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I know there are a few laserdisc collectors here, do you plan on hanging on to your LDs, or get rid of them once you get DVDs with no missing features, edited scenes, etc.?

I was happy to find Beauty and the Beast: A Work in Progress in a cut-out bin for $15, fairly soon after it had been released.

I have the Fantasia box set, I think I managed to find it for ~$40 or so.

I own Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, although for some reason, I never picked up the first movie. I will hang on to this since the DVD isn't widescreen.

I will probably keep The Santa Clause until it rots away, since Disney chose to remove a controversial scene (see the Santa Clause thread for more details.)

I also own the Snow White box set, and while the Platinum DVD had most of the extras, plus some new ones, it was still missing a couple of extras, such as a much larger gallery of advertising images, and, I think, an audio-only track or two.

I really enjoyed my Toy Story box set, I don't recall anything missing from the UTB DVD release, except for the physical items, of course (the hardback book, etc.)

Finally, I had Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in CLV instead of CAV format, but I had a player that was able to create digital still-frames and do other CAV only functions on a CLV disc.

(if i not specify the edition is cus i cant remember ) (Some disc are partial CAV or viceversa)

Snow White CLV
Pinocchio CAV Red Box (had also a stereo CD)
Fantasia CAV Blue Box
Dumbo CLV remaster 1(Technicolor super colors)
Dumbo ¿CAV or CLV? can't remember. white frame cover remaster 2. Not as good colors)
Bambi CAV
Saludos Amigos + 3 Caballeros CAV Archive Box set
i think I have Adeventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad
Cinderella Japanese import (years before it was released here)
Alice In wonderland CLV (not the white framed cover remaster)
The Sword And The Stone CAV
The Jungle Book CAV
The Aristocats
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Little Mermaid CAV 4:3 (1 and a half copies ) (the other half was sent to a family whose disc half had been damaged and the lil girl was crying from Mermaid withdrawal and put an ad in the papers looking for help) (you see, the good Disney stuff is always out of print!) )
Beauty And The Beast: Work In Progress CAV
Beauty And The Beast CAV . (original dark muted dramatic colors)
Aladdin CAV (see my current(for a limited time!) avatar ) only one edit in the soundtrack mmm me and Evil Genie Jafar need to talk one day
Mary Poppins CAV Achive thing
Tron CAV Archive thing
The Prince And The Pauper CAV? 4:3 Also had other shorts like Peter and the wolf, whales, sheepish lions and musicallands
Honey I Shrunk the Kids 4:3. Has The Roger Rabbit short which i think had better colors than on the dvd. (there's some unespecified fuzziness on the dvd on that short i think)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit CAV widescreen original edition (no tampering )
Who Framed Roger Rabbitt CAV Widrescreen reedition or remaster 2? can't remember. I think it was still untampered. (The good 'ol days when we were "less" free )
oh and Dick Tracy CAV 4:3 Great Technicolory comic book colors look. (open matted supposedly as Storaro wanted. But hey Storaro has strange aspect ratio ideas like pan scaning Apocalipse Now from 2.40 Panavision to 2.00 Storaro"vision" (i still have part of the Valkyrie attack on 2.40 on a special laserdisc ) The Dick Tracy didnt bring the R Rabbit shot tho. (but that's whats dvds are for ;P )

(one technical note about CLV special sfx: they indeed give you 90% of CAV functions (tho nothing can surpass the surreal psicodelic 48 fps and 60 fps 2x and 3x CAV fast play )
But same as with VHS and old digital TV's frezzframes/slow mo, the CLV sfx frames halve the vertical resolution since they discard one video field (of the two 60Hz interlaced ones) to present a stable (non-epileptic-interlacing-jittery) progressive frame.)

I might have more Disney or Touchstone stuff but i might not remember it

AAAAAAAAAAh ooffff course.

The Toy Box Deluxe Box set thinguie.

I still can remember puting it into the 27" (calibrated by me) (but of course) TV and saying: Wow! this looks better than the print i saw in the theaters!

Digital rendering and CRT's infinite contrast pure blacks can do wonders baby.

AAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNND Nightmare before Christmas Deluxe CAV box set also with bookie thing and stuff and uncensored (or later deleted in other editions? shorts/stuff)

The only other thing i got from that era is a complete Make Mine Music taped in S-VHS from the disney channel. (paints his face blue and shouts: freeeeeeeeeeeeeeedom)

(it's sodium pentathol weekend)

All I own on LaserDisc is TRON original edition, which sadly has a crack in it.

