Hayao Miyazaki gave me this Cat Bus. No you can’t have it.
Back in the late 80s, Hayao Miyazaki came to visit Pixar. He brought gifts.
He had something for everyone, he gave the animation group a Seiko Talking Pyramid Clock. Craig Good and I spent the afternoon trying to click the thing in interesting patterns to get it into some sort of debug mode or, you know, eventually totally disable it. We tried all sorts of things, holding buttons, clicking the pyramid, holding it upside down. We got it to make weird noises but that’s about it.
He gave JL an aluminum briefcase with laser disks of all his movies. That was pretty cool. Craig and I got Cat Busses. Cool enough! I still have mine, it sits in my office where I get to tell this story to students who may or may not believe me.
Cool enough.
Mine was missing a screw. Craig loaned me a screw, which I took to the hardware store over by Shamrock Concrete1 and they really didn’t have anything that small. No bother, one of the toys I took apart in Pete + My office toy box had the same size.
Cool enough.
- Most ironically wonderful name ever. ↩︎