Lazario wrote:And if this weren't mostly true, megalomaniacal freaks like Michael Eisner would never have been a problem / caused so many problems.... Which is exactly the thought process, I think, that masterminded the whole Vault procedure in the first place. But, that being said, now the allusion of The Vault doesn't make any sense because they keep editing their things of Great Value, so... Oy, my head hurts. Trying to figure out crazy Disney is a lot of thinkin' work!
But Roy E. Disney actually was the one who thought of the whole "Vault" concept. Certainly he's not in it for a buck, because he's related to Walt after all.
I'm not going to go completely off-topic, as I've discussed it before, but I'll say the Vault concept was created for more reasons than financial ones Laz.
As far as lack of Platinum quality, I think Netty(once again
) hit the nail here. While I'm sure some of it has to do with Blu-Ray, the fact that people, unfortunately, just don't care about bonus features is really the main reason. Why look, Disney put so much effort into Aladdin's release, a little more than two years later, it STILL hasn't passed expectations. Bambi had way better features than Cinderella, but Cinderella being more marketable(sadly) made more than Bambi. For an even more recent example, 90% of all of Narnia's sold discs were the single disc. I'm sure the upcoming 4-Disc will sell even less.
It really shares the same thing as the death of hand-drawn animation; Disney shouldn't be blamed for it, audiences should for simply not caring.
Yet, when all is said and done, Disney hasn't completely lost it. I haven't bought The Little Mermaid Platinum yet(and probably never will
) but the set looks to be containing quite a bit. And from the looks of it, "Peter Pan" is also going to get great treatment as well. I mean it already has a commentary, yet Disney is going to the trouble to record ANOTHER commentary. Certainly that has to count for something, especially for a release that was supposably being made for promotion.
