The voice of the Evil Emperor Zurg is Pixar director/screen-writer Andrew Stanton, who frequently voices minor characters in Pixar's films.
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starring Annie Potts, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Joan Cusack, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer, Laurie Metcalf, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Wallace Shawn, Wayne Knight (add more)
The voice of the Evil Emperor Zurg is Pixar director/screen-writer Andrew Stanton, who frequently voices minor characters in Pixar's films.
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When we first meet Mrs. Potato Head, if you pause the movie, you can see that she's reading "A Bug's Life".
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When Jesse sings the song "When somebody loved me", she and Emily are shown swinging in a tree. This is the same tree as in "A Bug's Life".
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When Hamm's flicking through the TV Channels The Pixar Film Tin Toy can be seen on one of the channels.
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Along with the bouncing ball from Tin Lamp short, The Al's Toy Barn ad also features the grey teddy bear from the original Toy Story (in the beginning when Woody is doing a sound check, there is a shot where the bear is waving high on a shelf).
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Tour Guide Barbie's comment about short sighted toy retailers not producing enough Buzz Lightyears in 1995 is a dig at real life toy producers who underestimated the popularity of the first movie.
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On the Al's Toy Barn TV ad, when all the specials are shown from out of the egg, you see the exact same ball as in the hopping lamp film at the beginning.
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On the original version, when Buzz says "We have a friend in need", the American flag is shown in the background. But due to the world situation, it was changed to a spinning globe when shown overseas.
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The toy cleaner who comes to repair Woody is the chess player in the preview show on A Bug's Life - in this film he opens a drawer containing chess pieces.
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When you see the stars in the opening sequence you can make out a group of stars in the shape of the Pixar lamp.
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On the ground of the planted area the toys walk through before they cross the highway is a rusty tin can. This can was the bug bar in A Bug's Life.
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The exact same "EGGMAN MOVERS" truck used at the end of the first movie can be seen on the road the toys try to cross.
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The dust in the scene where Woody meets Wheezy set a record for number of particles animated for a movie by computer.
At the beginning of the film, when Buzz is battling his way into Zurg's fortress, he has to jump onto several floating discs to get to the (battery) power source. He jumps onto five discs before they collapse under him; each plays a note, the first five notes of the theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey".
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More tributes and references to Star Wars: at the beginning of the movie the sound of the laser gun in Buzz's arm is the sound of a Star Wars blaster.
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Just after Buzz, Potato Head, and the others enter Al's Toy Barn (before they get hold of a car or split up), if you look in the background, you can see a rack of toys from "A Bug's Life".
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When Hamm is flipping through the channels, you can see a portion of 'Luxo Jr', a short film from Pixar, featuring the Pixar Lamp.
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One of the biggest in jokes is for Linux users - note the penguin at the end (ie. the Linux logo, complete with red bow tie), singing "you've got a friend in me", in a computer generated film....
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When Jessie first meets Woody, she exclaims, "Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln!" Abraham Lincoln's mother was Nancy Hanks, a blood relative of Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks is a direct descendant of an uncle of Nancy Hanks.
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Zurg's laser blaster goes up to 11, a reference to This Is Spinal Tap.
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