If you paid big bucks for a few of them, it sounds like YOU'RE the one who woke up from a cave!Mainly because I payed big bucks for a few of them and I don't want to see someone who just woke up from a cave to get them for very little.
Do you like the Treasures? I know I do -and I think that now taht awareness increases with each progressive wave, demand for the earlier releases being satisfied will in turn create demand for further waves.Because it says "limited edition", and it means nothing to collectors unless it's truely a rare item. I have spent years collecting limited release laserdiscs, such as the first "limited edition" gold collection:goofyestes wrote:just curious, could some of you casting no say why you don't want them reissued?
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First of all, every Disney video is limited. That has been Disney's marketing plan all along. That way they are all collectable. Everything eventually goes out of print. People will always want to complete their collection of Masterpiece, Classics, Platinum, Gold, Black Diamond, original orange and yellow striped stuff, etc. That is how Disney makes money. I have no doubt that the individual cartoons and features will appear on future releases, and in HD-DVD, but they won't be exactly the same. Can you think of ANY collection of cartoon shorts that has been re-released years later? I doubt certain things will ever be released again, such as Victory Through Air Power and the rest of the war shorts. The individual cartoons have a better chance of appearing on later releases than entire collections.Tolhurst wrote:I say rerelease them. I bought them for content, not for showing off the cases. If you kids want to get selfish about them, then fine, but it's not YOUR disney. It's not like the shorts aren't going to be rereleased multible times over the next 30 years anyways. I can understand the notion that I paid alot, but the truth is the most I paid has been 25 for any of them and would hardly feel 'ripped off' if they were reissued. When the HD-DVD versions come out, the tin versions will be worth around what people are paying for the VHS collections.
I'm not elitist, I would love for Disney's entire collection to be made permanently available to everyone. But if you look at the history of how Disney has released their material, they never release the same collection of shorts more than once. As a collector, I like finding old rare Disney items. Like it or not, this seems to be exactly how Disney wants to release their stuff, by catering to collectors. They create a demand by making it available for a limited time, then it's unavailable for years. I'm sure they sell more this way than by keeping it in constant circulation. This is the first time EVER that Victory Through Air Power has been released, so it's impossible to say if it will be released again. But, given Disney's history, I would bet it would be a very long time before it's released again, at least.Tolhurst wrote:I expect everything to get an rerelease anyhow, I don't expect the collections to be released as is, probably piecemeal style as before. I understand it might be disconcering to one with an elitist attitude about owning reproductions of other people's work and having their collection of copies become 'obsolete' , but to infer that reasoning to disallow another to enjoy art or entertainment is utterly criminal in my opinion.
I never even thought about it. But I have bought every release. I like seeing the original unrestored print, then the THX remaster, and now the new Japanese remaster which blows away the U.S. THX print, and includes some "I'm No Fool" Jiminy shorts. They claimed that Fantasia was the last time the original would be released, then they released the roadshow edition, so technically they didn't lie (even though it is still censored).Tolhurst wrote:Were you upset when Pinnochio was reissued in 1999 when the promos for it's reissue in 1992 clearly stated "available for the last time this century"