The animated features:

Snow White CAV box set
Pinocchio CLV
Pinocchio Japanese CAV box set
Fantasia CLV
Fantasia CAV box set
Dumbo CAV
Dumbo Japanese CLV
Bambi CAV (with extras)
Bambi Japanese CLV
Saludos Amigos / Three Caballeros CAV box set
Fun And Fancy Free CAV
Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad CLV
Cinderella CAV box set
Alice In Wonderland CAV box set
Alice In Wonderland old CLV edition
Peter Pan CAV (with extras)
Peter Pan older CLV edition
Lady And The Tramp CAV
Lady And The Tramp Hong Kong P&S CLV
Sleeping Beauty CAV box set
101 Dalmatians CAV
101 Dalmatians earlier Japanese-only CLV edition
The Sword And The Stone CAV (1995)
The Sword And The Stone CLV (early 90s)
The Jungle Book CAV (mid-late 90s)
The Jungle Book CLV (early 90s)
The Aristocats CAV
The Aristocats Hong Kong CLV
Robin Hood CLV
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Rescuers CLV (mid-late 90s, OAR)
The Rescuers CLV (early 90s)
Rox & Rouky (The Fox And The Hound in French) PAL
Taram & Le Chaudron Magique (Black Cauldron in French) PAL
Great Mouse Detective CAV
The Little Mermaid CAV (with extras)
The Little Mermaid CAV (old)
The Little Mermaid old Hong Kong CLV
The Rescuers Down Under CLV
Beauty And The Beast CAV
Beauty And The Beast: Work In Progress CAV
Aladdin CAV
Lion King CAV box set
Pocahontas CAV box set
Hunchback Of Notre Dame CAV box set
Hercules Japanese CLV (with some extras)
Mulan (French) PAL

Shorts:

Mickey Mouse The Black And White Years Volume One box set
A Walt Disney Christmas
Pluto ("Cartoon Classics" Vol 2)
Chip’n’Dale With Donald Duck (CC Vol 1)
Sport Goofy (CC Vol 4)
Disney’s Best Of 1931-1948 (CC Vol 5)
More Sport Goofy (CC Vol 6)
Donald’s Bee Pictures ("Limited Gold Edition II")
The World According To Goofy (LGE II)
The Disney Dream Factory: 1933-1938 (LGE II)
An Officer And A Duck (LGE II)
How The Best Was Won: 1933-1960 (LGE II)
Life With Mickey (LGE II)
From Pluto With Love (LGE II)
Silly Symphonies - Fanciful Fables (CC Vol 13)
Silly Symphonies - Animal Tales (CC Vol 14)
Here’s Mickey / Here’s Pluto
Here’s Donald / Here’s Goofy
A Tale Of Two Chipmunks / The Unsinkable Donald Duck
Mickey Knows Best / The Importance Of Being Donald
Silly Symphonies / Starring Silly Symphonies: Animals Two By Two
Mickey & The Gang / Nuts About Chip’n’Dale
Starring Mickey & Minnie / Starring Chip’n’Dale
Donald’s Scary Tales / Halloween Haunts
The Prince And The Pauper
CC: Special Edition
Starring Donald & Daisy / Starring Pluto & Fifi

Shorts collections released in Japan:

PILA-1294 Mickey Mouse A Star Is Born box set
PILA-1351 Donald Duck A Star Is Born box set
SF047-1712 Mickey & Minnie
PILA-1113 Donald & Goofy
PILA-1118 Hello Mickey
PILA-1119 Hello Donald
PILA-1333 Mickey’s Summer Madness
PILA-1334 Celebrate With Mickey
PILA-1335 Mickey’s Jungle Trouble
PILA-1358 Mickey Be Mine
PILA-1359 Here’s Mickey
PILA-1386 Sport Goofy In Soccermania
PILA-1404 Mickey Loves Minnie
PILA-1407 The Tortoise And The Hare
PILA-1427 Donald’s Birthday Bash
PILA-1428 Starring Donald
PILA-1452 Mickey & All Stars
PILA-1475 Donald & Company
PILA-1476 Fisherman Mickey
PILA-1489 Mountaineering Mickey
PILA-1490 Mickey, Pluto & Friends

...and Hong Kong:
Here’s Donald
Here’s Goofy
Here’s Pluto


In addition to these a couple of minor titles such as Song Of The South and Who Framed Roger Rabbit and probably even a few more.


And yes, I'm hanging on to them.

Seems no one dared reply after I did. Sorry...

Lars Vermundsberget wrote:Seems no one dared reply after I did. Sorry...

I have everything on your list, except for the HK Lady and the Tramp and the Japanese Hunchback. I didn't know the CLV had any extras. Was there anything different than the extras from the box set? I was going to post my list, but someone just suggested that I post "all". If you click on my webpage below, you can see my Japanese list. I don't have all of the live action PILA Japanese LDs, but I have most of the others.

mvealf is the one I was waiting for in this thread...

