The Disney Blu-Ray Release Thread!

[Flanger-Hanger]

(A commercial appears on Disney Channel)

Zac Efron: Hi Kids, just here to tell you that High School Muiscal 2 is getting re-released to Blu-ray, with some way cool bonus features!

Flanger-Hanger: You bastard! How dare you do a High School Muiscal re-release before even putting out The Rocketeer, Dick Tracy and Condorman to Blu!

Zac Efron: Who Are you? And what the hell is Condorman!?

Flanger-Hanger: Take that Mister "I Don't want a Better Edition of The Black Hole!" *punches camera man next to Zac*

Zac Efron: Why did you punch him? And how did you get passed security?

Flanger-Hanger: Less questions, more releases! And I asked the guy and he said it's alright.

Disney CEO (Snow White screams): I'll handle this Zac.

Zac Efron: Yes master. * filming crew puts him back in his cage until HSM 3 is released*

Dinsey CEO: You see, son, No one cares about anything we did in thee past, so there's no real point in releasing older films. Do you understand? I'm sure you forum friends would agree.

Flanger-Hanger: Ya, sure. You heard him!

*UD members charge and attack Disney CEO, Zac breaks free of his cage*

Zac Efron: I'm free! I'm free! *falls into hole in ground* Dangit!

[jrboy]

Disney Reveals Five Platinum Titles Coming To Blu-ray In The Next Two Years

Disney is sending in the troops. The company will release five “platinum” titles from its library in the Blu-ray format over the next two years, hoping that classic animated movies will spur wider interest.

The films are “Pinocchio ,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ,” “Fantasia,” “Fantasia 2000 ” and “Beauty and the Beast .” The company, which normally staggers new releases of its most popular movies, had previously announced plans to introduce one such title, “Sleeping Beauty.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/busin ... ref=slogin



no Aladdin

[kbehm29]

Wow! Great news and great find!

[JDCB1986]

That's horrible news...Since when is Fantasia 2000 worthy of "Platinum" status ? So it will probably be...

2009
March - Pinnochio
October - Snow White
2010
March - Fantasia/Fantasia 2000
October - Beauty And The Beast
2011
March - Alice In Wonderland
October - The Lion King

That's not really news, they are just repeating the same pattern and adding in movies that were never part of the Platinum line up as filler. I'm willing to bet that each release will slowly get worse and by time Beauty And The Beast is set for release they will be right on par with the recent Platinum releases... horrible.

[Disneykid]

Wow, fantastic find jrboy! This confirms the schedule Joe posted last year. Any doubters left out there?

I admit a tiny portion of me is worried that the quality of these releases will suffer as a result, but I'm going to remain optimistic. I wouldn't fret about Aladdin just yet. Remember that they're only mentioning up to Beauty and the Beast. If those five titles debut on BD in the next two years ('09 and '10), then we'll probably see Aladdin in 2012 (with Lion King and Alice in 2011).

[nomad2010]

personally i think the fact that fantasia and fantasia 2000 are being considered platinum titles is kind of ridiculous. they are in no way extremely popular. and no child in their right mind would choose them over snow white or beauty and the beast. personally i think beauty and the beast should be released after pinocchio to give a more modern title a go then go to another old classic.

[Flanger-Hanger]

You are obviously one of the people who didn't have to own it when it was released to video in 1991.

It's one of Disney's 14 best selling titles, that's why it's included. $$$ outweighs any body's personal opinion.

[Escapay]

Wire Hanger: You bastard! How dare you do a High School Muiscal re-release before even putting out The Rocketeer, Dick Tracy and Condorman to Blu!

Zac Efron: Who Are you? And what the hell is Condorman!?

Wire Hanger: Take that Mister "I Don't want a Better Edition of The Black Hole!" *punches camera man next to Zac*

Giving a shout-out to The Rocketeer gets a from me!

Disney CEO (Snow White screams): I'll handle this Zac.

Zac Efron: Yes master. * filming crew puts him back in his cage until HSM 3 is released*

I can totally see that happening, which is rather disturbing now that I think about it.

Zac breaks free of his cage*

Zac Efron: I'm free! I'm free! *falls into hole in ground* Dangit!

