59 Fun Facts About Big Hero 6

Baymax's simple face in Big Hero 6 was inspired by which object, seen on a trip to Japan?

A bell. Director Don Hall said there was something peaceful and calming about the bells he saw there, so the robot was given the same plain face.

Don Hall found the Big Hero 6 comic in a Marvel database while directing which Disney film?

Winnie the Pooh. Hall had never heard of the comic and says he simply liked its title, yet it was the idea he pitched to John Lasseter in 2011.

Big Hero 6 had its world premiere as the opening title of which October 2014 event?

Tokyo International Film Festival. Big Hero 6 opened its 27th edition, and the directors said their research trips to the city had informed every detail of the film.

Big Hero 6 opened the same weekend as which space epic and beat it to number one?

Interstellar. Both films cost about $165 million, and Big Hero 6 trailed on opening day before winning the weekend with $56.2 million.

In Big Hero 6, which gesture does Hiro teach Baymax after training him to fight?

A fist bump. Hiro explains that people do it when they are pumped up, and Baymax files it in his caregiving matrix and later tries one on Fred's butler, Heathcliff.

The Lucky Cat Café in Big Hero 6 was modeled on a Victorian house in which San Francisco neighborhood?

Haight-Ashbury. Disney's artists stretched and exaggerated a real corner house there, then added a lucky-cat figurine, Japanese signage and cherry blossom trees.

Baymax's inflatable body in Big Hero 6 was inspired by a research trip to which university's robotics lab?

Carnegie Mellon. Researcher Chris Atkeson showed Don Hall an inflatable vinyl robot arm meant for nursing work, and Hall later said, "He had me at vinyl."

Big Hero 6 won the Best Animated Feature Oscar over which Golden Globe winner?

How to Train Your Dragon 2. Three weeks before Oscar night it had also taken the top prize at the Annie Awards, with six wins to Big Hero 6's one, before the Academy went the other way.

In Big Hero 6, how does Baymax behave when his battery runs low?

As if he were drunk. With his power fading he turns giddy and incoherent, and Hiro has to sneak him past Aunt Cass to reach his charger.

What is the name of the futuristic city where Big Hero 6 is set?

San Fransokyo. In the filmmakers' backstory, never stated in the film, Japanese immigrants helped rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

What is the name of the Hamada family's cat in Big Hero 6?

Mochi. In Big Hero 6: The Series the Japanese bobtail becomes an internet celebrity after Honey Lemon posts a video of him slow clapping.

Who voices Hiro Hamada?

Ryan Potter. Like Hiro he is half-Japanese, and Don Hall said the teenage actor was so likeable that he took the edge off the character's snark.

Which 30 Rock actor voices Baymax?

Scott Adsit. The filmmakers cast a wide net, and Chris Williams said Adsit's timing let real emotion poke through without breaking the rules of Baymax being a robot.

In Big Hero 6, what must a patient say before Baymax will deactivate?

I am satisfied with my care. At the climax Hiro has to say it himself, reluctantly, so that Baymax can stay behind in the collapsing portal.

How does Hiro spend his time at the start of Big Hero 6?

Competing in illegal underground bot fights. He hustles an undefeated gangster named Yama, and his brother Tadashi has to swoop in on a moped before the thugs reach him.

In Big Hero 6, what does Hiro invent to impress the university showcase?

Neural-controlled microbots. Tech mogul Alistair Krei offers to buy them on the spot, but Professor Callaghan persuades Hiro to turn him down.

In Big Hero 6, how does Hiro's older brother Tadashi die?

In a fire at the showcase. Tadashi runs back inside to rescue his professor, telling Hiro that someone has to help, moments before the hall explodes.

In Big Hero 6, who is behind the kabuki mask of the villain Yokai?

Professor Callaghan. The team had suspected tech mogul Alistair Krei, but Callaghan had faked his own death, using Hiro's stolen invention as a shield.

In Big Hero 6, where is the abandoned laboratory the team investigates?

On a remote island. Akuma Island housed Krei Tech's teleportation project, which was shut down after a test pilot vanished into its unstable portal.

In Big Hero 6, how did Wasabi get his nickname?

He spilled it on his shirt. It happened just once, as Wasabi keeps protesting, but Fred hands out the group's nicknames and this one stuck.

