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spiderbraidsAt the SFIT Showcase, there's a ton on tech on display, including robot arms and underwater bikes :-) The labmates are wheeling the bins full of Hiro's idea to the stage area. Tadashi asks Hiro if he's nervous... Hiro: "You're talking to an ex bot fighter. It takes a lot more than this to rattle me :-)" Gogo: "Yep, he's nervous" :-D Honey says that his tech is amazing, and Gogo adds: "Stop whining... Woman up" :-) Wasabi offers Hiro deodorant, breath mints... and a fresh pair of underpants :-D Gogo: "Underpants? You need serious help." Wasabi: "Hey, I come prepared :-)" Fred brags that he hasn't done laundry in 6 months, because one pair of undies lasts him 4 days... "I go front, I go back, I go inside out, then, I go front and back" Wasabi: "Wow, that is both disgusting and awesome" Gogo: "Don't encourage him" Fred: "It's called recycling" :-D
Okay, it's time for Hiro to make his presentation, so Honey decides to take a selfie with Hiro and the rest of the labmates :-) The brothers exchange some words of encouragement... Hiro: "I really wanna go here" Tadashi: "Hey...... you got this :-)"
Hiro takes the stage, and immediately runs into the hilarious(ly tired) comedic trope of sudden mic feedback as he tries to introduce himself :-) Hiro holds up a really tiny version of a Dinkybot piece and calls it a "microbot"... One of the few people in the crowd leaves, apparently not interested in tech he can barely see :-/ Tadashi suggests taking a deep breath, and Hiro does so before continuing his presentation... Hiro adds: "It doesn't look like much, but when it links up with the rest of its pals..." On cue, the bins tip over and the rest of the "pals" slither across the hall (!) to join Hiro on stage :-) "Things get a little more interesting :-)" The bots gather together to form a giant cube on stage... Cool :-)
He explains that the robots are controlled by a neurotransmitter he's wearing on his head, and makes the bots collapse into a heap by taking it off, before putting it on again and adding "I think what I want them to do, they do it."
The applications for them are limitless, but as an example, he uses construction, saving on workers and construction time, as he builds a small model of a building with the bots... "And that's just the beginning" :-)
Hiro is suddenly channeling Steve Jobs (RIP) as he demonstrates that they're also useful for transportation (hint hint!) carrying both himself and a bike on a rig around the hall using the bots. He concludes by forming a big microbot shape with the bots, saying "The only limit is your imagination", and that almost sounds like it could be Lasseter-era Disney's credo :-)
The crowd is going wild about Hiro's presentation (even a pair of robot arms are clapping for him), and the labmates and Cass congratulate him for it :-) And now, enter the Tudyk...
(Disney Screencaps)
Businessman Alistair Krei is interested in the microbots, but Bob steps in and adds: "Your microbots are an inspired piece of tech. You can continue to develop them... or you can sell them to a man who's only guided by his own self-interest." "Robert, I know how you feel about me, but it shouldn't affect..." "This is your decision Hiro, but you should know Mr. Krei has cut corners and ignored sound science to get where he is." "That's just not true..." "I wouldn't trust Kreitech with your microbots... or anything else." Ooh, foreshadowing :-) Hiro tells Al they're not for sale, and Al replies: "I thought you were smarter than that ......... Robert." Tadashi makes sure that Al doesn't abscond with any of Hiro's microbots, and Bob hands Hiro an envelope: "I look forward to seeing you in class :-)"
Hiro and the gang emerge from the exposition hall, and Cass offers the gang dinner on her at the cafe (Fred: "Nothing is better than free food :-D") and Tadashi says they'll catch up with her... Cass hugs the brothers because she's so proud of them (DAWW, especially in light of what's coming...)
The brothers stare at the robotic lab from a distance, and Hiro takes a guess at what Tadashi is about to say: "I should be proud of myself because I'm finally using my gift for something important." The correct answer: "I was just going to tell you your fly was down for the whole show" And he's right :-D Nevertheless, Hiro is grateful for his brother giving him the opportunity: "Thanks for not giving up on me :-)"
The brothers suddenly hear a fire alarm coming from the exposition hall and rush over, where people are fleeing the inferno... As Tadashi is helping a nice lady to her feet, she tells him that Bob is still inside...
