{"id":298100,"date":"2026-02-14T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298100\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:42:07","slug":"to-infinity-and-beyond-visitors-can-dive-into-pixar-worlds-in-immersive-london-show-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298100\/","title":{"rendered":"To infinity and beyond! Visitors can dive into Pixar worlds in immersive London show | Exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have ever wanted to rummage through the books in Andy\u2019s bedroom from Toy Story<\/a> or inspect the vintage trinkets lining the shelves of Carl Fredricksen\u2019s home in Up, you\u2019re in luck.<\/p>\n

Scenes from some of Pixar\u2019s most beloved films have been meticulously recreated in Wembley, north London, as part of the newly opened immersive Mundo Pixar Experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Visitors can shrink to toy-size in Andy\u2019s towering bedroom, salsa over a dancefloor admiring D\u00eda de los Muertos decorations inspired by Coco<\/a>, or experience Finding Nemo\u2019s shimmering undersea world, surrounded by colourful coral and translucent jellyfish.<\/p>\n

Visitors can step into a scene with H\u00e9ctor Rivera from Coco. Photograph: Linda Nylind\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Jay Ward, a creative director at Pixar<\/a>, said the exhibition, which features 14 film sets from the Disney-owned animation studio, sought to recapture the studio\u2019s trademark attention to detail.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are film-makers and we love to really lavish attention to detail on our movies, which you can tell when you watch them again and again. Same thing with Mundo Pixar \u2013 we want to give a lavish amount of details and hidden Easter eggs and fun things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The sets were \u201cabout 98% authentic\u201d, Ward said, with graphics coming directly from Pixar, though there were \u201csome creative liberties\u201d taken to make the spaces more engaging for visitors, including added photo opportunities.<\/p>\n

Mike Wazowski and James P Sullivan, stars of Monsters Inc. Photograph: Linda Nylind\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Mundo Pixar Experience also highlights Pixar\u2019s painstaking research process \u2013 from studying behaviour in daycare centres to understanding how children interact with toys to using dogs as facial-expression models for Finding Nemo\u2019s fish.<\/p>\n

The exhibition forms part of a wider trend for immersive entertainment, after recent successes including the Van Gogh immersive experience<\/a>, Netflix\u2019s Stranger Things pop-ups<\/a>, and Studio Ghibli\u2019s set walk-throughs<\/a> in Japan.<\/p>\n

Ward believes the exhibition resonates particularly strongly with families who have grown u[ with Pixar since Toy Story debuted in 1995.<\/p>\n

Characters from the 2015 coming-of-age film Inside Out. Photograph: Linda Nylind\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something universal about our storytelling that has a deep emotional connection. It has an authenticity to it. These stories resonate with people. It may be toys or monsters or fish, but it\u2019s a human story that you can relate to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ward says he has seen visitors recreating scenes from Pixar films: \u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018Andy\u2019s coming.\u2019 They lie flat, like they\u2019re a dead toy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition opens before two new Pixar releases: next month\u2019s original film Hoppers, about a girl who uses technology to turn herself into animals, and Toy Story 5 in June.<\/p>\n

The house at the centre of Up, a 2009 film described by the Guardian as a \u2018masterclass in narrative exposition\u2019<\/a>. Photograph: Linda Nylind\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Ward said he hoped Hoppers \u2013 which he described as \u201cwild, very funny and very unorthodox\u201d \u2013 might eventually find a place within the exhibition.<\/p>\n

He acknowledged a degree of sequel fatigue<\/a> among some viewers in the run-up to Toy Story 5, but said Pixar\u2019s plan was to continue striking \u201ca balance\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe sequels are beloved [intellectual property] that people know. Have you a little bit less of a risk in making a sequel? In some regards \u2013 but it also helps fuel the desire for new originals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ward noted that as films approached their 20th anniversaries, interest often spiked as a new generation of parents wanted to share childhood favourites with their own children. Cars<\/a>, released in 2006, is \u201ccoming back into the popular consciousness again\u201d, which could pave the way for another instalment.<\/p>\n

Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) on a set seen in the 2006 film Cars. Photograph: Linda Nylind\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Pixar is learning how to adapt to shifting audience habits: more viewing at home, fewer cinema trips, shorter attention spans and a move towards quicker cuts in film-making. Even so, the studio aimed to retain its focus on producing \u201chigh-quality full-length films\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that attention spans tend to be shorter. People are distracted. People are looking at a mobile device while they\u2019re watching a movie now, which is incredible. You\u2019re hearing stories of people saying: \u2018Oh, you have to reiterate the plot three or four times to get it\u2019,\u201d Ward added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope we\u2019re not at that point. [But] if so, do we find a smarter way to do that? So it doesn\u2019t feel like you\u2019re beating people over the head with something.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you have ever wanted to rummage through the books in Andy\u2019s bedroom from Toy Story or inspect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-298100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}