Hello all! Questions Concerning Moratorium

[slash]

I personally like DVD's going on a moratorium. Why? Because I believe that these movies truly are special and having them available always cheapens them. It will be equating them with all the other stuff on the market. In my honest opinion, Disney in fact is releasing them too often. If anything, I would argue that Disney should wait at least 25 years to rerelease Snow White, Bambi, Cinderella, Fantasia, and Sleeping Beauty. Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Lion King should be released every ten years and then moved to a 25 year schedule as they become older and more "classic". Finally, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp should be released at most once every 10 years. They should remove the moratorium on Tarzan, Mulan, Jungle Book, and other lesser quality Disney Feature Animations. Putting these on moratorium is a slap on the quality and importance of the other feature animations.

I myself lack many of the classics so it isn't a case of I have it and you don't and I don't want you to have it. I just feel like these movies are truly special, and just having a few of them to grow up on would allow kids to trully appreciate them and love them. I guess American culture though is about having everything and not really appreciating anyone of them.

[deathie mouse]

But slash, if they put them in 25 year long moratorioums if I had kids today they would be fully grown up when they could watch these films!

It's not like Disney is re-releasing them to theaters every 7 years as it used to do...

[slash]

Deathie Mouse, that isn't necesarilly true. They will still grow up with some of the Disney Classics. I'm not saying that Disney should time them so that they release them all at once and wait 25 years. Instead, I am suggesting that they should release one of these classics every 5 years. Your kids can grow up on these and they will cherish them and know that they are really special. In addition, there will be a lot of other Disney Classics, that are less special, that Disney will have available for your kids to grow on. This is just my opinion. Kids these days have 80 different cartoons and none of them really special. If they get one of these as a kid, and the next time it gets rereleased is when they are 30-35, they will really cherish what they have as a kid and they will for sure get it for their kids. But I guess Eisner is all about cash, instant gratification, and cheapening the meaning of Disney.

[Disney-Fan]

If they dare put Beauty and the Beast in the vault for 25 years I will personally break into Disney's offices and steal a copy of my own!

[2099net]

I suspect Lilo and Stitch will just be a "Special Edition" being as the previous release wasn't labeled as such. That way, they have room to upgrade it again in the future if so desired. After all, Mulan was only a "Special Edition" when by all logic it should have been a "Masterpiece"

While that is probably going to happen, I have to ask if Mulan was ever billed as a "Masterpiece Edition"?

I'm not sure myself, but at the very least, Lilo and Stitch has been billed as a "Masterpiece Edition", and the only other two to be billed as such were changed so as to put the Anniversary in there.

Like I said though, you're right in that they'll probably go with the rather boring "Special Edition" title instead of the "Masterpiece Edition"

No it was never billed as such. In fact, it sort of came out of nowhere. But logically, they were at a time when the 2 disc sets were being marked as Masterpiece.

Anyhow, it just shows Disney don't really care about their brandings.

[Jayden]

Deathie Mouse, that isn't necesarilly true. They will still grow up with some of the Disney Classics. I'm not saying that Disney should time them so that they release them all at once and wait 25 years. Instead, I am suggesting that they should release one of these classics every 5 years. Your kids can grow up on these and they will cherish them and know that they are really special. In addition, there will be a lot of other Disney Classics, that are less special, that Disney will have available for your kids to grow on. This is just my opinion. Kids these days have 80 different cartoons and none of them really special. If they get one of these as a kid, and the next time it gets rereleased is when they are 30-35, they will really cherish what they have as a kid and they will for sure get it for their kids. But I guess Eisner is all about cash, instant gratification, and cheapening the meaning of Disney.

It is interesting that you equal availability with cheapening. My concern with the moratorium system is that people will finally say enough is enough and start ignoring releases from the vault. While this may not happen, it may. Availability doesn't cheapen a movie, as long as the release is quality. The Moratorium system currently forces people like myself, who are short on money, to run out and buy as many of these releases as possible before they disappear for personal and other reasons. Those other reasons lie in the fact that I want to be able to show my children these movies as well, as many as I watched when I was a kid.

As well, I must point out that when I was a child growing up we had most of the Disney classics all of the time, and it didn't lessen the impact for myself and my two sisters to be able to see all of those classics. Maybe it did for you, I'm not sure. But the ability to watch classic animation should not be limited to a limited time offer

[Lars Vermundsberget]

It's my impression that, in the old days before DVD, most of Disney's "Classics" were available for a limited time only.

[purplebluelove99]

I also don't agree with the Moratorium. I myself also missed out on the Snow White Platinum Edition. I don't know if I should buy it now (used copy), or wait and see if they'll release it in the next 2 to 3 years. A lot of people missed out on Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast. How about those of us who didn't have a dvd player when the dvd was released. Or if you just started collecting dvds when the Platinum Edition or Special Edition that you wanted just went into the vaults? And when I finally found a used copy it was expensive. I also had a tight budget. I've also loved Disney as a child, and have been collecting on vhs for almost 9 years now. I have a dvd collection that I started in late 2003. Which I added to in 2004, and continue to collect Platinum Editions and I've lucked out with everything else. Except for Snow white which I have on vhs but it's not the same.

[orestes.]

I thought more about this moratorium thing more the other day and I think it would be okay if they put a 7-10 year moratorium on big collector's editions. Ex... Snow White comes out and they release two versions... a spiffy three disc ultimate edition filled with two discs of extras, add in a book, a nice card featuring the original poster design, nice packaging, some film cels and sketches and maybe even the soundtrack.... make it like those recent giftsets. Then also release sort a second version at the same time with the movie and a few extras... more for the kids.

They are both limited time only and go back into the vaults but a beautiful set like the collector's edition doesn't reappear for years and years while the smaller edition reappears every 4 years or so.

I'm not a professional and this is flawed but I really always dream of ultimate editions that are like how I explained.

[TM2-Megatron]

I'm hoping the new version Lilo & Stitch DVD coming out this year will just return to the 2-disc Collector's Edition line since, apparently, the original plan was to release seperate 1 and 2-disc editions simultaneously anyways. The CEs have remained my favourite of Disney's many labels to this day.