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Gee wiz, you'd think some of you had never seen sarcasm before.

Obviously Disney is not an "evil" company.

I guess to give another answer to why FatH 2 is being released while the other sequels are not is just that Disney feels like it.

Not only is Bambi 2 already available on Blu-ray in many countries (from which you could import since it's region free), there is also a trailer for it on the US-Bambi Diamond Edition. So it gets a release in the US in a not too distant future, too.

singerguy04 wrote:Obviously Disney is not an "evil" company.

Yes they are.

I personally don't see how Disney is any different from Warner Brothers, Universal, DreamWorks, Paramount, Fox and other movie studios in the sense that they want to make money. You can pretty much call the other studios "evil" as well, yet only Disney seems saddled with that description.

Film is a business and meant to make money. Sorry, if I sound like an executive, but that's how it works. Though, if I was an executive at Disney, I would notice that releasing the two films separately would make the company more money.

I was having a discussion (euphemism for fight) with my roommate about that. He was wondering why Disney didn't just take the $300 million or so that it cost to produce "Tangled" and instead use it for charity to feed/house the poor. You could say the exact same thing about any big-budget movie, but people have it in their minds to go after Disney for whatever reason.

estefan wrote:I personally don't see how Disney is any different from Warner Brothers, Universal, DreamWorks, Paramount, Fox and other movie studios in the sense that they want to make money.

Um... I've heard horror stories of people being savagely sued by Disney for the tiniest thing considered a violation of copyright. There are people who know better about this than me. But, didn't the studio also refuse certain schools to allow students to have Disney stickers or for families to put Disney characters on Birthday cakes... ?

Something like that. It was shocking.

I got my Blu-Ray copy of Bambi yesterday and the insert does show FATH & FATH2 being released on Blu-Ray in September 2011.

The insert also had the Dumbo Blu-Ray ad, but no date.

mdseverin wrote:The insert also had the Dumbo Blu-Ray ad, but no date.

Could you please take a photo of it or scan it?

Sotiris wrote:

mdseverin wrote:The insert also had the Dumbo Blu-Ray ad, but no date.

Could you please take a photo of it or scan it?

It's the same add that was in the Alice in Wonderland Bluray, I think. Nothing special really.

Not to derail or anything, but i'd like to point out that the Bambi DE also has a trailer for a Bambi II Blu release and a DVD release of Belle's Magical World. I think any complaint of Disney not releasing the sequels again can stop now.

Has anyone seen this site before? They are UK, but it looks like there are several Disney 2 movie collections.

http://www.dvdcollections.co.uk/disney/

I'm actualy glad that Fox/Hound is bein released on Blue, haven't seen the midquel, so I can't complain bout it.

I'm willing to purchase this set along with Peter Pan/Neverland, Jungle Book 1/2 and Lady/Scamp if they're paired together. the double set works for Fantasia cause, in my opinon there's an actual continuity with the Fantasias minus the 70 yrs difference with both films.

I think most of the opposition towards the combo pack is in the idea the the sequel will be given as much focus as the bonafide classic. I think most of us could live with the sequel within the same package or even on the same disc, as long as it played "second string" to the original, and wasn't front and center. Someone suggested putting the sequel in with the bonus features, which I think is a decent idea.

I, personally, do not really have a problem with the the combo packs, as long their is unity between the titles. Pairing the Fantasias together makes perfect sense, especially since they were both theatrical releases and the sequel is considered canon. I can live with The Fox and the Hound and its sequel together, and I assume we might see future releases like this, especially for The Rescuers. I just hope they don't start pairing random movies together just because one of them by itself wouldn't warrant a Blu-ray release. Imagine The Black Cauldron and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad together in a "Haunting Halloween 2-Movie Collection" or something of the sort.

Sounds awesome, i can't wait to see Fox in high defintiton soon and sell my old DVD for the blu-ray

Perhaps they will FINALLY release the film for the first time ever in its original aspect ratio of 1.75:1.

Doubtful. I'm guessing they'll release an open matte version, and then spend the extra money to make a Disney View experience.....ultimately it would be cheaper and more pleasing to the audience's televisions to just release the darn thing how it was meant to be seen..... 1.75:1. Then the screens would be full, and no money would need to be spend making new art for the sides.

Just a thought Disney.

I hope a CD with songs and score from memorable scenes (ex: opening credits) is released around it. A soundtrack CD for this film is long overdue.

I watched the trailer that's on the new Cars Blu-Ray (I assume it's on the Incredibles Blu-Ray as well) and the scenes from the first Fox and the Hound were presented in standard Academy ratio. Was Disney really still producing their animated films in that format in 1981?!?

estefan wrote:I watched the trailer that's on the new Cars Blu-Ray (I assume it's on the Incredibles Blu-Ray as well) and the scenes from the first Fox and the Hound were presented in standard Academy ratio. Was Disney really still producing their animated films in that format in 1981?!?

The right cap is the DVD. The left cap is taken from "Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life", an episode of "Disney's Wonderful World" (the anthology series' title in the 1980-1981 season) that went behind-the-scenes on the making of The Fox and the Hound, as well as offering a history of animation and a pre-production look at The Black Cauldron. Since the image was matted during post-production editing (IIRC, the cap is from a scene in the episode where they talk about the sound mix), it would be safe to assume that it was matted in theatres to 1.75:1 (Disney's widely-used matted widescreen ratio from the 1960s to the 1980s), even if AlwaysOAR hasn't yet acquired a pressbook that validates the notion.

The Rescuers and The Great Mouse Detective have interesting ratios (approx. 1.45:1), in that it's not a simple cropping of the top and bottom like the traditional matted-for-theatres Academy films.





Both are 1.66:1 as shown on the 2003 DVD for The Rescuers and the 2002 DVD for The Great Mouse Detective. The black&white area shows what would be seen in a 1.75:1 matting, which the 2010 DVD almost presents (it's 1.78:1).

I have a feeling that Oliver & Company and The Little Mermaid (except for the CAPS sequences) were in Academy too, but I haven't found any open-matte images to confirm it. All of O&C's 1.33:1 images on the DVD are P&S of the widescreen matte (so maybe it was animated in 1.66:1?).

albert

Disney tends to use older masters for their trailers of upcoming Blu-rays. Hopefully Disney will release it correctly this time around, since it should be in widescreen.

estefan wrote:I watched the trailer that's on the new Cars Blu-Ray (I assume it's on the Incredibles Blu-Ray as well) and the scenes from the first Fox and the Hound were presented in standard Academy ratio. Was Disney really still producing their animated films in that format in 1981?!?

It's not on the Incredibles Blu-ray.

Could someone please upload the new TFATH trailer?