The Little Mermaid: Diamond Edition - Fall 2013

[Atlantica]

On which home releases do you think Mermaid trailer will be featuring, other than Peter ?

[Vlad]

On which home releases do you think Mermaid trailer will be featuring, other than Peter ?

The Blu-ray releases of Mulan and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame . Both of them are part of the Disney Renaissance, which began with The Little Mermaid. But, I think it will be featured on all home video releases. It's one of the studio's most popular films, so it will be heavily advertised, much like the other Diamond Editions.

[rodis]

Anticipating this release is gonna be torture lol

I remember waiting YEARS for the PE to come, ever since they announced the line in 2000/2001... 2006 couldn't be farther. I didn't have the Limited Issue because I didn't have a DVD set until the middle of the decade.
So when the PE finally arrived, I just got back from the base, popped it in, watched it with a silly smile on my face (because I was quite pleased with the transfer), and then when I finished watching it, I felt so empty. Like all that years of anticipation ended that day.

[Atlantica]

I know exactly what you mean!! Like all the YEARS of hype and excitement....over. Does feel very flattening.

[DisneyJedi]

Did any of you guys see the petitions I posted? Please share them with everyone you know.

[Vlad]

Did any of you guys see the petitions I posted? Please share them with everyone you know.

Yeah, I did, and I signed both of them. I also shared them on a group on Facebook. I'm very disapointed Disney has cancelled The Little Mermaid in 3D! I saw it in the theater, during its theatrical re-release in 1997, and I have funny memories regarding it. But I would like to see it again.

[DisneyJedi]

Did any of you guys see the petitions I posted? Please share them with everyone you know.

Yeah, I did, and I signed both of them. I also shared them on a group on Facebook. I'm very disapointed Disney has cancelled The Little Mermaid in 3D! I saw it in the theater, during its theatrical re-release in 1997, and I have funny memories regarding it. But I would like to see it again.

Good, but we're going to need a LOT of signatures. Everyone, share the petitions with everyone. Send them out to everyone, share them on Facebook, tweet them, ANYTHING!!

[DylanCharles90]

Yeah, I did, and I signed both of them. I also shared them on a group on Facebook. I'm very disapointed Disney has cancelled The Little Mermaid in 3D! I saw it in the theater, during its theatrical re-release in 1997, and I have funny memories regarding it. But I would like to see it again.

Good, but we're going to need a LOT of signatures. Everyone, share the petitions with everyone. Send them out to everyone, share them on Facebook, tweet them, ANYTHING!!

i shared it on FB and got some sigs from fam/friends.....which brings us to a grand total of 15.....haha in order to really make a change, we would need something in the thousands i'm assuming.... lol

[Disney's Divinity]

Are we talking about the same thing here? I'm talking about the stylized storybooks in the vein of Little Golden Book and not about generic storybooks or coloring books.

I was thinking of this (which has Little Golden Book written at the top):

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The examples you gave are stylized, but if I were to see them in a store, I would still think cheap. With 3D films, it's necessary since they can't make good 3D books that easy, I guess, but for 2D films it does come across cheap that they can't just make the characters look the way they do in the film.

And I still don't get the comparison to concept art. One is made while a film is in process, the other is made as a product for a finished film.

[Sotiris]

The examples you gave are stylized, but if I were to see them in a store, I would still think cheap.

Why? Because they employ a more simplistic style than the more detailed Disney 'classic' one? I think that's an old-fashioned perception of art. Following the same reasoning, Mary Blair's art would also be considered "cheap".

It's completely valid and acceptable to have a preference for one over the other - I do too - but that has to do with one's personal taste in art.

It does come across cheap that they can't just make the characters look the way they do in the film.

But they do produce plenty of storybooks that replicate the same style and design of that of the film's (and that's where things get off-model quite often). They just also make some more stylized ones for variety and, I suppose, because there is some market demand for them.

And I still don't get the comparison to concept art. One is made while a film is in process, the other is made as a product for a finished film.

Yes, that's true. But when it's by the same artist, in the same style, and even gets made concurrently sometimes, well, the boundaries get a little blurred.

[disneyboy20022]

On which home releases do you think Mermaid trailer will be featuring, other than Peter ?

The Blu-ray releases of Mulan and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame . Both of them are part of the Disney Renaissance, which began with The Little Mermaid. But, I think it will be featured on all home video releases.

Also Brother Bear and possibly Roger Rabbit as well

[SWillie!]

I was thinking of this (which has Little Golden Book written at the top):

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5 ... SS500_.jpg

This Little Mermaid little golden book is exactly what I've been talking about the whole time - how this is NOT what a little golden book should be, because it is simply replicating the look of the film, and will often be "off model". That's why I brought up that I wish it got the stylized treatment that other little goldens have gotten, like those that Sotiris posted.

The examples you gave are stylized, but if I were to see them in a store, I would still think cheap. With 3D films, it's necessary since they can't make good 3D books that easy, I guess, but for 2D films it does come across cheap that they can't just make the characters look the way they do in the film.

To echo Sotiris here, do you think Mary Blair's work or other visdev artists work is "cheap"? That's the connection I was making between the two, which you say you aren't seeing. Since many of the little golden books (not those like the Mermaid one) are illustrated by actual visdev artists, they are often in the same style as a lot of the concept art for the film. Some examples:

The Princess and the Frog Little Golden Book, illustrated by Lorelay Bove. Here's an example page from the book:
<img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2682/4439 ... 78d8a7.jpg" width="300">

And here's an example of the VisDev art she did on the film:
<img src="http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b214/ ... FBove2.png" width="300">

Or the Tangled Little Golden Book, illustrated by Victoria Ying:
<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcpmk ... o1_500.jpg" width="300">

and some VisDev Victoria did on Tangled:
<img src="http://onceuponasketch.com/wp-content/u ... odt002.jpg" width="300">

I think to describe the books as cheap, you'd have to also describe the concept art as cheap, which I certainly don't think is true.

[Disney's Divinity]

Why? Because they employ a more simplistic style than the more detailed Disney 'classic' one? I think that's an old-fashioned perception of art. Following the same reasoning, Mary Blair's art would also be considered "cheap".

Probably because I don't expect to find anything of quality in a supermarket. But I get your point.

[The Little Merboy]

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p ... tcount=347

I can hear the Angels' chorus.

[Atlantica]

I thought we all knew it would be a 3D home release, but scrapped for cinema ? That's the more important thing for me ....

[rodis]

Yeah, I'm not that keen on the 3D conversion either... But watching it on the big screen again, you bet! Last I saw it in the theatres was in 1990, time to relive the experience...

[Sotiris]

I can hear the Angels' chorus.

That's great news! Thanks for letting us know.

[The Little Merboy]

I thought we all knew it would be a 3D home release, but scrapped for cinema ? That's the more important thing for me ....

It wasn't sure if the 3D Blu was going to be scrapped as well. Atleast we're getting one of the releases

[Atlantica]

I'm sorry, I know some people like the 3D home releases, but I just want a theatrical one.

Tis poop.

[DisneyJedi]

That's why I made the petitions. To make Disney realize they're making a mistake.