Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Exclusive: First look at BURN-E

As reported below (update #2) my advance copy of the 3-Disc Special Edition WALL-E DVD (which will be in stores Nov. 18) arrived via UPS less than one hour ago. My first order of business (after opening the package giddily like an excited child) was watching BURN-E, Pixar’s latest DVD/Blu-ray-exclusive short film. Above are three never-before-seen stills from BURN-E, for your enjoyment.

Included on all editions of WALL-E on DVD and Blu-ray disc, and directed by WALL-E lead animator Angus MacLane, this is one enjoyable short, on par with some of Pixar’s best —and that includes the theatrical ones.

As expected, BURN-E (runs 7:35) follows the unfortunate little welder robot locked out of the Axiom in the main film —BURN-E— and more precisely his exploits in trying to install a replacement lamp on the starliner and find a way back inside. The film begins as WALL-E hurtles towards the Axiom...

13 comments:

Andrew Glazebrook said...

Looks superb !! Can't wait to see this !!!

Anonymous said...

Does the short film explain why he's called Burn-E and not Burn-A? I thought "E" was for Earth class, and "A" was for Axiom class. The giant trash compactor robots on the Axiom were Wall-A's.

Anonymous said...

The E probably stands for Engineer or Engineer Class.

Anonymous said...

Wally, Bernie...

Anonymous said...

Did anyone work out what Mo stands for? It doesn't say in the art-of book.

My guess is Maintenance Operations. ?

Mike said...

M-O stands for Microbe Obliterator.

anucharan said...

Burn E looks somewhat like the small robot character which cleans up the foreign materials in Axiom in WALL E..

synmirror said...

awesome looking forward to see more of Burn-E the famous welder ;)

Anonymous said...

way tooooo much time on your hands guys!!!!!!!

Mikey said...

love your blog good stuff

Anonymous said...

any plans for a burn-e toy?

Anonymous said...

what ever burn-e is he's rather amusing.

Nico said...

It amazes me how good Pixar are at characterization. In about a minute, with limited movement and no dialogue they're able to give Burn-E a distinct personality, charm and create a connection between him and the audience (me anyway)...
also, I loved the music for the short - particularly when Bernie is stuck sitting outside the airlock.