Bonus Material on Disney Blu-Rays

[Guitarman]

Here’s an interesting article I came across abut Disney skimping on bonus materials for their Blu-Rays. I’ve been wondering about this, since the Blu-Rays for “Tangled”, “Frozen” and “Saving Mr. Banks” didn’t have anywhere near the amount of bonus material I would think films of their stature would warrant (and none of the Diamond Editions after “Beauty and the Beast” had anywhere near as much new material as “Snow White” and “Beauty and the Beast” did). Anyway, like the article says, I hope Disney starts putting more effort into making their Blu-Rays more deluxe in the future.

https://mickeymindset.wordpress.com/201 ... -features/

[Escapay]

One of the main reasons that Disney (and other studios) has been skimping on bonus features is because they simply do not want to budget for them anymore. Thus, we simply get a recycling of existing features, or they get dropped entirely.

It's truly a pity, because quality content can still be made. In the days of LaserDisc and DVD, supplemental documentaries and features were often contracted to companies and producers that specialized in them. For example, Criterion Collection has a disc producer for every title they handle, someone who oversees the production or licencing of commentaries, interviews, documentaries, etc. that get included on their releases. They continue this to this day, it's very much always been an in-house operation. Karen Stetler is one of the better known ones these days. She produced the amazing set for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World that was released last year.

At Disney throughout the 90s, most every deluxe LaserDisc set was produced by Jeff Kurtti and Michael Pellerin, who also handled much of the Platinums early on in the run. Les Perkins would oversee production of some of their live-action material, too, but now, most of their supplements are simply produced in-house by Disney themselves rather than contracting to the companies (Kurtti-Pellerin, Les is More, etc.) that worked for them before. This has led (if I remember correctly) to the absence of previously-existing features on newer releases because Disney either didn't want to re-licence the material (they may own the films, but sometimes, they may not own the supplements produced for them), or they felt they could just make their own instead. As a result, the expansive LaserDisc for The Hunchback of Notre Dame gets pared down to the bare minimum on DVD, and wasn't even expanded upon on Blu-Ray.

When you look back at other studios, you'll notice a commonality among the bonus features. For example, Universal's "Signature Collection" LaserDiscs and "Collector's Edition" DVDs often featured long documentaries by Laurent Bouzereau or J.M. Kenney. 20th Century Fox often partnered with producer Kevin Burns for documentaries that were made for A&E and AMC, some which would later see use in DVDs. And Warner Bros. would pretty much invent the traditional "Two-Disc Special Edition" that the 2000s were known for thanks to George Feltenstein, who simply continued what he had done at MGM/UA Home Entertainment the decade before. Feltenstein would often hire Peter Fitzgerald, Gary Leva, or Constantine Nasr to make documentaries for the Warner library, which continues to this day (at least with Leva and Nasr, I haven't seen Fitzgerald's name connected to a bonus documentary in some time).

Some directors even entrust their "making-of" material to a specific producer. Nearly all of Ridley Scott's films get extensive coverage, documentaries, and supplements by Charles de Lauzirika. Spielberg has been using Laurent Bouzereau for his making-of documentaries since 1996. Peter Jackson hired Costa Botes to document the making of his Lord of the Rings trilogy, but eventually entrusted the production of the home media supplements to Michael Pellerin. (There's a whole story behind that, too, but is too long to recount here.)

Before the advent of DVD, bonus features really appealed more to the cinephile rather than the general consumer. Thus, we'd get really intensive stuff like the cast-and-crew commentary for The Silence of the Lambs by Criterion, or a warts-and-all honest documentary that looks at the misfortunes of making Cleopatra by Fox. In addition, it allowed disc producers to turn the spotlight behind the camera, allowing key members of the crew to better explain what they do to a viewer. One such example would be the editing documentary The Cutting Edge, which was included on the Bullitt DVD along with a career profile of star Steve McQueen. Or, to use a Disney example, their Chronicles of Narnia DVD and Blu-Ray sets included featurettes spotlighting various members of the effects, wardrobe, make-up, etc. crews.

