Pixar's Movies [updated]: Disney

Once, in a kingdom built not of stone but of celluloid and dreams, there lived a sorcerer named Walt. His magic was hand-drawn wonder, and his castle, Disney, ruled the world of animation. But by the late 1980s, the castle’s towers had grown brittle. Their last great spell, The Little Mermaid , was yet to break the surface. The sorcerers inside drew the same way they had for fifty years, and a strange, cold wind was blowing from a small, stubborn island in the north: Silicon Valley.

But the guild was starving. Their art was too strange, too cold for the world. They made short films that won hearts but not gold. They needed a castle. They needed Disney. disney pixar's movies

And in a dark room, somewhere, a little lamp named Luxo Jr. hops into frame, looks at the audience, and flicks its light on. The story is not over. It never is. Because a story made of code and heart is just a dream that has learned how to play. Once, in a kingdom built not of stone

Together, as one house, they made Ratatouille , a story about a rat who cooks, which is really a story about how art can come from any place if you dare to taste it. They made WALL-E , a silent, rotting robot who falls in love and saves humanity not with a weapon, but with a single green sprout. They made Up , whose first ten minutes contain a lifetime of marriage, loss, and the heavy, beautiful weight of a house tied to balloons. They made Inside Out , which walked into the control room of a girl’s mind and showed children that sadness is not a sickness—it is a bridge to love. They made Coco , a skeleton’s fiesta that reminded us that we die twice: once when our heart stops, and again when the last living voice speaks our name. Their last great spell, The Little Mermaid ,

But John Lasseter remembered his own childhood. He remembered the fear of being replaced by a shiny new thing. And so, from that fear and that strange, glowing light, he conjured Toy Story .