1. According to director Peter Sohn, the Pizza Planet Truck makes an appearance in The Good Dinosaur. Sohn commented that "because everything is outdoors, we had to cheat some of the materials like the Pizza Planet Truck, it's not essentially metal."

2. According to BBC, Dory makes a cameo in one of the river scenes, an allusion to Finding Dory, the next Pixar film following The Good Dinosaur.

3. Arlo's movements are based on an elephant's. Animators studied the perpetual motion of an elephant's legs when designing Arlo.