Disney Facts!

Facts 3151-3180: The Incredibles Themed Page

So since it's my dad's birthday, I thought I'd do an update just for him! His favourite Disney movie of all time is The Incredibles, so that's what I'll cover for this update!

Fact #3151

Brad Bird, the director of the film, was the voice of Edna Mode.

Fact #3152

Frank and Ollie, who were part of Walt's Nine Old Men, provided the voices for their characters in the movie. They are the two old men you see talking after the final fight scene against the robot.

Fact #3153

The Incredibles was Pixar's first film to be staring humans as the main cast.

Fact #3154

The original title of the film was "The Invincibles."

Fact #3155

The production code for The Incredibles was "Tights."

Fact #3156

Metroville was named for "Metropolis" and "Smallville," from Superman and it's architecture is based on the 1950's "Googie," Googie is the 50's space age style used in bowling alleys and diners of the era. Another form of Googie was the Tiki architecture featured on Nomanisan Island.

Fact #3157

Mr. Incredible's civilian name was originally "Bob Smith."

Fact #3158

Bomb Voyage was originally named "Bomb Perignon" The name was changed because the champagne maker wouldn't allow the rights for the usage of his name.

Fact #3159

Samuel L. Jackson was cast as the voice of Frozone because Bird wanted the character to have the "coolest voice."

Fact #3160

The "I'm just getting a drink," scene is a reference to Die Hard with a Vengeance. This scene mimics a similar scene from the Die Hard film starring Jackson, the voice of Frozone, in identical circumstances.

Fact #3161

Mr. Sansweet is named to Steve Sansweet, who handles the fan club and memorabilia for Lucas Films.

Fact #3162

Bird casted Sarah Vowell to voice Violet after hearing her talk on "This American Life." Vowell had never acted before and in order to convince her to take the part, Pixar animated one of her radio segments and sent it to her.

Fact #3163

Jack-Jack is nicknamed after one of Brad Bird's sons.

Fact #3164

"My Greatest Adventure" was a DC Comics series featuring a four-member superhero team called Doom Patrol.

Fact #3165

Dynaguy, Stratogale, Thunderhead and Metamin all attended Bob and Helen's wedding prior to dying from suit malfunction.

Fact #3166

Mr. Incredible parks outside Luxo Deli and Andy's restaurant, references to Luxo Jr. and Andy from Toy Story.

Fact #3167

When Mr. Incredible comes home from saving civilians from the burning building with Frozone, he hums the Incredibles theme.

Fact #3168

Mr. Incredible is held on floor A1, cell 13, a reference to an animation classroom at CalArts where many Pixar animators studied.

Fact #3169

The Jet that takes Mr. Incredible to Nomanisan Island is a reference to The Black Manta, enemy of Aquaman.

Fact #3170

Nomanisan Island is a reference to Thomas Merton's book, "No Man is an Island."

Fact #3171

Lee recorded all his vocals for Syndrome in four days, while it took Craig T. Nelson over two years to record his voice for Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible. 

Fact #3172

Originally, Syndrome only appeared in the opening scene, but Pixar animators responded to him so much more than the original villain named Xerek, that they changed Syndrome to be the main antagonist.

Fact #3173

Syndrome's zero-point energy beam is based on the zero-point field physics concept, essential to Steven Hawkings black hole theory.

Fact #3174

The Incredibles was the first Pixar movie to receive a PG rating.

Fact #3175

The Incredibles contains 35 explosions, 189 buttons being pressed, and approximately 640 gunshots.

Fact #3176

The Incredibles mark such strong similarities to the Fantastic Four that the 2005 FF film was forced to make script changes.

Fact #3177

Mr. Incredible's boss, Gilbert Huph, was voiced by Wallace Shawn. Shawn is the same actor who protrays Rex in all of the Toy Story films and specials.

Fact #3178

During the opening scenes Bobby applies blue marker around his eyes before applying his Mr. Incredible fan mask. This is the same style that old Batman actors used to apply make-up so that the eyes stood out more.

Fact #3179

The Incredibles is the only Pixar movie that doesn't feature the infamous truck from Toy Story. The truck does appear in the original Incredibles video game, though.

Fact #3180

In the movie Wall-E, you can see a bobblehead of Frozone located in the robot's trailer. Look fast, because it's really dark and hard to spot.

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I hope you all enjoyed these facts as much as I did!