As excited as I was about the last Muppets movie, I can’t say I care much about Muppets Most Wanted, a movie with more celebrities than jokes, apparently.
One thing I am excited about, however, is the release of a Monsters University short that premiered at the 2013 D23 Expo and will be shown before Muppets Most Wanted. I’ve been told by some that it includes possible hints at the Pixar Theory (mainly with door technology), so I’m excited to see it all play out for myself.
Here is a quick preview:
It’s not much to go on, but as you can see, the door connects to points within the Monsters’ universe (the fraternity house and the party).
In the theory, I stress how the doors manipulate time, not necessarily dimensions. This is the first time in any of the Monsters Inc. properties that we’ve seen two doors linking within the same time period.
My hypothesis has been that the monsters are actually animals that have mutated and replaced humans thousands of years after the events of Wall-E. The monsters need energy – i.e. humans – to power their world, so they use the magical properties of wood and their advanced technology to travel back in time and harvest energy from past humans.
The monsters don’t know they’re traveling back in time in order to preserve the delicate timeline. They’re taught that humans and their belongings are toxic, which is really a precaution against them messing with anything that would change history.
But in this short, we see that the doors are being used for spacial travel, rather than time travel.
Will this disprove the Pixar Theory? We’re going to have to wait and find out. Discuss!
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I certainly hope it doesn’t disprove anything. Your theory is awesome. 🙂
I’m sure you can find a way to make it work.
What ^they said! You’ve added updates to the post before, so even if it does “disprove” it slightly, I’m sure you’ll be able to update around it.
Maybe it’s a little too early to tell, but I do not think it disproves the theory. In it, the doors’ main use is time travel, so I wouldn’t have a hard time believing that this is possibly a setting that requires much less energy than time travel.
Just throwin’ it out there…
if you say it disproves the theory, it also disproves the idea that the monsters and the humans live in different worlds and saying “the doors can transport you through space and time” makes a lot more sense than “the doors transport you through space and also dimensions”
I don’t think it disproves the theory. Normal door-travel only involves the door on the monster-side being powered and here we clearly have two identical powered doors both on the monster-side. Having both doors powered up probably changes the way they work, preventing them from linking to a matching door in the human past.
I am a huge Disney/Pixar fan and I loved your Pixar theory! Maybe the new short will prove the theory is true. 😉
If anything, it merely changes it. There is one point in the theory I find strange that has to do with Monster’s Inc. In the first movie, Randal tells Sulley that Humans make monsters into toilet covers. That is a very small and not noticeable remark, but if you look at Toy Story 3, there is relevance. The little girl at the end of the film playing with all the toys is in the bathroom at one point and the toilet is prominently featured with a toilet cover that resembles Sulley’s fur color. What could this mean?
Great question! Like the abominable snowman and other exiles, it’s clear that some monsters end up in the human world, though they’re utterly afraid of them. Humans could have captured someone from Sulley’s famous family and made them into a toilet seat cover years after he made that comment in Monsters Inc. (or around the same time).
Due to the fact that in moving to the past the doors would have to also compensate for the movement of the Earth over the millennium these doors would simply be portals through all 4 dimensions, the three of space and the one of time.
It’s still possible to time travel to the same day. I mean, think about it. All you need to do is set the doors to send you to the same exact time at the same exact day at the two exact places of the doors. Since they probably set it beforehand, Mike and Sulley planned this to the exact second.
This does bring up an interesting question: How do they get the doors? They don’t build them, because it is shown that they are exact copies of human closet doors. If this is so, then how do they know exactly what these doors look like, let alone gather the same wood and implement technology into it?
However, if the Tree of Life is truly something magic, then it is highly logical that WALL-E really IS a Robot Jesus. The wood has the power to spawn creativity. However, it can also do something quite interesting. It seems to do what people need. Carl is in a depression after Ellie has passed away and is being bugged by BnL to move into a retirement home. It gives him the idea to use balloons to lift his house away and strengthen his adventurous spirit that was given to him by his wife. After WALL-E, it seems that the tree spreads an effect all throughout the minds and bodies of the humans, animals, and machines. In A Bug’s Life, what if the tree allowed the bugs to find inspiration for their cities and other human-like objects?
Actually, the time one ends up on the other side of the door is different than the time he enters the door. Thus, time travel of the most minuscule degree.
The tree did not exist until the events of Wall-e. Carl would not have been able to draw inspiration from it.
remember the time travel thing?
Here’s my guess before seeing the short:
First, remember that the other side of the door always leads to a human closet. That is to say, going through a door always lands the monster in a human closet. So when Mike opens his door, it’s not going to open Sully’s. That’s really important, because then, how are these doors identical? Easy. They’re in the same house. I don’t know about you all, but all of my closet doors match.
So my guess is that they’ve discovered a house that is empty, or somehow without risk of being caught. They go into the house in the human world, and then go through the door on the other side, back into the monster world. The theory still works this way.
Even if the doors are connected in the same time period, it could just mean that the “head monsters” are trying to convince the monsters like Mike and Sully that the doors don’t travel in time, so to keep them thinking that the kids are toxic. E.I. the doors are different and don’t function the same way as the others
Well this doesn’t disprove your hypothesis. It just means they’re lazy and using their time/space machine to go to a different place at the same time.
