The Lion King II: Simba's Pride Specs

[Disneykid]

I'm surprised no one's posted this, yet. Here they are courtesy of DavisDVD:

- THX-certified 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
- Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1
- "Proud of Simba's Pride" Making-of
- "Lots About Lions" featurette
- "One by One" short
- Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari 2.0
- "Find Out Why" Educational short
- "Rafiki's Challenge" game
- "Prideland Play and Learn" game
- Music Videos
- Trailers

Due out August 31st. It doesn't say if it's a 2-Disc or not, but it doesn't seem like it based on this list.

[indianajdp]

Hmmm...I guess I thought all of these SEs were gonna be 2-Disc sets.
Maybe the second disk would be for that awesome DTS track?

[Cinderelly]

Hmm... Maybe now that it is coming out again I can finally see it. hehe

[Loomis]

- "One by One" short
[...]
Due out August 31st. It doesn't say if it's a 2-Disc or not, but it doesn't seem like it based on this list.

It is probably 2-disc....it seems to be a standard marketing thing. Roughly the same amount of extras were spread over the LK1.5, weren't they?

Even if it is not, it looks pretty good as far as sequels go. To be honest, I'll be happen just to have it.

The "One by One" short is most appealing as a bonus - I think the trailer on the LK1.5 DVD said it was by the makers of the original TLK? It really should have gone on the TLK: Platinum in that case, but it will be good to have, nonetheless...

Looking forward to it...

[Jack]

Not to sound haughty, but I can't believe anyone is debating wether or not this will be a 2-Disc set. Why would Disney make the first two films 2-Disc sets, and not give the last one the same treatment, especially since it's already been on DVD before and is being touted as a "Special Edition"? Besides, I believe the trailer on Alice in Wonderland stated it would in fact be 2-Discs.

Despite the apparent short list of features, it looks nearly identical to The Lion King 1 1/2's release. Same types of extras, almost the same portions of featurettes and games. Plus, when a DVD has both Dolby Digital and DTS sound and still has some extras to boot, its almost granted the extras will be pushed to a second disc to make space.

Here's how I see it looking on the DVD:

DISC 1

- THX-certified 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
- Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1

DISC 2

Featurettes
- "Proud of Simba's Pride" Making-of (15:00)
- "Lots About Lions" featurette (5:00)
- "One by One" short (7:00)
- "Find Out Why" Educational short (5:00)
- Music Video

Games and Activites
- Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari 2.0
- "Rafiki's Challenge" game
- "Prideland Play and Learn" game

Looks like Region 1 will finally be getting the Rafiki game, which was taken off The Lion King's disc, but included outside of Region 1 on The Lion King 1 1/2 (or The Lion King 3)'s DVD.

[Disney Guru]

Thank you for sharing all of this valuable information with us.

[Starion]

Thanks for the info. I want to play Rafiki's Challenge Game too.

Here are the language details:
English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (5.1 DTS ES), French, Spanish

[Satoshi]

Sounds good, I can't wait to complete my Lion King Trilogy. Now I just want cover art.

[disneyfella]

i'm wondering if maybe this 'trailers' section might not be a publicity gallery for ALL of the Lion King films. i know that's way too much to ask from Disney, but a guy can hope can't he? we never received any trailers from the first 2 films and maybe they are holding it all back for special features on this last disc. i dunno.

[2099net]

Thanks for the info. I want to play Rafiki's Challenge Game too.

No you don't. Not if you've got even a single braincell. Take it from me.

[jambo*rafiki]

Woohoo! We FINALLY get to experience 2099 and Luke's favorite game!
Which also happens to be the only DVD game prominently featuring my namesake.
Which is probably a good thing. He's better at giving out wise advice, anyway.

[Starion]

Here are some more details. The "Find Out Why Game ," "Proud Of Simba's Pride" making of featurette and "Lots About Lions " extras sound cool. I hope Disney does include Trailers in this 2 Disc DVD set.

The movie is THX Certified as Disneykid said.

Audio tracks:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: DTS 5.1 [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Stereo

Features:
All New One By One Animated Short
From the Makers of The Lion King.

Find Out Why Game
Ever wonder why we sneeze? Or how an airplane flies? Timon has a few creative ideas, but Pumbaa has some more believable explanations for fascinating scientific phenomena.

Proud Of Simba's Pride
A Making-of featurette that highlights the seeds of the story, the development of the new characters, the African roots of the music and more!

