Movie Facts Pro Spots a Hidden Rex From Toy Story Tucked Into a Scene in Soul

Rex from Toy Story actually shows up in Pixar's Soul, hidden in a scene where a character knocks over a stack of boxes. It is one of my favorite details in the movie, and if you are not paying close attention you will miss it completely.

For fans who love spotting these connections between Pixar films, this is exactly the kind of hidden detail that rewards a rewatch and ties the studio's separate movies together in a small but fun way.

Rex's back legs and tail are visible for a split second in Soul

The moment happens quickly, right as the boxes get knocked over on screen. If you look closely at that exact second, you can see Rex tucked inside one of the boxes. A better, closer look confirms it clearly: his back legs and his tail are hanging out of the box during that brief shot.

I did not catch this the first time I watched Soul. In my own words, "I never noticed this until like the third time I was watching the movie." It was only because Rex looked familiar in that instant that I paused the frame and realized what I was actually looking at.

This was not a widely noticed Easter egg on first viewings

This is not one of those Easter eggs that a lot of people picked up on right away. From what I have seen, this detail slipped past most viewers the first time through, which is part of what makes finding it feel like a real discovery rather than something already well documented online.

Because it is so easy to miss, it is the kind of thing that only surfaces on repeat viewings, when someone happens to freeze the frame at just the right moment, the way I did on my third watch.

A fun theory: did Bonnie throw Rex out before Soul's story took place

Spotting Rex in Soul naturally raises a playful question about the timeline. As I put it, "who knows if Soul takes place in the future and Bonnie threw out Rex and he's just hanging out in New York City." It is a lighthearted bit of speculation rather than anything confirmed by the film itself, but it is a fun way to connect the two Pixar worlds.

Under that idea, Rex would have ended up discarded after his time with Bonnie in the Toy Story films, eventually landing somewhere in the New York City setting of Soul. It is just a theory prompted by the cameo, not an explanation the movie spells out.

What other hidden Pixar cameos do you think are still waiting to be spotted?