The Pixar Theory Timeline

Pixar Theory TimelineSince 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.

Pixar Theory Timeline

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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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  1. Some people think it’s a small cameo of her in toy story 3. I don’t remember much about toy story 2 though, I haven’t seen it for AGEEEES :0

  2. I do not ascribe to the Pixar theory for several reasons, but the huge and rather important connection that is needed is the connection of wood and it’s natural ability to harness the time traveling ability. Now the issue with this, and in the words of the Witch/Boo herself, is this The Witch: “That’s ridiculous! Wood cannot be imbued with magical property. I should know, I’m a wi…whittler…of wood!” This shows that wood cannot be imbued with magical properties, as says the witch. Now one position someone can take to explain this statement is “Well maybe she was trying to just deny the magic, because she didn’t want to be caught out as a witch” But that wouldn’t make sense, she obviously reacted quickly and without a lot of thought to Merida. Meaning this was her first thought regarding wood and it’s ability to be used for magic. Now the other explanation is “The wood already has the ability to time travel, they’re just harnessing and releasing the power” Now this one makes a lot more sense, since instead of the wood being imbued with the ability and just being a power source it is active in the time travel. This also explains certain things that can make more sense. (For instance Flick and Heimlich were in Toy Story number whatever, as an Easter Egg, instead of Boo/The Witch having picked them up by accident, it was a case of spontaneous time travel. Which if wood is what holds the time travelling ability it would actually occur quite spontaneously as well. Now the issue I have with this, is that it seems to be a lot to reach for, since you are claiming that the Will’ O’ Wisps, are the original source of magic. The movie Brave just states the Will’ O’ Wisps lead you to your destiny Elinor: “A wisp? You know, some say that Will O’ the Wisps lead you to your fate.” this idea is frequented throughout different parts of the movie. Where the wisps lead people to their fate. The wisps themselves never actually caused any magic, or whatever. Though there is the whole Magic = Fate thing, but again a stretch you’d have to make. Now a better explanation would be that the Wisps actually led Boo/The Witch to her first Magic or Time Travelling ability thing, who knows what. But instead of going to the Dark Ages looking for more power, the Wisps just led her to knowing how to do it in general. The connection you use to explain the door of Boo/The Witches hut, and Monster’s Inc, how it transports through time. I will not say you are wrong on that, just yet. But these doors don’t show time travel necessarily, so much as a travel between two places. Time Travel itself, would start at Point A and end at Point A, just at a different time. Space and Time travel would be required to explain the different ending location of these doors (How else could there be something different on the other side?) But whatever on that. I could go through, but most of your explanations don’t work well, there are better ones with less need of a stretch and I personally just don’t think the Boo/Witch connection makes much sense. Regardless of what you have to say, where you see Boo and the girl from Toy Story 3, and she’s holding a Kitty doll with similar coloring to Sully, I can see a connection. They look similar, and shows that Boo still loves Sully. But the Witch and Boo look nothing alike, just because you get older does not mean your entire appearance changes. y nose didn’t start out tiny and button, and then one day become huge and bulging and whatnot. It’s always looked like this. My feeling on the Boo/Witch connection? There isn’t one, just another stretch made to make a connection that isn’t required to place all stories on the same timeline. There is no evidence for the connection. A time traveling witch would have seen all of what happens through time regardless and a SINGLE carving of something, does not mean that they are obsessed with something. If the witch was boo, wouldn’t there have been more than one example of Sully present in the workshop? Instead of just traditional bears? So just another stretch to explain something.

    • That’s where I th the Marvel Universe fits in. See wood doesn’t have magical time-travelish properties but it can possess scientific timetravely properties. According to Einstein’s Unified Field Theory, time can go both forward and backward. If we let Marvel step in and handle all the specifics on how wood would make time travel happen, we have a time machine of wood! You have to take into account that the physics of the Disney universe would work a little differently than in our universe and let me remind you that in Once Upon A Time, Snow White and Prince Charming use an enchanted tree to get Emma to “our” universe. The addition of the Marvel Universe would also allow for Frozen and Big Hero 6 to join the party as a part of the Marvel Universe, Big Hero 6 being in the post Wall-E and Bugs Life time frame in which humanity has rebuilt former cities but is getting a lot of important parts wrong. Frozen fits in as the first technical superhero movie as Elsa has superpowers and is trying to use them properly.

