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Pixar and the Fear of Being Replaced

Watch these together for Pixar's quiet obsession with obsolescence — the toy outgrown, the newer model, the town the highway forgot.

Beloved all-ages crowd-pleasers that go down easy but land a real gut-punch about being left behind; safe for anyone, deceptively moving for grown-ups.

• Toy Story (1995)
• Toy Story 3 (2010)
• Toy Story 5 (2026)
• Cars (2006)
• Inside Out 2 (2024) — The recent Pixar one that rhymes with these on obsolescence — Joy and the original emotions get shoved aside when Anxiety and the newer crew take over headquarters, the same gut-punch about being displaced by a newer model, here staged inside a kid's own head.