# Marvel/Pixar crossover? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298 "2019-10-05T03:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/1 "2019-10-05T03:14:31Z")
Watching the Spiderverse movie with the kids this evening and the thought occured to me, could we see spiderman’s dune buggy in a Cars short animation somewhere, maybe along side a Car Pool (the Merc[ury] with a mouth)? ---
**Author:** ![Crossbreed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Crossbreed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crossbreed)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/2 "2019-10-05T08:22:54Z")
I don’t know about the Spider Buggy, but Pixar has already done The Fantastic Four and a sequel… (No, wait :smack:, that was The Incredibles… nvm.) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/3 "2019-10-05T08:26:05Z")
Big Hero Six seems to be where Marvel and Pixar intersect. Oddly enough, that movie featured neither logo… ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/4 "2019-10-05T10:16:47Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Big Hero Six seems to be where Marvel and Pixar intersect. Oddly enough, that movie featured neither logo… I think that was Disney Animation, not Pixar. Although Pixar founder John Lasseter was heading Disney Animation Studios at the time, so movies like Zootopia, Big Hero 6, Moana, Wreck-It-Ralph and Frozen (And well… the Planes franchise nobody likes, too) are distinctly Pixar-like and often mistaken as such. Lasseter was fired for sexual misconduct in 2017… and since then Disney seems to have stopped making their own in-studio movies and started relying on Pixar and Blue Sky, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/5 "2019-10-05T14:27:45Z")
Doesn’t Disney own Pixar? I distinctly remember Disney owning Pixar. Oh, and Planes and Cars are both set in the Car World and there was actually a crossover between the two in the movie short Air Mater. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/6 "2019-10-05T14:45:30Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > Doesn’t Disney own Pixar? I distinctly remember Disney owning Pixar. > > Oh, and Planes and Cars are both set in the Car World and there was actually a crossover between the two in the movie short Air Mater. Yes. Pixar is a subsidiary of Disney. Disney also have their own animation studio, which makes movies (all of them 3D since The Princess and the Frog) independently of Pixar. Including Big Hero 6. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/7 "2019-10-05T17:47:38Z")
Big Hero Six might not have featured any Marvel logos, but it _did_ have a Stan Lee cameo. And the deal in which Disney re-bought Pixar also included giving Pixar complete artistic control over Disney animation, so the question of who owns whom might not be so unambiguous. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/8 "2019-10-07T14:38:33Z")
The problem with the specific question in the OP is that Disney/Marvel _doesn’t_ own Spider-Man’s movie rights, Sony does. They’ve agreed to have Spider-Man in the MCU for a while now, but presumably moving him into a Cars or Frozen movie would take a whole new set of negotiations. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/9 "2019-10-07T15:00:41Z")
I can picture the Spider-mobile having a sneaky cameo in a _Cars_ movie but isn’t the main point of the _Cars_ franchise to sell toys? Disney _does_ market a [Spider-mobile toy](https://www.shopdisney.com/spider-man-with-spider-mobile-playset-marvel-toybox-461019641040.html) but I can picture negotiating a _Cars_ version being a whole legal battle in itself. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/10 "2019-10-08T13:59:07Z")
I would assume that Disney wants to keep the Disney, Marvel and Pixar brands from bleeding into one another too much in case they need to sell either or both brands for quick cash somewhere down the road. I mean, good luck unloading Miramax in the current environment! And you just know Marvel superheroes are going to lose their luster at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/11 "2019-10-08T16:38:28Z")
Well, Hercules is part of both the Marvel and Disney canon. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-pixar-crossover/841298/12 "2019-10-08T21:04:02Z")
And DC’s and everyone else’s.