It’s always heartwarming to hear that a giant corporation who released an established property successfully recouped on its investment, but you may want to grab some tissues for the news that Disney’s Toy Story 3 has just passed the $1 billion mark, which should absolutely melt your insides. That makes it the only animated film and only the seventh film overall to to achieve that milestone. Even more impressive: This is Disney’s second $1 billion-grossing film after Alice In Wonderland, making it the first-ever studio to get two in one year—and all it took was charging inflated 3-D ticket prices. Something tells us that, somewhere, James Cameron just made a derisive snorting noise.

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