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For me, Ironically it was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs a couple of months after its DVD release. Some random guy out side a 7 eleven sold the platinum edition to my dad. I watched it and I was in awe to see the bonus content (since I was a huge Disney/disney animation fan as a kid). Then I found out about platinum and I pre ordered Beauty and the Beast, I've been collecting ever since.

The Pinocchio LE Single-disc release from that first wave of 11 titles in '99 was my first...a Christmas gift from my mother before I even had a DVD player. Never upgraded to the GC issue, but I am looking forward to a better treatment in the future.

It's been all downhill from there...

Well I've probably already retold this story more than once in this forum, but basically I was looking for general info on Disney films (via Google) and landed here at UD on a review of one of the earlier Walt Disney Treasures tins - knowing basically nothing, I used the click-through link to end up at Amazon only to find out that the thing was OOP - boy was I disappointed because I had visions in my head of getting all those OOP WDT gems.... so I came back to this site and found the page on the Animated Classics. I had NO IDEA that any of these films had been released at all on DVD. Like my experience with WDTs, I clicked through to Amazon link (I think looking for Snow White) to find out it was not available. So a few weeks later, my husband and I ended up at one of the Disney stores where I asked about buying SW. The lady told me it was "in the vault." I had no idea what that meant at the time, or that it would not come out for 7 years - but that's another story (see my SW bootleg posts)!

Anyway, I did purchase my FIRST DISNEY DVDS while visiting that store, which were.... (drum roll please) Alice In Wonderland (Masterpiece Ed.) and Dumbo (60th Anniv.) - so that is what I started the small, humble, but growing collection with.

Merman wrote:For me, Ironically it was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs a couple of months after its DVD release. Some random guy out side a 7 eleven sold the platinum edition to my dad. I watched it and I was in awe to see the bonus content (since I was a huge Disney/disney animation fan as a kid). Then I found out about platinum and I pre ordered Beauty and the Beast, I've been collecting ever since.

Are you sure it's not a bootleg? "Some guy outside of 7-11" sounds kinda sketchy...

DisneyFreak5282 wrote:
Are you sure it's not a bootleg? "Some guy outside of 7-11" sounds kinda sketchy...

More likely, it "fell off a truck..."


"Hey honey, Wal-Mart made a mistake! They didn't charge me for this DVD I had hidden way down in my coat!!!"

I remember a while back, there was some guy outside a 7-11 who wanted to sell me a pack of Energizer batteries...

For me it was BatB that started it all! Love that movie!

Whoops... I didn't mean to double post... I hang out at another forum that automatically combines posts if you double post (within a few hours or so...)

Mine was Beauty and The Beast.. which was also my first DVD ever:)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Bambi PE would have been my first Disney one. Animation in general, it goes to Don Bluth's Land Before Time.

my favorite movie: Aladdin in 2006 was "the one that started it all" and i have been collecting from then on.

haha no I'm positive it is real, no bootleg, but i know weird, i owe the guy cus if it weren't for him idk if I would of started collecting or maybe later causing me to miss out on the earlier platinums.

for me it started at december 2002 when i had to buy a birthdaypresent for my sister, so i gave her the Beauty and the beast dvd and bought my myself the special edition!
now december 2006 i bought the last released (in the netherlands)dvd Cars
that makes my collection to 112 disney dvds!!

Sleeping Beauty Special Edition. A friend gave me her extra copy and it made fall in love with Disney all over again.

After my house burnt, Aladdin and Snow White became the first two to be replaced. I found them both at a thrift shop for 5 dollars each.

Well technically I'm just buying all these Disney DVDs "for my neice" but she's two and hardly watches them, lol.

I wanted to give her something she could enjoy throughout the years so I started looking around the net, found this place and started collecting.

I've bought several Disney DVDs over the years but I didn't start collecting them for my niece until a couple of months ago. I have three pages of DVDs that I bought off Amazon, good prices and 90% of the time the item was what I wanted. I only got a bootleg once and the person refunded my money and let me keep the DVD.

I'm kicking myself for never buying the PE release of BatB because it's my second favorite Disney film and you can't find it anywhere.

My first DVD was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Since I pre-ordered it at the Disney store, I also received the limited issue Lady and the Tramp.

Disneykid wrote:Alice in Wonderland: Gold Classic Collection was my first, too. I bought it immediately after it came out in July 2000. How many people here are actually surprised?

My first two-disc set was Tarzan: Collector's Edition which I bought around August of 2000, I believe.

just like you I got Alice as my first Disney DVD.
and coincidentally it was the first Disney VHS I bought too - back in the Black Diamond days

I might have had one or two random animated classics before, but my collecting started with my buying Disneyland U.S.A on a trip to Tennessee in early 2002. One look at that tin, and my fate was sealed ... or, should I say shrinkwrapped?

In my case it's The Little Mermaid...

It went something like this -

The Little Mermaid - September 1991
Peter Pan - April 1993
Cinderella - May 1993
Beauty and The Beast - September 1993
Aladdin - September 1994
Snow White - December 1994
Alice In Wanderland - February 1995
Bambi - March 1995
The Jungle Book - April 1995
Pinocchio - May 1995
The Lion King - September 1995
The Fox and the Hound - November 1995
Sleeping Beauty - January 1996
Pocahontas - April 1996
101 Dalmatians - September 1996
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - July 1997
Mulan - August 1999
Hercules - August 1999
A Bug's Life - August 1999
The Sword In The Stone - December 1999
Tarzan - February 2000

Obviosuly I have a lot more in my collection but those are the ones I vividly remember the date and time hehe got a little carried away - you only asked for the one that started it all...
Some of you may notice that some of the 90's films I bought a little late but that's only because their release date was different from the US.

rodis, are you talking about DVDs???