Unfortunately, as informative and enjoyable as supplements are, they ultimately end up having a limited appeal for the general consumer. The general consumer, someone who just wants to watch a movie and may want a quick look at how it's made, will not sit down for a 90-minute documentary about Disney and World War II, but they'll be perfectly content with a light-hearted 10-minute puff piece about how everyone had so much fun working together on Prom. Thus, once DVD (and later Blu-Ray) became mainstream, Disney (and other studios) have dumbed down supplements to appeal to the general consumer rather than to those interested in filmmaking.

It's an unfortunate sign of the times, as films that some may say "deserve" a full Special Edition treatment won't get it due to the fact that most studios simply aren't interested in making them anymore, or that they simply can't afford to budget them. They still want to make a profit on a property. As sad as it sounds, it's cheaper and more profitable for them to release the film with some bonus features and have it sell a million units than to release the film with a lot of bonus features and sell the same amount of units. Jane Soccermom won't care if Frozen has an hourlong documentary about the making of the film, she's just content that her kids have the movie to watch over and over again.

The ultimate irony of this is that for much of the 90s and early 2000s, when Disney released a deluxe set, they delivered the goods. Isolated Music & Effects tracks, extensive galleries and text essays, behind-the-scenes footage and animation, informative documentaries and/or commentaries, etc. Nowadays, they can't be bothered to even include all the supplements of a previous release on a new re-issue.

I long for the day when the bean counters at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment get fired and a new regime comes in, if only for the hope that they do a better job than the ones who's decided that Two-Movie Collections, the now-defunct Virtual Vault, the virtual absence of any new supplement that's actually noteworthy, and "Blu-Ray+DVD+DigitalCopy-But-No-More-3D-Releases-In-The-US" Combo Packs are the way they want to present their films to an audience. I'd rather they just licence their films to a studio that still cares, namely Criterion, or even Twilight Time.

Or, if they want to get back that loyal niche audience who lived for these features, create their own line on par with the "Legacy Collection" CDs that they've done. That way, the mainstream arm of WDSHE can make stupid family-friendly editions that include the film on every format for portable viewing, while The Legacy Collection branch makes specialized sets that appeal to the collector and cinephile.

Imagine, for example, a "Legacy Collection" set of Peter Pan that finally included the 1951 "Walt Disney Christmas Show" and a proper documentary that hasn't been a re-use of the LaserDisc piece from 1998. Or a no-holds-barred "The Black Cauldron: The Legacy Collection" with the theatrical version of the film on one disc, the pre-Katzenberg Pre-Release version with the deleted animation re-instated either from the Disney Vaults or re-created via storyboards/stills (similar to the longer versions of Lost Horizon and A Star Is Born), and interviews from the animators in a Waking Sleeping Beauty style documentary. Better yet, just give me "The Sword in the Stone: The Legacy Collection" with a proper restoration that doesn't look like someone smeared vaseline all over the screen.

Albert

[Marce82]

Amen, Albert! Amen!!!! From yr mouth to Disney's ears (and other studios).

I recall in the late 1990s and early 2000s, that disney would release a regular dvd (for the soccermoms), and a collector's edition of the same movie, intended for ... of course, collectors. They should just go back to that. I would gladly pay a few extra dollars for a dvd/blu ray with special features!

Actually, I havent bought neither Frozen nor Tangled cause of the lack of S.F. Not even a commentary!!

[DC Fan]

Do you remember when BD came and the huge deal was that because of the space they could give us amazing video and audio PLUS tons of extras?

How easy that didn´t last!

On DVD it stayed like that.

But things won´t change at this point. More so with Disney. As said before Disney figured out they´ll keep selling by doing nothing so while spend even a little money on Extras.

[Prince Edward]

A very interesting post to read Albert! You really have knowledge about this kind of Disney/movie stuff: )

[DisneyFan09]

As a result, the expansive LaserDisc for The Hunchback of Notre Dame gets pared down to the bare minimum on DVD, and wasn't even expanded upon on Blu-Ray.

It's understandable why you bring "Hunchback" into this (there supposedly were a two disc-edition add for it which somehow dissapeared). But the releases of "The Lion King" and especially "Pocahontas" are also worth mentioning. They had many bonus features on their Laserdisc editions and not all of them were even imported to the blu ray and dvd editions. I know that I've complained enormously on "Pocahontas" blu ray release, but I think it's fair, considering that the Laserdisc had an audio commentary and several other features that weren't imported. And trust me, it's difficult to find a good Laserdisc-player, despite the suggestions on eBay and such.

