Disney Black Diamonds

[Lane4952]

I have been collecting Disney Black Diamonds videos, and I am trying to find out if I have a complete set. I am wondering how do I find out how many videos were Black Diamonds and also how many different covers are there for each one? Please email me Lane4952@msn.com with any information. Thanks. I have quite a few duplicates.

[Luke]

Greetings,
I know I wasn't much help as I don't know much about this, but I found a website which lists these as all the "Black Diamond" releases:

101 Dalmatians
Aladdin
Alice in Wonderland
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast
Dumbo
Fox & the Hound
Great Mouse Detective
Jungle Book
Little Mermaid
Rescuers
Rescuers Down Under
Robin Hood
Sword in the Stone

[A Doug's Life]

Are the black diamond releases rare or valuable?

I have a few of them, but I have replaced them all with dvd.

[Choco Bear]

cinderella
peter pan
the 3 cabelleros
laday and the tramp
and i think sleeping beauty
wow thats so cool

sorry forgot to log in again

[Jake Lipson]

The 1993 VHS re-release of Pinocchio was also a Black Diamond. I have it, Aladdin, and Fox and the Hound from this collection.

[Choco Bear]

the pinocchio 1993 was a black diamomnd cuz mine says its part of the masterpiece collection or maybe mine was another release i thionk what im sayin makes sense

[Paka]

"Black Diamond" Classics are so called because of the black diamond on the spine of the tape's clamshell case that contains the words "The Classics". These are special videos because they were the first format of Disney's animated features available for home viewing. Nope, Disney didn't do BETA.

There are 18 BDs altogether, and they are -

~Dumbo

~Bambi

~Cinderella

~Alice in Wonderland

~Peter Pan

~Lady and the Tramp

~Sleeping Beauty

~101 Dalmatians

~The Sword in the Stone

~The Jungle Book

~Robin Hood

~The Rescuers

~The Fox and the Hound

~The Great Mouse Detective

~The Little Mermaid

~The Rescuers Down Under

~Beauty and the Beast

~Aladdin

The BD videos ceased to be after Aladdin, when The Lion King was the first to have the "Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection" (with the holographic castle on the spine instead of the black diamond). All animated feature videos between 1995 and 2000 were released (or re-released) with the "Masterpiece" logo on them. After that, the infamous Gold Collection labels started.

The only video that I know of to have multiple BD covers is Dumbo. There's the common, well-known cover with a white clamshell, but there's also a rarer "pink" cover with a different design on the front (a decidedly off-model Dumbo is flying with the crows high over the circus). This comes in both a white and a black clamshell case. I got the white one off of eBay - here's an auction going on for one right now. eBay's a great place to get these BDs - I got the few that I didn't have off of eBay at reasonable prices. I think that's actually where my interest in animation started in the first place - my Disney-lovin' parents bought a lot of the BD videos when I was little - and I just kinda took the collection over from there.

A great link for this kind of info is here - it has a table of all the animated features and their different release types. He doesn't have all the images of the BDs, but there is a "yes" in their place to state that that film is in that format.

[Disneykid]

Here's a list of the Disney animated films and what collections they've been released to:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs-Masterpiece, Collector's Laserdisc, Platinum
Pinocchio-(released during BD era, but was called "Masterpiece"), Collector's Laserdisc, Gold Classic, Future Platinum
Fantasia-(same as Pinocchio), Collector's Laserdisc, Collector's Edition DVD, Future Platinum
Dumbo-BD, Masterpiece, Special Edition
Bambi-BD, Masterpiece, Future Platinum
Saludos Amigos-Collector's Laserdisc, Gold Classic
The Three Caballeros-Collector's Laserdisc, Masterpiece, Gold Classic
Make Mine Music-Gold Classic
Melody Time-Masterpiece, Gold Classic
Fun and Fancy Free-Masterpiece, Gold Classic
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad-Masterpeice, Gold Classic
Cinderella-BD, Masterpiece, Collector's Laserdisc, Future Platinum
Alice in Wonderland-BD, Masterpeice, Collector's Laserdisc, Gold Classic, Masterpiece DVD
Peter Pan-BD, Masterpiece, Special Edition, Future Platinum
Lady and the Tramp-BD, Masterpiece, Future Platinum
Sleeping Beauty-BD, Masterpiece, Collector's Laserdisc, Special Edition, Future Platinum
101 Dalmatians-BD, Masterpiece, Future Platinum
The Sword in the Stone-BD, Masterpiece, Gold Classic
The Jungle Book-BD, Masterpiece, Future Platinum
The Aristocats-Masterpiece, Gold Classic
Robin Hood-BD, Masterpiece, Gold Classic
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh-Masterpiece, Special Edition
The Rescuers-BD, Masterpiece, Special Edition
The Fox and the Hound-BD, Gold Classic
The Black Cauldron-Masterpiece, Gold Classic
The Great Mouse Detective-BD, Masterpiece, Special Edition
Oliver and Company-Masterpiece, Special Edition
The Little Mermaid-BD, Masterpiece, Future Platinum
The Rescuers Down Under-BD, Gold Classic
Beauty and the Beast-BD, Platinum
Aladdin-BD, Future Platinum
The Lion King-Masterpiece, Collector's Laserdic, Platinum
Pocahontas-Masterpiece, Collector's Laserdic, Gold Classic, Future Masterpiece DVD
The Hunchback of Notre Dame-Masterpiece, Collector's Laserdisc, No category
Hercules-Masterpiece, Gold Classic
Mulan-Masterpeice, Gold Classic
Tarzan-Collector's Edition DVD
Fantasia 2000-Collector's Edition DVD
The Emperor's New Groove-Collector's Edition DVD
Atlantis: The Lost Empire-Collector's Edition DVD
Lilo and Stitch-No category, Future Masterpiece DVD
Treasure Planet-No category
Brother Bear-Special Edition

