20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Pixar

When it comes to Pixar facts, all anyone seems to care about is the Pizza Planet trucks, A113, or the references to future films that come with every new release. But there's far more to know about these movies than just what exists on the surface. 

Sure, it's always fun to search for the Easter eggs hidden in the background, but those are just the cherries on top. More than obsessing over these small details, what really deserves more of your attention is the brilliant people responsible for all this success. 

Based out of Emeryville, California, Pixar consists of hundreds of employees working in one of the most creative environments in Hollywood. They pride themselves on being a filmmaker driven studio rather than an executive driven one, primarily focusing on storytelling and character. They have a long and fascinating history that doesn't even begin with Toy Story. No, it begins with the movie Howard The Duck.

You inevitably know all know about the theory that every Pixar movie is connected and that they always hide A113 somewhere in the film, so let's take a deeper look at Pixar, finding twenty lesser-known facts about the studio. Turns out they're even more awesome than you expected.

George Lucas' misguided 80s movie Howard The Dick was an unmitigated disaster, but without it Pixar wouldn't exist.

Pixar was initially a part of Lucasfilm, working with Industrial Light & Magic on the studio's computer animated effects and helping out on movies like Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan and Young Sherlock Holmes in the 1980s. But due to a combination of the Star Wars franchise ending, George Lucas going through a divorce, and Howard The Duck being a huge box office bomb, Lucas was forced to sell Pixar to some guy named Steve Jobs.

That's right, Apple founder Steve Jobs bought Pixar for only $5 million in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was born and the rest was history. Thanks Lucas. Ish.