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Hey, I'm just wondering if there's any word on a Peter Pan SE or PE in the near future, or if i should just get the gold collection. Cuz I swear that i heard about an SE somewhere, but i can't find it on this site.... thanks!

Welcome to the forum, ehayut. Peter Pan was never released as a Gold Collection disc. It was originally released as a bare Limited Issue, and then reissued with some nice bonus features as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... vemz">this Special Edition</a> in time for the sequel's release. It has been out of print for over a year, so it's gotten difficult to find.

This review really explains why the Special Edition is worth tracking down:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/peterpan.html

If you have multi-region DVD capabilities, there's a 2-Disc Edition Collector's in France that seems pretty nice and appears to still be in print:
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B ... guidet-21/

A special edition of "Peter Pan" was released in the USA in 2002, but it is already out-of-print.
This is it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... eimprovemz

In France, there was a 2-disc collector's edition of "Peter Pan" released last year, which is even better than the American 1-disc SE.
You can find it here: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B ... guidet-21/

But if you are patient, "Peter Pan" has been recently added to the Platinum Collection, so an even better edition shall be arriving in region 1 in some years.

cool, thanks a lot... so do you know if there is any news on the 2 disc SE since the review was posted?

I live in Canada, btw

ehayut, welcome to the forum!

To answer your questions, (MAKE SURE YOU READ ALL OFF THIS!):

Peter Pan was added to the Platinum Collection on May 1, 2003 along with Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, and Fantasia. If they are all rereleased as Platinums, you could be waiting till 2007, or until the last Platinum of the original list, presumably 101 Dalamatians, is released. By that time, most the the industry will have started releasing BluRay or HDVDs, which are the obvoius choice over normal DVD. Because they were added to the list, many think that the recent Sleeping Beauty SE was the announced PE. Along the same lines, Fantasia was a SE, Peter Pan became an SE. So, essentially, we could all presume that these are the announced versions. The only one needing rerelease would be Pinocchio. Now on the pessimistic side, you could say that those are not the same versions that were announced, and could wait for the so-called Platinums. It certain that 3 of the 4 movies, not including SB, could have much more bonus features added to them.

So what I'm trying to say is that you could wait a long time for the PEs, or just grab the OOP SE of Peter Pan right now. I myself just found it on the shelf at a local A&B Sound , and its a fairly good release, although I would definitely be double dipping (whereas I wouldn't be sure about rebuying Sleeping Beauty).

It depends if you want it right now, or if you can jsut wait a bit, and rent it for the time being. If you choose to buy it, beware of eBay, there's lots of illegal copies out there. I would first look around local stores at the back of shelfs. (I found a Beauty and the Beast DVD which has been OOP for 2 years on the shelf at Rogers Video).

Happy pondering, and join in on the forum!