Hope this helps!

[Peter Pan]

PAKA Wrote:
Nope, Disney didn't do BETA.

I hate to say it but a friend of mine has Little Mermaid Black Diamond video that is BETA so they did release some how many titles i have no clue.

When i was showed it i was surprised. I had no idea they release anything on BETA.

Chuck

[Paka]

Ah yes - you're right. I did a very cursory search at Google before I originally posted, and since no real info came from that (it mostly returned results from Disney sites in beta testing mode..), I just assumed they didn't do BETA. Then again - it was late, and I was tired, so that could have had something to do with it.

[Peter Pan]

Paka wrote:
Then again - it was late, and I was tired, so that could have had something to do with it.

Tell me about it im in school fulltime going for my first Bachelors degree and it gets really late some nights for me and it always makes my thinking fuzzy because of lack of sleep and a few beers also has the same effect on me.

Im curious now how many titles Disney released in Beta format.

Chuck

[MickeyMouseboy]

sleeping beauty was released in beta so did the jungle book, i had sleeping beauty in beta

[Tangela]

Greetings,
I know I wasn't much help as I don't know much about this, but I found a website which lists these as all the "Black Diamond" releases:

101 Dalmatians
Aladdin
Alice in Wonderland
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast
Dumbo
Fox & the Hound
Great Mouse Detective
Jungle Book
Little Mermaid
Rescuers
Rescuers Down Under
Robin Hood
Sword in the Stone

Its The Rescuers Luke! To you and everybody else!

[Mermaid Kelly]

Wow Disneykid! Thanks for all the info! I'e had a question fore some time, so maybe you (or someone else ) can help me. What exactly is a collectors laser disc? Also haw do you get them? I have searched through the internet (and stores) and no sign of them. Are they bootlegged or something?
also you left out the sequels to Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King, and others.

[Prince Adam]

also you left out the sequels to Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King, and others.

These (possibly excluding Return of Jafar) were not Black Diamonds-they were of no specific collection. However, "Aladdin 3" was reminiscent of the BD's in the fact that the character face on the side was in a diamond shape...

[u4ea]

hey, i'm a new member but an old disney fan.
i'm on a starwars forum and posted a question about black diamond movies and i was sent here so i joined.

i have a couple questions> who has sleeping beauty and lady and the tramp?
i have both black diamond, the insert is cut with straight corners, but the other movies i have, have rounded corners, has anyone else noticed this?
i think i only need alice and great mouse detective to complete my collection.
i also have pinocchio black diamond. the case is black and padded. i also have the masterpiece one.

i just found sleeping beauty on the weekend at a fleamarket. it cost me 20 but i've never seen it in any store so i had to grab it.

was snow white ever released with a black diamond cover?
i had no idea pinocchio existed till i found it at a video store.
thats all for now

[Grunches]

So are these "black diamonds" classics worth much cause I think accoriding to the list I have almost all of them.

[u4ea]

you can find most of them pretty cheap now.
ever since the big dvd takeover the prices keep going down.

[Disney Guru]

I have all of the Black Diamond VHS Releases. Ya-Hoo

[MickeyMousePal]

I think I have all the Black Diamond relases.
I'm not totally sure.
I'll check later.