Alan Tudyk voices which character in Big Hero 6?

Alistair Krei. Tudyk had won an Annie Award for voicing King Candy, and Disney Animation kept calling him back: Big Hero 6 was his third of its films in a row.

Which actress voices Aunt Cass, Hiro and Tadashi's guardian, in Big Hero 6?

Maya Rudolph. She returned for the Disney+ series Baymax!, whose first episode has the robot running Cass's café after she sprains her ankle.

Which actor voiced Fred in Big Hero 6 but was replaced by Brooks Wheelan in the TV series?

T.J. Miller. Co-director Chris Williams called him a real student of comedy, and said his layered performance made Fred a richer character than anyone expected.

Jamie Chung voices which character in Big Hero 6?

Go Go Tomago. Don Hall wanted a woman of few words, a laconic Clint Eastwood type, and the team looked at bicycle messengers for inspiration.

Which actor voices Wasabi in Big Hero 6?

Damon Wayans Jr. Chris Williams called the rule-loving Wasabi the most normal of the group, the voice of the audience who points out that what they are doing is crazy.

Which actress voices Honey Lemon in Big Hero 6 and in its Latin American Spanish dub?

Genesis Rodriguez. When Honey Lemon first appears she is listening to a song by José Luis Rodríguez, the Venezuelan singer who is the actress's father.

In Big Hero 6, how does Tadashi make Hiro yelp so that Baymax switches on?

Rips duct tape off his arm. Baymax is programmed to wake at a sound of distress, so a single yelp of pain inflates him for his first demonstration.

Stan Lee's cameo in Big Hero 6 casts him as whose father?

Fred's. After the credits Fred stumbles on a hidden room of superhero gear, and his father walks in to say that the two of them have a lot to talk about.

Which band wrote and recorded the original song 'Immortals' for Big Hero 6?

Fall Out Boy. Disney asked the band for a song for the sequence where the students become superheroes, and Pete Wentz said the story lined up with how the band saw the world.

Henry Jackman, who scored Big Hero 6, had earlier written the music for which Disney film of 2012?

Wreck-It Ralph. For Big Hero 6, Jackman spent about a week at the piano writing one big, old-fashioned theme, then recorded the score with a 77-piece orchestra.

What was the name of the new rendering system Disney built for Big Hero 6?

Hyperion. It traces billions of bouncing rays of light per frame, and Disney had to assemble a supercomputer of more than 2,300 Linux workstations just to run it.

In Big Hero 6, what does Hiro remove from Baymax to turn him on the unmasked villain?

His healthcare chip. Left with only his combat programming, Baymax becomes a ruthless weapon until Hiro's friends step in and slot the chip back.

In Big Hero 6, which three words does Baymax say before showing Hiro videos of his late brother?

Tadashi is here. Baymax then plays his own test footage, and watching his brother keep trying to build a robot that helps people pulls Hiro back from revenge.

Which animated short accompanied Big Hero 6 in theaters?

Feast. A stray dog named Winston is raised on his owner's junk food, then gives it all up to reunite the man with his girlfriend, thanks to a single sprig of parsley.

In Big Hero 6, how does Baymax memorably describe Hiro's cat?

Hairy baby. He says it twice while cradling the cat with his battery almost flat, as Hiro struggles to smuggle him upstairs unnoticed.

In Big Hero 6, what is Fred's actual role at the university?

School mascot. Fred is no scientist, just a comic-book fan who twirls a sign in a costume, and he never mentions that his family is enormously rich.

In Big Hero 6, what is Go Go Tomago's blunt two-word catchphrase?

Woman up. She flips the old 'man up' on her teammates, and the full line is blunter still: "Stop whining, woman up."

Big Hero 6: The Series opened on Disney XD in November 2017 with a 43-minute episode titled what?

Baymax Returns. Hiro rebuilds the robot's body but skips the final diagnostic, and the empty skeleton runs wild across the city and into the hands of a gangster.

Which Sherlock actor voices the villain Obake in Big Hero 6: The Series?

Andrew Scott. Obake was once Professor Granville's prodigy, until a lab accident damaged the part of his brain that tells right from wrong.

In the original Marvel comics, whose brain patterns did Hiro use to program Baymax?

