Cinderella: Diamond Edition - ETA 2012

[NeverLand]

Brazilian Covers .. Sorry if it has been posted before:

[Disney Duster]

Oh sorry Atlantica I didn't realize you meant the UK specifically was where this release is being done so poorly. But are you sure you don't just have to wait and more promotion for it will come?

Also, I just realized the Royal Wedding edition of the film that wasn't released that long ago might have something to do with this, though its a real shame and we knew they shouldn't have done that!

[Wonderlicious]

I don't think many of the Platinums were ever promoted too far in advance in the UK. I do recall a trailer for the Aladdin DVD running before Shrek 2 (so around three or so months before it came out), but aside from that, the most I can only really recall trailers on DVDs. Also remember now that Disney hasn't been in partnership with McDonald's or any other junk food company for some years (not that that's a bad thing), which does rule out a lot of the wider marketing possibilities that were available when the Platinum series was being released. I would expect to see some promotional posters and TV spots for Cinderella coming very soon. I'm also sure that Disney will release some special exclusive merchandise in the Disney Store, even though it probably won't be the same as the US stuff.

As far as the August release is concerned, I think that Disney may be wanting to try and capitalise on the tail end of the summer holidays, while also having an entity to sell through the rest of the year. Not to mention that countless other big titles are coming out within the next few months (Brave, The Avengers, plus various other animated classics).

[Toky]

This release will still be very special. I know Toys R Us and other places will have the merchandise in a specially decorated section or something, and there will be lots of merchandise, posters and signs, and TV spots.

No Duster, you aren't listening. There is nothing special about this release in the UK. Hasn't been talked about, promoted, and released in a no-mans land time on the calendar. I do not say negative things to hurt you; my upset it aimed at how dreadful this release is, when it really shouldnt be.

Outside the US Disney is making a terrible mess of its releases....In the Netherlands this release won't probably even get a slipcover an will released as single bluray and single dvd...

[DancingCrab]

[Sotiris]

^ Good point!

[Disney Duster]

Her feet were so small not even the shoes that fit were exactly a way that could keep from falling off! Her Fairy Godmother most likely designed it that way.

BUT in the original version, I heard you can translate that Cinderella "let" her shoe drop. Yes. That means possibly she did it on purpose, to try and get the Prince. But probably not in the Disney version, though I do wonder if she secretly did and pretended she didn't want to lose it.

[DancingCrab]

My guess is she just has really sweaty feet. Her work shoe slipped off too when she was carrying the breakfast trays upstairs.

[Atlantica]

Plus .... I can't even begin to imagine how flippin painful/uncomfortable it would be to wear glass shoes !!

I do like the added effect of 'Twist In Time' when you can hear the slipper clanking on the floor....that made me chuckle.

[Wonderlicious]

I always assumed that the slipper fell off simply because she was running so quickly. I also believe that, in some retellings (and not the Perrault/Grimm originals), the glass slippers are magic shoes that can only fit Cinderella's feet, thereby eliminating the shoe size plot hole. Needless to say, let's remember that we're talking about fairy tales, where rationality isn't always paramount. You may as well start questioning how a wolf could have swallowed Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother in just one gulp, or how a flimsy beanstalk could support the weight of a boy, let alone a giant.

BUT in the original version, I heard you can translate that Cinderella "let" her shoe drop. Yes. That means possibly she did it on purpose, to try and get the Prince. But probably not in the Disney version, though I do wonder if she secretly did and pretended she didn't want to lose it.

Did you by chance read this series on fairy tales, and moreover this article on Cinderella? I will say that the author's general assessments in those articles are okay, especially considering how wide the intended readership is. However, I'm also under the impression that the author doesn't have a particularly great knowledge of French, at least with regards to idiomatic phrases. He seems to have translated "laisser tomber" quite literally as "to let fall" ("laisser" means "to let/leave", "tomber" means to "to fall"), which is incorrect. Having studied French at university level, and moreover having lived in France for extended periods of time, I can safely say that "laisser tomber" does actually mean "to [accidentally] drop".

[Atlantica]

It's funny, but the version I grew up with, and was in my fairytale book, was the version where she goes to the ball three times, with a more and more magnificent dress each time. The Stepsisters each try for their own happy ending, and cut off their toe and their heel in order to fit into the tiny slipper. The Prince doesn't even notice that the girls aren't Cinderella ?! He just rides off with them until a dove (who is Cinderella's mothers spirit) says "coo coo, there blood coming from that shoe" !!

