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If anyody has The Rescuers Down Under Gold Collection DVD, watch the first preview which promotoes the Gold Collection catalogue and you'll notice at the end of the advertisement, they show a bunch of Region 1 DVD's from the Gold Collection moving accross the screen in a line. At the very end is a box for Melody Time which is all blue and has Donald Duck, Johnny Appleseed and a bunch of other characters posing on the front cover... I was just curious if anyone could explain this for me?

That picture is on the menu screen on the DVD. I guess that could be a planned cover for the DVD, but they changed it before releasing it.

I'll check the Rescuers Down Under DVD when I get home from work.

Thanks.

That cover art for Melody Time that you saw was the cover art for the 50th Anniversary release of Melody Time.
I couldnt get the picture onto here but here is a link that will lead you to a picture of the cover art you were talking about.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/07888 ... ZZZZZZ.jpg

Thanks but Im 99% sure that WASNT the picture.

This one was all blue and didnt seem to have all those banners at the top. In fact Im pretty sure I saw a Gold Collection title.

What is this 50th Ann. Edition though, does it exist in R1 DVD format and what extra features does it have over the regular GC? Is it still edited?

(Btw, that looks like a VHS copy)






and in future, if you want to post pictures, just enter the url (right click properties and copy the picture address) and than paste it in between these: , only without any spaces...

Well of course its the video cover art. Melody Time wasnt on DVD until 2001. I also remeber watching a commercial of the Gold Collection on (i think) the Tarzan video, and instead of seeing new cover art for the movies i just saw the old cover art for each one and some of them had the Gold Collection symbol on them. as you see this is the cover i remember seeing in that commercial.


This is the Gold Collection cover art for Melody Time.


The 50th Anniversary edition came out in 1998 was indeed edited. Melody Time wasnt on Disney DVD until 2001.The only thing special about the 50th Anniversary edition is just the cover art. The Gold Collection edition is much better than the 50th Anniversary edition. [/quote]

I don't know-the Melody Time is reminiscent of "Fantasia"-you know, Mickey on a magical piece of sheet music, Donald on a magical piece of sheet music. This movie just seemed to be "Donald's Fantasia".

That's still not the same cover art I was referring to from the video preview.

I've seen that preview on another movie-I'm like 99.9% sure that is the cover-if you look, they also didn't change the covers for Pocahontas. They just rid of the Masterpiece Collection banner and logo, and replaced it with the Gold Classic Collection banner. It doesn't matter, anyway-since they decided to change the cover altogether. Now the Gold Classic Collection releases of Toy Story, Pinocchio, Mulan, Alice in Wonderland, and Robin Hood didn't change from their previous covers.

The 50th Anniversary edition came out in 1998 was indeed edited. Melody Time wasnt on Disney DVD until 2001.The only thing special about the 50th Anniversary edition is just the cover art. The Gold Collection edition is much better than the 50th Anniversary edition.

Just in case there are people reading this who don't frequent the International DVD forum, the UK Melody Time is uncut.

Uncle Remus wrote:Melody Time wasnt on DVD until 2001.

Actually, it came out on DVD on June 6, 2000.

STASHONE wrote:That's still not the same cover art I was referring to from the video preview.

yes Stash One is the same cover from the Masterpiece Collection 50th Anniversary Edition. Uncle Remus is 100% correct

Just checked The Rescuers Down Under DVD and the advertisements for Melody Time, Pocahontas, and Fun and Fancy Free displayed their old Masterpiece Collection VHS art. On most of the other Gold Classic Collection DVDs, the same is true for The Sword in the Stone as well.

Speaking of Melody Time, I can't find it on the DMC website

poco wrote:Speaking of Melody Time, I can't find it on the DMC website

Sign in, and then:

http://disney.videos.go.com/General/Hom ... No=1960303

Or to view the info page:

http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/dmc/DVD/1960303.html

Well, i declare!! I was searching for it the other day and could not find it, nor could I find hunchback II.

Must not be seeing right. got to go to eye doctor.