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Memory Orbs are major objects in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated feature film Inside Out and its 2024 sequel.

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The orbs are ball-like spheres containing the memories of the person they belong to. The Orbs differentiate in color, each one representing a specific emotion - yellow for Joy, blue for Sadness, green for Disgust, purple for Fear, red for Anger, orange for Anxiety, turquoise for Envy, indigo for Ennui, and pink for Embarrassment. They are activated by the Emotions in Headquarters of a person to make that person remember things, as being sent up a recall tube and projected onto the consciousness screen as a home movie.

When a memory orb is created, it appears from behind the consciousness screen and slides onto one of the various shelves. At the end of the day, a switch is pressed which flushes all the memory orbs off the shelves and up the recall tube to Long Term Memory. When a specific memory in a person's life establishes a part of their personality, that creates a core memory, a memory orb which is noticeably several shades brighter than a normal memory orb. Those memories are kept in a pedestal in the center of Headquarters and produce special floating Personality Islands according to them.

Over time, specific memories turn grey and become faded or forgotten, as the person doesn't recall that memory enough. Faded memories are sucked off the shelves by The Forgetters and are added to the Memory Dump where they eventually disappear and become completely forgotten.

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  • During the events of the film, after Riley moves to San Francisco, if Sadness touches a Memory Orb, the memory will become sad and the orb's color will change to blue, regardless of original color. This is most likely because the affected memories are all from Minnesota and Riley is not going back there, which makes those memories sad. If this hypothesis is correct, presumably nothing would happen to the San Francisco-origin memories, since they were created at her new home.
  • At the end of the movie, Joy and Sadness combining forces to bring Riley home reveals that two emotions can create a memory. Afterwards, more emotions can take control at once with their new, larger console, and two-color memories become common.
  • As memories age, their video playback becomes blurry, the audio becomes muffled, and their color gradually fades. The Forgetters remove the older memories from Long Term Memory and throw them in the Memory Dump when this happens, where the memories will eventually crumble to dust and blow away. If a memory is removed by a Forgetter, it appears to take on a brown color when it goes into the dump, which might originate from the color of an old photo film.
  • Some memories, which contain only factual information (like phone numbers or times tables), seem to have no initial color at all and are simply gray to show they are neutral. This leads the Mind Workers to think that they are old memories.
  • On one of the memory orbs, the Pizza Planet Truck from Toy Story can be seen closely.
  • Both inside the Headquarters and in the Long Term Memory there can also seen orange memory orbs scattered in different parts. This color portends the existence of another emotion whose color represents it. In Inside Out 2, it was revealed that the color orange represents Anxiety.
  • Also in the Inside Out epilogue and in the short Riley's First Date?, there are several memories (most of them are mixed) whose colors do not match the usual ones of the Basic Emotions, since in addition to the orange already mentioned above, they appear in pink, indigo and aquamarine colors; symbolizing that Riley's mind has become more complex and, in turn, also foreshadowing the new Emotions that will debut in Inside Out 2. In Inside Out 2, it's revealed that pink represents Embarrassment, indigo represents Ennui, and turquoise represents Envy.


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Media
Films: Inside Out (video/soundtrack) • Inside Out 2 (video/soundtrack)

Shows: Dream Productions
'Shorts: Riley's First Date?
Video Games: Inside Out: Thought BubblesDisney Infinity: 3.0 EditionDisney Crossy RoadDisney Emoji BlitzLEGO The IncrediblesDisney Heroes: Battle ModeDisney Magic KingdomsDisney Speedstorm
Books: The Art of Inside Out/2The New Adventures of Inside Out 2 Vol.1: Big Feelings

Disney Parks
The AnnexInside Out HeadquartersInside Out Emotional WhirlwindPLAY!Pixar Pal-A-Round

Entertainment: Pixar Playtime PalsPixar Pals Playtime Party
Restaurants: Angry Dogs
Shops: Bing Bong’s Sweet StuffInside Out: Joyful Sweets
Parades: Better Together: A Pixar Pals Celebration!Dreams.... And Shine Brighter!Move It! Shake It! Dance and Play It! Street PartyPixar Play Parade
Fireworks: Disney EnchantmentDisney in the StarsHappily Ever AfterIlluminate! A Nighttime CelebrationMomentousReach for the StarsTogether Forever: A Pixar Nighttime Spectacular
Spring: Disney Color-Fest: A Street Party!
Summer: Pixar Water Play Street Party!
Christmas: World of Color: Season of Light

