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The Little Mermaid?

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 2:38 pm
by diebob21
Hello everyone! does anyone know when the little merimad with come out on DVD! or if it will come out on 2 disc edition! the little mermaid is one of my faovirte movies i love it!!!!!! please respone thanks everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HUGS

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 2:44 pm
by jasmine-rules
Hi!! Welcome to the forum :D

Well, the limited edition of the little mermaid is currently OOP, so it's going to be really expensive if you wanted that one. But there will be a 2-disk platinum edition, my guess would be in October 2006. So if you can wait that long, you can get a platinum edition. If not, you can try to find on on ebay or the marketplace, but be careful of bootleg copies, they are all over the place. If the price seems too good to be true, it probably is!

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 2:51 pm
by poco
Welcome to the forum!

Little Mermaid was originally scheduled to be released as a 2 disc platinum set in Fall of 2008; however they have changed the release schedule dates of the platinums. Where we were getting one a year, now Disney is changing it to two releases a year. The new release date which is still somewhat up in the air and it still guesswork, but with plenty of us saying "in our humble, but accurate, opinion," the new release date is for October 2005.

Hope this helps.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:05 pm
by ThiagoPE
jasmine-rules wrote: Well, the limited edition of the little mermaid is currently OOP. (...)
That release was in the widescreen or letterbox format?

Thiago

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:10 pm
by Uncle Remus
welcome to the forum

you know alot of people at Ultimate Disney keep asking when the Little Mermaid will come out as a 2-disc platinum set. lets hope that the movie comes out early so there isnt many topics about when the little mermaid will come out as a 2-disc DVD set.

NEXT PLATUIM FILMS

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:17 pm
by diebob21
thanks you guys!!! you guys are great help!!! what will be the next two platuim adition films???

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:23 pm
by Uncle Remus
i really dont know what the next two platinum series are but i think they are Aladdin and either Bambi or Cinderella. the platinums that are not out yet are:
Aladdin
Bambi
Cinderella
The Little Mermaid
The Jungle Book
Lady and the Tramp
101 Dalmatians
Fantasia
Pinocchio
Peter Pan
Sleeping Beauty (though it has been released as a 2-disc set)

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:23 pm
by poco
The next platinum release is Aladdin for Oct 04, Cinderella (March 05), Little Mermaid (oct 05), Bambi (march 06), Jungle Book (Oct 06), Lady and the Tramp (March 07), 101 Dalmatians (Oct 07). There are more scheduled but these were the original 10.


The FAQ section should help you out with additional questions: http://www.ultimatedisney.com/FAQ.htm

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:29 pm
by diebob21
so cinderella will be the next one to be out i am so happy thats a great movie why is sleeping beauty gonna be realse again? thats kinda dumb and waste of dvds prouucts i mean i love the movie andall but i already have the new one and i dont plan to buy the next one. Also the new sleeping beauty dvd me :D nus sucks!! itreally does! dont you guys think?

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 5:11 pm
by Uncle Remus
i dont really like sleeping beauty so i really dont like the DVD at all. Disney is going crazy thinking they can make 2-disc special editions for every single animated movie.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 6:43 pm
by Ludwig Von Drake
I thought that slleping beauty is a great 2 disc DVD with the different clips from disneyland

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 7:24 pm
by Joe Carioca
Uncle Remus wrote:i dont really like sleeping beauty so i really dont like the DVD at all. Disney is going crazy thinking they can make 2-disc special editions for every single animated movie.
No, they are not... at all!!! :)
And "Sleeping Beauty" is great, so is the DVD... but that is just my opinion!

Oh, Thiago, the "Little Mermaid" DVD was released in the widescreen letterbox format all over the world... No anamophic enhancement. Certainly they are saving it to the Platinum Edition!

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 8:50 pm
by Maerj
Joe Carioca wrote:
Uncle Remus wrote:i dont really like sleeping beauty so i really dont like the DVD at all. Disney is going crazy thinking they can make 2-disc special editions for every single animated movie.
No, they are not... at all!!! :)
And "Sleeping Beauty" is great, so is the DVD... but that is just my opinion!
Yeah really... being a Disney fan, why WOULDN'T you want a nice 2 disc special edition of each of the Animated Classics?

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:39 am
by MickeyMousePal
I wonder if The Little Mermaid Platium Edition DVD will have a new song included just like Beauty and the beast and The Lion King. :D

Will it be re-relased in the IMAX in 2005? :o

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 7:26 am
by jasmine-rules
MickeyMousePal wrote:
Will it be re-relased in the IMAX in 2005? :o
Probably not since Aladdin won't be in IMAX :cry:

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 7:27 am
by jasmine-rules
ThiagoPE wrote:
That release was in the widescreen or letterbox format?

Thiago
My little mermaid is widescreen 1.66:1

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 7:28 am
by jasmine-rules
poco wrote:The next platinum release is Aladdin for Oct 04, Cinderella (March 05), Little Mermaid (oct 05), Bambi (march 06), Jungle Book (Oct 06), Lady and the Tramp (March 07), 101 Dalmatians (Oct 07). There are more scheduled but these were the original 10.


The FAQ section should help you out with additional questions: http://www.ultimatedisney.com/FAQ.htm

Really? I could have sworn that I read somewhere that it would be Bambi March of 2005 and Cinderella October 2005 since under the old plan bambi was supposed to have followed Aladdin in October 2005 :? I could be wrong though :lol:

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 7:46 am
by Uncle Remus
i dont believe that Disney will rerelease The Little Mermaid onto IMAX theaters. here are a couple of reasons:
1. not many people will go see an old Disney movie at IMAX since they want to see new movies at IMAX. the failure of treasure planet at IMAX theaters in one example.
2. when the little mermaid was rereleased in 1997, it didnt do very well in the box office. the fox movie anastacia did better than the little mermaid that year.

somehow i think it would be hard to see every Disney animated movie as a 2-disc DVD set since there are many movies that were not popular and there werent many special features for the one-disc DVD set. could u imagine The Black Cauldron being a 2-disc set though it wasnt popular when it was released.

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:21 am
by ThiagoPE
jasmine-rules wrote:
ThiagoPE wrote:
That release was in the widescreen or letterbox format?

Thiago
My little mermaid is widescreen 1.66:1
i don“t have this disc here, but joe carioca told me that our version is letterbox 1.66:1 (the diference between letterbox and widescreen is: widescreen is formated for widescreen tvs, and letterbox is the movie in widescreen formated for the normal tvs.)

Thiago

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:13 am
by PatrickvD
Look at this link I've found, I think its a bootleg, but note how the dvd cover says Little Mermaid Platinum edition :lol: those bootlegs do look fancy these days...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... gory=35014