A Bug's Life Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

10 of the most interesting A Bug's Life easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of A Bug's Life movie message.

Trivia Easter Eggs Hidden Scenes Accuracy

A Bug's Life Movie Trivia

1 - <b></b>A Bug's Life (1998) P.T. Flea' s circus is transported in an animal cracker box called Casey Jr. cookies by J. Grant Bakery. Joe Grant wrote Dumbo (1941), in which the famous Casey Jr. train transported the circus.

A Bug's Life (1998) P.T. Flea' s circus is transported in an animal cracker box called Casey Jr. cookies by J. Grant Bakery. Joe Grant wrote Dumbo (1941), in which the famous Casey Jr. train transported the circus.

A Bug's Life Movie Easter Eggs

1 - For the longest time, I never understood why the grasshoppers in A Bug's Life (1998) had a feral grasshopper amongst their ranks. Today I finally figured it out, he's a locust, a grasshopper in its crazed "swarming" phase

For the longest time, I never understood why the grasshoppers in A Bug's Life (1998) had a feral grasshopper amongst their ranks. Today I finally figured it out, he's a locust, a grasshopper in its crazed "swarming" phase

A trailer is shown to be outside of the circus tent, along with the Pizza Planet truck featured in Toy Story (1995). Both of these can also be seen in Monsters, Inc. (2001).

And its inspiration, Seven Samurai (1954)

1 - You can see a Planet Pizza Truck which exists in nearly all Pixar movies.

You can see a Planet Pizza Truck which exists in nearly all Pixar movies.

Accuracy details in A Bug's Life

Hopper uses his antennae to smell Princess Atta as insects smell using their antennae.

A Bug's Life movie hidden details

Manny, a mantis, is married to Gypsy, a butterfly, because if he he was married to another mantis, he wouldn't have survived their wedding night

Manny is a praying mantis who's married to a butterfly. The reason he's not married to another praying mantis is because female mantises have a reputation for decapitating and eating their mates.

When they show any closeup shot of the Casey's Cookies box, you can see the rosette pattern that would be created by the four-color printing process (CMYK). Something a human would need a magnifying glass to see.

A Bug's Life after the circus bugs are found to be frauds an ant off screen says "Staff sergeant Slim?". Slim is the stick bug. And he is the STAFF sergeant.

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