Pixar Put an Easter Egg for Its Next Movie in 'Inside Out 2.' Did You Catch It?

With Inside Out 2, practically everyone astatine Pixar (and Disney) is breathing a suspiration of relief.

After a fewer years of less-than-stellar reviews and movies that were sent straight to Disney+, Pixar seems to beryllium returning to its erstwhile glory with the 2nd installment successful the Inside Out series. It has grossed astir $800 cardinal worldwide astatine the container office, making it 2024's highest-grossing movie to date, and critics and audiences seem pleased.

Inside Out 2 besides has thing other acquainted to fans of the animation studio's movies: Easter eggs, quotes, and references to Pixar's past catalog. In this case, however, determination is besides a peculiar notation to a movie coming successful the future.

As is often the lawsuit successful animated productions, it is casual to litter scenes with nods to different works, a mode to tease the viewer's attraction and invitation them to unearth each imaginable link. Inside Out 2 is nary exception.

In the country wherever Riley's emotions tally done her aboriginal vocation hypotheses, for example, determination is simply a speedy glimpse of Pixar's iconic Luxo ball. Look intimately astatine the lad set posters connected Riley's partition and you'll drawback a glimpse of 1 for 4*Town, the philharmonic radical beloved by the kids successful Turning Red. When Joy has Sadness observe the caller configuration of the Islands of Friendship and Family successful Riley's mind, she hands her a brace of binoculars that look similar Lenny from Toy Story.

But the movie contains much than conscionable glimpses of the past. Inside Out 2 besides features a quality who volition articulation the Pixar household successful 2025: the protagonist of Elio, its diagnostic astir a young lad who is mistaken for Earth's ambassador to alien races and past “summoned” to woody with the aboriginal of the galaxies.

During Inside Out 2's sarcasm scene—though not the “sar-chasm” one—there are respective representation spheres and 1 is dedicated to Elio, the movie's namesake. It's easy missed but besides thing of an unusual premonition. Elio was primitively slated to deed theaters earlier this year, earlier Inside Out 2, but got postponed to June 2025. Did you drawback it?