BK

Graphic Designer | Grammy Award Winner for Best Shower Singer 🏆

[Loky⁷ ❦ @lokysplace]

back then i could barely remember his name

[lynz @lynziekate]

I just have to say…

If Lightning McQueen has a million fans, I am one of them. If he has a hundred fans, I am one of them. If he has one fan, then that is me. If he has no fans, then I am no longer on this earth. If the world is against Lightning McQueen, then I am against the world.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

John Lasseter took time off from Pixar in 2000, packed his family into a car, and drove the old Route 66. The towns he passed had died the day the interstate bypassed them. That drive became Cars.

Back at the studio, he called Michael Wallis, the historian who literally wrote a book about Route 66, and asked for a tour. Wallis loaded eleven Pixar animators into rented Cadillacs and took them down the old road twice. They ate in diners that were barely hanging on and talked to people who had watched their main streets empty out after Interstate 40 bypassed the old route. Radiator Springs is built from those towns. The movie's whole idea, slow down and matter to someone, came from places the country forgot, not a writers' room.

The animation was the harder problem. Lasseter wanted reflections that actually bent across the paint, because a shiny car shows you the entire world around it. Every Pixar film before this had faked reflections by pasting on flat images. Cars couldn't cheat. So Pixar rebuilt its software to follow each ray of light the way light really bounces around a room. One frame took 17 hours to finish. Even with about 3,000 computers running nonstop, a single second of the movie could take days.

Joe Ranft co-directed Cars, had led Pixar's story team since Toy Story, and drew the first sketches of Mater. In August 2005, with the film nearly done, he died in a car accident at 45. He had already recorded his lines. The movie is dedicated to him.

Cars cost $120 million and made $462 million in theaters, sixth-biggest of 2006. Then the toys showed up. The merchandise sold more than $10 billion in five years, and over 200 million die-cast versions of the cars have sold. Pixar made a story about a racer who learns the finish line matters less than the road to it, and the toys from that story have outsold the movie more than twenty times over.

[BK @imbkbtw]

I’m pretty sure this album was made for me

https://t.co/R18FfbR8sy

[mo @mofromyt]

hearing rascal flatts ‘life is a highway’ again in theaters is gonna be a religious experience

[McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team @McLarenF1]

Congratulations Lando 🙌🧡

#McLarenF1

[ray @ln4norris]

on a more positive note, lando looking back on the memories of winning the championship ❤️

“i came around that last corner, and i saw all the papaya, all the team members. that was the moment of like ‘oh my god it's happened, a world championship’.. it's just crazy. like, that's me”

[leah @evenstqrs]

this scene went triple platinum in my bedroom

[ada ¹ 𝜗ৎ @norstappen]

thank god I lived the 2025 season

[ִֶָ @girl01101011]

I’m like actually shaking…

[throwbacks @solelynostalgia]

music videos aren’t this fun anymore

[horse @horsetwting]

yeah this is Air Horse One

[BK @imbkbtw]

Got spoiled by @LandoNorris last year. If your driver isn’t winning, Monaco is boring.

[ray @ln4norris]

“25th driver to win monaco and the championship in the same year” 😮‍💨

[kazi ⁴⁸¹ @landit0o]

My toxic trait is I think lando can still win this weekend and win the driver championship as well

[ray @ln4norris]

The first driver in Formula 1 history to break the 70-second barrier around Monaco. Still the only one. Lando Norris.