Rafiki's Challenge
Rafiki's three gourd monty game, the classic shell game with a fun twist!

Lots About Lions
Learn more about "big cats," the animals that were the role models for Simba, Kiara and the rest of the pride.

Pride Land Games
Using their math skills, kids can help Timon and Pumbaa gather grubs for the feast and arrange rocks so Kiara and Kovu can get around the crocodiles!

Disney's Song Selection
Skip to your favorite song or play them all! Display the lyrics with the click of a button.

Music Videos
Possibly Love Will Find a Way by Kenny Lattimore & Heather Headley (Adult Nala from the Broadway Musical, Aida)
Maybe a remix of a song starring a young Disney star or stars

And More!

[Jake Lipson]

This sounds good enough, roughly the equeal of TLK1½, although I'm really disappointed at the lack of deleted scenes. The script at lionking.org has some good ones -- Nukia and Vaniti (sp) at Kiara's presentation, Mufassa talking to Rafikki about the outlander cub, and a post-credits Disneyland joke with Timon and Pumbaa. I'dve loved to see these restored to the film (if any TLK movie deserves an SE cut, it's this one), or at least on the disc as deleted scenes.

Major bummer.

Still, it sounds good enough, and I'd pick it up even if it was a straight reissue of the Limited Issue. So...yeah, these specs are pleasing. Let's just hope the cover art is, too.

Good to hear we'll be getting a Spanish track on this, too. Being a Spanish student, it's sometimes fun to turn on the dubs on favorite movies and see how much I can understand. The Spanish was sorely missed on TLK and 1½. I'm not going to buy another copy of it just to get the Spanish version, sheesh!

[Disneykid]

Music Videos
THX Certified
And More!

They THX-certified the music videos? That's rather bizarre...

[Mickey A]

The early cover art for the Lion King II: SE DVD was posted on Animated-News. However, the early cover art for both The Lion King: SE and The Lion King 1 1/2 changed a few months before their DVD's' release.

See the cover art here:
http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00000878.html

[Paka]

Hey Mickey!! 'Tis Lindsay. Glad to see you join the UD forum!

However, we've already discussed and picked over the potential SP cover art a while ago. Though I admit that AN's image file is huge...

This sounds good enough, roughly the equal of TLK1½, although I'm really disappointed at the lack of deleted scenes. The script at lionking.org has some good ones -- Nukia and Vaniti (sp) at Kiara's presentation, Mufassa talking to Rafikki about the outlander cub, and a post-credits Disneyland joke with Timon and Pumbaa. I'dve loved to see these restored to the film (if any TLK movie deserves an SE cut, it's this one), or at least on the disc as deleted scenes.

I dunno if you knew this or not Jake, but there's MPEG video files of several of those very deleted scenes you're referring to, shown in rough pencil form and located here at LionKing.org (scroll all the way to the bottom of the page). Again, you may have already seen them, but since you referred to just the SP script, and not the rough pencil scenes, I thought I might mention it. LOL
Those scenes certainly make things interesting, though. The film would have been even more sinister had those been keep intact. I can't believe that Zira's would-be suicide got that far before getting cut! 'Cause as intriguing as the concept is, it's still quite "un-Disneylike", and it's interesting that they were allowed to develop those scenes in the first place. Maybe there's just something in the water over in Australia...

I was kinda wondering if these scenes had a chance of being on the SE as extras, but since they're so "controversial", I'm not surprised they've been omitted in favor of the 7,231 other brainless set-top games and music videos.

[Billy Moon]

"One by One" short

Will there be any chance to get this without buying The Lion King II, I wonder...

[Loomis]

"One by One" short

Will there be any chance to get this without buying The Lion King II, I wonder...

Probably eventually.....

But it seems to be a major selling point for the LK2 disc - it was mentioned in the ad on the LK 1.5 disc....

Mind you though, it really should have gone on the TLK: Platinum disc. Even so, most of these shorts end up on multiple discs....

[Starion]

Music Videos
THX Certified
And More!

They THX-certified the music videos? That's rather bizarre...

No, only the movie is THX Certified. I didn't correctly format my article. Sorry for the confusion. Let me fix the message.

I think the music videos will be of high quality though. I'm not sure if the music will be in Dolby Digital or Stereo.

[Disney Guru]

Thank you all for sharing this great information about this movie. I will most likebaly be buying this DVD. Since I didn't buy the Limited Issue DVD when it came out!