Maybe this is an old prototype door that transports through space, but as their understandings of the magical door properties developed, they were able to create doors that traveled through time. Considering they are in a University setting it is very possible that they have old projects/experiments on display where they could have taken the doors from. Evidence that this is an old door is that in Brave, the witch originally used the door within the same time period, not to travel into an new time period. Time travel via door was only possible in the future. Perhaps with better magic technology.
I’d like to point out that any door that allows travel through time MUST also be able to allow travel through space as well in order to be useful (and, you know, not fatal). If you were to remain exactly in the same point in space and skip to tomorrow, you’d find yourself in outer space, dying, as the Earth continues a day farther along its path than it was before. These doors can do both, like a TARDIS. They’d have to be able to do so for the monsters to end up still on Earth when they step through, and it’s even more crucial if they’re aiming specifically for one particular child’s bedroom. Not at all a problem for the Pixar Theory – in fact, it strengthens it by showing that the doors are capable of doing what they would need to do in order to accomplish their function within the Theory.
I don’t think it disproves the theory at all, as the first Monsters Inc movie clearly displays the doors visiting different time periods, so they must be able to do it. During the moments where Randal is chasing Mike and Sully through a series of doors, they visit somewhere which looks like Hawaii in broad daylight, Japan (Mt. Fuji) which is either early morning or early evening, and Paris which is also daylight. Even with a significant amount of variance on these actual locations, for example the scene which looks like Hawaii actually being in the Caribbean, it’s not possible for all three of these locations to be in such bright daylight (especially Hawaii and Paris) at the same time; therefore the doors must be affecting time too 🙂
Here’s the part from the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbMYtIfKhAw&t=59
Great work on the theory! If anybody thinks these locations are elsewhere then please do let me know.
Doesn’t look like it destroys the theory quite yet. There’s nothing that seems to limit doors only traveling through time. In fact, Monsters students may have to train moving spatially before they can move in time AND space (which I guess would be much more complicated than just spatial movement). So, assuming it’s only spatial, that’s not necessarily a problem.
Of course, we could find out they’re actually playing through a time-space that both doors happen to share. In which case the theory still stands. We’ll just have to find out!
I think the Tree of Life is the wood used to create the doors in “Monster’s Inc.” because considering it’s called the Tree of Life could it have the power to regenerate missing pieces of itself over time? Just a thought.
You know for re-usage and infinite energy for doors.
Well, if it is true that the doors travel through time, how do they control when in time they are travelling to? Maybe there is some way of controlling it, and if so, they have set it to, say, one second backwards in time, which would still be travelling through time, and they would still reach their desired destination in the same timeframe.
There’s also a possibility that doors are not only limited to travelling through time. This set of doors could have been manufactured to travel through space. I wish I had evidence to substantiate my theories, but if you could think of a situation in which any of the things I said are displayed, then there you go.
The wood. They found a way to link the wood in the doors.
…They can travel though time=YES But as we all know from “Back to the Future” you don’t always know whats gonna be there then and forward. (Unless it’s the Time Machine that can actually show you the progression) Meaning that the answer was already there. In THE PIXAR THEORY we’re talking about wood as a means of time travel, yes ,but it did not state a way of control. Meaning that the monsters found a way to fix a specific door to an exact duplicate door creating a wormhole which are usually used in time travel. Meaning the door in this short is not only fixed on the other door in the monsters timeline but appears to be a stolen PRACTICE DOOR from the University. A way to prove this is by going through a door, grab that end, go though another door and than use the two doors next to each other.
I think it fits in with the theory pretty good…If the couldn’t move space and time, when the monsters went through them they wouldn’t really go anywhere different…They would just be on the other side of the door in a different time in the exact same place. They obviously move to different places. I’m new to the whole Pixar Theory, but enjoy it. It gives the movies just a little bit more, than just an animated movie.
Haters gonna Hate but What if Wall-E Is the beginning? Just think about it, You have a Robot “Jesus” who is trying to clean up the Earth, and then you have Eve. The plant is what turns into the tree, that bares the forbidding fruit. It is with this plant that wall-e gets Eve’s attention hence the forbidden fruit. When they take the plant back to earth so the humans can repopulate the tree holds all of the MAGIC of the fruit. As the tree grows it keeps giving it’s Magic to all of the things that come near. The tree is definitely the key to all of the Pixar stories, and the only movie that is about the Tree specifically is Wall-E. The tree is just a baby in Wall-E, in all the others, it keeps growing, why wouldn’t that be the beginning?
Just a thought is all
Surely the fact sullen arrives at the club almost instantly after mike sets the up the door station could still mean that it is time travel, the walkie talkies?
It leads to the possibility that the characters from Monsters Inc, are not from the future, but are aliens instead. At least that is what I am seeing from this preview. Though I don’t think it is enough to debunk the entire theory even so. Boo could still interact with them, and potentially become a time traveler. Also, all the other pieces of the Pixar Theory Timeline still appear to be relevant.
One thing that i’ve been noticing is that some people say that the tree in up can’t be the same one that on wall-e, but what if the tree from up is the “father” of the plant from wall-e, also keeping its function of giving people (or in this case things) what they need (in wall-e being the way to make humans return to earth)
Sorry for my english, i’ts kind of my second language :p
I would say physics, SPACE and TIME are the same thing, so the doors manipulate BOTH. I do not believe this short will disprove the theory if they use it to travel to another SPACE in their universe thats is going on at the same TIME. Simple physic laws should be able to explain why this can happen, or at least basically as going into details can get messy