History WesternAnimation / MeetTheRobinsons

** Todayland in the Future City consists of ''Ride/SpaceMountain'' and the old ''[=StarJets=]'' ride from [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]]'s {{Tomorrowland}}. In a deleted scene on the DVD, Carl has Winnie the Pooh stationery.

--> '''Frankie the Frog/Tiny the T-Rex''': I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through... Master?

* AnAesop:
** From failure, you learn from your mistakes. Don't give up on your dreams for failing many times, just keep moving forward.
** It's okay to remember your past, but don't let it completely define who you are and look towards the future.

* CompanyCrossReferences: In the baseball field where Goob is playing, a banner with [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook Mowgli and Baloo]] is seen on a sign.

* LiarRevealed: It doesn't take up a big part of the plot--in fact, the lie isn't even revealed to the audience until it's revealed to Lewis--but Wilbur never planned to actually let Lewis see his birth mother, and this betrayal drives Lewis to not only abandon the entire Robinson family but to take up Bowler Hat Guy's counteroffer. (Which is also a lie.)

* SicklyGreenGlow: When Doris and [[spoiler:Goob]] successfully go back in time to Cornelius' invention, the sky in the shifting future forms an eerie emerald vortex over the Robinson house.

*** Played straight with international releases, where the "Tom Selleck" line is replaced by whoever's playing Cornelius (the exceptions being the Brazilian, Dutch and French releases).

''Meet the Robinsons'' is the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon's 47th animated feature, based loosely on Creator/WilliamJoyce's picture book ''A Day with Wilbur Robinson'' (Joyce served as the film's executive producer). It was the animation studio's first film to be made under the supervision of Creator/JohnLasseter.

The story follows a 12-year old orphan/child prodigy Lewis, whose tenacity while building inventions that go awry makes it a struggle to get adopted. He is confronted with fast-talking Wilbur Robinson, who is a boy 30 years from the future who needs Lewis' help. Wilbur is in the pursuit of the do-wrong, overgrown [[ManChild man-child]] Bowler Hat Guy and his evil, robotic bowler hat, who is hell bent on taking credit for Lewis' inventions. Now they must travel to the future to stop him, with Lewis getting acquainted with Wilbur's unusual family along the way.

* ParentalIncest: Averted. [[spoiler:It is kinda strange that Lewis' future wife almost adopted him. When she realizes the truth, she becomes pretty squicked out about it herself too.]]

* LostAesop: While "Keep Moving Forward" is clearly the moral here, it's not exactly clear if that's always a good idea.

* CluelessAesop: During the ending, [[spoiler:Lewis waking Goob up is clearly an attempt to give Goob a happy ending. However, Goob is still waking up when he makes the catch and doesn't realize what's even going on, so he can't appreciate his happy ending for what it is. Worse, Lewis waking Goob up is explicitly rewriting history for a happy ending--the exact thing he's ostensibly learned ''not'' to do for himself. Worse still, Lewis rewriting Goob's history undoes the Bowler Hat Guy's DarkAndTroubledPast--so not only will Bowler Hat Guy never learn the Aesop, he's been completely deleted from history]].

* BrokenAesop: During the ''denouement'', [[spoiler:rather than letting Bowler Hat Guy learn to Keep Moving Forward and to not resent his DarkAndTroubledPast like Lewis did, Lewis takes it upon himself to erase Bowler Hat Guy's own Dark and Troubled Past, effectively deleting him from history]].

** Or, if you look real hard you can see some of the billboards contain a few. The "Brain Scanners from Mars" ''directly'' inspires the creation of the Memory Scanner, but it also bares a remarkable resemblance to [[spoiler: Doris' mind-control [[BadFuture hat-apocalypse]]]].