The Good Dinosaur Trivia

Cameos, in-jokes, re-used animation and other trivia from The Good Dinosaur.

Cameos

• Peter Sohn has indicated that the Pizza Planet Truck appears twice in the film. However, only one appearance is currently known:

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    The Pizza Planet Truck as an asteroid

    The Pizza Planet Truck makes an appearance as an asteroid in the opening shot, floating in the top left part of the frame.
• The likeness of Hank from the next feature Finding Dory can be seen at the bottom of the river when Arlo learns to swim.

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  A113 can be seen formed by pickets on the wooden fence surrounding the area of the "cluckers" on Arlo's family's farm.
• The Luxo Ball appears floating around Arlo and Spot during their hallucination.
• Also in the hallucination scene, the likeliness of Gus from Partly Cloudy appears as one of the background clouds.
• There are several allusions to other non-Pixar movies:
  • The T-Rex scene resembles the scene from Jurassic Park.
  • The phrase: "The storm provides" is an allusion to The Big Lebowski, where one famous phrase is: "The dude abides."
• The monster in the flashback resembles the shark in Partly Cloudy which the director of The Good Dinosaur, Peter Sohn directed

Other trivia

• It is the first, and (so far) only Pixar film to fail at the box office.
• It is the second Pixar film to be released on November 25th, after A Bug's Life.
• Along with Inside Out, it marks the first time that Pixar had released two feature films in the same year.
• According to the directors' commentary, the forces of nature are the main antagonist(s) in this movie.
• This is the last Pixar film to use the short 2011 Disney logo as a closing logo.
• This is the only Pixar film not to be nomenated for Acadamy Award for Best Animated Feture not to be a sequel/Prequel to a film.
• It is the first Pixar film since The Incredibles to be released in November and then two years later, Coco.