I long for the day when the bean counters at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment get fired and a new regime comes in, if only for the hope that they do a better job than the ones who's decided that Two-Movie Collections, the now-defunct Virtual Vault, the virtual absence of any new supplement that's actually noteworthy, and "Blu-Ray+DVD+DigitalCopy-But-No-More-3D-Releases-In-The-US" Combo Packs are the way they want to present their films to an audience. I'd rather they just licence their films to a studio that still cares, namely Criterion, or even Twilight Time.

Well said.

Or, if they want to get back that loyal niche audience who lived for these features, create their own line on par with the "Legacy Collection" CDs that they've done. That way, the mainstream arm of WDSHE can make stupid family-friendly editions that include the film on every format for portable viewing, while The Legacy Collection branch makes specialized sets that appeal to the collector and cinephile.

I really like the new Legacy Collection releases. Not only do they have some exclusive music segments, they also have some elaborate behind the scenes info about the films. Which is a bonus.

[disneyphilip]

Or, if they want to get back that loyal niche audience who lived for these features, create their own line on par with the "Legacy Collection" CDs that they've done. That way, the mainstream arm of WDSHE can make stupid family-friendly editions that include the film on every format for portable viewing, while The Legacy Collection branch makes specialized sets that appeal to the collector and cinephile.

I really like the new Legacy Collection releases. Not only do they have some exclusive music segments, they also have some elaborate behind the scenes info about the films. Which is a bonus.

In that case, we all MUST write them LOTS of letters and emails telling them to exactly these things.

[DisneyFan09]

In that case, we all MUST write them LOTS of letters and emails telling them to exactly these things.

I know, right? Haha.

[blackcauldron85]

I wonder how the Blu-Rays compare in sales to the previous DVD releases of the films. If 1 million were sold in the first year (I'm just making up numbers!) of release for a DVD, vs. just 75,000 for a Blu-Ray release, then it would make sense why they wouldn't spend the time and money on more bonus features. Plenty of people already own the films on DVD and are happy with that. I still haven't upgraded to Blu, and now I probably won't (unless I have to buy a Blu-Ray player when my DVD player dies), because bonus features are a huge selling point to me.

[Escapay]

I decided to look at the Disney animated catalogue releases in order to determine when bonus features began getting the shaft. Not counting titles that were new releases when Blu-Ray began (most of which have always been light, save for The Princess and the Frog), we can see that the downward shift began in late 2010 with, ironically, the Fantasia set. And by 2013, Disney doesn't even try anymore for most of the catalog releases.

2007:
Chicken Little (March) - Since it debuted as DVD only in 2006, the Blu-Ray could be considered a catalog title of sorts. The Blu-Ray adds a newly-recorded filmmakers' commentary, an interactive Q&A that amounts to roughly 45 minutes of interview footage (with the commentary team), and a new interactive game


2008:
Sleeping Beauty (October) - A variety of new features were added to effectively replace the majority of laserdisc-produced features from 1997, which were also used in 2003's DVD. In whole, they amounted to over four hours of material, including the Cine-Explore option/commentary, the kid-friendly "Princess Fun Facts" text commentary, a new 43-minute making-of documentary, several individual featurettes, an interactive Sleeping Beauty Castle tour (with accompanying featurette), various deleted materials, and the obligatory Disney Channel music video.


2009:
Pinocchio (March) - The black-bar-reducing "DisneyView" makes its debut here for finicky viewers who simply cannot stand empty space. DisneyView would pad out the running time if we were to count it as a supplement, and given that we'll see it on every Academy film afterward, I'll not include it in the general running time of everything. But Cine-Explore (a more worthwhile playback feature) also makes a return, as does the kid-friendly text commentary. Much like Sleeping Beauty, we get a new 56-minute making-of documentary, a couple new featurettes, two new interactive games, deleted materials, and another music video. All in all, nearly five hours of content (three hours for the Cine-Explore and text-commentary playback options with the film, the other two as video-based documentaries and such)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (October) - We didn't get a new commentary as expected (since Sleeping Beauty received one to replace the 2003 version); instead, the Canemaker/Disney track from 2001 was retained. However, a host of featurettes were created for the interactive "Hyperion Studios," padded out with HD presentations of Silly Symphonies cartoons. In total, we have over two hours of "Hyperion Studios" featurettes only (along with new HD galleries), plus the 8-minute "Snow White Returns" featurette, three new interactive games, and yet another Disney Channel music video.


