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Every day at 3 p.m., the Toy Story gang leaves Pixar Place and hits the streets of Disney's Hollywood Studios in Block Party Bash. During this high-energy show, there's so much going on, it's nearly impossible to see it all. Yet even in the face of sensory overload, there are plenty of subtle details and Hidden Disney treasures to be found.

Atop the main Toy Story unit is that familiar red, yellow and blue ball from Pixar's "Luxo Jr." that we saw earlier inside Toy Story Midway Mania. On the front of the float is Mr. Microphone, with one slight difference from the real version. To avoid potential legal entanglements, this one is from OldSkool, rather than PlaySkool.

You may also notice the crayons in shades of Bo Peep Pink, Gamma Quadrant Blue or Zurg Purple. Of course, rather than Crayola, they're Pixola brand.

Along with Toy Story, Block Party Bash also includes units from popular Pixar hits A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc. Throughout the parade you'll see these stacks of blocks known as "Tweeners" (the name comes from being placed between the main floats). The look of the Tweeners and the use of the Green Army Men are intended to provide a sense of unity to the show. Pay attention, though, and you'll see that each one is slightly different, with artwork inspired by their respective films. The costumes for the Pixar Pals also change from unit to unit, reflecting elements of the toys, monsters and bugs with which they're associated.

The Monsters, Inc. float is the largest single float ever used in a parade at Disney's Hollywood Studios, weighing approximately 15 tons. It brings a little piece of the Monsters, Inc. factory floor to the party. Watch the mini-Door Vault as it rotates. You might just spot Boo's closet door from the movie.

There's another fun detail on the back of the Monsters float. It's a Monstropolis license plate, and the registration stickers, "MAR" and "08," indicate the month and year the parade premiered at the Studios. Of course, Block Party Bash actually made its debut three years earlier at the Disney California Adventure park during The Happiest Celebration on Earth. At that time, the license plate read MAY 05. Today, the original with that date is hanging backstage in the Studios' parade barn.

Bringing up the rear is the unit representing A Bug's Life. Heimlich the caterpillar plays DJ for this leg of the party, which includes credits for some of the creative talent behind the show. Look for the B. Kaye Bakery label on the cookie box (a reference to Art Director Brad Kaye; the film version mentioned animation story man Joe Grant, co-writer on Dumbo, hence the Casey Jr. reference). There's also a Davison's logo along a crushed can at the front of the float, a nod to Steve Davison, Creative Director for this and other spectacular shows like the new World of Color.

At the back of the A Bug's Life unit, you'll no longer find Dim the beetle. He and his umbrella hitch were retired from the parade back at California Adventure. It seems that one piece made the whole procession just a hair too long to allow for adequate crowd flow in the park during the show stops.

Without Dim, though, we can get a much better look at the back of that box of Casey, Jr. Cookies. Check the Nutrition Facts to realize that the cookies are a great source of Dietary Fly-ber and Vitamin Flea. Then again, a single serving is 15,000 calories!

Pixar fans will note Vitamin A113. The designation A113 appears in every Pixar film, as a tribute to the room number of the animation classes many of the artists attended at California Institute of the Arts.

It's hard to read, but the Ingredients list is jam-packed with plays on words. Someone had a lot of fun with this. So just what's in the cookies? Well...

Essence of low-fat butterfly, pollinated flower, tuck and roll oats, weevil seed, brown honey, caterpillar of salt, corny-joke syrup, evaporated bug juice, mighty mite malt, mashed moth-eaten maize, natural vanilla, minimally natural vanilla, I-can't-believe-it's-not vanilla, you-couldn't-call-it-vanilla-if-you-wanted-to vanilla, giraffe, hippo, zebra, lions, tiger and bears, oh my!, roach red #40, grasshopper green #8, brown beetle sugar, vita-veta-vegamins, folic aphids, vitamins A+, Be 12 and a pinch of P.T. Fleas's Famous Flaming Death.

Zinc Zapper & Insect Iron (Mineral Nutrients) - Vitamin C (centipede friendly) - Vitamin Bee 6 (pyrodox hydrolox paradox) - 2 Bee (or not 2 Bee?) - Vitamin Bee 1 (it's the queen bee's knees) - All in amounts that wouldn't hurt a flea

Naturally, the cookies are "Blueberry Troop Taste-Tested and Approved" and the "Winner of the Good Bugkeeping Seal of Approval." Yumm!