Disney•Pixar Studios Animated Features

Brave - Gordon the Guard

Actor John Ratzenberger is considered Pixar Studio's lucky charm, having voiced a character in every Pixar Studios animated feature. Best known for playing Cliff Clavin, know-it-all postman from the sitcom Cheers, Ratzenberger fakes enough of a Scottish accent to voice Brave's Gordon the Guard.

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Brave - Clan Macintosh

The red tartaned Clan Macintosh is a tribute to the late Steve Jobs, Pixar's Co-Founder and former CEO. Jobs famously co-founded Apple Computers, whose Macintosh revolutionized personal computers.

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Brave - Callanish Stones

The stone circle from Disney·Pixar's Brave is based on the Callanish Stones, an ancient site found near the village of Callanish in Scotland's Western Isles.

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Brave - Pizza Planet Truck

The animators at Pixar Studios snuck the Toy Story Pizza Planet Truck into the witch's workshop as a woodcarving.

Brave - Sulley from Monsters University

Referring to upcoming projects is a reoccuring Pixar Easter Egg and Brave's animators hid popular Monsters, Inc. (2001) character, James P. Sullivan, somewhere in the Scottish highlands. Hidden in the old witch's workshop is a woodcarving of a young Sulley, from the upcoming Disney·Pixar animated feature Monsters University (2013).

Brave - The Witch's Newt

Pixar Studios animators have a tradition of hiding references to previous or upcoming films in each of their animated features. Pixar's cancelled Newt project is referenced as The Witch drops a dessicated newt into the potion cauldron.