The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar

[skynet]

Yeah, we heard about it.

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Truthfully, I thought everyone knew about the ‘Lucky 7 Lounge’. It’s a secret room at Pixar that’s really not so secret now. But I took a quick poll of some friends and coworkers and drew a blank, so here goes.

It was a nook, really, created by the shape of the building around it and the needs of the air conditioning system when the company’s new headquarters were built. Animator Andrew Gordon discovered it while investigating a human-sized hatch in the back wall of his new office. After finding that the tunnel ended in a ‘lost space’, he decided to start decorating.

In this clip from the Toy Story 3 bonus features, shared by Scott Myers at The Blacklist, Gordon details the discovery and decoration of the room. He also goes into how it was found by Pixar Director Andrew Stanton and, eventually, CEO Steve Jobs, who thought it was super cool:



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[Charles]

Great story, thanks for posting the video. This is very similar to the tale of another secret room I had the privilege of spending time if the secret room of a local studio here in the Burbank area, and have extensive photos as well, but I'd lose my secret membership if I disclosed any info,

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