In the last decade, one of the most exciting elements of the success experienced by Disney animated films – including both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios titles – has been the incredible world building acumen on display. It was Wreck-It Ralph in 2012 that started the trend, imagining the inner-workings of a video game arcade from inside the cabinets, but subsequent titles like Inside Out, Zootopia, and Coco all worked similar magic with their own respective unique ideas about emotional processes in the mind, an existence evolved to suit anthropomorphic animals, and the afterlife. Pairing these creative, built-from-the-ground-up settings with excellent characters and plots has resulted in some magnificent storytelling and titles that can be called instant classics.
