monsters Inc., Henry J. Waternoose says the following: “Kids these days… They just don’t get scared like they used to.”; this indicates time passing by in the human world, and the company’s choice of going back to a time in which children are less prone to produce as much scream energy as a time before that. Taking this into account, why is the extraction of scream energy from children not done in a time in which they would scream more, therefore producing more energy? Boo’s following ventures indicate that traveling in time using wood can be used to travel to any time in the past, and it must certainly be controlled if the doors infallibly lead to children’s rooms (while they are still children)…
As of my understanding, the monsters have not completely dominated the time traveling technology. They can go through time, but can’t really control where in time, as they have to test every door before putting it to use, and it only being able to go to a single other place. Perhaps also only being able to travel only a specific amount fo time, in a way that, as the time passes in monster era, they’ll only be able to travel to a specific date, X years, months and days before. That is also how they control the timezones and where to go.
Boo (as the witch) however, appears to have some more control over this (even if not entirely, as she hasn’t been able to go to the monsters time)..
This is really amazing and I bought it, but here is a challenge: how come there are A Bug’s Life bugs’ toys in Toy Story 2? You can see here below: http://25.media.tumblr.com/a83b15da51af5f9f1069dc4a16ceafc8/tumblr_mpj5fn06241qewacoo7_r1_500.jpg
they could just be toy bugs that happen to like the bugs that exist in Bug’s Life
But they have the logo of the film. I feel like A Bug’s Life was a film to Toy Story characters too.
in one of boo’s time travels, she might have carried by accident some of the bugs, by carving wood from the big tree in bug’s life, into the toy story era
This theory should be made into an Epic Pixar Film!!!! Well done man!!! 😀
La compañia Dinoco aparece en las peliculas de toy story 1, 2 y 3 y cars alguna relacion con esto debe de tener
How do you explain why Andy has a poster of Finn McMissile if Cars is in the distant future? Also, there’s a kid in the daycare in Toy Story 3 wearing a McQueen tshirt with the same logo and number and everything; both of which imply that Cars are toys in the Toy Story universe. It’s a fun theory but, like numerology or psychic readings, I think it’s mostly based on wishful thinking and that the people at Pixar like to have fun and mix/match across movies as an “inside joke” that only the most die-hard fans could possibly point out.
According to the full theory, all of the misplaced Easter Eggs left by Pixar are products of Boo traveling through time in order to find Sully. Since she can travel to any period of time and create easter eggs, then it only makes sense that all easter eggs are from her.
Perhaps the machines found these artifacts of past humans and based there designs on these thing due to the fact that machines are not the most creative of all beings. They wanted to replacate human existence by replicating human-created things.
Yep, pretty sure the theory is just something fun to read and has nothing to do with what Pixar actually puts out. Like there are references to Disney too (in A Bug’s Life, there are Lion King posters, and references to Dumbo!), plus Merida is considered a Disney Princess, so she’d have to be in both the Disney and Pixar timelines, meaning that ALL the Disney movies have to be included in this!
I know this is meant to be just a fun thing, but I also want to point out that in Cars, the I-40 had only been built 40 years previously.
Also, I don’t understand how the trash under the porch (the ‘city’ in A Bug’s Life) wouldn’t have decomposed over the centuries? They look pretty biodegradable to me!
I enjoyed a lot reading your theory and if Pixar thought about all that before/while making the movies, I like them even more. But there are tiny details in it that that confuse me. For example, the easter eggs in Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2: to say that Boo placed them, is a bit lazy. Is not just that Heimlich appears in a tree, but there are Bug’s Life toys in a store (http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/7/12/15/enhanced-buzz-22064-1373658817-33.jpg), and Mrs Potato Head reads a book where it appears to be the story of Bug’s Life characters (http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/5/10/15/enhanced-buzz-14229-1368213275-19.jpg), so I think there’s something else going on. And In Toy Story 3 there’s a kid wearing a t-shirt that makes reference to Lightning McQueen, how would you explain that if Cars comes years later? (http://www.comingsoon.net/nextraimages/mcqueenkid.jpg) Oh, and in the first link in this comment there’s Luigi in Finding Nemo. Is it just a coincidence that they seem to be the same car model?
I say that they were all just TV shows and/or toys in the time in which the movies took place. In the future, these characters coincidentally became real. It’s entirely possible despite being extreeeeeeemely unlikely.
Thanks for the awesome graphic version. I enjoyed the written version too. I think pop culture is a far more inter-tangled web than we realize in a normal day.
You say that Toy Story, we see the “first signs” of life found in inanimate objects. Remember, however, that Stinky Pete remembers back to the first days of space travel where, in one day, the “Space Rangers” took over now that space flight was all the rage. Woody’s Roundup was cancelled shortly thereafter because of the race to space toys. It’s not completely unlikely that space travel started happening right around the timeline of “The Incredibles,” meaning Zero Point Energy had already started to affect the toys.
This is amazing. Do the shorts fit in?
hello, i enjoyed reading this theory, and if this was real. it would be awesome, to know that this all pixar movie are connected. but perhaps there something in my mind. you said that A Bug Life is take time after Wall-E come back? after human begin to raise earth by planting the “shoes” filled with plant, which mean in future 2900> but can you explain how a bug life can be a cameo in Toy Story 2 in credit. and also Rex from “Toy Story” become cameo in Monster Inc. credit ?
it would be bad if you say “let’s dont count it” since you do, use credit information as your theory, thanks 🙂
you should read the whole theory, it says, that, maybe, in one of boo’s time travels, she may have picked the bugs and took them into toy story era, something like that
Personally, I think that the gap between some of the films is way too short. Especially the time between A Bug’s Life and the monsters’ era. I mean, it would take way more time for animals to evolve into… that.
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But if we’re going to answer every gap with “this happened because of Boo’s time travels” there is no fun in it. The best part of a theory is to prove it, contesting it. Not simply saying “because of reasons”. Maybe “A Bug’s Life” was actually before Earth’s doom because they appear at least three times in the Toy Story saga.