 Characters from the film (Frankie the frog and his band playing "I Heard it Through the Grapevine") were used in an anti-cell-phone commercial to encourage movie audiences to turn their cell phones off and behave appropriately. #
# After a test screening for John Lasseter, chief creative officer of animation at Disney, he suggested a lot of changes to director Stephen J. Anderson. In the next 10 months prior to the release, nearly 60 percent of the movie was re-shot (or re-rendered), adding new story elements and action scenes as well as a diabolic sidekick.
The film played theatrically on over 600 REAL D digital 3D screens.
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* When Wilbur is revealing his family, he says his dad (who is not pictured) looks like Tom Selleck. Tom Selleck indeed provides the voice for Wilbur`s Dad.
Walt Disney Feature Animation wanted to assert themselves as being separate from Pixar, renaming themselves "Walt Disney Animation Studios." This is the first film to show the new Walt Disney Animation Studios animated logo, which incorporates several seconds from Steamboat Willie (1928), the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to feature sound.
In a scene, we find the camera cutting to zoomed-up images of the Robinson family portraits, which appear to be hand-painted. In many of those shots the signature `Ruppel 2005` can be found, referring to Robh Ruppel, who was the Art Director of the film and was part of the Art Department in past Disney films.
The Brain Scanner on the "Brain Scanners from Mars" poster on the building next to the orphanage looks almost exactly like Doris the Hat.
Jim Carrey had a choice of voicing the Bowler Hat Guy or play Walter Sparrow in the film The Number 23 (2007), he chose the latter.
In the science fair scene near the beginning of the movie, there is a presentation on 3-D in movies, "Fad or Favorite". The movie itself was shown in 3-D in select theaters.
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# In the background, as Goob is playing baseball, two faded advertisements on the outfield`s fence can be seen. One is for The Jungle Book (1967), and another is for Toy Story 2 (1999).
Doris` name is taken from DOR-15, which is the number of the chamber that she is placed into in the rejected inventions room at Robinson Industries.
The "Todayland" park is a tribute to the original "Tomorrowland", the futuristic section of the Disney theme parks. Immediately visible are Space Mountain and the original Rocket Jets, which are no longer in service.
Prior to the film, theaters showing the film in Disney Digital 3-D (RealD) show the Chip and Dale short Working for Peanuts (1953) (which is also projected in 3-D), while theaters showing the standard version show the Mickey Mouse short Boat Builders (1938).
Based on a book called "A Day With Wilbur Robinson".
A picture of Walt Disney is seen in the orphanage.
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# The character of Lewis was voiced by both Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry. Daniel Hansen voiced Lewis at the beginning of the film`s production, and when Lewis needed things changed, they had Jordan Fry re-dub some segments. It is noticeable in some parts of the movie.
One of the pictures on Lewis` wall in his room in the orphanage is of Nikola Tesla.
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# The science fair that Wilbur attends is held at Joyce Williams Elementary school. This is a nod to the author of the original story, William Joyce.
Doris` first test subject is modeled after Stan Laurel of the Laurel and Hardy comedy duo, whose distinctive attire included bowler hats.
Hidden Mickey: There is a hidden Mickey on the music stand when Lewis meets Franny. It is on her sheet music.
Hidden Mickey: The cover of Gaston`s stopwatch is an upside-down hidden mickey.
Director Stephen J. Anderson and actor Ethan Sandler voiced a significant amount of the cast between them. Many of these characters interact, consequently, the two spent much time in voice-over sessions together.
Certain elements that were removed in earlier story treatments and cuts of the film were reintroduced in the final shot of Lewis` workshop. One outstanding element is the anti-gravity boots, which can be seen to the right of the unfinished Carl the Robot, which Lewis used in a fight with Doris in an early storyboard.
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# At one point, Lewis mockingly refers to Wilbur as "Captain Timetravel". This is evidently an actual superhero character in Lewis` time, since this character appears on the lunch box he uses for the control panel of the memory scanner. The graphic even resembles a muscular, caped version of Wilbur.
The dinosaur mascot for the baseball team that Goob plays for is a homage to `Dinosaur Bob and his Adventures with the Family Lazardo` by William Joyce -- who wrote the book from which Meet the Robinsons is based.
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