awallaceunc wrote:What about the upcoming Mulan SE? If it follows suit w/ SB, then won't it go OOP in February 2005?
Doubt it, for a couple reasons.
1) There doesn't seem to be a set pattern that Disney strictly adhears to. I think that had Sleeping Beauty not been added to the Platinum roster, the SE would probably have stayed on the market a lot longer. But this way they wanted to get it out and then yank it back in quickly so that all the copies would be scarce by the time they get around to reissuing it.
2) Mulan II was slated for September, which I think will be pushed back to allow for the original to come back first. In that case, I'm sure they'll want the original still available when the sequels come out, so as to get more people to buy their rubbish cheapquels. It's the same thing with Lion King, though those cheapquels aren't rubbish. Can't you just picture it now?
"Oh, hey, loook! Mulan is available again! Let's get it, we missed it last time! Hey, look, there are the two sequels on the shelf right next to it! We may as well get them too and have the whole set!"
So I'm not really sure when they'll drop Mulan back into the vault. Besides, it comes back the last week of October whereas Sleeping Beauty was the second week of September, giving Sleeping Beauty a little more time in print, so I don't really think they're comparable in that sense, since either way Disney will be discontinuing The Lion King trilogy and whatever else on January 31st. Also, a more modern movie like Mulan will probably sell more units than Sleeping Beauty would simply because of the age factor, so they might want to keep it out longer. And, really, Mulan was in print on DVD from October 1999 through January 2002, not counting the brief time between the discontinuing of the Limited Issue and the arrivial of the Gold Collection repackaging of that version, sowe won't know how long they want to keep it out this time.
So it's kind of a wildcard, but I could see it sticking around for a while. As far as Alice goes, it's not one of their most popular titles, so it's been in print ever since its first introduction on VHS and I don't think that's likely to change anytime soon, even though they did say the new DVD was a limited time only thing.
Davis DVD just copied our news story from Monday. What are you talking about?!
