10 Movie Details You Totally Missed The First Time

5. The Shining Carpet - Toy Story

It's not much of a secret that Pixar loves to pack their movies with Easter eggs and references to both their own movies and wider pop-culture as a whole, but this sly homage to Stanley Kubrick's horror classic The Shining probably passed you by.

In Toy Story, when Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz (Tim Allen) are attempting to escape Sid's house, the upstairs carpet is patterned in a style extremely similar to the iconic carpet throughout The Shining's Overlook Hotel.

If you've seen Toy Story dozens of times over the years and never noticed the nod, you'll likely kick yourself, yet it's far from the single reference to Kubrick's film throughout the franchise.

In Toy Story 3, the garbage truck at the start of the movie bears the license plate "RM237", while Trixie's (Kristen Schaal) online pal is named "Velocistar237", both of which are references to The Shining's doomed Room 237. Further still, one of Sunnyside's security cameras is labelled "OVERLOOK R237."

Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich later confirmed that The Shining is his all-time favourite movie, and though Unkrich worked on the original movie as an editor, the culprit for Sid's carpet was reportedly art director Ralph Eggleston.