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bruno_wbt wrote:how many dvd's sold the other Platinum editions?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (October 2001) - "More than 1 million units on its first day":
http://www.dvdinformation.com/News/press/102401.html

The Lion King (October 2003) - "3 million units in first 2 days":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/news
"more than 2 million in first day":
http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=1818

Bambi's 1st day (March 2005) - "Nearly 1 million units":
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... _n11838430

Cinderella's 1st day (October 2005) - "More than 1 million units" ("More than 3 million units" the first week):
http://www.animationmagazine.net/articl ... le_id=4587

Lady and the Tramp's (February 2006) - 1st day "about 1 million units":
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6312352.html

Looks like The Little Mermaid will easily come in behind The Lion King then for 2nd best selling PE!

Wow! Thanks for the numbers, Luke... So it seems like Mermaid is indeed going to trail only behind TLK in terms of sales. I guess the fact that it was once available on a DVD format doesn't really matter. A new generation of kids has come since 1999 and people who *did* buy it were probably disappointed with its barebone nature and louzy transfer. Judging by these numbers, I guess its first week sales are going to be well above 3.5 million.

Luke wrote:

bruno_wbt wrote:how many dvd's sold the other Platinum editions?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (October 2001) - "More than 1 million units on its first day":
http://www.dvdinformation.com/News/press/102401.html

The Lion King (October 2003) - "3 million units in first 2 days":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/news
"more than 2 million in first day":
http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=1818

Bambi's 1st day (March 2005) - "Nearly 1 million units":
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... _n11838430

Cinderella's 1st day (October 2005) - "More than 1 million units" ("More than 3 million units" the first week):
http://www.animationmagazine.net/articl ... le_id=4587

Lady and the Tramp's (February 2006) - 1st day "about 1 million units":
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6312352.html

How 'bout Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin?

Luke wrote:

bruno_wbt wrote:how many dvd's sold the other Platinum editions?

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (October 2001) - "More than 1 million units on its first day":
http://www.dvdinformation.com/News/press/102401.html

The Lion King (October 2003) - "3 million units in first 2 days":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/news
"more than 2 million in first day":
http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=1818

Bambi's 1st day (March 2005) - "Nearly 1 million units":
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... _n11838430

Cinderella's 1st day (October 2005) - "More than 1 million units" ("More than 3 million units" the first week):
http://www.animationmagazine.net/articl ... le_id=4587

Lady and the Tramp's (February 2006) - 1st day "about 1 million units":
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6312352.html

Thank you Luke for this information!!!!!
I didn't know those numbers!!!!!
Do you know how many DVD's sold the Platinum editions in total?

bruno_wbt wrote:Do you know how many DVD's sold the Platinum editions in total?

By the end of 2001, SWATSD sold a combined (VHS & DVD) 6.7 million units.

By the end of 2002, BATB sold a combined 6.7 million as well.

By the end of 2003, TLK sold a combined 7.9 million units.

I don't think an official number was ever given on Aladdin but it didn't make the year-end charts, where the last title on the list sold about 2 million units. Talk about a flop

By July 2005, "Bambi" sold 5.2 million, combined.

By the end of 2005, "Cinderella" sold 6.7 million DVDs (the VHS market is practically defunct).

And as for LATT, I think I read that it did about 5 million as well which is quite logical.

Rodis wrote:

I don't think an official number was ever given on Aladdin but it didn't make the year-end charts, where the last title on the list sold about 2 million units. Talk about a flop

Wow! That is so sad. "Aladdin" is one of my favorites. I wonder if as a result of it's poor sales, it will be removed from the Platinum line. The basis for the line is that it is the best selling Disney films, and it has greatly undersold non-platinum 2-disc sets like "Alice in Wonderland" and "Pocahontas." If "Aladdin" was removed, I hope Alice is given the Platinum treatment. I would like a long making of. lol.

But the PE line was based on the VHS sales, and they gotta finish it first, and then I think there will be a new line. Maybe the movies that did best at boxoffice.
But it's really weird Aladdin is selling so bad. I aways loved it!!!
I even saw the GiftSet still being available on axelmusic.com, and this, I guess, is very rare that a gift set is still available two years after the release.

Did "Aladdin" have any sort of promotion at all in the US? One would think, that based on its popularity in the 90's, it would need very little promotion to sell a fair amount of copies. I'm not quite sure about the "too dated for today" assumption that some people have made. Why would little kids or just casual fans of animation who enjoy Disney be interfered with anything in Aladdin? It's for the visuals, the songs, the Disney magic... I wonder how will this affect future releases of the movie. Is Disney even going to re-release it as often as it does other films or are they going to give it a little more time in the vaults? Or perhaps the next time it's released, it will be accompanied by an extensive promotional campaign?...

Anyway, it's sad for me that such a great movie, that represents (for me) the best of Disney and holds so many memories of my childhood had not lived up like the others. At least TLM and BATB are still doing (very) well.

I don't know about other European countries, but here in Holland, Aladdin was HUGE on dvd, fending off Shrek 2 from the top spot. I work at a store that had a special offer, where you'd get these Aladdin handpuppets. Boy did they sell. People actually got aggressive when we ran out of puppets. They did the special offer due to the succes again last year with Cinderella, wich also turned into a huge seller. The marketing here was perfect. I know the movie is an absolute favorite here.

Same in Germany!! Aladdin was a HUGE success on DVD, and here it is actually out of print already. You still get sealed copies at ebay or in stores that don't sell many DVDs and don't ship their stock back to Disney, but except for ebay it's hard to find a copy.

I just got the Little Mermaid dvd and was wanting to know if there are any easter eggs. I tried searching around the way you usually do to find easter eggs but couldn't find any. Are there any ?

