Peter Pan: Platinum Edition DVD Press Release and Discussion

[ajmrowland]

Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Snow White are among my favs, feature-wise. As for the latter ones, talk about sacrificing quality for the public's sake.

[DisneyFreak5282]

Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Snow White are among my favs, feature-wise. As for the latter ones, talk about sacrificing quality for the public's sake.

I agree. To me it always seemed like the PE line was originally intended for collectors and hardcore fans, but then the sales were so good that they rushed things (aka 2 PEs a year, the restorations made the films look more modern) and the quality has declined ever since 2005's releases.

Anywho, back to Peter Pan. I don't really like the fact that they adjusted the PE's colors so that Tink stood out more. The main reason I bought the 2002 SE AFTER I got the PE is because it was more vivid and colorful, rather than having that gold-ish hue.

[Disney Duster]

No, nobody does. But people like to think they do because it makes them feel special.

Word. That's my favorite.

On the contrary. Kurtadisneyite worked at Disney, even did some work on some menus of some Platinums, and knew people who worked on the restorations who said Disney did not color time Cinderella the right way, or changed the colors in some way.

Look, he knows a lot about how the colors should be, and from what I gather, there is a way to know. I think they could do color tests with the original cels or negatives, and look at the Technicolor color charts. The paint on the cels will change to a different color when photographed in Technicolor, the way the colors would look on the big screen, the way they were intended, and they can do these tests to see it? Something. Hopefully Kurt might come in here and help me out.

In any case, I'm working on getting the proof Cinderella's colors, and perhaps more, are wrong on the DVD, and I have some already...but I must keep working on it...

[disneyboy20022]

Now it's time for a song about Cinderella's Restoration to DVD performed by Gus and Jaq and the other mice and other woodland creatures that made her dress in that same catch tune:

Chrurs:Cinderellie, Cinderellie her image looked so fine and married but now it's gone awfully griddy...

Gus: You think Lucifer would've done it? no even that old meanie cat now looks like a gray blobby moss spotty....maybe the meanie old steppy ladie?

Jaq: If not old step mommy...then who?

Just then the mousedoor flies open and in it is a time machine and a mouse named Basil aka The Great Mouse Detective comes in which none of Cinderella's Friendly Animal Critter knew who he was or what he was doing there...but he had the answer and they didn't question him at all:

Basil: It was a team of animators that was restoring all of you and "Cinderella" and this entire feature animated classic for DVD....but someone restored the colors to bright and that is why you all look differ or your color is more glowing and/or off model....In Fact I am getting to the bottom of this with my assistant Dawson and canine Toby....Now I hope that all explains everything....(then Basil's watch buzzes) uh oh that means they are trying to restore Snow White to the same thing that happened to you gotta go save Disney Tradition.....Cherrio and hopefully one day Song of the South will be released on DVD everywhere in the world and not a bootleg copy....

and with that the time machine disappears along with Basil....

Gus: Who is Devee Dee

Jaq: Idk Gus Gus

(not even realizing he had just said Idk instead of I don't know and somehow Basil's presence being there left a hint of the future there such as there was a book published called 19th century and beyond for dummies left in place of the time Machine accidentally..and for some reason everyone knew what IDK was but could figure out who that villain Devee Dee is or was even though they had memorized the book that had been left by Basil and Basil himself didn't even notice it missing even though while Dawson tried to inform Basil about the book not being there his attempts to tell Basil were futile so he gave up...

[ajmrowland]