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What do you mean 'Don't go to the family?' How can we not go to the family in this time of family crisis? By leaving the garage door open, you let the time machine got stolen, and now the entire time stream could be altered. That, and someone took my bike.
―Carl

Carl is the tritagonist of Disney's 2007 animated feature film, Meet the Robinsons. He is a robot who works for the Robinson Family. Built with a golden body and stretching parts, Carl's general assignment is to keep an eye on Wilbur and keep him out of trouble.

Appearances[]

Meet the Robinsons[]

When Wilbur and Lewis managed to push the ruined time machine back to the Robinson house, Carl was in the garage and opened a porthole, demanding in an ominous voice who dared to violate his sanctum. Wilbur ordered him to open the door, but Carl refused unless he speaks the secret password which he made-up while Wilbur was gone. Wilbur pointed that he couldn't speak the password if he was already gone. Seeing his logic used against him, Carl let them in. But upon learning that Wilbur brought his father's younger self, Lewis, Carl's inventor, from the past, Carl panicked and rushed up the travel tube.

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"That and someone took my bike"

Wilbur followed the hysteric robot and argued against informing the family that he had allowed the Bowler Hat Guy to steal one of the time machines and risking the disruption of the time-space continuum. Wilbur assured Carl that he had a plan to restore the timeline, involving keeping Lewis in the garage away from everybody, give him the "pep talk of the century", fixes the time machine (Carl criticizes why the model of the time machine had be an acorn in Wilbur's diorama of his plan), goes back to the Science Fair to fix his memory scanner, thus setting everything right. Carl asked about his promise to take Lewis back to see his mother, to which Wilbur admits that he lied to buy some time but he was certain his plan would work. However, on the off chance he was wrong, Carl calculated that he would cease to exist. Though despaired a bit, Wilbur put on a cheery attitude as Carl handed him the time machine blueprints.

Later, as Wilbur and Lewis were summoned to dinner with the Robinsons, Carl unleashed a series of mini-Carls to serve the family spaghetti and meatballs. He then got ready to serve PB and J but the machine failed to work, so Wilbur volunteered Lewis to fix it. He fails, causing the invention to spray PB and J all over, but the Robinsons don't fault him, as they quote Cornelius Robinson's motto, "Keep Moving Forward", which Carl displays with fireworks and a fortune cookie.

After the Robinsons discover Lewis' identity and Wilbur's lie is exposed, Lewis takes an offer from the Bowler Hat Guy to repair his memory scanner. However, Wilbur and Carl rescue both him and his memory scanner. As they made their way back to the Robinson house, Lewis reveals that he knows he's Wilbur's father. Then suddenly, DOR-15 destroys Carl by impaling him in the chest before retaking the memory scanner to rejoin the Bowler Hat Guy and changed the future.

When Lewis managed to set everything right and the Robinsons said their goodbyes, Carl suggests to his inventor that when he invents him, that he alter the design so that he would have muscles.

Once Upon a Studio[]

In the short, Carl is waiting impatiently with Donald Duck, Humphrey the Bear, J. Audubon Woodlore, Terk, and Mother Gothel as Flash takes his sweet time heading for the elevator. After he makes it, Baymax squeezes in, to Donald's annoyance. He joins in the picture along with the rest of Disney characters.

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Trivia[]

  • His voice actor is Harland Williams who also plays Bob from Puppy Dog Pals and Captain Frost and Cecilia from Jake and the Never Land Pirates. He also voiced another robot named Lug from the 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky 2005 film, Robots, which also featured art design from William Joyce.
  • In a deleted scene where Carl locks himself in a closet after Lewis' arrival, Carl writes a note to communicate with Wilbur at one point. The note is written on Winnie the Pooh stationary.
  • Him brandishing a PB&J gun is a clear sign that Cornelius Robinson is an adult Lewis.


v - e - d
Meet the Robinsons logo
Media
Meet the Robinsons (video/soundtrack) • video game
Disney Parks
Parades: Villains Cursed Caravan

Fireworks: The Magic of Disney AnimationWondrous Journeys
Halloween: Mickey's Boo-to-You Halloween Parade

Characters
Lewis RobinsonWilbur RobinsonBowler Hat GuyDOR-15Mini-DorisMega-DorisCarlBud RobinsonLucille KrunklehornBillie RobinsonJoe RobinsonFritz RobinsonPetunia RobinsonLaszlo RobinsonTallulah RobinsonFranny RobinsonUncle ArtGaston FramagucciSpike and DimitriMildred DuffyMr. WillersteinLizzyStanleyCoachLewis' mother

Creatures: LeftyBusterTinyFrankie

Songs
Another BelieverTo the Future!Where Is Your Heart At?Give Me the Simple LifeLittle WondersThe Future Has ArrivedThe Motion Waltz (Emotional Commotion)Kids of the FutureThere's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Locations
Sixth Street OrphanageJoyce Williams Elementary SchoolInventcoAnderson ObservatoryRobinson IndustriesJacoby's JunkPlaytime PlanetTodayland
Objects
Time MachineMemory ScannerLewis' JournalMega-Doris
Deleted Concepts
Pet Project
See also
The Robinsons
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