I don't think the Aladdin marketing campaign was particularly strong. In terms of merchandise, I don't remember anything beyond the characters appearing on 2 styles of Kleenex boxes, a box of Corn Flakes, and a few stuffed animals at the Disney Store, and I was looking hard!

I read somewhere that Aladdin was supposed to be the 2003 Platinum, but quite a while before 2003, it was switched with The Lion King due to post 9/11 concerns...2003 seemed too soon. I wonder if those same concerns kept them from promoting the movie as strongly as some of the others? I definitely remember a flood of Lion King toys, a barrage of Cinderella toys/home supplies/costumes, and The Little Mermaid has brought a new wave of Ariel dolls, special Ariel costumes, little-girl bedroom decorations with Ariel, etc. But there wasn't nearly as much in terms of 'stuff' promoting Aladdin.

I think the disappointing sales are probably the result of poor marketing. The movie was hugely successful at the box office and on VHS, and a recent article in the USAToday reported that for the months of August and September this year, Jasmine was #2 among top-selling costumes at the Disney Store (Captain Jack Sparrow as #1). When I worked in WDW, many many more young girls than I would have expected told me that Jasmine was their favorite Disney Princess, and I saw nearly as many little girls walking around the parks dressed as Jasmine as I did dressed as Cinderella and Aurora. I recently gave a speech on The Little Mermaid in my public speaking class and polled my class to name their favorite Disney movies, and Aladdin had the 2nd highest number of votes. And at this site, wasn't Aladdin #1 on the hero countdown, "A Whole New World" the #1 song, and Jafar in the villains top 3?

Something was wrong with the marketing, regardless of how much post-9/11 tensions had to do with it. I thought the DVD trailer was very poorly put together; there was no sense of what the movie was about, which isn't necessary for people who have seen the film and remember it, but I didn't think the trailer would entice or intrigue people who WEREN'T already familiar with it...maybe the 'new generation' just wasn't moved to discover it? (When the trailer says something about the "hilarious characters" that you remember and Jasmine is the character on the screen, something is off.) And with 'Disney Princess' being such a cash cow, I'm surprised there weren't new Jasmine dolls, many different versions of Jasmine costumes, or other products along those lines. Jasmine IS one of the featured characters in that highly successful brand, but they didn't seem to push to remind kids that hey, this is the movie she comes from. It seems like when the movie was new, they got that they had a hero they could market to boys, a princess to market to girls, Genie for just about everyone (though I realize that marketing Genie is a touchy subject since Disney broke their deal with Robin Williams when the movie was new)...Abu, Iago, and Rajah all became plush toys...and strength of story, music, as well as Robin Williams' hilarious performance made it a movie that teenagers and adults wanted to see, too...even multiple times! OK, so they can't use the Robin Williams edge anymore, but other elements of promotion that made it successful the first time around seeme to be absent this time.

Aladdin is my very-close-2nd favorite Animated Classic (just behind The Little Mermaid and possibly sharing that 2nd space with Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan); I'm really sad to hear it didn't sell well, but maybe in the future it'll get another chance. That'll be one of MY wishes.

Spottedfeather wrote:I just got the Little Mermaid dvd and was wanting to know if there are any easter eggs. I tried searching around the way you usually do to find easter eggs but couldn't find any. Are there any ?

I haven't seen disc one, but there are two on disc two. I actually never look for these because I don't expect to find any, but a forum member pointed them out to me. It's on the first page of the behind the scenes stuff ("Treasures Untold," I think is what it's called). There are two there. I was very thankful to be shown the way to them, because I was very sad that the DVD had no mention of Sherri Stoner, Ariel's live action model, and no footage of her in action (had a big crush on her when Little Mermaid came out, because she was basically the live-action version of Ariel, except a brunette), but that's actually what the longer Easter Egg was all about! The other is just the producers doing caricatures of each other, though it's entertaining.

Dottie wrote:But there is one little alteration: The priest's knee was edited.

You can still see the knee on disc 2 in "The Story Behind the Story" featurette. It appears during the comparisons of the original/Kay Nielson/final story.

slave2moonlight wrote:

Spottedfeather wrote:I just got the Little Mermaid dvd and was wanting to know if there are any easter eggs. I tried searching around the way you usually do to find easter eggs but couldn't find any. Are there any ?

I haven't seen disc one, but there are two on disc two. I actually never look for these because I don't expect to find any, but a forum member pointed them out to me. It's on the first page of the behind the scenes stuff ("Treasures Untold," I think is what it's called). There are two there. I was very thankful to be shown the way to them, because I was very sad that the DVD had no mention of Sherri Stoner, Ariel's live action model, and no footage of her in action (had a big crush on her when Little Mermaid came out, because she was basically the live-action version of Ariel, except a brunette), but that's actually what the longer Easter Egg was all about! The other is just the producers doing caricatures of each other, though it's entertaining.

Thanks. Now, how do you get to them ?

There's a third Easter egg actually, which my review was updated to reflect, thanks to an e-mail I received. Just move your cursor around the "Treasures Untold" menu to uncover them all. One of the three I could only access on DVD-ROM, which always makes Easter Egg-uncovering easier.

Yes, the third is the fork! I knew that I was going to post something about it. John and Ron draw each other. They are pretty good artists, even though they draw each other in a very comical sort of way.

ok maybe I'm just being stupid, but I can't seem to find all the easter eggs, I found the one w/ sherri stoner once but don't remember where it was , the last post says one of the others is the fork? and where is the last one? I've read the other posts, but still can't find them, or maybe I'm just horrible at highlighting them

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