The freight train that almost flattens Lightning McQueen has A113 on the front in "Cars." It's also Mater's license plate. Some eagle-eyed fans also noted they could see it in a photo of the ...

Here's Tiana from Disney's 2009 "The Princess and the Frog" jumping on a trolley car marked A113. It even shows up on a door in 1987's "The Brave Little Toaster." Joe Ranft, who went on to work on ...

If you have an eagle eye, you've spotted "A113" many, many times while watching Pixar movies. It's the license plate on Andy's mom's car in the "Toy Story" films. It's the forbidden code you see ...

Director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) was the first to use A113 as an Easter Egg; he put it on a car license plate in Family Dog, an animated segment from the 1987 TV series Amazing ...

Cars, WALL-E, Up, Inside Out, Onward, and plenty more. Some fans have even argued that WALL-E himself is a reference to the code (WA11-3). But when someone on Reddit spotted 'A113' printed on the ...

Director Brad Bird told Salon in 1999: A113 was our classroom number. On "Family Dog" I put it on the license plate of the thieves' car. And I put it into every single one of my films, including ...

Eagle-eyed fans of Disney-Pixar's animated films have long wondered if the characters in "Cars," "Monsters ... as does the number A113. Now, Disney has pretty much confirmed the fan theory ...

You’re proud to be there (or at least you were before you made Cars 2), and you want the entire ... One such Easter Egg: the infamous A113, named after the classroom number used by character ...

The appearance of the number A113 in Pixar movies has been widely reported to be a reference to a classroom at the California Institute of the Arts, alma mater of many of the studio’s minds.