I haven't got a JP HoND, but Hercules. The JP CLV edition has a rather short making-of piece and a "music video".

mvealf is the Lasermaster.

Just Myself sorry to hear that. I got myself an 8" music video LD (and as far as I know not yet released on DVD) that's broken in two. I wonder if LDs could be repaired/glued/resurfaced, at least long enough to be able to make a copy..
maybe one day i'll experiment. (I once read that the pieces would unglue and go flying off at 1200 RPM...)

I got the PAL 16:9 widescreen Tron, it looks great, so at least you can get that movie on DVD

Lars Vermundsberget wrote:mvealf is the one I was waiting for in this thread...

I haven't got a JP HoND, but Hercules. The JP CLV edition has a rather short making-of piece and a "music video".

I must have mis-read your list. Yes, the Hercules Japanese LD has a making-of that wasn't made available in the U.S. until a year later on the DVD .

Posting my collection would be too overwhelming, so I will just list a few of what I consider to be my prize possessions. No, not the HK Song of the South, that is one of the worst looking laserdiscs. These are collections that are so rare, I have never known anyone else to have all of them. If I'm wrong, somebody please let me know. The first is the Japanese collection of 7 Cartoon Festivals. The first 3 were made by Pioneer, but the last 4 were pressed by Bandai, who almost immediately lost the rights to make them after they were pressed, so there were extremely few of them made for a very short time. Photos here:
http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdiscs/dcf.html

The second group is the 12 volume "Disney Gold Disc" Bandai collection. There are some great Wonderful World of Disney episodes, theatrical documentaries and other collections that have never been released on any other format. Photos here:
http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdiscs/dgd.html

Also among my favorites are the True-Life Adventures LDs:
http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdiscs/true.html

and the the Limited Gold Editions:
http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdiscs/gold.html

Then there's the rare Ducktales Pilot movie "Treasure of the Golden Suns"
http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdiscs/19041.html

As far as US laserdiscs, my favorite is the Disneyland Anthology.

I guess that's all I'll mention for now

I forgot to mention the Disneyland Anthology. I've got it as well, but that's a Japanese edition.

I think I've got most of the Japanese shorts collections from about 1990 and later, but I'm missing the older (~mid-80s) ones. I think there's every reason to agree with mvealf when he says they're extremely rare. But I'll be able to do without them, as it seems we'll get practically all of the classic shorts on DVD (Treasures) eventually. I just hope we'll also get the True Life Adventures.

Lars Vermundsberget wrote:I think there's every reason to agree with mvealf when he says they're extremely rare. But I'll be able to do without them, as it seems we'll get practically all of the classic shorts on DVD (Treasures) eventually. I just hope we'll also get the True Life Adventures.

Yes, I would love to see a nice DVD collection of restored True Life Adventures, features and shorts. And while they're at it, they could also include the People and Places series that was kind of a spin-off. There are still many things on laserdisc that I don't know if we will ever see them released again, but who knows. I'm thinking of the non-traditional longer shorts that have been censored, like "The Story of Anyburg USA", The Saga of Windwagon Smith, Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, The Truth About Mother Goose, and also Make Mine Music and Song of the South. Although my gut feeling is that Song of the South will eventually get a DVD release.

I would loooooove to get the People and Places.

It's interesting to see the many things that were released in Laserdisc (supposedly a very smal market format which i'm sure had much higher manufacturing costs than mass manudfactured DVD media today. How much does it cost to "fabricate" a dvd? a dime?) while at the same time, when DVD is bought by millions, these things are not out on DVD, even when they probably would sell more than when they were released on LD.

mvealf probaly has a master list with the things not released in bold, and he looks at it and goes

I still have a copy of the Tokyo Disneyland laserdisc. It is a theme park LD that runs about 30 to 40 minutes and highlights various attractions/rides at Tokyo Disneyland. It is completely in Japanese.

deathie mouse wrote:I would loooooove to get the People and Places.

It's interesting to see the many things that were released in Laserdisc (supposedly a very smal market format which i'm sure had much higher manufacturing costs than mass manudfactured DVD media today. How much does it cost to "fabricate" a dvd? a dime?) while at the same time, when DVD is bought by millions, these things are not out on DVD, even when they probably would sell more than when they were released on LD.

mvealf probaly has a master list with the things not released in bold, and he looks at it and goes

Yes, but that list is getting smaller, it used to be huge. It's mainly the old Japanese laserdiscs that have the interesting rare stuff, and those were released in even smaller numbers because they weren't intended for the worldwide market.

ValenciaJoe wrote:I still have a copy of the Tokyo Disneyland laserdisc. It is a theme park LD that runs about 30 to 40 minutes and highlights various attractions/rides at Tokyo Disneyland. It is completely in Japanese.

