Oh, boy. Even more theories. AAAAAAAAA!
nightwheel: I like your theory of it being a Toyota Hilux, however, according to the manual in Toy Story 2 it is a 1978 Gyoza according to the manual. Toyota would not allow Pixar to use their car model for the Pizza Planet truck, so they had to make some modifications to it so Toyota wouldn’t get on their case.
rachelcakes1985: If I had a DVD player in my computer (and PowerDVD), I’d love to! The bad news is I don’t, but I found a tiny piece of it on YouTube, and it had the segment I wanted, so here’s a “screencap” (it’s pretty cheap, though…sorry)
As for Brad Bird being a newbie, it’s true when it comes to animation, but in the commentary, Brad Bird noted that he was apprehensive at first, when coming to Pixar, because he had never been there before, and didn’t want to ruin it, but Pixar asked him to be the director of The Incredibles because they wanted something new, so if Brad Bird didn’t want John Ratzenburger to have a part in his film, they would have been okay with it (they could make it a “John Lasseter tradition?” ), and they would have been just as okay with it if he did not want to include the Pizza Planet truck in The Incredibles, and I don’t really think that it’s a Pixar tradition. The Pizza Planet truck is used over again in: [size=75]BTW, the stuff that is underlined is stuff that I am not completely sure of.[/size]
Toy Story: As part of the plot.
A Bug’s Life: As an in-joke.
Toy Story 2: As part of the plot.
Monsters, Inc. As an in-joke.
Finding Nemo: As a prop.
Cars: As a prop.
Ratatouille: As a prop.
Here’s the thing: Don’t you love how much detail Pixar puts into the stuff you usually aren’t looking at? Sometimes, they can’t afford to make entirely new models for everything. That’s the case in Toy Story 2 when at the yard sale, most of the sutff can be found in Toy Story in Sid’s room. Also, (you can hear both of these in the commentary) Pixar obviously did not want to create an entirely new character for the cleaner, so they used Geri from Geri’s Game instead (btw how do you pronouce “eri”? ). Very often, Pixar re-uses cars from their other films (you can see Luigi in Ratatouille, Stanley in Boundin’, and Doc Hudson in The Incredibles.), and the Pizza Planet truck is one of the cars they often re-use, not as an in-joke, but a prop.
I wish I could stop typing now, but there’s more:
Brad Bird did set a date for The Incredibles, you can hear it somehwere on the second disc when talking about architecture, and on the commentary, but he (for some reason) did not want to tell anyone the year. He even told his animators (listen to the commentary) to keep it a secret. All they said was that it was in the 1960s. Well, according to the newspaper date, we know that it is 1962. However, maybe the truck is in there as an error that Brad Bird didn’t catch (this is highly, highly, highly unlikely, though), but it’s happened before: There is another newspaper on Bob’s wall that has 2004 as the year, but we know (from Brad Bird) that this is not the correct year.
I want to encourage everyone else to stop looking for it, but it’s not that big of a deal anyway. xD