    • I also find the Witch/Boo Theory not true… But that wouldn’t explain why there is carvings of Sully and the pizza planet truck in brave. Also I had a theory that might not fit with the pixar theory But alter it much more AND fit with your theory. So It starts in 2000 when Boo was a baby and visited by Sully and Mike she became SO interested years later she had a toy resembling Sully and A Toilet seat resembling Him;(There is actually one in toy story three) But i noticed about that is there is a problem which said by Mikes enemy (That cameleon…) Said “I’ve heard that humans skin monsters and use their fur” (Or Something) Which is the problem…. with that, BUT. Back to the theory she grows up BACKWARDS IN TIME…. which explains why she’s the so called “Witch” in brave, but then where she got the magic is unknown..

      • Randall (the chameleon) never said that. The myth was “humans are toxic” and was spread by the heads of Monster Inc. in the film and actually fits in the theory. Growing up backwads in time? You’re not making any sense. You should really read the whole theory.

    • no there were two Sullys in the workshop. one was a carving next to the pizza car Easter egg. another was a carving on a tablet, and i can explain and disprove your logic on the whole “traditional bears thing.” from the fact that Boo describes Sully as kitty as do many young toddlers who describe every non-human animal as kitty, we understand that Boo must be very young; i’d say about 2 to 3. The earliest that a human can make a memory is at 2.5 years old. even then the memory has to be profoundly significant. although the memory is still going to be distorted by boo’s viewpoint and by time. Boo saw sully as an adorable creature. because of this, her brain wipes the negative and emphasize the positive. that means bye bye scary sully parts. hello bear resemblance.
      Also, wisps don’t have to be magic. According to the theory, boo was so madly in love with sully that she traveled many years trying to find him. on her travels she could have discovered magic and the time traveling ability of wood separately to help her search of sully. she would have found them without the need of the wisps.
      Furthermore, where are you getting the idea that time travel doesn’t mean space travel? many of today’s theories on time travel even require space travel (i.e. faster than the speed of light, black holes, etc.). Your logic on the doors is completely off.
      And again, i don’t think anyone’s 2.5 year old self looks like their old self. u go through the physical changes of childhood, puberty, stress as an adult, and older aging processes. you even begin to see the physical changes from 2.5 year old boo to kindergarten boo. there is no 2 year old on this planet that looked, looks, or will look like their older selves.
      BTW this is just one big reason that u believe can disproves the Pixar theory; it’s not several like you said and it’s not that significant to destroy the entire theory. if u want to try to disprove the theory still, go ahead and look at the whole Emma Jean thing. it connects Up and Toy Story a LOT. or maybe even the whole explanation of how humans are really automaton’s controlled and powered by emotions (Inside Out) similar to the toys of Toy Story. or how the energy crisis of monsters inc. is due to the fact that the energy of the human’s emotions are transferring from fear to joy (screams to laughter) from Brave and the Incredibles to Toy Story.

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  4. Hey 🙂 I read The Pixar Theory, the Planes’ part and this timeline, too. And I found all great! I really liked it 🙂
    In this article you soon said that some details or films are missing in the timeline (like Newt, or similars…) and I totally agree. Only one thing: maybe you can put that one film about Dinosaurs (I don’t remember the name) you mentioned in Te PixarTheory (because it would have the first place, before Brave).
    However, excellent work 😉 Hope you’ll continue it

  5. About the dinosaur movie, it never came out so I don’t think it should be added into the theory. But other wise I think the theory is great but how is Boo the witch? Just those crvings of Sully and the pizza planet truck to me are not enough evidence (to me anyway) to prove that the witch is Boo. Wouldn’t she have carved more carvings of Sully if it really was Boo? Because in Monsters Inc., it shows that Boo likes to draw a lot, and I think she drew quite a few drawings of Sully (and she drew Randall the purple lizard/snake like thing as well) so I think she would have done more carvings of Sully, unless Pixar only put one carving of Sully in her workshop on purpose to not make it obvious that she is Boo. I’m not really sure though but this is a really intereting theory and Pixar movies are pretty much my childhood and I’ve watched all of them except Up (I’ve seen it, but not all of it). Oh and I can’t wait for the new Pixar movie Inside Out to come out, I’d really love to see if this movie ties into the theory and if so, how (I really hope Inside Out doesn’t disprove this theory, because I love this theory).

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  8. This is AMAZING, but there’s a mistake :(, “A bug’s life” takes place at the same time as toy story does, you can see it at the end of toy story (i don’t remember wich one), there’s a blooper-like-thing where two of “A bug’s life” characters are talking in the middle of the grass and Buzz walks next to them.
    The caterpilar (I don’t remember his name) says: “this is not our movie”.
    This could mean three things:

    1)The bugs took control over the world and, somehow, made a time machine.

