Inside Out’s Console Turns a Park Into a Pixar Performance
A newly uploaded Pixar in Real Life video puts five emotions at park visitors’ fingertips. Behind the premise is a production built around public performances and hidden cameras.
The short answer: A newly uploaded Pixar in Real Life video puts five emotions at park visitors’ fingertips. Behind the premise is a production built around public performances and hidden cameras.
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Switch from Joy to Anger, and someone else’s mood becomes part of the performance. In Inside Out: Console in the Park, people encounter the film’s console and get to influence the emotions of other parkgoers, choosing among Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear and Disgust. The animated idea becomes a hands-on game in a public space.
The video was published on YouTube on November 9, 2026. The upload offers another way to discover Pixar in Real Life, not a new series debut: the team behind the Disney+ production was already sharing its release in December 2019.
Pixar ideas, real-world props
The 12-episode series brings Pixar characters and situations into public places in and around New York City. The console is one way into that premise. Elsewhere, Toy Story supplies a traffic-cone rescue mission, while Up inspires a balloon cart that gives the New Yorkers watching it a surprise.
Turning those ideas into physical set pieces took more than choosing a recognizable reference. On his portfolio website, executive producer and director of photography Justin Ayers describes collaborating with fellow executive producers Charlie Todd and Andrew Soltys to build episodes from Pixar’s films.
We created a range of playful set pieces, including remote-control traffic cones (Toy Story), a fully functional WALL-E robot, and a floating balloon cart from Up. Justin Ayers, executive producer and director of photography, on his portfolio website
Keeping the cameras out of the way
Ayers also describes the series’ hidden multi-camera filming, with fiber-optic systems carrying camera feeds back to the crew’s monitoring area. The equipment moved to new locations daily—a substantial operation behind a format built around encounters in everyday places.
For Todd, founder of the public-performance collective Improv Everywhere, keeping that operation unobtrusive mattered. In an interview with Get Together, he explained that the Pixar production concealed cameras and kept its presence discreet to preserve surprise. The aim was for people to feel they were in an ordinary public space, not walking onto a movie set.