When I moved out my Dad bought me a VHS player. I then started my collection and before long (two or three years) I had every available title on the market. After I got married I really started collecting. By the time I was 25 I had over 5,000 VHS titles including every Disney title on the market.
Some years later when Laser Disc and the ill-fated RCA Video Disc (lovingly referred to as Needle-Vision) came along, I chose the RCA version because it was cheaper and I started buying my Disney titles on CED, the RCA video disc and my first title was "Old Yeller" and "Mickey Mouse - the Golden Collection", both of which I still have, and I still have my RCA player with about 40 video discs and I was thinking about where to get the replacement needles when I saw an ad on eBay and that solved my problems. I now have a great supply of replacement needles for my RCA player.
I went to work at Disneyland as a projectionist in the Mickey Mouse Theater in Fantasyland, and started collecting 16mm and 35mm prints of Disney trailers (coming attractions) and I also managed to get my hands on 13 episodes of "The Annette Funicello Show" which ran on the "Mickey Mouse Club" in the fifties and sixties.
This is sort of out of order, but I hope you understand. Someone started this thread with the question and my answer is more than a simple two or three words.
Since the advent of DVD, I have collected most of what is available from Disney except non-theatrical sequels. I will not stoop to buying those, no matter what......................oooopppppsssss!!!!!! I have stooped. My wife just looked over my shoulder and asked me "What about "Stitch the Movie"?? She's right, we do own "Stitch the movie". And then she pointed out that we have "The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride" on VHS and DVD, and also we have on DVD "The Lion King 1 and 1/2". But that is all.
Thanks sweetheart, now go watch your soap operas and let me finish.
With almost 1,900 DVD titles in my collection I think that I have one of the more complete Disney collections in the US. And I am not counting the 50 titles on DVD that I bought from Taiwan on eBay a few years ago. I can say that I have all the animated films released in the US and those that haven't been are going to be in the collection when they are released. For now I will watch my Taiwanese "Lady and the Tramp" in Widescreen and Dolby stereo, and I will also watch "Cinderella" and the many others that I own that they haven't seen fit to put out in the US as of now.
Hope that answers the simple question. I am proud to be a contributor to the Ultimate Disney forums, thanks for reading this.