2010:
Beauty and the Beast (October) - This is perhaps the best Blu-Ray that Disney has released. Not only have they included all three versions of the film (albeit, one in a compromised "Picture in Picture" viewing mode), but they retain all the relevant supplements from the 2002 DVD, whilst including newly-produced material that effectively replaces dropped content. Namely, we get the interactive "Beyond Beauty" documentary that runs 53 minutes on its own, but branches off to roughly 100 minutes of supplements ranging from featurettes to galleries to the intriguing Purdum Reel. In addition, the music gets spotlighted in a very special 20-minute conversational piece, while the Broadway musical gets its due in a new 13-minute featurette (the 2002 DVD discussed it for all but 3 minutes, IIRC). Jordin Sparks gives us a serviceable rendition of the title song in a new music video, and we get a few new interactive games (one of them BD-Live exclusive).

Fantasia / Fantasia 2000 (November) - And then it all goes down from here, save for a couple exceptions. Discounting the already-produced A Date with Destino documentary from 2006, one of the most prestigious films in the Disney canon gets three new featurettes amounting to a little less than a half-hour of content. Brian Sibley's new commentary does soften the blow, while the interactive gallery makes me weep. Not just for its brevity compared to the DVD version, but for the navigation that tries to be interactive but just becomes annoying. This is also the first title to introduce Virtual Vault, a method of presenting supplements without actually including it on the disc (and yet... they were on the disc), and which would be inaccessible in a few years.


2011:
Alice in Wonderland (February) - Throughout 2011, we'll see a see-saw of extras. That is, some will be bountiful, while others will be lacking. Fortunately, Alice in Wonderland was bountiful. Replacing Cine-Explore is a new playback option that takes its cue more from Warner's Maximum Movie Mode, as video interviews and constantly shifting imagery gives us a commentary/documentary entitled "Through the Keyhole." As it runs the same length as the film, that counts as 75 minutes, fortunately. Given the generous wealth of information presented there, the standalone video material is expectedly less, as we get only a few minutes of newly-discovered/never-seen archival footage (a color television introduction and two short pieces of production footage). A new interactive game is also included.

Bambi (March) - The "Inside Walt's Story Meetings" viewing option from the 2005 DVD gets an upgrade here with more interactivity, and branching off to additional featurettes. This lengthens the running time from the film's 70 minutes to 92. Other than that, all that's new are two deleted scenes, a deleted song, an interactive "Big Book of Knowledge," and in a format first, an exclusive featurette only available with the Digital Copy ("The Golden Age").

The Fox and the Hound / The Fox and the Hound 2 (August) - The second in the "Two-Movie Collection" economy packs, all that's new is a 7-minute featurette that's barely about the films in question.

Dumbo (September) - This is a special exception, as this set was originally planned for release in 2009. Internationally, it came out at its appropriate time, but didn't come stateside until its anniversary. Thus, while it was the second title to be given the Cine-Explore treatment, it ended up being the last to actually be released. It replaces the Canemaker commentary from 2001, with the usual bells-and-whistles of streaming images and live video commentary. In addition, there's the healthy amount of material for such a beloved film. A new 28-minute documentary serves as the highlight of the new supplements, while a 3-minute puff piece about the theme park attraction feels more like an extended commercial (and harbinger of things to come). A deleted scene, deleted song, and greatly expanded art gallery round out the worthwhile features. Two interactive games.

The Lion King - Gone are Cine-Explore and the Alice/Bambi one-off viewing modes. Instead, we get the wonder of Disney Second Screen, in which we have to distract ourselves from the television and hope that we're properly synced online with an iPad/tablet/laptop to get supplemental material. Beyond that, we get a new "Pride of The Lion King" documentary that does more in its 38 minutes than the original DVD's "Journey" supplements ever could. Don Hahn's "A Memoir" works well, produced in the vein of a 20-minute Lion King exclusive cut of Waking Sleeping Beauty. Eleven minutes of never-before-scene deleted scenes and a deleted song are also included. Virtual Vault nonsense will upset those who chucked their DVDs.