Hell yeah, a Hunchback of Notre Dame reference!

no child in their right mind would choose them over snow white or beauty and the beast.

Well, maybe all the children will be using their left mind instead.

Albert

[Simba3]

Even though "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Beauty and the Beast" are being re-released on Blu-Ray as Platinum Edition titles, I don't necessarily believe that they will be re-released in the Spring/Fall slots. Or at least, I hope not.

It just pisses me off, I'd really like to finish off my Platinum Edition collection. I already feel a little gyped with Sleeping Beauty having the fall slot this fall, since I already have the Collector's Edition from 2003.

Since "Snow White" and "Beauty and the Beast" have already been released on Platinum Edition, and there probably won't be an overwhelming amount of new bonus features offered on the re-release, they might not even be released in the Spring/Fall time slots.

Basically - I would rather see a Platinum Edition of "Fantasia" before I see "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" re-released.

Wow, fantastic find jrboy! This confirms the schedule Joe posted last year. Any doubters left out there?

I admit a tiny portion of me is worried that the quality of these releases will suffer as a result, but I'm going to remain optimistic. I wouldn't fret about Aladdin just yet. Remember that they're only mentioning up to Beauty and the Beast. If those five titles debut on BD in the next two years ('09 and '10), then we'll probably see Aladdin in 2012 (with Lion King and Alice in 2011).

We might see a Blu-Ray release of "Aladdin", but it still seems to have been dropped from the Platinum Edition line. Remember, the German Platinum Edition removed all traces of Aladdin ever being part of the collection.

[Flanger-Hanger]

no child in their right mind would choose them over snow white or beauty and the beast.

Well, maybe all the children will be using their left mind instead.

Albert

Funny, you'd think right brained children would pick Fantasia and left brained kids would pick something like Donald in Mathmagic Land.

Glad you liked the script Albert.

[Jack Skellington]

I think there must be some kind of mistake, Fantasia 2000 can't be a platinum release, otherwise we'd expect 3 PE's each year from 2010.

I'm very exicited about getting them on BD, I also hope that they decide to make a seperate classic animation BD line so I can get my hand on Hercules, Mulan, TBC, etc. on BD.
Do you think that after Sleeping Beauty comes out they'd release some movies like that on BD ? BTW I found out that it only takes about a month to convert film-reels into Blurays, so i'm guessing this won't be a problem.

[Ariel'sprince]

Beauty And The Beast? I hope they"ll release that on DVD too,if they"ll release it on DVD I"ll definitely but it.
Wait...
2005-Cinderella.
2006-Ariel.
2007-Giselle.
2008-Aurora.
2009-Tiana.
2010-Rapunzel.
2011-Belle?.

[Fflewduur]

I think there must be some kind of mistake, Fantasia 2000 can't be a platinum release, otherwise we'd expect 3 PE's each year from 2010.

I suspect Fantasia 2000 is getting the de facto Platinum treatment because it's not as popular as the original film and will sell better alongside or packaged with Fantasia than it would if released separately on a different timetable.

Besides, Fantasia 2000 is not a sequel in the traditional sense. If the original film had been a box office success we'd likely have seen it regularly re-released in rotating repertory with new sequences appearing in each new release---which was the original concept. If that were the case, Fantasia 2000 would only be the latest of a half-dozen subsequent iterations of the film, and the first BD release would simply be titled "Fantasia," including every segment ever released (and seamlessly branched so that the viewer might create a favorite individual cut of the film). If only...

[Ariel'sprince]

Zac Efron: Yes master. * filming crew puts him back in his cage until HSM 3 is released*

.
That was really funny,and that was the best part .
I thought he"ll be out only when he and Raven will make a Wish Upon A Star clip for the Pinocchio PE? (And then Miley will make a Something's There clip for Beauty And The Beast PE and Jonas Brothers will sing High Ho in the Snow White PE).

[The Little Merboy]

UGH! WTF, when is The Little Mermaid getting released on Blu-Ray

[Ariel'sprince]

With the next release of The Little Mermaid,the Platinum Edition came last year.
Beauty And The Beast will be a new release .

