Just 10 facts away for reaching 400 facts! I had no idea there would be so many Disney facts out there in the world! And by world, I mean the internet xD But neither the less, I hope you enjoy these sets of facts! My Toy Story Theme Page was such a success I decided to make another one. This time with the prequel to Monsters Inc., Monsters University. I personally enjoyed this movie so discovering and reading all these facts was a great experience for me to learn more about the film.

Fact #361

Director Dan Scanlon has one line in the film, playing an improv student who tries to recruit Mike for the drama society at the Monster's University Freshmen Fair.

Fact #362

When designing the look of First Grade and university-age Mike, the character design team researched the ways young frogs differ in appearance to adult amphibians. His skin is thus clearer, brighter, and more elastic.

Fact #363

The sound-effect for Sully’s major roar towards the end of the film was made using a blend of tiger, bear, and human.

Fact #364

Back when Monsters University was a Circle 7 Disney project, it was reportedly going to be a sequel titled “Monsters Inc. 2: Lost in Scaradise”. The premise was rumoured to have found Mike and Sulley trapped in the human world and searching for Boo after discovering that her family had moved house, an idea with more than a touch of Toy Story about it.

Fact #365

The character Helen Mirren voices, Dean Hardscrabble, was originally designed to be male, but switched gender to redress the balance of there being no major female Scarers in the original film.

Fact #366

The Pixar team kept an Amazonian giant centipede - the creature on which Dean Hardscrabble's bottom half was based - on hand during her character development. Only when a dangerous insects specialist visited the campus and warned the designers about the toxicity of its venom was the creature transferred from its loosely-sealed plastic box to a proper tank.

Fact #367

Mike Wasowski’s parents were originally developed as characters for Monsters University, and Billy Crystal was to have provided the voices, but the couple was dropped to simplify the story and make Mike’s character seem more up against it arriving at college without comforting parental support.

Fact #368

While the film was in production, to continue the college theme, the Pixar team went through friendly university-style fraternity ‘hazings’, or initiation tests organised by department heads. The playful humiliations ranged from cross-dressing as Mrs Doubtfire to one employee having to carry around a cardboard cut-out hunk and introduce it to everyone she met as her boyfriend.

Fact #369

Amongst the many iterations of the film during development was 'Monsters Elementary', a version of the story in which Mike and Sulley meet as young children, then separate and reunite at university.

Fact #370

The address on mature student Don’s business card is shown as 1200 Dark Avenue, a reference to the address of Pixar’s Emeryville campus, which is located at 1200 Park Avenue.

Fact #371

The texture for Oozma Kappa fraternity character Squishy, designed to represent undeclared students unsure of what they’re going to become and with no clear identity, was based on Japanese Mochi sweets. Eating sushi one mealtime, the character designers brought a glutinous rice sweet back to the texture artists as inspiration.

Fact #372

There are an average of 3.7 eyes per monster character on campus.

Fact #373

The monster designers delineated 6 basic species of monster, then made them distinctive with the addition of limbs, horns, eyes, and wings.

Fact #374

There are well over 400 characters in the film, and an average of 25 in each shot, making it Pixar’s most populated picture to date.

Fact #375

Following the Pixar tradition, a sneaky nod to the next film on their slate is included. This time, it’s a dinosaur toy you can spot on the floor of the fake child’s bedroom in one of the scare simulators, for Pete Docter’s 2014 The Good Dinosaur.

Fact #376

Monsters University was originally scheduled to come out six months after Brave, in November 2012, but Disney swapped it for Wreck-It Ralph, giving MU the summer 2013 tent-pole slot.

Fact #377

Each frame of the film took an average of 29 hours to render, and were one single computer with one single processer to try to render the film, it would take it over 10,000 years.

Fact #378

Though Monsters Inc. features the line from Mike to Sulley, “You’ve been jealous of my good looks since the fourth grade, pal”, it was decided to ignore it rather than warp the prequel to make it fit. Director Dan Scanlon joked that “since the fourth grade” was just a popular monster saying. He also jokingly suggested they recall all of the Monsters Inc. DVDs and reedit them to reflect events in the prequel.

Fact #379

To our knowledge, Randy Newman’s soundtrack for Monsters University is the first from Pixar to feature an electro dance track. Swedish House Mafia’s Roar was composed for a frat party dance scene in the film.

Fact #380

The design of Archie the Scare-Pig, mascot of rival college Fear Tech, was loosely based on director Dan Scanlon's Japanese Spaniel, Carol.

Fact #381

All the expected Pixar Easter Eggs are there to be found in the film, from A113 being used as the Scare 101 classroom number, to the Pizza Planet truck being parked outside the house at the film’s first frat party, the Luxo ball featuring in an illustration explaining the toxicity of human children and their belongings, and of course John Ratzenberger making his characteristic voice cameo.

Fact #382

John Ratzenberger isn’t the only character from the first film to reappear, we’re also given a brief glimpse of a seventies-themed Henry J. Waternoose III, and a younger version of wing-tipped glasses-wearing Roz.

Fact #383

In an early animation test, Mike was considered to have no arms and would have picked things up with his feet.

Fact #384

Randall Boggs was the second Pixar villain to be physically fought; the first being Stinky Pete.

Fact #385

Terry is the first new Pixar character that Dave Foley has played since Flik in A Bug’s Life.

Fact #386

A possible version of Mike’s teddy bear was seen in the Butterfly Room in Toy Story 3. It is also similar to the teddy  bear seen as one of Violet’s toys in The Incredibles.

Fact #387

Pixar filmmakers visited college campuses to study the architecture, landscapes, students and teachers. 

Fact #388

the acronyms of all the fraternity and sorority names spell out scary monster sounds like EEK! and ROR! (roar) or traits about them, like JOX and PNK (pink). But the Oozma Kappa misfits just have the acronym OK. They are just OK. Boring.

Fact #389

Monsters University’s library is called Bohol Hall, named after Filipino-American Pixar artist Nelson Bohol who designed it. 

Fact #390

Monsters University was founded in 1313.

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I hope you all enjoyed these Monsters University facts as much as I did!