2012:
Lady and the Tramp (February) - Second Screen returns, but its relevance as a production-based supplement doesn't stay long past this title. An on-disc audio commentary is also included that runs best with it, so I've read. Other than that, the push towards interactive supplements comes at the cost of traditional featurettes and documentaries. All that this title gets is a Diane Disney Miller introduction (which she'll eventually do for Walt-era Diamond releases until her passing in November 2013), a 7-minute featurette with her, and more deleted scenes. Two deleted scenes are available only through iTunes.

Treasure Planet (July) - No new material was created for this budget catalog release, but sectional introductions by Laurie Metcalf finally see the light of day, hinting at the packed, two-disc DVD that we never got for the film after it flopped at the box-office.

Home on the Range (July) - no new material produced.

The Aristocats (August) - a 9-minute "Lost Open" is included, while a digital album features "Lost Chords." Why they weren't included on the disc with storyboards, I'll never know. A brief music video also gets included.

The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under (August) - Like The Aristocats, a digital album of "Lost Chords" was created, although only one song ("Peoplitis") gets the on-disc treatment. A 10-minute making-of featurette for the latter film sees its debut in R1, it had previously been created in the early 2000s for international release.

Pocahontas / Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (August) - Eric Goldberg hosts "Drawing Inspiration: The Lost Story of Hiawatha," an excellent 12-minute piece. He also introduces "If I Never Knew You," unceremoniously left as a supplement rather than as a seamless-branching viewing option. Some of the laserdisc/DVD supplements are on-disc, the majority of supplements are otherwise locked in the Virtual Vault. Others have been dropped. This set really made me hate Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, as they treated it shabbily without any respect to the filmmakers or the audience who's grown to love the film despite its faults. I sent a strongly-worded letter to them upon its release and received a response that fortunately was not form-letter. if they ever get around to re-issuing these second-tier titles, I sincerely hope they improve upon the atrocity of this release.

Cinderella (October) - For anyone with Second Screen capability, you get a personalized storybook! This is exactly how I want to watch this film! It'll be just as fun as Jackie Gleason's "You're In The Picture"! Sarcasm aside, Diane Disney Miller gives us a perfunctory introduction, Mary Alice "Real Fairy Godmother" O'Connor gets a deserving spotlight for 12 minutes, Ginnifer Goodwin schmoozes with Imagineers in an 8-minute commercial, and Christian Louboutin stars in a 10-minute short film that was made not as a supplement for this title, but to promote his shoes. Its inclusion is fine, but seems to have come at the expense of an advertised-in-the-press-materials featurette about the history of Cinderella Castle. We also get an alternate opening that runs a little over a minute.

The Great Mouse Detective (October) - no new material produced.


2013:
Peter Pan (February) - Diane Disney Miller introduces us once more to the wonderful world of Never Land. Also included, but not specific to Peter Pan is the excellent 41-minute documentary Growing Up with Nine Old Men by Ted Thomas, son of animator Frank Thomas and director of 1995's Frank and Ollie and 2009's Walt and El Grupo. Were Growing Up with Nine Old Men not included, this would represent the lightest "Diamond Edition" to date. Film-specific material is limited to an alternate opening and ending, plus two song demos that previously saw inclusion on a re-issued soundtrack CD but never on home media until now.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame / The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 (March) - no new material produced.

Mulan / Mulan II (March) - no new material produced.

Brother Bear / Brother Bear 2 (March) - no new material produced.

The Emperor's New Groove / Kronk's New Groove (June) - no new material produced. And aside from the DVD copies, none of the extras are included. The Sweatbox by Sting's wife is still a famous no-show, though a leaked workprint version surfaced online a couple years earlier.

Lilo & Stitch / Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (June) - no new material produced. Again, aside from the DVD copies, none of the extras are included.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire / Atlantis: Milo's Return (June) - no new material produced.

The Sword in the Stone (August) - The film famously gets scrubbed beyond recognition; TonyWDA called it The Smear in the Stone. We get a 4-minute alternate opening.