Characters
Inside Out: The Emotions (JoySadnessFearDisgustAnger) • Mrs. Andersen's EmotionsMr. Andersen's EmotionsBing BongRainbow UnicornThe ForgettersJangles the ClownJangles's EmotionsRiley AndersenMrs. AndersenMr. AndersenMegFrank and DaveJordanFritz Brazilian Helicopter PilotMind Workers

Inside Out 2: New Emotions (AnxietyEnvyEmbarrassmentEnnuiNostalgia) • Val OrtizGrace HsiehBree YoungCoach RobertsBloofyPouchyLance SlashbladeDeep Dark Secret
Dream Productions Jean Dewberry
Deleted characters: GloomHopePrideLoveGuiltGreedDespairShameJealousySchadenfreudeSuspicionIdea Farmer

Locations
Riley's Mind: Emotion HeadquartersLong Term MemoryImagination LandDream ProductionsAbstract ThoughtPersonality IslandsSubconsciousMemory DumpBelief SystemVaultStream of ConsciousnessSar-ChasmBack of the Mind

Real Life locations: MinnesotaSan FranciscoRiley's HouseBay Area Skills CampBay Area High School

Objects
Memory OrbsCore Memory OrbsTrain of ThoughtDaydreamsBottomless BagRocket WagonPixar BallA113Pizza Planet TruckSense of SelfBrainstorm
Songs
Inside Out: "Bundle of Joy" • "The Bing Bong Song" • "TripleDent Gum" • "Itoshi no Riley" • "Back in Black" • "Take My Breath Away"

Inside Out 2: "Bloofy's House Theme Song" • "Growing Up"

See also
The Science Behind PixarPixar in a Box


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Games
Disney InfinityDisney Infinity: 2.0 EditionDisney Infinity: 3.0 Edition
Playable Characters
Disney Infinity: Jack SparrowMr. IncredibleSulleySorcerer MickeyLightning McQueenWoodyMaterBuzz LightyearMike WazowskiRandall BoggsHector BarbossaDavy JonesElastigirlDash ParrViolet ParrSyndromeJohn ReidTontoJack SkellingtonPhineas FlynnPerry the PlatypusJessieWreck-It RalphVanellope von SchweetzRapunzelElsaAnnaHolley ShiftwellFrancesco Bernoulli

Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition: Iron ManCaptain AmericaHulkBlack WidowThor OdinsonHawkeyeNick FuryLoki LaufeysonMaleficentMeridaSpider-ManVenomIron FistNovaGreen GoblinRocket RaccoonGrootStar-LordGamoraDrax the DestroyerStitchTinker BellAladdinJasmineDonald DuckBaymaxHiro HamadaFalconYonduSam FlynnQuorra
Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition: YodaUltronLuke SkywalkerFa MulanAnakin Skywalker/Darth VaderLeia OrganaHan SoloAhsoka TanoDarth MaulObi-Wan KenobiFinnReyPoe DameronKylo RenJoySadnessAngerFearDisgustMinnie MouseOlafChewbaccaHulkbuster Iron ManEzra BridgerKanan JarrusGarazeb OrreliosSabine WrenBoba FettSpotJudy HoppsNick WildePeter PanBalooCaptain America - The First AvengerBlack PantherVisionAnt-ManAliceMad HatterTimeDoryNemo

Non-Playable Characters
Disney Infinity: HammRexSlinky DogEmperor ZurgJoshamee GibbsPintel and RagettiMaccusEdna ModeRick DickerMirageLuigiRamoneFloChick HicksThe KingGuidoFinn McMissileCarla VelosoTractorsArtScott "Squishy" SquibblesTerri and Terry PerryDon CarltonEaster Bunny

Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition: WaspCaptain MarvelAnt-Man (Hank Pym)SifMODOKFrost GiantsIron PatriotWinter SoldierMysterioDoctor OctopusBlack CatWhite TigerLuke CageJ. Jonah JamesonCosmo the SpacedogThe CollectorThe WitchPleakleyGolden Harp
Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition: R2-D2C-3POJabba the HuttJar Jar BinksMace WinduPadmé AmidalaKing CandyMarshmallowYokaiBattle DroidsMarlinBruceAnglerfishSeagullsHankDestinyBaileyJellyfish

Objects
SparksCruella's carRatcatcherPumpkin CoachLightsaberDarkwing Duck's gas gunBlack PearlIdentity DiscPlasma Blaster Mark ICandy KartKing Candy's Royal RacerPizza Planet TruckRecognizerBathtubLight RunnerPixar BallThe Jolly Roger (Disney Parks version) • The Electric Mayhem BusBaseball Launcher
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