For all you Disney Masterpiece Collection Buffs out there...Some News

[REALDVDARTIST]

Disney will pull the special Edition Treatment out for a few Special Editions this year

Obviously Peter Pan was released this week onto DVD in a two disc special Edition

others being released this year

"The Aristocats" two disc Platinum Edition is coming in June to celebrate its 37th year aniversary

"The Many adventures of winnie the Pooh" Platinum edition is coming in August to celebrate its 30th anniversary

"The Jungle Book" is getting the 40th Anniversary Treatment in October in a Two disc Plainum edition

Fun and fancy Free is getting a 60th anniversary two disc in late October

And Finally "The Rescuers" is getting the 30th Anniversary Platinum two disc in Early December

word has it that a "Hercules" Two Disc Platinum Edition is being worked out for a possible release this year as well with a date TBA.

in 2008 you can look forward to Special Platinum Editions of....

Oliver and Company
Melody Time
the Sword in the Stone
Atlantis

also...there is word that Pinocchio is being tooled for a release possibly next october

right now do not look for Fantasia on DVD anytime soon. Robert Igor is running into the same problem that Eisner did when they released it on VHS...the disney family is very over Protective of it....

in 2009...the following are up for release

Adv. of Icabod and Mr Toad
Three Cabolaros
Great Mouse Detective
Hunchback of Notre dame

and in 2010

Fantasia 2000
Lilo and Stitch
black Couldron
and 101 dalmations

I hope this helps people who are collecting the Disney Classics

[bubutthead]

winnie the pooh
the jungle book
the rescuers
the sword in the stone
pinochio

...those are definites

damn you eisner for not doing fantasia!

[sirdizzy]

ok who celebrates the 37th year, i mean thats just stupid, the 30's and 40's and the 60 make since but 37 is moronic


they need to release Song of tjhe South, the cowards

[Kucha]

The Sword in the Stone really needs a release so I am glad to see one is planned.

[REALDVDARTIST]

Originally posted by sirdizzy
ok who celebrates the 37th year, i mean thats just stupid, the 30's and 40's and the 60 make since but 37 is moronic


they need to release Song of tjhe South, the cowards

believe it or not

it was originally planned to be released this July on DVD for the first time

and it got pulled again

Alot of you dont know that Sydney Poitier was on the board of directors for almost thirty years at disney. and he was the one who was intrumental in getting it blocked

[Hatfield]

Looking forward to:

The Sword in the Stone
The Rescuers
The Jungle Book

[Cronos]

The Rescuers SE =
can't wait for that

kinda pissed i'll have to wait 3 years for a Lilo And Stitch SE though

[ChickFlick]

Actually, the insert inside Peter Pan says that a Platinum Edition is coming in March 2008...not 2010. Also, PE's are only release twice a year...October and March. Therefore, most of those are probably special editions, and not Platinum Editions.

[KcMsterpce]

No Song of the South?

OK, thanks for that pointless update.
Well, it's a nicely constructed update, but it's worthless to ME 'cause there's no SotS.

[bigred760]

Ahhh, The Sword in the Stone. I remember loving that movie as a kid. I won't get it, cuz I don't see myself appreciating it as much now that I'm almost thirty. But good times, good times.

[dman476]

Originally posted by KcMsterpce
No Song of the South?

OK, thanks for that pointless update.
Well, it's a nicely constructed update, but it's worthless to ME 'cause there's no SotS.

OK, why are you interested in that racist crap?



(I'm only keeding)

[Kings-Rook1]

About the only way to get Song of the South is to look for it on VHS. About ten to twenty years ago the put it out on VHS in Europe and Asia (PAL format and NTSC with English subtitles) and you can come across a copy every now and then on Ebay. Some online vendors have DVD’s for sale, but are more then likely copies of the VHS release (if anything at all, be wary).

The following is courtesy of wikipedia:

Despite rumors of a forthcoming DVD release, this exchange took place between a shareholder and Disney CEO Robert Iger on Friday, March 10, 2006 at a Disney Shareholder Meeting:
"My name is Howard Cromer. I live in Cypress, I'm a Disney shareholder. I'm actually delivering a message from my son, 10. He wants to know in recent years, in the midst of all your re-releases of your videos, why you haven't released Song of the South on your Disney Classics? ..."

Iger: "... We've discussed this a lot. We believe it's actually an opportunity from a financial perspective to put Song of the South out. I screened it fairly recently because I hadn't seen it since I was a child, and I have to tell you after I watched it, even considering the context that it was made, I had some concerns about it because of what it depicted. And though it's quite possible that people wouldn't consider it in the context that it was made, and there were some... [long pause] depictions that I mentioned earlier in the film that I think would be bothersome to a lot of people. And so, owing to the sensitivity that exists in our culture, balancing it with the desire to, uh, maybe increase our earnings a bit, but never putting that in front of what we thought were our ethics and our integrity, we made the decision not to re-release it. Not a decision that is made forever, I imagine this is going to continue to come up, but for now we simply don't have plans to bring it back because of the sensitivities that I mentioned. Sorry."

[Kings-Rook1]

Originally posted by bubutthead
damn you eisner for not doing fantasia!

In 2000 they released it as a Special 60th Anniversary Edition to coinside with the theatrical release of Fantasia 2000. It got yanked "back into the vault" (spit and curse) but if you hit Amazon you'll find plenty for purchase.