His late father's. The comic-book Baymax is a bodyguard who carries the thoughts and feelings of Hiro's dead father, a secret the boy keeps from his mother.

The Big Hero 6 comic's creators went on to form Man of Action, the group behind which Cartoon Network hit?

Ben 10. Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau dreamed up Big Hero 6 in their spare time in 1998, and the film's credits give Man of Action a full card for it.

Which X-Men villain was an original member of the comic-book Big Hero 6?

Silver Samurai. He was the original team's field commander, but neither he nor the mutant Sunfire reached the screen, because Fox then held the film rights to X-Men characters.

In the original Marvel comics, what could Baymax transform into?

A dragon. Co-creator Duncan Rouleau reasoned that a robot designed by a boy would look a lot like Godzilla, so the comic's Baymax was a fearsome bodyguard.

In the Marvel comics, what is Fred's superhero nickname?

Fredzilla. In the comics he really can turn into a giant Godzilla-like lizard, while the film's Fred has to settle for a fire-breathing monster suit.

In the Marvel comics, Wasabi-No-Ginger fights with swords and energy knives, but what is his trained profession?

Chef. In the comics he shapes his Qi energy into knives; the film kept the blades but turned him into a cautious science student who works with lasers.

In Big Hero 6, what does Baymax diagnose after scanning the moody Hiro for injuries?

Puberty. Baymax finds no injury at all, and the verdict only makes a mortified Hiro try harder to shut him down.

In Big Hero 6, what does Baymax hand Hiro after treating him for the first time?

A lollipop. It is Hiro's reward for being a good patient, and in the spin-off series Baymax! a stray cat the robot has just treated steals his lollipop and walks off.

In Big Hero 6, how does Tadashi help a stuck Hiro find an idea for the showcase?

Shakes him upside down. Tadashi tells him to look for a new angle, and from down there Hiro's eye falls on one of his old inventions and the big idea arrives.

Unlike the CGI film, Big Hero 6: The Series was made in which style?

Hand-drawn 2D animation. The look changed but the voices mostly did not: most of the film's cast returned for the series, with only two of the six heroes recast.

In Big Hero 6, what does Go Go Tomago's supersuit let her skate on?

Maglev discs. Hiro borrows the idea from the magnetic-levitation bike she had been developing, and she can snap the discs off and throw them like blades.

Baymax!, the 2022 Disney+ spin-off of Big Hero 6, was the first TV series produced by which studio?

Walt Disney Animation Studios. Spin-offs of its films had usually gone to Disney's television arm, so the feature crew had to adapt to telling stories in short episodes.

Big Hero 6's post-credits scene was added late after the crew saw which Marvel Studios movie?

Guardians of the Galaxy. Don Hall admitted they had simply forgotten about a tag scene until they watched audiences sit waiting for one, and work on theirs began that August.

Which video game includes a world based on Big Hero 6 that continues the story past the film's ending?

Kingdom Hearts III. Its villains recover the first Baymax, the body left behind in the portal, and turn it into a dark double that the rebuilt robot has to fight.

Big Hero 6: The Series was created by the duo behind which earlier Disney animated show?

Kim Possible. Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley picked the story up straight after the film, with Hiro starting at the university and a rebuilt Baymax at his side.

In Big Hero 6, which martial art does Hiro load into Baymax to prepare him for a fight?

Karate. Hiro downloads the moves and builds carbon-fiber armor around them, because a robot made of soft vinyl cannot land a blow on its own.

For the South Korean release of Big Hero 6, what was Hiro Hamada's name changed to?

Hero Armada. The release played down the characters' Japanese heritage, so Tadashi became Teddy, and the title lost its 6 so that nobody would take it for a sequel.

In Big Hero 6, the towers of which real bridge are restyled as Japanese torii?

Golden Gate Bridge. The torii-style towers stayed in even for the South Korean release, which otherwise toned down many of the film's Japanese touches.

The tie-in game Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay was released for which platforms?

Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS. Set after the film, the brawler lets you play as Hiro, Go Go, Wasabi or Fred, yet Baymax himself only turns up to lend support.

Which Disney park opened a spinning ride called The Happy Ride with Baymax in 2020?

Tokyo Disneyland. The ride was due to open in April 2020, but the park closed for the pandemic first, and guests had to wait until late September for their spin.