I rather like Leirin’s theory and I think I prefer it to the original Pixar theory. I mean, I especially like the idea of the Cars universe actually being someone playing with their toy cars. It makes sense and reminds me kinda of Toy Story 3’s intro!
Heheh thanks guys, I sort of just threw it together. 
They’re really more like separate universes as Pixarians have stated, but it’s fun to imagine—especially because I feel like they’re not too hard to piece together. None of them take place in overly fantasized settings, after all.
LQ, I like that idea about Cars! 
Thanks Leirin! I thought your ideas were great, too! The reason I think that thing about Cars is because of all of the celebrities that have the same names or similar names to real people, so I thought maybe it could be that. Maybe there’s a car of you and me and the rest of us in there somewhere… 
Haha, like carsonas. You’re right about the similar names bit too, and I didn’t even take it into consideration. I have to wonder if the race in question that Lightning is going on, in the “real” world, is a footrace then? It’s really funny to think in these terms!
Leirin, you’re my hero. In just a few minutes you constructed an explanation that is simpler, and more logical than anything in the Pixar theory.
I hate it because nowhere is time travel suggested in the Pixar movies and the Witch and the talking animals basically operate on Disney rules of “Magic users spout anachronisms” and “Animals can communicate with each other, but not with people”.
Here’s my own take on the Pixar Timeline. Incorporated some spinoff material and some development details as well to give it a little more flavor and I think it has more of an actual story to it.
I disagree with the theory for several reasons:
(1) Cars takes place in an alternate universe, as indicated by the spin-off Disney film Planes, plus the newspapers and trophies in Doc’s garage are dated 1951-1954. Plus, in Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2, there is a short film called Time-Travel Mater, which was somehow inspired by an unmade tale that can be found in the bonus features of Mater’s Tall Tales.
(2) Monsters Inc. possibly takes place around the same time as somewhere between Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3, most likely due to the kids becoming desensitized. Therefore, it’s a parallel universe that can only be accessed through the closet door. In Monsters University, there is no sign of an energy crisis yet. That is because, if you reach the scene where Mike Wazowski goes through a door to try and scare a kid, the kids are at a camp. This means the prequel probably takes place a few decades earlier, when children used to go outside and play back then.
(3) In terms of the postcard that was sent by Carl & Ellie, it’s likely possible that Andy was also a Wilderness Explorer some years before Russell came in, as we see when Russell comes up on Carl’s front porch sometime after Ellie has passed away. Oh, and it’s likely that Ratatouille would possibly be taking place around the same time as The Incredibles, as indicated through Bomb Voyage as a mime.
(4) The theory may also be disproved because it leaves out a lot of detail used in short films as well as books. Can you hear the music that blasts in Mike’s New Car? Or would Boundin’ (along with La Luna) be something like a frequently-told tale possibly liked by just about everyone? Also, I am reading some BOOM! comics related to WALL-E, in which the BOOM! comics may also disprove the theory as well. And if you ever heard of those, has anyone here ever read either Laugh Factory or Recharge? And take a look at the other picture books, which further the story. Those stories may also disprove the theory as well.
Therefore, I must collect the info needed to create a new theory.
Whoa, I forgot all about this thread! It created some good discussion. evspixarfan2012, those are good thoughts! I’d love to read more into this still.
I am sooooo gonna disprove this theory once and for all! (And as soon as I collect enough info for a new theory, I’m gonna type it on my blog.)
Besides, this other old theory has got to go! Plus, I’m pretty sure the guy who wrote that theory has probably never seen the actual films, as indicated by the following:
(1) Incorrect time periods
(2) Lack of screen shots
(3) Description and/or details appear to be rushed
(4) Information from short films is missing
Therefore, my goal this summer is to create a new theory that will ultimately disprove of the old one. Anyone else here agree with me?
Evspixarfan2012 - I think most of those are either on purpose or excusable.
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I’m not sure if you mean they mess up movie timelines or the parts where they move a movie to an unexpected time period. The latter’s a rather normal thing for wacky fan theories.
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Well it doesn’t really need screenshots. It’s operating under the assumption you’ve seen the movies already, so it doesn’t really need to illustrate anything.
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He doesn’t seem to want to include them. Just doing the films was probably hard enough. Besides, to include shorts you’d need to figure out things like when Remy learned to break the fourth wall.
Not saying you can’t try and disprove it, or make your own, it just seems highly unlikely the guy hasn’t seen the movies. Why even come up with a theory for movies you haven’t seen?
Off of that, people have started stating this theory is a fact. 
