Turning Red — Easter Eggs & Hidden Details

The Luxo ball is floating in Tyler's pool, A113 is on the chalk machine at the SkyDome, and Daisy Mart is a real Toronto convenience store chain.

2022 · Film · 100 min · Domee Shi

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Turning Red (2022) hides 9 catalogued easter eggs and hidden details, 8 of them confirmed by official sources. Standouts include a113 appears twice — on a chalk machine and on the concert tickets, there is a bao restaurant, with the dumpling still inside the o and pizza planet is here three times — a truck, a stack of boxes and a stadium ad. Every entry below includes where to look, a spotting difficulty, and sources.

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A113 appears twice — on a chalk machine and on the concert tickets
Pizza Planet is here three times — a truck, a stack of boxes and a stadium ad
The Luxo ball is floating in Tyler's swimming pool
There is a Bao restaurant, with the dumpling still inside the O
The stadium is called the SkyDome, with its 2002 logo, because that was its name
Daisy Mart is a real Canadian convenience store, not an invented one
A blue jay perches in front of the damaged SkyDome
Mei's father is a 4*Town fan and has been hiding it
The whole city is the director's childhood, reconstructed

Turning Red hides two things at once, and only one of them is a Pixar joke. The studio signatures are all present and unusually well placed — the Luxo ball bobbing in Tyler's swimming pool, A113 stencilled on the chalk machine Mei's father uses to mark out a circle at the SkyDome, the Pizza Planet truck parked on the street as a giant red panda thunders past it on the way to a boy band concert.

The other layer is Toronto in 2002, rendered with a precision that has very little to do with easter eggs and everything to do with the fact that Domee Shi grew up there. The stadium is called the SkyDome, not the Rogers Centre, with its period logo, because in 2002 that was its name. Daisy Mart, where Devon works, is a genuine Canadian convenience-store chain rather than an invented one — Shi has said she loves that the film gave it a shout-out. A blue jay perches in front of the wrecked dome after the concert. The establishing shots correspond to real intersections.

And tucked into the background is Shi's own filmography: a Bao restaurant sign, complete with the dumpling sitting inside the O, from the short that made her the first woman to direct a Pixar film of any length. Below: the studio jokes, the city, and the man in the basement after the credits.

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A113 appears twice — on a chalk machine and on the concert tickets

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WHERE TO LOOK · The chalk machine at the SkyDome; and the 4*Town tickets shown during the credits

Pixar's CalArts signature is planted in two very different registers. The first is on the chalk machine Mei's father uses to draw a large circle at the SkyDome — a line-marking cart, stencilled like real groundskeeping equipment. The second is in the credits, printed on a pair of *4\Town concert tickets**. Putting one instance in the film's most mundane prop and the other on the object the entire plot has been chasing is a nice bit of range for a joke that is normally just a number on a wall.

Pizza Planet is here three times — a truck, a stack of boxes and a stadium ad

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WHERE TO LOOK · Parked on the street during Mei's run; boxes at Tyler's party; an ad inside the SkyDome

Rather than the usual single vehicle cameo, Turning Red builds Pizza Planet into the world as a functioning business. The truck is parked on the street as Panda Mei charges through Toronto towards the concert; Pizza Planet boxes are scattered around Tyler's house during his birthday party; and there is a Pizza Planet advertisement inside the SkyDome itself. The gag graduates from an object to a brand with a delivery fleet, a customer base and stadium sponsorship.

The Luxo ball is floating in Tyler's swimming pool

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WHERE TO LOOK · Tyler's birthday party — floating in the pool

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 in the swimming pool. It is one of the more elegant placements in the run: a pool party is exactly where an inflatable ball belongs, so the studio's most-planted object sits in plain sight without needing an excuse.

There is a Bao restaurant, with the dumpling still inside the O

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WHERE TO LOOK · Background signage in Toronto

In the background of Toronto sits a sign for a Bao restaurant, using the logo from Bao — the 2018 short about a woman whose dumpling comes to life, which won Domee Shi an Academy Award and made her the first woman to direct a Pixar film. The logo keeps its distinguishing feature: the dumpling nestled inside the O. A director hiding her own previous film in her first feature is not unusual; doing it as a plausible neighbourhood restaurant in the city she grew up in is a better version of the trick.

