SWORD IN THE STONE OOP 2-18-08

ranger1121 · Post by **ranger1121** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:29 pm

I was wondering why Sword it the Stone and a few other movies that are supposedly in the vault are still available through Best Buy.com. Also I was in the actual Best Buy store today to purchase Aristocats and there were still sopies of Cinderella 2 and three on the shelf. Are they allowed to sell them until they run out of copies?

MickeyMousePal · Post by **MickeyMousePal** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:42 pm

Yes, some titles may be out of print but when the stores like Best Buy run out they won't have anymore. They sell them until they run out of copies.
Stores like Costco, Best Buy, Circuit City and Wal-Mart probably won't have Aladdin or Cinderella. The Best Bet to get both Aladdin and Cinderella is at Amazon.

Barbossa · Post by **Barbossa** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:19 pm

MickeyMousePal wrote:Yes, some titles may be out of print but when the stores like Best Buy run out they won't have anymore. They sell them until they run out of copies.
Stores like Costco, Best Buy, Circuit City and Wal-Mart probably won't have Aladdin or Cinderella. The Best Bet to get both Aladdin and Cinderella is at Amazon.

One place I found that is ok to get older Disney DVD releases is Toys R Us. Not many people associate it with carrying DVDs, being a toy store. Last time I went to our local Toys R Us, they still had movies like Bambi II and Pocahontas II on the shelf.

SleepingBeautyAurora · Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:20 pm

Interesting Barbossa, Thanks 4 the info !!

Barbossa · Post by **Barbossa** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:38 pm

SleepingBeautyAurora wrote:Interesting Barbossa, Thanks 4 the info !!

I forgot to include this in my last post:
All the copies of Bambi II that were on the shelf had there slip covers, and they were in great shape, as if they were just taken out of the shipping box. I guess the inventory varies from store to store (Toy R Us), and they just keep a movie on the shelf until it sells out. Also at our local store they still have the 4-disk Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe on the shelf.

SleepingBeautyAurora · Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:40 pm

Did they have any other rare titles other then Bambi 2 and Lion,Witch and The Wardrobe ???

katielb · Post by **katielb** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:21 pm

Thank goodness I bought this movie a few weeks ago on impulse - it's one of my favorites!

SwordInTheStone777 · Post by **SwordInTheStone777** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:19 pm

Could Sword maybe, just maybe be are Fall Platinum Edition?

UmbrellaFish · Post by **UmbrellaFish** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:21 pm

SwordInTheStone777 wrote:Could Sword maybe, just maybe be are Fall Platinum Edition?

There's no way it would be a platinum. And this year Sleeping Beauty will be our fall release.

SpringHeelJack · Post by **SpringHeelJack** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:49 pm

Yuh. "The Sword in the Stone" will never be a Platinum release. Not by a long shot. It's just not the same quality.

Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a slipcover and an additional short.

hoojib127 · Post by **hoojib127** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:04 pm

SpringHeelJack wrote:Yuh. "The Sword in the Stone" will never be a Platinum release. Not by a long shot. It's just not the same quality.

Perhaps not, but anything from the Walt era at least deserves somewhat of a royal treatment.

Escapay · Post by **Escapay** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:06 pm

hoojib127 wrote:anything from the Walt era at least deserves at least somewhat of a royal treatment.

Especially the package features, which too many fans brush off and never really consider as part of the DAC canon.

Scaps

hoojib127 · Post by **hoojib127** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:14 pm

Escapay wrote:Especially the package features, which too many fans brush off and never really consider as part of the DAC canon.

Scaps

Absolutely. Though they were largely wartime compromises, the 6 anthology films (as well as "Sword") deserve at least a packaging on par with the most recent editions of "Dumbo" and "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh."

Deco King · Post by **Deco King** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:36 pm

I have always had a soft spot for this movie - it was featured in the National Geographic in 1963 when they did a Disneyland Special! I adore Mad Madam Mim and her battle with Merlin - a great fun movie - I really look forward to Merlin's next outing! I hope that the extras will be good with a Making Of Documentary!

SwordInTheStone777 · Post by **SwordInTheStone777** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:47 pm

Deco King wrote:

I have always had a soft spot for this movie - it was featured in the National Geographic in 1963 when they did a Disneyland Special!

Disneyland did a special for Sword? If they did it should be included with a new edition and I agree with that this film deserves the royal treament.

Escapay · Post by **Escapay** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:13 pm

SwordInTheStone777 wrote:Deco King wrote:

I have always had a soft spot for this movie - it was featured in the National Geographic in 1963 when they did a Disneyland Special!

Disneyland did a special for Sword? If they did it should be included with a new edition and I agree with that this film deserves the royal treament.

No. The August 1963 issue of National Geographic featured Disneyland, as well as material about The Sword in the Stone.

Here's the 50-page article, courtesy of ModernMechanix.com
The Magic Worlds of Walt Disney, Part One (pages 1-14)
The Magic Worlds of Walt Disney, Part Two (pages 15-30)
The Magic Worlds of Walt Disney, Part Three (pages 31-50)

I'd love if a new edition of The Sword in the Stone contained the entire 50-page article in a high-quality downloadable PDF format.

Scaps

SwordInTheStone777 · Post by **SwordInTheStone777** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:23 am

Disney should inculed that rare article from NG, but knowing Disney from pervious releases, it will go unoticed and forgoten.

Simba3 · Post by **Simba3** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:36 am

This page at Amazon.com seems to be more proof that we will be seeing a Special Edition re-release in the near future. As well as the highly discussed addition to the Platinum Edition line, "Alice in Wonderland"

Widdi · Post by **Widdi** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:26 pm

Simba3 wrote:This page at Amazon.com seems to be more proof that we will be seeing a Special Edition re-release in the near future. As well as the highly discussed addition to the Platinum Edition line, "Alice in Wonderland"

Except that is a user made list. For all we know it could be someone on here who made it based on rumors/speculation that has surfaced on this very site.

EDIT: look at the user's avatar. I'm definitely thinking we have a UD user making that list.

I refuse to believe Alice will be made a PE until we hear it directly from Disney itself. The Sword in the Stone: Special Edition (or silly subtitle edition) is a given. Alice just doesn't have the fan base, box office or even studio approval (even Walt didn't like this movie) to become a PE. I still think that "release schedule" we got that named it a PE confused the Masterpiece Edition as a PE and estimated its reissue.

Simba3 · Post by **Simba3** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:46 pm

Widdi wrote: Except that is a user made list. For all we know it could be someone on here who made it based on rumors/speculation that has surfaced on this very site.

EDIT: look at the user's avatar. I'm definitely thinking we have a UD user making that list.

Oops, I guess I didn't notice that. I have looked at an Amazon page before that was official that had upcoming Disney DVDs and I must have mistaken this site for that.

Widdi wrote: I refuse to believe Alice will be made a PE until we hear it directly from Disney itself. The Sword in the Stone: Special Edition (or silly subtitle edition) is a given. Alice just doesn't have the fan base, box office or even studio approval (even Walt didn't like this movie) to become a PE. I still think that "release schedule" we got that named it a PE confused the Masterpiece Edition as a PE and estimated its reissue.

I couldn't agree more. I actually don't care for Alice in Wonderland much myself and I don't think it really deserves a place in the Platinum Edition line. I think the current line with the 14 titles is perfect as it is.

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Sword In The Stone has always been a favourite movie!!