Bug City

Bug City
Background information
Feature films	A Bug's Life
Video games	A Bug's Life
Other information
Location	Under the Pizza Planet truck and a trailer
Inhabitants	Various insects, P.T. Flea, Circus Bugs, Molt, Ants
Visitors	Flik

Bug City is a location in the 1998 Disney•Pixar film A Bug's Life. It is the place where Flik travels to find warrior bugs to protect Ant Island from Hopper and his gang of grasshoppers.

Background

Official Description

Flik's epic adventure had to lead to somewhere exciting, and the perfect contrast to a pastoral island was a city teeming with exotic insects. In a rare acknowledgement of human presence, the Pixar team created a bustling metropolis out of a garbage pile. It's here that Flik encounters P.T. Flea's circus troupe. According to Co-Director Andrew Stanton, the inspiration for a multinational flea circus "was the first thing that really felt like us, felt like Pixar."

Role in the film

The city is a place full of littered things under a trailer. It has buildings made of boxes and cans, sidewalks made of cardboard, and streetlights made of Christmas lights and lightning bugs. While there, Flik encounters various unusual bugs, such as a granddaddy longlegs, snails, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, slugs, a cricket, a mime millipede, wasps, and other sorts of insects living there.

While exploring, Flik finds a group of recently-fired Circus Bugs at the Bug Bar and mistakes them as warriors, due to their classic "Robin Hood" act. When P.T. Flea later arrives on Ant Island looking for his missing troupe and blows Flik's cover, Princess Atta banishes Flik and the troupe to Bug City. However, this is a fatal mistake, as Atta puts herself and the entire colony in danger. However, thanks to Dot's advice, Flik, the Circus Bugs, and even the colony, they are able to end Hopper's reign on Ant Island for good.

Trivia

• During the part where Flik enters Bug City, A113 can be seen on a cereal box.
• There is also a box that has a picture of The Lion King Musical on it.
• Bug City is a parody of New York City, but also resembles San Francisco and Chicago in certain aspects.
• The trailer and Pizza Planet Truck that this city is located underneath also appear in Monsters, Inc., where Randall Boggs was banished to the Human World and beaten up by the Trailer Folk.

References

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Media Films: A Bug's Life (video/soundtrack) • Classic Storybook Video Games: A Bug's Life • Disney Emoji Blitz • LEGO The Incredibles • Disney Tsum Tsum • Disney Heroes: Battle Mode Disney Parks A Bug's Land • Bountiful Valley Farm • Disney Animation Building • Flik's Flyers • Francis' Ladybug Boogie • Games of Pixar Pier • Heimlich's Chew Chew Train • It's Tough to Be a Bug! • Princess Dot Puddle Park • Pixar Pal-A-Round • Tuck & Roll's Drive 'Em Buggies • The Ugly Bug Ball Entertainment: Disney KiteTails • Once Upon a Mouse • One Man's Dream II: The Magic Lives On! • Pixar Pals Playtime Party Restaurants: Farmer's Market • Sam Andreas Shakes Shops: P.T. Flea Market Parade: Block Party Bash • Disney's Party Express • Disney on Parade: 100 Years of Magic • Pixar Play Parade • Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights Fireworks: Together Forever: A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular • World of Color • Wonderful World of Animation Summer: Stitch and Friends Summer Surprise Characters Flik • Atta • Dot • The Queen • Hopper • Molt • Thumper • Grasshoppers • P.T. Flea • Circus Bugs • The Blueberries • Bird • The Fly Brothers • Ant Colony Songs The Time of Your Life • Main Title • A Place You've Never Been • It's Tough to Be a Bug! Locations Ant Island • P.T. Flea's Circus • Trailer Folk • Bug City • Bug Bar • Hopper's Hideout Objects A113 • Pizza Planet Truck See Also The Science Behind Pixar • Pixar in a Box • Fake Bird • It's Tough to Be a Bug! Stars