First off, if you haven't seen Pixar's latest film, Inside Out, stop reading this and go see it. Like, now. I guarantee you'll get misty eyed at least once. That said, here are five things the folks working on the film originally had planned for Inside Out that never made it to the final cut:
I had fallen in love with, not the regular old spiderwebs, not the Charlotte’s Web spiderweb, but the ones that look like gossamer sheets, the real dense ones. And then they have lots of minute, small teeny dewdrops. Wouldn’t it be great if that was a memory? You could pull it off. As a matter of fact, before we had shelves, they were nothing but thin threads. They weren’t spiderwebs, but they were thin threads, kind of wrapped around them [the memories] like DNA. And whenever a memory was recalled, you would hear like a whine glass ‘Eeeeeeehhhh,’ and then you would see the string gently do this,” he bobbed his fingers. “And one of them would glow and it would get shot up and come right back down.Eventually, the film landed on these huggable, surprisingly durable orbs:
When you watch your cat and there’s something musical playing, you know your cat doesn’t hear it. It’s just noise for the cat, but to us it means something. So we thought it would be fun if maybe we could represent that in some way. And Joy starts talking and then it becomes music itself. It forms into shapes and things. And that was really cool, but it ended up being really redundant with Abstract Thought.
It was all stuff she had created as a three-year-old and outgrown, Bing Bong, that was his first appearance, along with Miss Scribbles, who was sort of a stick figure bad drawing, and Mr. Sun, which — you know how you would always draw the sun as that quarter arc in the corner of the page? It would float down and it was only a quarter. So they were all kind of out-of-work actors, who are like, ‘Well, we had our day! Come on, pull up to the fire. Let’s reminisce.’ And Joy was like, ‘No! We’re going to go back there and we’re going to bring childhood back!’I for one am glad they abandoned this idea. You already got enough tears from me, Inside Out! I don't know that my heart could have handled this much childhood crushing.