[jrboy]

Title, Playback & Disc

Bridge to Terabithia - Region Free (50GB)
Camp Rock - Region Locked (50GB)
Cars - Region Free (50GB)
Chicken Little - Region Free (50GB)
Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch & Wardrobe - Region Free (50GB)
College Road Trip - Region Locked (50GB)
Dinosaur - Region Locked (50GB)
Eight Below - Region locked (25GB)
Enchanted - Region Locked (50GB)
The Game Plan - Region Locked (50GB)
Glory Road - Region locked (25GB)
Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds - Region Locked (50GB)
The Haunted Mansion - Region Locked (25GB)
High School Musical 2 - Region Locked (50GB)
Invincible - Region Locked (50GB)
Meet the Robinsons - Region Locked (50GB)
National Treasure - Region Free (50GB)
National Treasure 2 - Region Free (50GB)
The Nightmare Before Christmas - Region Locked (50GB)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Region Free (50GB)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Region Free (50GB)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Region Locked (50GB)
Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy Boxset ^ See Above
Pixar Short Films Collection Vol. 1 - Region Free (50GB)
Ratatouille - Region Locked (50GB)
Remember the Titans - Region Free (50GB)
The Rookie - Region Free (50GB)
Roving Mars - Region locked (25GB)
Santa Claus 3 - Region Locked (50GB)
Sky High - Region locked (25GB)
Sleeping Beauty (50GB)
Tinker Bell (50GB)
Underdog - Region locked (25GB)
The Wild - Region locked (25GB)

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Annapolis - Region locked (25GB)
Apocalypto - Region Free (50GB)
Bad Santa - Region Locked (50GB)
Becoming Jane - Region Locked (50GB)
The Brothers Grimm - Region locked (25GB)
Casanova - Region Locked (50GB)
Chicago - Region Locked (50GB)
Con Air - Region Free (50GB)
Coyote Ugly - Region Free (50GB)
Crimson Tide - Region Free (50GB)
Dan In Real Life - Region Locked (50GB)
Dark Water - Region locked (25GB)
Deja Vu - Region Locked (50GB)
Enemy of the State - Region Locked (50GB)
Finding Neverland - Region Free (50GB)
Flightplan - Region Locked (50GB)
G.I. Jane - Region Free (50GB)
Gangs of New York - Region Free (50GB)
Goal! The Dream Begins - Region locked (25GB)
Gone Baby Gone - Region Locked (50GB)
Gone In 60 Seconds - Region locked (25GB)
The Great Raid - Region locked (25GB)
Grey's Anatomy S4 - Region Locked (50GB)
The Guardian - Region Locked (50GB)
Hidalgo - Region Free (50GB)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Region Free (50GB)
The Invisible - Region Locked (50GB)
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back - Region locked (25GB)
Kill Bill vol. 1 - Region Free (50GB)
Kill Bill vol. 2 - Region Free (50GB)
King Arthur - Region Locked (50GB)
Ladder 49 - Region Free (50GB)
The Lookout - Region Locked (50GB)
Lost S3 - Region Locked (50GB)
Lost S4 - Region Locked (50GB)
Nixon - Region Free (50GB)
No Country For Old Men - Region Free (50GB)
Pearl Harbor - Region Free (50GB)
The Prestige - Region Locked (50GB)
Primeval - Region Locked (25GB)
The Queen - Region Locked (25GB)
The Recruit - Region Locked (50GB)
Reign of Fire- Region Free (25GB)
The Rock - Region Free (50GB)
Scary Movie - Region Locked (25GB)
Shall We Dance? - Region Free (50GB)
Signs - Region Free (50GB)
The Sixth Sense
Smart People - Region Locked (50GB)
Step Up 2 the Streets - Region Locked (50GB)
Unbreakable - Region Free (50GB)
Wild Hogs - Region Locked (50GB)

[Will Barks]

I made corrections:

The Nightmare Before Christmas is region locked
Camp Rock is region locked

This is my reliable source:
http://bluray.liesinc.net/

[jrboy]

I made corrections:

The Nightmare Before Christmas is region locked
Camp Rock is region locked

This is my reliable source:
http://bluray.liesinc.net/

Thanks, I wasn't sure about Camp Rock, and I was looking right at Nightmare Before Christmas

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.ph ... gioncoding

[jrboy]

I hope we get sister act soon