    2)Very similar to the other one, but the bugs didn’t build the time machine, Boo took them to a time travel.

    3) There’s a mistake.

    So… that’s all I have to say n_n

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  10. The notion that the monsters travel through time to scare the children couldn’t be further from just plain wrong. One of the biggest contributing factors to the energy crisis Monstropolis faces is the fact that kids have become desensitized and are harder to scare. Waternoose even says it himself. So if the door technology produces the possibility of time travel the monsters could simply dial into a point in history when children are still scared of their own shadows. This points to the notion that the monsters exist in parallel with humans, and the doors probably induce some inter-dimensional portal. And sorry, but that kind of unravels a big part of the rest of the theory. A lot of it seems to be arbitrarily based on a lot of things but the time travel concept pulls the whole thing together. Too bad it falls apart because of something so obvious.

    • simple explanation of this. first they exhausted every single child they could have scared from early human times and had to keep moving forward in the past times that they used. u might say thats ridiculous but lets say each monster scares a children every 2 minutes on average for 3 hours in the morning and 5 hours in the afternoon. thats 960 children a day. there are 20 door stations per scare floor. if u look at the monsters inc factory from the outside there are over 60 scare floors. thats 1,152,000 children a day, 420,480,000 children a year. and thats only one factory. a company like this must have a chain of factories. so lets say only 10 factories worldwide. THATS 4,204,800,000 CHILDREN A YEAR!!! thats over half global human population to this day. and we’re not even considering that they are only scaring children not adults or adolescents. basically they covered over 5000 years of early human populations every year in the beginning of the company. since the mosters are very developed in their city we can assume that they have been around for quite some time. therefore the amount of time that they have consumed screams as energy has caught up to them.
      this actually strengthens the theory because the theory states that the power of the emotions (Inside Out) transfer from Fear to Joy (screams to laughter) from Brave/The Incredibles to Toy Story which is when Sid’s monster (the purple clawed one screaming and running frantically from the “bad door” at the beginning of the movie) happens. We also see Boo with a Jessie doll at the end of the movie which also confirms that Boo’s time period is the same as Toy Story’s.

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  12. Hi!.. Ive read the full theory and was amazed how well you connected the dots.. although Im sure they werent meant to be pieced together.

    One thing I could add is that, could the new Pixar movie “Inside Out” hint this slow take over of the machines over the humans? The Zero Point Energy may not only affect inanimate objects and animals but to the humans too and taking over the way humans behave towards the environment fueling the humans vs. animals conflict.. surely the machines arent taking sides over this conflict and want both to fight so they could take over during the aftermath.. wow..this is dark lol

  13. I don’t believe that Incredibles takes place in the 50s and 60s. You can’t just take into account the creation of A.I., because the technology present in the movie indicates a time much later. Nothing in the movie looked 50s or 60s styled.

    • Except the dates are spelled out by Edna Mode. She specifically says that Stratogale and Thunderhead died in the late 50s. And we saw them at Mr. Incredible’s wedding. Plus, Brad Bird himself has said outright that they placed the movie in the 50s and 60s on purpose. You can even see “1968” on the newspaper Bob is reading at the dinner table.

      • Isnt it slightly annoying when people comment especially with the express intent to basically attack and poke holes in your theory? I’m all for positive criticism and questioning things with the goal of trying to progress the discussion. But I cant stand when people just want to try and outright dismiss your theory for no other reason than wanting to say no youre wrong and trying to argue a point when they havent even done a basic inquiry into their argument. How easy would it have been for this person to find facts supporting that it was placed in the 60s. But instead they just decide to comment saying youre wrong. And most of all people seem to forget this is a theory. Youre not saying that this is what Pixar is doing. Its supposed to be a fun inquisitive theory that will make people look deeper and from a different point of view when watching these movies. Yet their will always be these people who just have to argue against it with no basis and no other reason than to try bash this theory. Youve clearly done the research and know what youre talking about. And I’m all for positive debate stemming from a factual basis. I’m a big supporter of your theory and it really gets to me when I continually see these people blindly criticizing when their criticism is so clearly and easily proven wrong.

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  15. Maybe the fact that Buzz didn’t know that he was a toy in the first movie indicates that the toys are starting to get a personality of their own and don’t just consider themselves toys anymore but as sentient beings.The rest of the toys willingly let Sid destroy other toys in the first movie but Buzz wants to help them and the other toys warn him not to. He doesn’t seem to care if the humans know he’s alive at first but (assuming that star command in toy story is like Starfleet from star trek) he believed his purpose was to blend into other people’s cultures so that could be why he allows andy to play with him. Lastly when he does find out that he is a toy he handles it differently from the other toys and becomes depressed. It is the only explanation I could find for why he didn’t know that he was a toy in the first one.

