Turning Red Trivia

Cameos, in-jokes, re-used animation, and other trivia from Turning Red.

Cameos

• Sid's skull design appears on Miriam's skateboard, alongside stickers of Sox the Cat and the Star Command logo.
• A sign reading "Bao Restaurant" is visible when Mei hurriedly exits the cable car.
  • The upside down Chinese sign from Bao is also visible in Mei's living room.
• The rabbit from Burrow appears as a sticker on Mei's notebook and again during the film's credits.
• A Purl keychain hangs on Mei's desk.
  • Domee Shi had also done background voices in Purl.
• During the school escape scene, a sunglasses store called "Brooks Optical" is seen, which is a possible nod to tailoring & simulation supervisor Jacob Brooks.
• Packs of TripleDent Gum appear on the Daisy Mart's counter.
• Carter Murphy-Mayhew's shirt reads "Escápula," one of the talent show competitors from Coco.
• A skeletal model of Kevin from Up appears in a classroom where Ming spots Panda Mei.
• Papeles picados from Coco are hung from a building Panda Mei hurriedly passes.
• A Nemo sticker briefly appears on one of the bathroom stall doors.
• Some donut holes and balloons at Tyler's party are arranged in a "Hidden Mickey" formation.
• The Luxo Ball appears during the party, floating in Tyler's pool.
• The brand of the camera Mei and her friends used for their video is an "Elwood" camera, which is a nod to sets shading artist Luke Cutler Elwood.
• The Pizza Planet Truck is parked along the street as Mei runs to the concert.
  • Pizza Planet boxes and advertisements respectively appear at Tyler's party and the SkyDome.
• A113 appears on "The Chalker" that Jin uses at the SkyDome, as well as the 4*Town tickets in the credits.
• The blue jay from Dug Days makes a cameo in front of the destroyed SkyDome.

Other Trivia

• Turning Red released for all Disney+ subscribers on March 11th, 2022. Like its predecessors, Soul and Luca, the film was originally slated for a theatrical release.
• A Disney+ behind the scenes documentary entitled "Embrace The Panda: The Making of 'Turning Red" was released alongside the film.
• This is the first Pixar film to take place in Canada.
• Some characters' eyes sparkle and dilate when they become excited or emotional, similar to the anime art style.
• Priya is first seen reading a vampire novel entitled Nightfall, a nod to the Twilight saga and the anime series Little Witch Academia.
• Mei refers to the temple's red panda statues as "Bart" and "Lisa", a reference to The Simpsons.
• While running to the 4*Town concert, Mei jumps in a similar manner to Makoto Konno in the official poster for the The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006).
• When Mei tries to convince her mom to let her go to the concert, a bust of classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven can be seen, which is possibly a reference to Rowlf the Dog's piano performance segments in The Muppet Show.
• Donut boxes from Canadian coffee shop chain Tim Hortons are visible throughout the film.