The next 10 Pixar movies after Up

A window inside a larger catalogue

Up is the starting boundary but is not itself one of the ten answers. Toy Story 3 is the first feature after it in the studio sequence. Counting the next ten is an interval-selection rule, so a film can qualify without being among Pixar’s first ten overall. This distinction helps explain why similar catalogue questions have different answer sets even though they share a source. The original release catalogue supplies the sequence; later re-releases and shorts do not create extra feature positions.

Two releases in the same year

Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur both belong to 2015, while Cars 3 and Coco belong to 2017. A year-only table identifies their era but is not sufficient by itself to sort those pairs. The studio release sequence resolves the order within a year. This is a useful example of the difference between a context column and the actual sorting key. A table can show release years for readability without claiming that every position is obtained by sorting those year labels alone.

Sequels, prequels and stand-alone stories

The answers include continuations of existing franchises alongside new stories. Monsters University is a prequel in its fictional setting but a later release in the studio’s real production history. Finding Dory follows Finding Nemo chronologically as a release, even though the player need not remember the full franchise order to enter it. Pixar’s catalogue is the eligibility check; Disney animation made by another studio remains outside the question. The archive preserves the exact interval as new Pixar films arrive, so later releases extend the catalogue without moving the boundary or replacing the saved ten answers.

Sources & further reading

• Pixar: feature-film catalogue

Explanation updated Thursday, October 1, 2026. The puzzle’s original data date is listed below.