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  17. I hate to sound like a nonbeliever but ant years are different from human years and the ants could have passed down the stories of what the grasshopper’s do to them generation after generation.

  18. So the bugs life time line is weird the whole trailer being in a couple of movies. The cars time line is off because you are correct in it happening before wall-e but it takes place later. Einstein showed us that space travel creates 2 time frames the constant of the axiom being 700 years. on earth however would have aged much faster. Explaining why there were few to no remaining human life forms. But with an oil there is a limited supply and environmental concerns as hinted in the bio fuel in the cars features. We can also assume that there was more than the axiom in space judging by its relative size to the city scape, as well as the CEO leaving 5 years after the Axiom. So what happened to the rest of the ships. Well assuming people died before departure due to environment, and size of the ships there would be minimum of 10,000 ships floating in different areas of the solar system or beyond. The possibility of mutation is high. Due to radiation, animal evolution to sentient life may lead to cross breeding. Some ships coming back may have had the genetic anomaly in great numbers. And not to go off Pixar but human animal conflicts like in Planet of the Apes, and mutant human prejudice like in XMen. Would develop into a fear of humans. Due to the cross breeding and mutations we find that the dominant traits will survive. Giving us the Monsters timeline and explaining the fear of children. I am totally behind the Bo theory. The fact Sully goes back to her. As she grows up she would encounter problems with him being around. As well as increased fear woth adults with other children talking about their funny monster. When the next generations don’t fear their monster the scare generations will start to wonder and revolt against them for using their kids. The make them laugh generations would also me more likely to cross breed with the monsters more as they became older. So Bo would have to travel to a time where mythology was accepted as normal day to day life. The time travel is also made valid by this theory and time line. Monsters gain energy from human screams and laughter, when cars and bugs ruled the earth and the humans left earth the monsters would run out of energy. But it hasn’t at the time of monsters movies gotten to the point of recycling of the scared to make them laugh.

  19. I found the theory interesting until you sent boo back into the past to cause the evolutionary process of the animals in the first place by messing and mixing humans with animals. There is a huge flaw in logic before this to be true. The witch would have had to be there in the beginning for the time line between brave and the monsters Inc to occur. But this would mean that boo caused her reason to time travel in the first place causing an infinite loop.

    • Boo going back in time causing her to go back in time doesn’t cause issues. The paradox caused is a casual paradox, which means that it doesn’t effect spacetime in any negative way. Let’s say you go back in time which causes your own birth. There isn’t anything universe breaking going on, it’s just confusing to think about.

  20. I just thought of something. What if the reason humans vanished before monsters inc was because they knew that they wouldn’t be able to live in the new harsh environment of future earth, so they used boo’s time travel to go back in time when earth was safe to life in, but the only problem was that they weren’t like the humans that lived in this time period. Pollution from the earth somewhat mutated them, and they all had different special abilities that the people in the past could only dream of. This makes the humans of the future, supers. And if you think that “no that can’t be right, the incredibles don’t know that!” They are just some of the later generations of the supers, and don’t know their origins. Or their minds could all have been wiped of future earth by someone with the power to wipe memories.

  21. And the good dinosaur could fit in as a mistake that boo caused when she went back in time so the dinosaurs never became extinct.

  22. I’ve read your theory, and boy that’s soo amazing. However…I want to know where Boo is in in the timeline? How could she have been the witch from medieval Scotland as an old woman, but as a child, looking at her bedroom it looked pretty modern? And in Toy Story 3, it is speculated that she made a cameo but looking closely she hasn’t grown up so much and she’s still a young child so can we say that she was probably born in the years of 2003-2007, or in between? And during that time period, that’s when she accidentally goes many years into the future, in Monsters Inc, which explains your theory that the monsters do travel back in time. What confuses me the most though, is how Boo and the witch is the same person. Let’s say she probably lived in 2003-2007, accidentally travelled to 4500-5000, was brought home by Sully back into time, became the girl we see in Toy Story 3 which is 2010, and then? How did she end up in the 14th-15th century, in medieval Scotland? She couldn’t have figured out time travelling as a child soo let’s say she grew up and figured it out, but then why would she choose to stay in the old times, when she could travel to the future to see Sully?

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