Traumatic childhood or what?!

[Disney Duster]

Yes the Grimm's version is pretty traumatic! That's why we have the Disney version!

Wonderlicious, you're absolutely right, I did read those articles! But, I also read on this blog yet another person saying Cinderella "left behind" the slipper on purpose. So what do you make of that then? Maybe you need the original French story to translate yourself!

[Atlantica]

I know it isnt an ancient version of the story, but I do so love 'The Slipper & The Rose' ..... I think that is on par with Disney's version for me.

I just love it; and it is such a shame it isnt as much of a classic now as it should be.

[DancingCrab]

In the musical Into the Woods, Cinderella is based on the Grimm version more, and in that, on the third night of the ball, the prince had smeared pitch on the stairs to make her stick to the steps of the palace, and she admits that she left him one shoe as a "clue" to find her, since he cared so much as to scheme to capture her.

[Disney Duster]

The Slipper & the Rose is a really good version of Cinderella but I think its blasphemouse to say it's the same magicalness as Disney's version!

And yes, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine made Cinderella leave her shoe on the stairs on purpose even though the original Grimm version seems to suggest it just got stuck in the tar. That never sat right with me, knowing it was really the tar that made her slipper get stuck behind but the musical changed her to leaving it on purpose, when that's not how the Grimm's version went.

But only 4 more days until the Cinderella Big Golden Book comes out!!! I'm so excited to see and own all of those new illustrations!!!!

Swillie, do you have the Cinderella Little Golden Book with Retta Scott's 1950 illustrations? I actually do own that one, they re-printed it like a year or two ago.

[Disney's Divinity]

The Prince doesn't even notice that the girls aren't Cinderella ?! He just rides off with them until a dove (who is Cinderella's mothers spirit) says "coo coo, there blood coming from that shoe" !!

That quote is so...

[SWillie!]

Swilli, do you have the Cinderella Little Golden Book with Retta Scott's 1950 illustrations? I actually do own that one, they re-printed it like a year or two ago.

I do! Its great. I hope they continue reprinting some of those vintage ones.

[Elladorine]

Didn't the original story have slippers made of squirrel fur but it was mistranslated into glass? Forgive me if this was brought up before, I've been too busy to keep up well with the thread.

ETA: Nevermind, just looked it up: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language ... 02886.html

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Swilli, do you have the Cinderella Little Golden Book with Retta Scott's 1950 illustrations? I actually do own that one, they re-printed it like a year or two ago.

I do! Its great. I hope they continue reprinting some of those vintage ones.

I really need to pick that one up! I used to have most of the illustrations in a compilation book from the 1970's.

[Disney Duster]

I hope they re-publish more vintage titles too!

I hate it when people think the slippers were really fur and it was mistranslation. Everyone seems to think they're so smart for knowing that, but it's not true. Right? You found the slippers probably are made of glass enigmawing? Even the official Making Of book that came with the Cinderella Platinum Edition gift set said that the slippers really fur!

Hey, does anyone know who or how to contact someone about the stepsisters faces being incorrectly switched on the new dolls?

[Disney Duster]

Just had to post that yesterday a whole slew of Cinderella books with the new illustrations came in and I bought two of them!!!! The Big Golden Book is really, really amazingly beautiful and I bought another one just to get more illustrations, but in order to get all of the illustrations I'd probably have to buy all the books and I just can't do that no matter how much of a fan I am. I didn't see any Little Golden Books with the illustrations yet Swillie.

But guess what they had at the Disney Store aside from all the other things Swillie posted about them getting for the Diamond Edition? They made a new Limited Edition glass slipper replica, of which there's only 250 made, my Disney Store got three, and I bought the last one!!!!! It was $200 dollars. Now, I kinda wish I had gotten the slipper they released a few years ago that came with a purple satin pillow that's also from the film, but that's closer to $300 dollars. I also don't like how they made the heart on the slipper different from the rest of the glass because in the movie it looks like the heart is the same as the rest of the slipper. But I felt it calling me so at least for now this will be my slipper that I'm so happy with and excited to own.

Click here for a picture of the slipper and the box it comes in.