The stadium is called the SkyDome, with its 2002 logo, because that was its name

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WHERE TO LOOK · The 4*Town concert venue — exterior signage and establishing shots

The venue for the 4\Town concert is Toronto's real stadium, and the film insists on calling it the SkyDome and using the original logo rather than the Rogers Centre branding it carries today. The name changed in 2005; Turning Red is set in May 2002*. It is a period-accuracy choice most audiences will never register, and it is the clearest signal that the film's Toronto is researched memory rather than generic city.

Daisy Mart is a real Canadian convenience store, not an invented one

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WHERE TO LOOK · The convenience store where Devon works

The shop where Devon works — the site of Mei's most excruciating scene, when Ming arrives waving her daughter's drawings — is Daisy Mart, an actual convenience-store chain with locations across Canada. Domee Shi has said in promotional material that she loves that the film gives it a shout-out. Using a real neighbourhood chain rather than a legally-safe invention is the sort of choice that only comes from someone who actually shopped there.

A blue jay perches in front of the damaged SkyDome

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WHERE TO LOOK · The exterior shot of the damaged SkyDome after the concert

In the shot of the partially destroyed stadium after the concert, a blue jay sits in frame in front of the dome. It is a nod to the Toronto Blue Jays, whose home ground the SkyDome is — a one-bird joke aimed squarely at anyone who has ever been to a game there, dropped into a shot whose actual job is showing the audience how much damage two giant red pandas did.

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Mei's father is a 4*Town fan and has been hiding it

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WHERE TO LOOK · After the credits — the basement

The film's final joke is about the parent who spends the whole story being the quiet one. After the credits, Jin is in the basement, listening to Mei's *4\Town** CDs and enjoying himself thoroughly, while Ming calls for him from upstairs. In a film entirely about a household where enthusiasm has to be concealed from your mother, the reveal that the reasonable, patient father has his own secret closes the circle without a word of dialogue about it.

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The whole city is the director's childhood, reconstructed

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WHERE TO LOOK · Throughout — the film's entire depiction of 2002 Toronto

The density of accurate Toronto detail — the SkyDome's period name, Daisy Mart, streetcars, the specific intersections used for establishing shots — comes from the fact that Domee Shi was born in China, moved to Canada at two, and grew up in Toronto in a Chinese-Canadian household in exactly the era the film depicts. She went through Sheridan College's animation programme into a Pixar internship, and directed Bao before becoming the studio's first solo female feature director here. The easter eggs and the autobiography are the same material.

Post-credit scenes in Turning Red

Yes — Turning Red has 1 post-credit scene. The full answer — what plays, where it falls in the roll and what it sets up — has a page of its own.

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Frequently asked

+How many easter eggs are in Turning Red?

We have catalogued 9 documented easter eggs and hidden details in Turning Red, including A113 on the SkyDome chalk machine and on the 4*Town tickets in the credits, three separate Pizza Planet appearances, the Luxo ball in Tyler's pool, a Bao restaurant sign referencing Domee Shi's Oscar-winning short, and a run of period-accurate Toronto details.

+Where is A113 in Turning Red?

Twice. It is stencilled on the chalk machine Mei's father uses to mark out a circle at the SkyDome, and it appears again in the credits on a pair of 4*Town concert tickets. The number is the CalArts character animation classroom Pixar hides in nearly every film.

+Does Turning Red have a post-credits scene?

Yes. After the credits, Mei's father Jin is discovered in the basement listening to her 4*Town CDs and enjoying them, while Ming calls for him upstairs. It is a character payoff — the quiet parent turns out to have been hiding his own harmless enthusiasm — rather than a sequel tease.

+Is Daisy Mart a real store?

Yes. Daisy Mart, the convenience store where Devon works, is a genuine Canadian chain with locations across the country rather than an invention. Director Domee Shi has said she loves that the film gives it a shout-out.

+Why is the stadium called the SkyDome in Turning Red?

Because the film is set in May 2002, and Toronto's stadium was named the SkyDome until 2005, when it became the Rogers Centre. The film uses the original name and the period logo — one of many details drawn from director Domee Shi's own Toronto childhood.