By the time Mundo Pixar arrived in Tokyo this spring, it had already drawn more than 3.5 million visitors across stops in cities including Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona, Seoul and London.?
Now housed inside Crevia Base Tokyo in the Toyosu neighborhood, the exhibition recreates environments from Pixar films at full scale, translating familiar cinematic worlds into physical spaces through life-sized characters, texture and furniture. Now extended through Oct. 12 after initially being scheduled to run until May 31, the Tokyo run offers visitors the chance to experience what happens when Pixar¡¯s worlds are no longer confined to the screen.
In Japan, the exhibition also carries added resonance. Pixar¡¯s relationship with Japanese animation has been , with the studio¡¯s leadership frequently citing Hayao Miyazaki as a major creative influence. Pixar executives have often spoken about turning to his films for inspiration when facing storytelling challenges, and nods to his work have appeared in the films themselves, as in the cameo of a plush Totoro in ¡°Toy Story 3.¡± Viewed through that lens, ¡°Mundo Pixar Experience¡± can feel less like a straightforward import and more like a homecoming of sorts, returning to one of the animation traditions that helped shape the studio¡¯s sensibilities.
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