Tadashi decides to run in over Hiro's objections: "Callaghan's in there... someone has to help."
You'd think Tadashi, a robotics lab student, would know better than to run into a burning building, but after all, it ain't a superhero movie without personal tragedy ;-) So yeah, he runs in with his cap falling off... you see where this is going, right?
Hiro is blown away by a sudden explosion from the building, as we fade from a shot of Tadashi's cap into a montage of mourning for Bob and Tadashi, replete with the little brother attending a rainy funeral... and while Tadashi's labmates are commiserating at Cass's cafe with her (the sight of Fred in a formal outfit looks... weird), Hiro retreats to his room... DAWW... :-/
It's been a while, and Hiro's still bumming out in his room, as Cass enters and draws up the shades. She talks about an 80 year old cafe customer in inappropriate clothing, as we see her take away a full plate of food. She suggests he should come down, but he's like "Maybe later" :-/
Cass holds up the SFIT envelope and says that the university's called and it's been a few weeks since classes started, but it's not too late for Hiro to register. Hiro says "I'll think about it", but he seems emotionally distant saying this...
Cass leaves, and Hiro draws down the shades before turning on his computer to look up bot fights again... There's a new video message for Hiro from his late brother's labmates, sent by Honey...
Honey: "We just wanted to check in and see how you're doing"
Wasabi: "I wish you were here buddy"
Fred: "Hiro, if I could only have one superpower right now, it would be the ability to crawl through this camera, and give you a big hug" :-D And yet also a pretty poignant line. HUH.
Hiro takes a look at the SFIT envelope (visual Easter egg: the cutting pad it's placed on is marked "Made in Burbank" :-)) before binning it and picking up Dinkybot off the table... A part of the bot drops on his foot, and these things are heavy for their size... Kid yells OW! and you know what that means...
Baymax takes his nice sweet time making his way over to Hiro, knocking over a few of Tadashi's books :-D Hiro is surprised that Bay is still active, as Bay turns on his screen and asks “On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your pain?” Hiro answers with a zero, but Bay still insistently tries to touch his toe, and Hiro ends up backing into the small gap between his table and his bed: "You have fallen" "You think?" :-D And it doesn't stop there either because while trying to get up, Hiro accidentally pulls down a shelf with a bunch of toy robots and as each toy slides off and hits him, he says OW! and Bay restarts his "on a scale from 1 to 10" spiel :-D When Hiro's finally done being hit by his toy bots, his answer is still zero :-)
Bay: "It is alright to cry... Crying is a natural reponse to pain." Bay picks Hiro up and rocks him like a baby :-D Bay then decides to scan him over his objections, and does so in the time it takes for him to glance up and down :-D "Unbelievable!"
"You have sustained no injuries. However, your hormone and neurotransmitter levels indicate you are experiencing mood swings, common in adolescence. Diagnosis... Puberty" "Whoa, what?!? Okay, time to shrink now" :-D :-D :-D
Hiro's grossed out by Bay explaining the hairy (;-)) consequences of puberty, and explaining that Hiro may experience some strange and powerful new urges. The only urge he's feeling right now is to force Bay to deflate in his charging station, but he ends up slipping off and landing beside his bed :-D Under his bed, Hiro finds a microbot in the jacket he was wearing at the showcase, acting weirdly, prompting him to say that "This doesn't make any sense..." Bay: "Puberty can often be a confusing time for a young adolescent flowering into manhood" :-D Anyways, it's supposed to be attracted to the other bots, which went up in flames, so he puts the microbot in a petri dish, suspecting it to be malfunctioning... Bay takes the petri dish and notices that the microbot is changing direction as he's turning: "Your tiny robot is trying to go somewhere" Hiro semi-sarcastically tells Bay to find out where it's heading ("Will that help stabilize your prepubescent mood swings?" "Uh-huh, absolutely") and gets back to working on his fighter bot briefly, before realizing that Bay doesn't get sarcasm, and Hiro spots him walking down the street outside the cafe :-D
Hiro rushes downstairs and runs into Cass :-D and for some reason, he feels the need to cover up Bay's reactivation with a cover story about deciding to go to college (makes you wonder what Cass would think if she found the SFIT envelope in the bin :-/) Cass says she'll make spicy chicken wings for dinner (yum :-)) and gives him a hug before he goes out the door... I notice that she says "Last hug", and maybe I'm reading too much into this, but maybe she's secretly worried that Hiro will die in a freak accident like Tadashi? :-/
After a nicely animated chase sequence through the bustling town (with Bay even taking a trolley at one point :-)), Bay and Hiro ultimately arrive at an abandoned warehouse. Hiro tries to insist that the microbot is broken, but he sees that the microbot is indeed trying to head toward the front door. Which happens to be locked, but there is a second floor window...
