The Animated Movie Draft

We took Past Tens on the road for the first-ever Animated Movie Draft, recorded from a friend’s house in Vermont—which immediately set the tone: cozy, loud, slightly unhinged, and absolutely competitive. Four teams entered, rules were explained (and immediately bent), and chaos followed. The teams: No Capes (Andy and David), How to Train Your Landau (Addie and Dylan), Ka-rin & Stumpy (Milt and Karen), and Everything’s Fein (Michael and Nicole). The mission: draft the greatest animated movies of all time while filling specific categories—pre-1980s, franchise films, musicals, and wildcards—without completely losing your mind or your credibility. What follows is exactly what you’d expect: big swings, loud objections, wildly personal logic, and a whole lot of “HOW was that still available?” Along the way we veer into childhood crushes, Disney World ride hot takes, Pixar debates, Broadway adaptations, and the eternal question of whether nostalgia is doing way too much heavy lifting. The draft board fills up with absolute heavyweights—Toy Story, Shrek, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Charlotte’s Web—plus a few picks that inspire stunned silence and/or yelling. Somehow, through all of it, one team quietly puts together a monster draft and walks away with a surprise win that no one fully saw coming (including them). It’s loud. It’s nostalgic. It’s opinionated. It’s friends arguing about cartoons like it matters—which, obviously, it does. Topics 00:14 Recording on Location in Vermont 00:51 Drafting the Greatest Animated Movies 03:19 Team Introductions and Draft Rules 09:51 First Round Picks 15:58 Second Round Picks 28:40 Third Round Picks 36:40 Peter Pan and Childhood Crushes 37:58 Disney World Ride Experiences 39:12 Drafting Disney and Pixar Films 40:37 Ratatouille and Modern Disney Rides 42:39 Musicals and Broadway Adaptations 45:39 Final Draft Picks 49:53 Honorable Mentions 01:01:03 Judging and Announcing the Winner