There are 2 Tokyo Disneyland laserdiscs. The first one has a nice map of the park on the back:
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdi ... w-1021.jpg" width="520" height="257"></p>And the second one is a double feature: 15th anniversary special / History of Tokyo Disneyland:
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdi ... a-1474.jpg" width="200" height="196"></p>
Then there are 3 different DVDs:<p><img border="0" src="http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/pictures/l/06/36/VWDS-4760.jpg" width="315" height="450"></p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/pictures/s/06/28/VWDS-4616.jpg" width="128" height="128"><img border="0" src="http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/pictures/s/06/36/VWDS-4664.jpg" width="128" height="128"></p>

Good Morning all,
Started collecting Disney Animated classics when my wife suggested I needed a hobby to get me through an extended illness.

Very impressed with mvealf and Lars Vermundsberget collections. I have three additional discs that are not on thier lists of animated classics... Oliver & Company, Melody Time Japanese CLV & Tarzan Japanese CLV (which I believe is the last animated classic released on laser).

The only disc I'm still looking to add to my collection is Make Mine Music.

Guess Ill have to start a new collection!
Have a great day!

Oh my.

I didn't list Oliver & Co! I've got it (CAV edition), but probably, on a subconscious level, found it so forgettable that I forgot to list it...

However, I'm still hoping to find the LDs of Make Mine Music and Melody Time at a somewhat reasonable price some day. Having the Tarzan disc would also be neat. I agree that Tarzan probably was the last one on LD.

My Modest Disney LD Collection:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Archive Edition)
Aladdin (Japanese Box Set)
Aladdin
Alice In Wonderland (American Box Set)
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast (Japanese Box Set)
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast -- Work in Progress
Best of Roger Rabbit, The
Brave Little Toaster, The
Cinderella (American Box Set)
Cinderella (Japanese Box Set)
Disney's Favorite Stories -- The Three Little Pigs (Japanese)
Donald -- Limited Gold Edition (Japanese)
Donald Duck's 50 Crazy Years (Japanese)
Donald Duck -- A Star is Born (Japanese)
Fantasia (American Box Set)
Goofy Movie, A (WS!)
Homeward Bound -- The Incredible Journey (WS!)
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (American Box Set)
It's a Goofy World (Japanese)
Kidnapped
Kids is Kids (DiscoVision)
Lady and the Tramp
Lion King, The (American Box Set)
Lion King, The
Little Mermaid, The
Love Bug, The
Make Mine Music (Japanese)
Mary Poppins (Archive Edition)
Melody Time (Japanese)
Mickey's Greatest Hits (Japanese)
Mickey and the Beanstalk/The Reluctant Dragon
Mickey Mouse -- A Star is Born (Japanese Box Set)
Mickey Mouse -- The Black and White Years (American Box Set)
More Silly Symphonies (Japanese)
More Tales of Pluto (Japanese)
Muppet Christmas Carol, The (WS!)
Muppet Treasure Island (WS!)
Nightmare Before Christmas, The (American Box Set WITH "Slow Bob")
Officer and a Duck, An
On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends (DiscoVision)
Pinocchio (American Box Set)
Pocahontas (American Box Set)
Prince and the Pauper, The
Rescuers, The (the Two-T*ts release)
Return of Jafar, The
Sing Along Songs -- Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/Heigh-Ho
Sleeping Beauty (American Box Set)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (American Box Set)
Song of the South (Hong Kong)
Song of the South (Japanese Digital)
Song of the South (Japanese Analog)
Sport Goofy's Vacation (Japanese)
Sword and the Rose, The
Three Caballeros, The (Japanese)
Three Caballeros/Saludos Amigos (Archive Box Set)
Tom and Huck (WS!)
Toy Story (American Box Set)
Toy Story (DTS)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Unedited)

...whew!

TLK

Does anyone know if the Japanese DVDs (especially those of the theme parks) are all region encoded (allowing all players to play those DVDs)?
Thanks in advance!

Lars Vermundsberget wrote:Oh my.

I didn't list Oliver & Co! I've got it (CAV edition), but probably, on a subconscious level, found it so forgettable that I forgot to list it...

However, I'm still hoping to find the LDs of Make Mine Music and Melody Time at a somewhat reasonable price some day. Having the Tarzan disc would also be neat. I agree that Tarzan probably was the last one on LD.

There was 1 release after Tarzan, The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, actually released before any U.S. version. I have LM2 along with Tarzan, Mulan, A Bug's Life, Pocahontas 2, Lion King 2, An Extremely Goofy Movie, Fox and the Hound, Oliver & Co, Make Mine Music and Melody Time Japanese releases. Someone recently sold the Japanese LD of Melody Time on eBay for about $78.