Cut to Hiro using Bay as a step to get into the window: "Please exercise caution, a fall from this height could lead to bodily harm."
Hiro enters the warehouse, and Bay soon tries to follow, but to put it bluntly, Bay's too fat to get in the window ("Oh no..." :-)), so he hilariously deflates with a really funny noise :-D Bay tells Hiro he has to reinflate, and he's not exactly doing that quietly either :-)
While Bay's reinflating, Hiro finds an assembly line making barrels of microbots, and while snooping around, he also comes across a board with tons of clippings linked with red string, with a bird logo at the center of it all...
And then he turns around to suddenly see Baymax :-D "You gave me a heart attack" "My hands are equipped with defibrillators. Clear!" :-D "It's just an expression!"
Hiro's microbot is acting up again... and the microbots in the barrels start stacking themselves. Bay: "Oh no..." Ooh, action scene coming!
Hiro starts running away from the bots, and notices Bay just ambling along slooowly: "I am not fast" "Yeah, no kidding!!" :-D After reaching the front door, Hiro tries to have Bay kick or punch it down... and both attempts are pathetic :-) Considering he's a health bot, why would he have to know these things, right?
Chase continues, featuring the visual of Bay being squished down a narrow hallway :-) And then they're made to do an air vent-style crawl below the floor... They're eventually launched back on to the catwalk and as they rush back to the window, they catch a glimpse of a guy wearing a red-white kabuki mask controlling the bots, which makes him the villain...
...whose identity, once revealed, will change everything... Again (tm Dan Oster)
(YouTube)
Bay's girth means that Hiro soon finds himself dangling from Bay's legs while he's jammed in the window, and the microbots punch Bay out... In awesome slow motion, Bay grabs Hiro in a hug-like hold and doubles as a cushion to keep him safe from the impact (DAWW...) before running off with Hiro...
Coming up: More chasing!
Okay, it's time for Hiro to make his presentation, so Honey decides to take a selfie with Hiro and the rest of the labmates :-) The brothers exchange some words of encouragement... Hiro: "I really wanna go here" Tadashi: "Hey...... you got this :-)"
Hiro takes the stage, and immediately runs into the hilarious(ly tired) comedic trope of sudden mic feedback as he tries to introduce himself :-) Hiro holds up a really tiny version of a Dinkybot piece and calls it a "microbot"... One of the few people in the crowd leaves, apparently not interested in tech he can barely see :-/ Tadashi suggests taking a deep breath, and Hiro does so before continuing his presentation... Hiro adds: "It doesn't look like much, but when it links up with the rest of its pals..." On cue, the bins tip over and the rest of the "pals" slither across the hall (!) to join Hiro on stage :-) "Things get a little more interesting :-)" The bots gather together to form a giant cube on stage... Cool :-)
He explains that the robots are controlled by a neurotransmitter he's wearing on his head, and makes the bots collapse into a heap by taking it off, before putting it on again and adding "I think what I want them to do, they do it."
The applications for them are limitless, but as an example, he uses construction, saving on workers and construction time, as he builds a small model of a building with the bots... "And that's just the beginning" :-)
Hiro is suddenly channeling Steve Jobs (RIP) as he demonstrates that they're also useful for transportation (hint hint!) carrying both himself and a bike on a rig around the hall using the bots. He concludes by forming a big microbot shape with the bots, saying "The only limit is your imagination", and that almost sounds like it could be Lasseter-era Disney's credo :-)
The crowd is going wild about Hiro's presentation (even a pair of robot arms are clapping for him), and the labmates and Cass congratulate him for it :-) And now, enter the Tudyk...