Ugh!
Well, that’s the big problem right there! People have come to believe in the so-called theory being true, and without actually taking the time to re-watch those films in terms of details contained within that prove this theory to be false.
This, of course, is in terms of both Cars movies–for one. (And there are others.)
I don’t really mind people taking the theory as a personal headcanon, I just have a problem with people listing it as a “Pixar fact” alongside things like A113 and the Pizza Planet truck. Setting aside any problems with it (even official things have problems. Just to list one, isn’t it canon that the Monster World and the Human World are the same and the humans just somehow haven’t noticed?), it’s just misleading and wrong to do.
This is as annoying as the people who think Anna and Elsa’s parents are Tarzan’s parents. Why are people so set on connecting things?
I don’t really know why people think they have to do that…unless they’re just doing it only for the purpose of ruining a good story by making everyone read their theories into a point of believing them, and then to cause confusion upon viewing of the actual story.
Here’s my theory:
The way I see it, Toy Story and Monsters Inc. take place together. They just seem like two movie series that fit nicely with one another. Also, I can see Finding Nemo (the Buzz in the waiting room), Up (the Carl-and-Ellie Postcard in TS3), Ratatouille (if Finding Nemo can have sentient fish and birds and Up can have sentient dogs, then there’s no reason I can see regarding Ratatouille also taking place along side them), and maybe WALL-E (the Rex in WALL-E’s truck and the BNL batteries in TS3) in there as well.
The Incredibles could be a film-within-a-film (since it doesn’t really fit with the others and there’s a Mr. Incredible comic book in the Dentist’s office in Finding Nemo). The Cars Franchise, I’d like to think, is sort of like the intro to Toy Story 3, in that it takes place inside a kid’s imagination while playing with toys. A Bug’s Life is somewhat tricky. In TS2, there are a ton of Bugs Life background references (Andy’s calendar, the book Mrs. Potato Head is reading, the toys at Al’s Toy Barn). So for me, it’s either that it takes place in a child’s imagination or it’s a film-within-a-film sort of thing.
Or they all just take place in their own separate worlds and not everything is connected.
CaptainJZH - Just checking; are you aware of the comic crossover between Monsters,Inc. and Toy Story?
Yes. I haven’t read it, but I know of it.
I think it’s a cool theory!
I think there could be a connection between a couple of the different movies (For example, Ratatoullie, Up and Toy Story), but some of them just take it a little too far. 
I don’t know.
Guys, we are having a bigger problem all over the Internet. It’s like several other individual theories related to Pixar films are constantly continuing to be made up by deluded fans–which makes me mad because every time I go on a rant trying to explain that none of them are true, all I get from them is a bunch of lame excuses, such as “You just don’t get it.” and “It’s just for fun.” and a whole bunch of repeated questions that say the same details as the theory itself from which I have to constantly answer with the same set of my disproval statements over and over again.
This has happened on both my Twitter and YouTube accounts, mostly. And if those fans are refusing to believe me every time I try to tell them, it’s because they are being deluded away from the true brightness and color of the actual films themselves, and I have reason to believe that everything being said within the entire theory itself is obviously just being used as a lame excuse to prevent newbies of the fandom from watching the actual films themselves, by luring them to the untrue and dark-sounding details instead–all of which has gone too far widespread ever since that blogger Jon Negroni started it and therefore that’s why it must be stopped, 'cause I am really afraid (and worried) that the theory is a threat to both the studio’s future and its entire fanbase.
When are people going to realize that Boo does NOT time-travel through doors in search of Sulley and become a witch?! Or that Jessie’s previous owner does NOT become Andy’s mom?! Or that the Axiom has NOTHING to do with Cars?!
But other than that, I’ve noticed a huge number of other theories appearing recently. First, someone had suggested that Carl was dead with Russell being his guardian angel. Then someone else suggested that Edna Mode was once previously associated with Syndrome. None of these are true, either. The WORST part was that, last winter, when I recieved one of my e-mails from Topical Digest, I got really MAD because SOMEONE had called WALL-E a “villain”! And not only that, but at the same time it looked like whoever was saying that had obviosuly altered his cute, sad-looking googly eyes into mean-looking ones! THAT one right there, I really HATED the most.
All of this, right there, is further proof that fan theories–especially the ones related to Pixar films–have somehow already become a huge problem across the Internet, especially in recent months. And I think it’s time we, the true fans who know exactly what is wrong with the theory and its many noticeable flaws, try to do something about it. (Does anyone else agree?)**
–evspixarfan2012