I have always loved filling in the blanks. On old social media sites like livejournal, I could spend days answering questionnaires. Give me anything meme-like, and I'll be blotching out blurby thoughts and opinions for hours. With this quirky activity in mind an idea came to me for a new series: Fill It In Fridays. Every week there will be a new theme, new answers, and you're welcome to answer in the comments or even on your own blog!
Today, we're walking through our childhoods down Pixar Lane. From toys like Woody in Toy Story to automobiles in Cars, we have been graced with many adorable characters throughout the years that we used to think of as mere objects. Yet with characters who cannot technically feel or talk like a house with loaded with balloons, Pixar has of taking something ordinary and making it feel extraordinary. Looking at their films, we're going to fill in the big question: What are your favorite Pixar objects?
Monsters come into our rooms at night and make us scream - which is the energy for their entire universe in Monsters Inc. One small little gal Boo escapes into their city and changes the heart of a scream team on the top of their game. Each door throughout the film has it's own personality, but Boo's has to be an automatic fave. Though her bedroom door is adorable, it's the one last shard that Sully needs to piece it all together and see Boo one more time that gets this spot.
No child or parent ever goes without baring their son or daughter's name on their beloved toys. After seeing Toy Story in theaters when I was a little girl, I began marking all of my toys with not my name actually but Andy's. That permanent marker was on everything - thanks Andy! Every toy that came to Andy knew it was his by the simple act of his name at the bottom of their shoes. They were simply home...until a time arrived to say "So long partner".
From my infinite love of snowmen and collecting them as ornaments, plushies...etc., I can't say this grumpy pants kicked started it all. But a star in one of Pixar's many great shorts Knick Knack, the snowman globe is one of my favorite objects. I love his battle against the environment to score a poolside babe, and then a mermaid fish bowl vixen, and it's just never meant to be.
It's a widely regarded notion that if you don't feel a rampage of sobs during the beginning of Up!, you just aren't human. Ellie - a favorite character of mine ever is symbolized as the house, which practically acts as a living character on its dangerous trek to Paradise Falls. But Ellie also lives on in the Adventure book filled with her and Carl's adventures as well as the grape pin which goes on to live a life of its own with boy scout Russell.
