Here's some facts about Disney & Pixar's The Good Dinosaur!
Fact #4081
The Good Dinosaur was originally going to be released in 2013. It was pushed back because Frozen took its place.
Fact #4082
The Good Dinosaur has been in production for 6 years.
Fact #4083
A portion of The Good Dinosaur was originally going to be shown at D23 in 2013 but the director at the time thought it wasn't ready.
Fact #4084
The inspiration for The Good Dinosaur came from Bob Peterson when he went to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City when he was a child when he was impressed by the Dinosaur animatronics.
Fact #4085
Thomas Newmen was originally going to be the films composer, but due to the film getting pushed back twice and scheduling issues, he had to leave the project. He was then replaced by Academy award winning composer Michael Damian who wrote the music for Life of Pi.
Fact #4086
Spot's messy hair was inspired by director Peter Sohn's daughter's bedhead hair.
Fact #4087
In the film, Arlo speaks English while Spot is apparently speaking "dog".
Fact #4088
Due to the films numerous push backs, Pixar was forced to lay off 67 of its 1,200 employees.
Fact #4089
The Good Dinosaur was originally going to have the Monsters University "Party Central" short in front of it, but it was replaced with "Sanjay's Super Team." It's about a boy who images Hindu Gods as superheroes.
Fact #4090
Raymond Ochoa is the younger brother of Ryan Ochoa who played Lenny in Disney XD's Pair of Kings.
Fact #4091
If you recognized Raymond's voice, he was also in the Disney film Mars Needs Moms.
Fact #4092
Raymond and his brother Ryan also voiced acted alongside each other in Disney's A Christmas Carol staring Jim Carrey.
Fact #4092
Spot is voiced by Jack Bright who also provided voices for Monsters University.
Fact #4093
When Disney & Pixar first announced the film back at D23 in 2011, it wasn't called "The Good Dinosaur" at the time. It didn't have a working title then, so when they announced it, they called it "The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs". They even gave it its own logo.
Fact #4094
"The Good Dinosaur" title was then announced almost one year later after D23 2011.
Fact #4095
The film mostly focuses on the plant eating Dinosaurs instead of the carnivores.
Fact #4096
Arlo was originally going to have three siblings. They were each going to be voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, Bill Hader, and Judy Greer.
Fact #4097
The three siblings were cut and then replaced with Arlo's sister Libby, voiced by Maleah Nipay-Padilla and his brother named Buck, voiced by Marcus Scribner.
Fact #4098
Arlo and his family are farmers. Pixar wanted the dinosaurs to live in a agricultural type landscape.
Fact #4099
Arlo is 18 feet tall.
Fact #4100
The Good Dinosaur utilized 300 terabytes of server space which is 10x more than Monsters University.
Fact #4101
There are 900 effect shots in The Good Dinosaur, which is 2x more than any other Pixar film.
Fact #4102
The song featured in the first official trailer is Crystals by Of Monsters And Men.
Fact #4103
Steve Zahn is also featured in this movie. This is his first Disney film since Chicken Little.
Fact #4104
Frances McDormand voices Arlo's mom in the film. You may remember who playing the role of Charlotte Mearing in Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.
Fact #4105
Arlo's vast and beautiful world was created on top of real maps of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. The team in charge of the set downloaded topographical maps from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) and built the sets on top of data from them. This helped them create a wide variety of points of view from many different perspectives in the film.
Fact #4106
Arlo's walk was inspired by elephants.
Fact #4107
The way the Tyranosaurus Rex dinosaurs in the film run were based on horses.
Fact #4108
The scene where Arlo is in the river was the most difficult to create for the special effects department.
Fact #4109
The Good Dinosaur is the fifth Pixar movie to receive a PG rating. The other four were The Incredibles, Up, Brave, and Inside Out.
Fact #4110
Spot was originally supposed to have leaves and twigs in his hair, but when animators brought in a model to test out what it would look like, the idea was scrapped.
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