Radiator Springs Drive-In Theatre

The Radiator Springs Drive-In Theatre is a drive-in movie theatre that appears in Cars, its post-credits scene, and Cars 2.

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• For the first Cars movie, Pixar did a scene in which Sally Carrera and Lightning McQueen go on a date at the theater to watch a film starring Finn McMissile. (This did not make it to the final film.)^[1]
• The theatre appears in the end post-credits scene in Cars, showing Toy Car Story, Monster Trucks, Inc., and A Bug's Life, references to Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and A Bug's Life.
• In the post-credits' scene, when Mack comments on one of the actors from A Bug's Life, he says that they are just using the same guy over and over again. Ironically, Mack is voiced by the same actor that plays the Hamm Truck in Toy Car Story, the Abominable Snowplow in Monster Trucks, Inc., and the P.T. Flea Car in A Bug's Life (this may be an intentional joke put into each movie).

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  In Cars 2, the theater is passed by, and the marquee reads The Incredimobiles, a reference to The Incredibles.
• Interestingly, the films showing at the theater in each of the first two Cars films are parodies of other films scored by each film's respective composer. Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and A Bug's Life, as well as the first Cars movie, were all scored by Randy Newman, while The Incredibles and Cars 2 were both scored by Michael Giacchino.

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