DVDizzy Forum

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:27 pm**

Check out davisdvd.com , the January Special Editions are now supposedly, under the title of "Masterpiece Edition"

Only "Alice in Wonderland" and "Pochohantas" are listed.
No sign of "Lilo & Stitch" or "Mary Poppins".

Hope they turn out good.

Best be 2-Disc

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:30 pm**

They'll definately be 2-Disc - that was confirmed by the add in the Sleeping Beauty DVD. Very interesting they are opting for a banner they onced used for some of their VHS titles.

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:48 pm**

Yeah my parents have a few tapes with the "Masterpiece" banner tacked on. Strange that they're bringing it back.

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:53 pm**

Masterpiece Collection?!! Very exciting... Does this means every movie released under this banner is going to be double-discer? Hurray!!

I just hope Disney doesn't drop it by the end of the year...

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:01 pm**

Joe Carioca wrote:Masterpiece Collection?!! Very exciting... Does this means every movie released under this banner is going to be double-discer? Hurray!!
I just hope Disney doesn't drop it by the end of the year...

Hmmm...could very-well be that this is the start of a 2-Disc wave.
But if we've seen anything the last couple years it's been Disney's tendency to be extremely inconsistent in regards to the "family" banners.

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2003 8:04 pm**

Although Disney would abandon it after like 3 or 4 titles, I really like the idea of having the non-Platinum 2-discers having a series of their own besides the generic "special edition." Let's see if the Masterpiece listings are true and hold up till January.

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2003 9:41 pm**

maybe they'll get cute and call it the "masterpiece special edition" series to confuse us even more.

Posted: **Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:52 pm**

i think Disney's best collection was the Masterpiece Collection, cause with certain tittle they did the Special Limited Edition and it came with a booklet and extra footage!

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 2:53 am**

Lady wrote:maybe they'll get cute and call it the "masterpiece special edition" series to confuse us even more.

or "Limited Materpiece Special Collectors' Platinum Gold Classic Edition Collection (with an all-new song)"

Looks like Lilo and Stitch and Mary Poppins will be coming out later now. Makes sense - Disney wouldn't want to release too many 2 disc sets onto the market at the same time.

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 4:54 am**

Disney US really shoot themselves in the foot with all these name changes, because none of them ever last.

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:46 am**

I hope the new 2 Disc DVDs will be designed like the Sleeping Beauty DVD. I don't need another collcetion from disney...

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 8:08 am**

Maybe this was a typo? Who knows!

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 8:11 am**

Matty-Mouse wrote:Disney US really shoot themselves in the foot with all these name changes, because none of them ever last.

You think? The other Conturies just have "Classics" for everything!

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 9:35 am**

DavisDVD.com says that Disney "Masterpiece Editions" of Alice in Wonderland and Pocahontas will be out on January 27.

http://www.davisdvd.com/News/daily_news.htm

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 10:37 am**

On the animation front, January 27th brings new Disney "Masterpiece Editions" of Alice in Wonderland and Pocahontas. And finally, look for the following "Disappearing Classics" to go into moratorium on December 30th: 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure, Fantasia, Fantasia 2000, The Jungle Book 2, Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure, and the new Sleeping Beauty: SE. So get 'em while you can.

is not saying is labeled Masterpiece edition. Its just saying the version is masterpiece edition cause it's a 2 disc special edition. you're reading out of context.

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 10:59 am**

That still doesn't convince me. It still looks to me like they're calling Alice and Poca Masterpiece Editions, hence the quotation marks. Notice how they also call the titles going OOP Disappearing Classics, which is what Disney themselves call them-even for sequels.

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 11:02 am**

January 2004

• Disney's Masterpiece Editions
Alice in Wonderland Special Edition, Pocahontas Special Edition

They're both, I guess.

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 11:29 am**

is like Platinum Edition special edition deal

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 11:30 am**

It would be cool If any Gold Collection Title would be rereleased as an 2 Disc Masterpiece Edition

I don't like those changes... Why don't they name the 2 Disc sets simply Collector's Edition like Tarzan, Atlantis, fantasia or Dinosaur?

Gold Platinum Collector Special and now massterpiece...

Greetings
Philipp

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2003 11:43 am**

Yeah, I know. I remember the early days when Gold Classic meant you got the movie on DVD with skimpy features, a Special Edition meant you got the movie on DVD with nice features, a Collector's Edition meant you got the movie on DVD with 2-discs and tons of features, and a Platinum Edition meant you got the movie on DVD with 2-discs, tons of features, and everything about the set was treated with reverence because it was considered 1 of 10 of Disney's greatest films. Now Special Edition can mean packed 1-disc, packed 2-disc, or movie with new scenes added, the Collector's Editions have now been reduced to Pixar films only, Gold Classics are dead, and the Platinums are slowly fading away. Sigh.