Robin Hood (August) - We get 7-minute "Love Letters" sequence, more than I ever thought. A few years before this release, Huston Huddleston (son of songwriter Floyd Huddleston) uploaded alternate versions of "The Phony King of England" and "Love" to YouTube and hinted that it and more material would see release on the Blu-Ray. Unfortunately, it did not come to pass.

Oliver & Company (August) - no new material produced.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (August) - Disney Intermission allows for the "Pause" button to get some action, although it amounts to little more than 10 minutes of fluffy games. A "Play-Along" that lasts less than 2 minutes is also included, as are 12 minutes of "Mini Adventures" that scale down scenes from other Pooh movies into bite-size "Have a Laugh" style shorts.

The Little Mermaid (October) - Truth be told, I never thought I'd welcome the return of a music video, the first new one since The Aristocats. Carly Rae Jepsen sings "Part of Your World" with varying degrees of success depending on who you're talking to. The first (and longest) in a series of three "@DisneyAnimation" featurettes sees inclusion. A 13-minute piece about Live-Action gives that particular aspect of animation filmmaking its due, while a deleted piece about character named Harold runs only 2 minutes. More valuable is a carryover from the Waking Sleeping Beauty documentary, the 12-minute "Howard's Lecture," now preceded by a 4-minute introduction of sorts. This would have been the perfect title to include Waking Sleeping Beauty in HD. Instead, Jodi Benson takes her kids to New Fantasyland for five minutes.


2014:
The Jungle Book (February) - Diane Disney Miller gives her last introduction in this posthumous inclusion. Richard M. Sherman also shares his thoughts for 30 seconds. The two are later joined by Floyd Norman for a ten minute chat. An alternate ending runs almost 9 minutes. The forgettable @DisneyAnimation returns, while two Disney Channel kids give us a twenty-minute, patience-testing commercial for Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Hercules (August) - no new material produced.

Tarzan (August) - no new material produced.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad / Fun and Fancy Free / The Reluctant Dragon (August) - no new material produced.

Sleeping Beauty (October) - Synergy is alive and well as Sarah Hyland of "Modern Family" watches the Festival of Fantasy Parade. Ten minutes follow of praise for Disney Villains, as does the final, and shortest, @DisneyAnimation piece. Three deleted scenes run 13 minutes.


2015:
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (February) - Special Projects makes a fitting 2-minute conclusion to the Thunderbolt episode we see in the film. "Lucky Dogs" spends 9 minutes condensing what we already knew in 2008's "Redefining the Line" with a few nuggets of new material. Cameron Boyce has the unfortunate task of pandering to his demographic with "Dalmatians 101," a 5-minute embarrassment that assumes the viewer knows nothing about how animation was done before CGI. Padding out the set is the 51-minute "The Best Doggoned Dog in the World," a "Walt Disney Presents" episode originally made in 1957 to promote Old Yeller, with that film's segment in the piece replaced by Walt narrating about One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

While we don't have any official confirmation of 2015 titles beyond Aladdin (which I expect will continue the Diamond Edition trend of only one or two featurettes, a theme park piece, and newly-discovered deleted material), all that's left for Disney to release is Saludos, Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Melody Time, The Black Cauldron, and the Diamond Edition re-issue of Pinocchio (word to the wise, hold on to the 2009 disc if you have it). And from those titles, all that I can see them including that would count as "new" is Walt and El Grupo with the Latin American films.

Also, for what it's worth, the exclusion of a 3D Blu-Ray release for Frozen last year prompted several mediaphiles to write to WDSHE asking if it would ever be released stateside. Over at Home Theater Forum, someone actually received a response, in which a lackey at WDSHE said that a Special Edition of the film (with new bonus content and the 3D version) would see release later in the year. Instead, we just got the Sing-Along Edition, which featured the sing-along edition of the film and a short featurette that was originally intended for inclusion on the first Blu-Ray/DVD, but held off until this second one... on DVD. Content for a "Frozen: Special Edition" exists, as evident by the Target-exclusive DVD which had a "Voices of Frozen" featurette (a feature that easily could be seen as a chapter in a multi-part documentary), two more deleted scenes, and a gallery. And ABC News produced a making-of television special that aired in September last year, which likely could see inclusion as well. But really, the lack of a Special Edition re-release for Disney's most successful film since The Lion King shows just how much WDSHE disregards its cinephile audience.

Tis a sad day.

Albert