Luxo Ball

The yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star is the prop from Luxo Jr. (1986), the short that gave Pixar its logo and its hopping desk lamp. In Toy Story it rolls down the…

The yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star — the prop from Luxo Jr. (1986) that gave Pixar its logo — sits on the floor in front of Boo's bed and stays there through nearly…

Pixar's mascot lamp — the star of Luxo Jr. (1986), the short that became the studio's logo — turns up among the waiting-room objects, keeping the tally of self-references in a…

The same bedroom shot carries a second plant: the yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star from Luxo Jr. (1986), lying on the floor near the bear. Pixar has a habit of…

The yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star from Luxo Jr. (1986) makes its obligatory appearance. It is the studio's most-planted object — it has now been found in Andy's…

The Pixar ball appears inside 22's quarters, just before she takes Joe through to the Hall of Everything, and it gets a lot of screen time. It is easy to miss anyway, because the…

During Tyler's birthday party — the sequence where Mei's panda form becomes a paid attraction — the yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star from Luxo Jr. (1986) is drifting…

During the parade of possible futures, the Luxo ball — the yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star from Luxo Jr. (1986) — passes on the right-hand side, and near it is a nod…

The most undignified placement in the thirty-year history of the gag. During the alien scanning sequence at 22:13, Elio is stripped to his underwear — and the fabric is patterned…

Separate from the underwear, the film also plants the lamp. A Luxo desk lamp — the hopping star of Luxo Jr. and the mascot that crushes the I in Pixar's logo — stands in Olga's…

The turtle Mabel rescues is Crush, the surfer sea turtle from Finding Nemo, and the shelf underneath his tank carries both halves of Pixar's oldest signature: the Luxo ball and a…

Atlas the retired GPS uses the Pixar Luxo ball as his on-screen destination avatar. Voiced by Craig Robinson, Atlas is the device Blaze played with as a kid, and the…