What was the first animated movie to make $1 billion at the box office?

What was the first animated movie to make $1 billion at the box office?
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There's something magical about animation. Whether it's been painstakingly put together by hand or built by a team of hundreds of digital artists, it takes us to places of whimsy and wonder that we can only otherwise imagine.

Perhaps that's why we're so happy to schlep over so much of our cash for the latest Spider-thingy — or simply get dragged to some kind of extremely bright and chaotic kids' movie by those little bundles of joy.

With an estimated market size of nearly $400 billion, animation is big business. Which animated feature film was the first to break the $1 billion barrier at the box office?

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