(Disney Screencaps)
Businessman Alistair Krei is interested in the microbots, but Bob steps in and adds: "Your microbots are an inspired piece of tech. You can continue to develop them... or you can sell them to a man who's only guided by his own self-interest." "Robert, I know how you feel about me, but it shouldn't affect..." "This is your decision Hiro, but you should know Mr. Krei has cut corners and ignored sound science to get where he is." "That's just not true..." "I wouldn't trust Kreitech with your microbots... or anything else." Ooh, foreshadowing :-) Hiro tells Al they're not for sale, and Al replies: "I thought you were smarter than that ......... Robert." Tadashi makes sure that Al doesn't abscond with any of Hiro's microbots, and Bob hands Hiro an envelope: "I look forward to seeing you in class :-)"
Hiro and the gang emerge from the exposition hall, and Cass offers the gang dinner on her at the cafe (Fred: "Nothing is better than free food :-D") and Tadashi says they'll catch up with her... Cass hugs the brothers because she's so proud of them (DAWW, especially in light of what's coming...)
The brothers stare at the robotic lab from a distance, and Hiro takes a guess at what Tadashi is about to say: "I should be proud of myself because I'm finally using my gift for something important." The correct answer: "I was just going to tell you your fly was down for the whole show" And he's right :-D Nevertheless, Hiro is grateful for his brother giving him the opportunity: "Thanks for not giving up on me :-)"
The brothers suddenly hear a fire alarm coming from the exposition hall and rush over, where people are fleeing the inferno... As Tadashi is helping a nice lady to her feet, she tells him that Bob is still inside...
Tadashi decides to run in over Hiro's objections: "Callaghan's in there... someone has to help."
You'd think Tadashi, a robotics lab student, would know better than to run into a burning building, but after all, it ain't a superhero movie without personal tragedy ;-) So yeah, he runs in with his cap falling off... you see where this is going, right?
Hiro is blown away by a sudden explosion from the building, as we fade from a shot of Tadashi's cap into a montage of mourning for Bob and Tadashi, replete with the little brother attending a rainy funeral... and while Tadashi's labmates are commiserating at Cass's cafe with her (the sight of Fred in a formal outfit looks... weird), Hiro retreats to his room... DAWW... :-/
It's been a while, and Hiro's still bumming out in his room, as Cass enters and draws up the shades. She talks about an 80 year old cafe customer in inappropriate clothing, as we see her take away a full plate of food. She suggests he should come down, but he's like "Maybe later" :-/
Cass holds up the SFIT envelope and says that the university's called and it's been a few weeks since classes started, but it's not too late for Hiro to register. Hiro says "I'll think about it", but he seems emotionally distant saying this...
Cass leaves, and Hiro draws down the shades before turning on his computer to look up bot fights again... There's a new video message for Hiro from his late brother's labmates, sent by Honey...
Honey: "We just wanted to check in and see how you're doing"
Wasabi: "I wish you were here buddy"
Fred: "Hiro, if I could only have one superpower right now, it would be the ability to crawl through this camera, and give you a big hug" :-D And yet also a pretty poignant line. HUH.
Hiro takes a look at the SFIT envelope (visual Easter egg: the cutting pad it's placed on is marked "Made in Burbank" :-)) before binning it and picking up Dinkybot off the table... A part of the bot drops on his foot, and these things are heavy for their size... Kid yells OW! and you know what that means...
Baymax takes his nice sweet time making his way over to Hiro, knocking over a few of Tadashi's books :-D Hiro is surprised that Bay is still active, as Bay turns on his screen and asks “On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your pain?” Hiro answers with a zero, but Bay still insistently tries to touch his toe, and Hiro ends up backing into the small gap between his table and his bed: "You have fallen" "You think?" :-D And it doesn't stop there either because while trying to get up, Hiro accidentally pulls down a shelf with a bunch of toy robots and as each toy slides off and hits him, he says OW! and Bay restarts his "on a scale from 1 to 10" spiel :-D When Hiro's finally done being hit by his toy bots, his answer is still zero :-)
Bay: "It is alright to cry... Crying is a natural reponse to pain." Bay picks Hiro up and rocks him like a baby :-D Bay then decides to scan him over his objections, and does so in the time it takes for him to glance up and down :-D "Unbelievable!"
