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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#26: Apr 22nd 2013 at 10:00:20 PM

Or we could just tell everyone to give up on the idea of that ever happening and force them to accept it [lol]

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#27: Apr 22nd 2013 at 10:29:41 PM
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BagOfMagicFood Since: Jan, 2001
#28: Apr 23rd 2013 at 1:41:35 PM

Wait a minute. For this to really be like Cloud Atlas, don't we have to try to link up every John Ratzenberger character as a reincarnation or something?

And now I just remembered, the credits of Cars had a joke about all the John Ratzenbergers, only they were in Car-ified versions of the Pixar movies. Does that mean it really is a parallel universe, containing its own Car-Pixar? Or did the cars remake everything in their own image when they took over, including all the old movies, and Wall-E's copy of Hello Dolly is even more valuable because of that?

edited 23rd Apr '13 1:52:23 PM by BagOfMagicFood

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#29: Apr 23rd 2013 at 2:20:43 PM

[up]Pixcar?

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#30: Apr 23rd 2013 at 2:55:30 PM

wild mass guessCars takes place at the beginning of timewild mass guess

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#32: Aug 7th 2013 at 10:24:51 AM

Oh Hell no. Not this. This is just too confusing!

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Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001
#33: Aug 9th 2013 at 9:13:53 AM

Quite the opposite, I found it clear and well-researched! smile I hope at least some of its ideas become canon.

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#34: Aug 9th 2013 at 1:54:41 PM

[up]Well I basically decided I couldn't sit and do nothing with Negroni's theory spreading like wildfire to the point of getting comments from a Pixar employee when his theory pushes things a little too far out there.

edited 9th Aug '13 1:55:28 PM by FigmentJedi

Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001
#35: Aug 10th 2013 at 10:02:56 AM

It's the internet, people inevitably get Fanon and Canon mixed up. That's no reason not to have fun doing things like this and sharing them with others. Though of course only Disney/Pixar gets to decide what is canon, and so far we've had few if any such crossovers or continuity nods.

(Btw, if we include the Pixar shorts -and we should!- the living toys of Toy Story might be explained as being due to Santa Claus' magic from the Prep and Landing Christmas specials!)

edited 10th Aug '13 10:04:49 AM by Sijo

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#36: Aug 10th 2013 at 10:07:49 AM

Now that we have more announcements of their next films, how will these factor into the Pixar timeline?

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#37: Aug 11th 2013 at 6:34:43 PM

[up][up]That's not Disney/Pixar. That was Disney only, wasn't it?

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#38: Aug 12th 2013 at 2:13:46 PM

Prep and Landing is Disney Animation Studios

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#39: May 28th 2016 at 1:34:32 AM

Ok, I know I'm like two years late to the discussion, I just want to add:

I don't think The Pixar Theory to be real and I think some others expalined better than me so I left the links here: Bobsheaux and Channel Frederator

I think that some of the movies can happen in the same universe, mainly the ones with animals like Ratatoulle, A Bug's Life and Nemo.

Maybe the witch's magic in Brave does can be behind Toy Story's sentient toys.

But that's it. There is no evidence in Toy Story in any of the movies or shorts that animals are sentient, they do interact with lots of animals, so the animals also fake among toys as they do among humans?

The dog's in Up are not really more intelligents, the movie make clear they are as regular dogs, they just have an special machine that read their minds somehow.

The Incredibles and Cars can't share the same universe as the other movies. Cars for obvious reasons, and TI because there is no mention of superhumans in any of the other movies, something that you think will come up. Disregarding the fact that there's even a comic of TI in Nemo.

And of course both Inside Out and the Good Dinosaurs took the theoyr out of the window. Inside Out shows that animals do have feelings but are clearly not as intelligent or complex as humans, and the Good Dinosaur even shows that DINOSAURS DID NO EXTINGUISH. So is clearly another world.

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#40: Jun 19th 2022 at 2:12:03 AM

I feel like a lot of 'debunkers' take things too seriously. I think most are aware that it was not the creators intention and such

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#41: Jun 19th 2022 at 9:04:37 AM

This whole theory is very silly

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#42: Jun 19th 2022 at 2:14:29 PM

Its less a traditional theory and, more of a creative challenge at this point, as one comment I saw put it. Its more of a 'for fun' thing for the most part. And it can be very fun to connect certain things or make some overarching theme with it.

What I like is both that it does add a little extra when you watch the movies with this perspective, funnily enough...There are people who have kind of grew up with the theory like with Pixar's movies. As it did involve making a new story from it.

Super Carlin Brothers iron will with the theory is also fun both ironically and unironically, its like someone at Pixar could specifically try to destroy the theory but he would find a way. '

Honestly in the same way creepypasta's inspired actual games that have 'Secrets players can find that has a disturbing and creepy route where things are corrupted' as an actual part of the story, like FNAF VR and Deltarune. I kinda hope people start actually making supposedly separate but connected works with some overarching story or characters inspired by Fanon Welding things like the Pixar theory. Novels already do that from what I have read (Hi Stephen King)

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Snicka Since: Jun, 2011
#43: Jun 20th 2022 at 2:39:46 PM

[up]This.

It's not "the creators secretly intended these movies to take place in the same universe", it's "how can we all fit these vastly different movies on the same timeline" as a thought experiment.

tgsr Since: Jun, 2021
#44: Jun 21st 2022 at 6:41:24 AM

Have you guys read Negroni's The Pixar Detective?

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#45: Jul 11th 2022 at 2:46:10 AM

I have not

Out of curiosity, what is it?

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#46: Jul 11th 2022 at 3:40:49 AM

Oh, it's this original story by Negroni inspired by it. It's about a young private investigator who searches for his friend throughout the Pixar Universe.

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#47: Jul 11th 2022 at 3:42:07 AM

"The Cloud Atlas Of Animation"

I uh what

Also,this probably counts as a general topic so I'm going to ask the mods to move it

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#48: Jul 12th 2022 at 1:37:35 AM

Interesting

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#49: Jul 12th 2022 at 3:36:26 PM

[up][up] How does this count as a general topic? This is essentially a thread based around a JFF fan theory.

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#50: Jul 12th 2022 at 3:38:04 PM

[up]Basically, media fora threads should be for specific works, franchises, brands, or creators. The few that aren't are grandfathered in due to continuous activity.

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