COVER ART (The Best & The Worst)

[Simba3]

I have to disagree with you disneylover2006 on your choice of putting Aladdin in with the best covers. The animation on Aladdin and Jasmine is awful looking. I do like the concept, but I just can't get past how terrible the two of them look. I would probably agree with the rest of your pics though.

[goofystitch]

I also dissagree. I don't feel like "Aladdin" had great cover art and the only bad cover art that I agree with is "Pocahontas." I think I would like that "Aladdin" artwork more if Aladdin was more on model, but something looks weird about him to me. I like the original VHS and Limited Issue cover art for "Hercules" MUCH better than the GC art and I thought the ME "Alice in Wonderland" was very well done and kept the Mary Blaire artistic style heavily used in the scene where Alice is lost after the mad tea party where she sings "Very Good Advice" and meets up with the Cheshire Cat again just before the "Painting the Roses Red" sequence (God I love "Alice in Wonderland"!).

[lapniappe]

Alice in wonderland, Snow White, Lion King, Sleeping Beauty thee best.

Mermaid - meh. Again, like the Cdn lithographs, I imagined it so differently then what i've got.
Ditto with Beauty and the Beast.

Worse...

I don't know. i like them all.

[landofdisney]

i'm not at all a fan of TLM cover... but it seems that might just be me.

[Escapay]

i'm not at all a fan of TLM cover... but it seems that might just be me.

Don't worry, you're not alone.

Escapay

[Simba3]

I like the colorfulness and the concept of "The Little Mermaid"s cover art (I like it when the majority of the main characters appear on the cover) however it does appear to be a bit cluttered, and I think the animation on Ursula (my favorite character) is awful.

[DisneyFreak5282]

Worst:

Personally I like the Hercules LI cover! Are you saying you like the GC cover? Ugh! Just looking at it makes me cringe!



Now which one do you like better?

[jeremy88]

I actually like the Alice in Wonderland ME cover art. I think its better then the Gold Collection one
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Oh I forgot to mention...I cant stand the Pocahontas cover...I really liked the gold collection one and even the original vhs cover..but the tenth aniversary is..ugh.

[stitcharielbeast]

the french Pocahontas cover, the french Lion King cover, the german Beauty and the Beast cover as well as the brittish beauty and the beast collector's set. all of tehm are some of the best I've ever seen.


oh and the Fantasia Anthology set as well as the Emperor's New Groove ultimate Groove collector's set oh and also the red french Lilo and Stitch 2 disc cover.

[DisneyFreak5282]

i'm not at all a fan of TLM cover... but it seems that might just be me.

Don't worry, you're not alone.

...because the two of you are joined by me.

[Eeyore]

Worst covers: Any release that looks down on them as kid movies. AKA, pretty much every single US/Canada cover.

Best covers: Any release that treats these movies as the great adult fare they are. AKA, pretty much every international release, such as those gorgeous French and German covers.

[Disney's Divinity]

The Little Mermaid PE: Many people argue that the cover is too cluttered (which it is cluttered) but the animation (with the exception of Ursula who I think looks awful) looks really great. Also, it is very colorful and very visually appealing.

That's one thing I've never understood about all the TLM artwork. Ursula's always drawn/colored wrong in one way or another. They either make her skin too dark, forget the mole/beauty mark, turn her earrings gold, change the color of her mascara, don't give her enough tentacles or make her too large. The one that really irritates me is the mascara bit. Why green?

As for my favorite covers, it would be the Hercules covers (they've all looked decent to me), the Pocahontas GC, Alice in Wonderland ME, Cinderella PE, and TLK PE. I also like the Snow White PE cover, although many people seem to hate it for some reason. Bambi had a nice cover as well, though it seemed to have a bit too much of a "kiddy" feeling for some reason.

The worst, in my opinion, are LatT PE (the VHS covers were beautiful though), Sleeping Beauty SE, Pocahontas ME, TLM LI (Ursula looks so ugly on this) and Aladdin PE (I hated the original VHS release cover, too, and they're very much alike).

[wrestling_stat]

I love The Little Mermaid's coverart on the VHS tape. I like the PE TLM but not as much. And the LI LTM was ok. I bought the PE TLM and I wished that they had the castle in it, either one.

[wrestling_stat]

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[wrestling_stat]

The Little Mermaid 2: return to the sea, the light reminds me of the water from the first movie. What about you?

[Caballero Girl]

The worst covers, if you ask me, are easily those used for the Hercules and Hunchback of Notre Dame Gold Collections. Characters are drawn horribly off-model in both cases (and, in the case of Hercules, I have no idea why Pain and Panic are depicted hanging out with the good guys, like they're all buddies or something).

The Oliver and Company cover, with Jenny holding Oliver and Dodger standing in the background, also seems kinda dull, particularly when compared to the previous promotional posters and VHS covers for the film, which generally featured Oliver riding a cab with all his canine buddies around him. I would have much preferred them to go with something to that effect. They had more colour, detail and character about them, and I really hope that come 2008, IF the film should receive a 20th anniversary edition, they'll return to a cover of that nature.

I've said it before, but as things go, I feel that the Gold Collection covers have been largely inferior to their VHS counterparts. There's something about the GC art which strikes me as so perfunctory that I just wished they'd reused the original VHS designs, particularly in the case of Oliver. I love the version we had here in Europe:



When I bought this video (the UK Version) in 1997, I couldn't get over how golden and shiny Oliver's name tag was.

[Beast_enchantment]

Worst covers:

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Aurora and Phillip are completely off model

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Region 2 dvd cover is basically the same as the old VHS but alot more bland.

The best covers:

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i love it!

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this is the best dvd cover that was available in the UK!

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the best beauty and the beast cover ever! i hope when it is rereleased they use this cover!!

[Ariel'sprince]

Let's see:
Best:
The Little Mermaid PE,Snow White PE,The Lion King PE and Cinderella PE.
Worse:
Sleeping Beauty 2003 Edition (Aurora and Philip are ugly and they should show Aurora and Philip dancing or at least all the character under sleeping Aurora),Aladdin PE (Aladdin and Jasmine were off model,and it's look exectly like the old cover,only with Abu almost felling),Bambi PE (Just.. ugly) and Cars.

[SwordInTheStone777]

Best
Aladdin
Alice In Wonderland Masterpeice Edition
Bambi
Beauty And The Beast
Cinderella
Escape To Witch Mountain Special Edition
Finding Nemo
The Haunted Mansion
The Jungle Book 40th Anniversary Edition
Lady And The Tramp 50th Anniversary
The Lion King
Mary Poppins 40th Anniversary Edition
Peter Pan
Pete's Dragon
Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Peral
Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End
The Rescuers
Return From Witch Mountain Special Edtion
Sleeping Beauty Special Edition
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Worst
The Apple Dumpling Gang Special Edition
Bedknobs And Broomsticks 30th Anniversary Edition
The Cat From Outer Space
Charlie The Lonesome Cougar
Fantasia 60th Anniversary Edition
Freaky Friday 1976
Freaky Friday 2003
Herbie Goes To Monte Carol
Herbie Rides Again
The Incredibles
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
The Love Bug Special Edtion
Mulan Special Edition
The Parent Trap 1961
Return To Oz
Swiss Family Robbinson
The Sword In The Stone
Three Lives of Thomasina
The Ugly Dachshund

[PixarFan2006]

WORST



One of the weaker Pixar films gets a really weak cover art.



Hercules appears TWICE on the cover art, and its just ugly.



Very busy and uninteresting.

BEST



The best Platinum Edition DVD deserves the one of the best cover arts.



Very nice and not too busy.