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atlanticaunderthesea wrote:I can't read it, but they certainly rate it well !

I used Google Translate LOL it basically says the picture can sometimes look a little soft and fuzzy and the colors not so vibrant, but overall it's very good.

I thought we were over that softness thing from the PE but I guess I was wrong.

Oh really ? That's a shame, as the stills and trailer looked amazing.

rodis wrote:

atlanticaunderthesea wrote:I can't read it, but they certainly rate it well !

I used Google Translate LOL it basically says the picture can sometimes look a little soft and fuzzy and the colors not so vibrant, but overall it's very good.

I thought we were over that softness thing from the PE but I guess I was wrong.

Some softness is to be expected in a film. It's not a CAPS production.

Just a shame the extras seem pretty average then I guess.

How so? We get almost all of the PE extras (except for picture galleries), plus about 50 minutes of new content. In addition to the DVD extras that are ~3h of content, not counting the audio commentary.

Can anyone post screencaps from previous releases for comparison please?

atlanticaunderthesea wrote:Just a shame the extras seem pretty average then I guess.

Is it possible that the German release doesn't include extras that the U.S. one does?

Sure, if Disney Intermission is a bonus feature to you.

And can someone please finally tell me what's so disappointing about the extras? We have known for months what will be included on the Diamond Edition and it's exactly what we are getting now:

New Bonus Features
Only on the US release
Classic DVD Feature, included in High Definition

-Disney Intermission
-New Music Video "Part of Your World" by Carly Rae Jepsen (~4 min)
-@Disneyanimation (~11 min)
-Deleted Character: Harold the Merman (~2 min)
-The Real Little Mermaid: Live Action Reference Model (~13 min)
-Howard's Lecture (~16 min)
-Part of Her World: Jodi Benson’s Voyage To New Fantasyland (~5 min)
-Classic DVD Bonus Features:
--7 Deleted Scenes (~27 min)
--Treasures Untold: The Making of the Little Mermaid (~46 min)
--Storm Warning: The Little Mermaid Special Effects Unit (~9 min)
--The Story Behind the Story (~11 min)
--The Little Match Girl (~7 min)
--Early Presentation Reel (~3 min)
--Original Theatrical Trailer (~2 min)
--Music Video "Kiss the Girl" by Ashley Tisdale (~3 min)
--DisneyPedia: Life Under the Sea (~8 min)
--Behind The Ride That Almost Was with Disney Imagineers (~6 min)
--Ride the Attraction (~4 min)
--Platinum Edition Easter Eggs (previously US-exclusive)
---John Musker and Ron Clements doing caricatures of one another (~1 min)
---Comments from the animators Ruben Aquino, Glen Keane and Mark Henn (~2 min)
---Musker and Clements demonstrating "The Little Mermaid handshake" (~1 min)

The Little Mermaid was the one that started it all again for Disney back then.

Not only that. But to make an underwater movie in 89 had to be quite the challenge. As such I expected a lot of extras for the PE. Like the 2 hour plus backstage interview that was done with Aladdin. And wasn´t the case.

Let´s hope they finally do something worthy here.

DC Fan wrote:The Little Mermaid was the one that started it all again for Disney back then.

Not only that. But to make an underwater movie in 89 had to be quite the challenge.

Are you serious? I really LOVE TLM but technically as well as visually I was more impressed by the underwater sequence in Pinocchio, which is about 50 years older.

As such I expected a lot of extras for the PE. Like the 2 hour plus backstage interview that was done with Aladdin. And wasn´t the case.

Let´s hope they finally do something worthy here.

I can understand that, but when the PE of TLM was released, Disney was already cheap in regards of bonus features. On Blu-ray with the Diamond Edition line it is even worse. It shouldn't be a surprise really, that Disney won't include much new stuff, when they only released two DE-titles with impressive bonus content so far and the last one in 2010.

What are these letters next to the dates?

22. Aug. '13 (CH) 5. Sep. '13 (D)

Acronyms for Germany (D = Deutschland) and Switzerland (CH = Schweiz/ Suisse). Swiss Disney release dates are (in the German-speaking part of the country) always two weeks earlier than the German releases.

So the Bluray is being released in Schweiz in August 22nd already? Awesome!

I saw the trailer for the Diamond Edition included on Oz: the Great and Powerful. It was a bit sloppy with the way they kept skipping back to the beginning of the score repeatedly, but I did love the last bit of the trailer, where they have Ursula laughing at the start of the latter half of Ariel singing “Part of Your World (reprise).” If they had included Triton’s line, “He’s a human, you’re a mermaid!” with Ursula laughing and the song, it would’ve been perfect. I found myself rewinding that part a couple times.

Scamander wrote:

DC Fan wrote:The Little Mermaid was the one that started it all again for Disney back then.

Not only that. But to make an underwater movie in 89 had to be quite the challenge.

Are you serious? I really LOVE TLM but technically as well as visually I was more impressed by the underwater sequence in Pinocchio, which is about 50 years older.

As such I expected a lot of extras for the PE. Like the 2 hour plus backstage interview that was done with Aladdin. And wasn´t the case.

Let´s hope they finally do something worthy here.

I can understand that, but when the PE of TLM was released, Disney was already cheap in regards of bonus features. On Blu-ray with the Diamond Edition line it is even worse. It shouldn't be a surprise really, that Disney won't include much new stuff, when they only released two DE-titles with impressive bonus content so far and the last one in 2010.

Pinocchio had just that one scene. The Little Mermaid spent most of the time underwater. So many characters. The way the hair moved under the sea. The bubbles that appeared behind every single movement. Having to animate each tentacle on Ursula...

Don´t know how can´t you see this as impressive.

BTW, just watched the making of the movie. So sad and annoying they didn´t cover anything. It was like an overview of the movie. They didn´t get in detail how it was done much less the process.

I will still have hope for the BR but I guess you´re right about Disney´s lack of care in that regard.

A look at the Target Exclusive Version



http://www.target.com/p/the-little-merm ... le+mermaid

And the exclusives start to roll out.......


Am I the only one who's actually kind of interested in most of the new bonuses? I may have been somewhat disappointed with the PE, but looking back, that was pretty impressive and relatively comprehensive. My inly complaint is no tests or deleted stuff outside the songs. Edit: forgot there was.

Which actually makes me disappointed that Harold only gets 2 minutes.

I haven't actually heard it myself, but over on stitchkingdom's twitter, they are absolutely ripping into Carly Rae's cover of POYW absolutely everyone seems to be in agreement with him too, which must say a lot !

It had better not be tacked over the credits...

atlanticaunderthesea wrote:I haven't actually heard it myself, but over on stitchkingdom's twitter, they are absolutely ripping into Carly Rae's cover of POYW absolutely everyone seems to be in agreement with him too, which must say a lot !

It had better not be tacked over the credits...

There's no reason to think they would do that. They've never replaced credit songs before have they?

Yes indeed they have; with the 1997 rerelease, Peter Andre was tacked over the end credits singing 'Kiss The Girl'. Horribly.

It was then removed on the 2006 Platinum Edition.