"You have sustained no injuries. However, your hormone and neurotransmitter levels indicate you are experiencing mood swings, common in adolescence. Diagnosis... Puberty" "Whoa, what?!? Okay, time to shrink now" :-D :-D :-D
Hiro's grossed out by Bay explaining the hairy (;-)) consequences of puberty, and explaining that Hiro may experience some strange and powerful new urges. The only urge he's feeling right now is to force Bay to deflate in his charging station, but he ends up slipping off and landing beside his bed :-D Under his bed, Hiro finds a microbot in the jacket he was wearing at the showcase, acting weirdly, prompting him to say that "This doesn't make any sense..." Bay: "Puberty can often be a confusing time for a young adolescent flowering into manhood" :-D Anyways, it's supposed to be attracted to the other bots, which went up in flames, so he puts the microbot in a petri dish, suspecting it to be malfunctioning... Bay takes the petri dish and notices that the microbot is changing direction as he's turning: "Your tiny robot is trying to go somewhere" Hiro semi-sarcastically tells Bay to find out where it's heading ("Will that help stabilize your prepubescent mood swings?" "Uh-huh, absolutely") and gets back to working on his fighter bot briefly, before realizing that Bay doesn't get sarcasm, and Hiro spots him walking down the street outside the cafe :-D
Hiro rushes downstairs and runs into Cass :-D and for some reason, he feels the need to cover up Bay's reactivation with a cover story about deciding to go to college (makes you wonder what Cass would think if she found the SFIT envelope in the bin :-/) Cass says she'll make spicy chicken wings for dinner (yum :-)) and gives him a hug before he goes out the door... I notice that she says "Last hug", and maybe I'm reading too much into this, but maybe she's secretly worried that Hiro will die in a freak accident like Tadashi? :-/
After a nicely animated chase sequence through the bustling town (with Bay even taking a trolley at one point :-)), Bay and Hiro ultimately arrive at an abandoned warehouse. Hiro tries to insist that the microbot is broken, but he sees that the microbot is indeed trying to head toward the front door. Which happens to be locked, but there is a second floor window...
Cut to Hiro using Bay as a step to get into the window: "Please exercise caution, a fall from this height could lead to bodily harm."
Hiro enters the warehouse, and Bay soon tries to follow, but to put it bluntly, Bay's too fat to get in the window ("Oh no..." :-)), so he hilariously deflates with a really funny noise :-D Bay tells Hiro he has to reinflate, and he's not exactly doing that quietly either :-)
While Bay's reinflating, Hiro finds an assembly line making barrels of microbots, and while snooping around, he also comes across a board with tons of clippings linked with red string, with a bird logo at the center of it all...
And then he turns around to suddenly see Baymax :-D "You gave me a heart attack" "My hands are equipped with defibrillators. Clear!" :-D "It's just an expression!"
Hiro's microbot is acting up again... and the microbots in the barrels start stacking themselves. Bay: "Oh no..." Ooh, action scene coming!
Hiro starts running away from the bots, and notices Bay just ambling along slooowly: "I am not fast" "Yeah, no kidding!!" :-D After reaching the front door, Hiro tries to have Bay kick or punch it down... and both attempts are pathetic :-) Considering he's a health bot, why would he have to know these things, right?
Chase continues, featuring the visual of Bay being squished down a narrow hallway :-) And then they're made to do an air vent-style crawl below the floor... They're eventually launched back on to the catwalk and as they rush back to the window, they catch a glimpse of a guy wearing a red-white kabuki mask controlling the bots, which makes him the villain...
...whose identity, once revealed, will change everything... Again (tm Dan Oster)
(YouTube)
Bay's girth means that Hiro soon finds himself dangling from Bay's legs while he's jammed in the window, and the microbots punch Bay out... In awesome slow motion, Bay grabs Hiro in a hug-like hold and doubles as a cushion to keep him safe from the impact (DAWW...) before running off with Hiro...
Coming up: More chasing!
