Disney International Gone Pooh Mad

[2099net]

Everyone on this forum is posting piles and piles of pooh releases in their respective countries.

But why? I don't mind one or two Pooh releases, but when you look at the list of bestsellers the Pooh releases are near the bottom of the list (do a search on Amazon.Co.UK's DVD section for "Walt Disney" and sort by best selling. The Pooh discs are almost all on the last few pages).

I don't see how flooding the market with Pooh can be a good thing - even the avid followers of "the silly old Pooh bear" cannot afford to buy them all. And why Pooh all the time, especially when Disney have literally hundreds of other TV series they can also release on DVD? *cough*HouseOfMouse*cough*

Do you think this has something to do with the still ongoing court case?

[Luke]

Interesting thought - could be related to the case.

What I want to know is why everyone else gets them and not US.

And you're right - why just this one TV series? We all know Disney could be bringing in lots of money releasing season sets of Home Improvement, Boy Meets World, The Golden Girls, Even Stevens, Scrubs, etc...instead they release Felicity...and Pooh?

As with so many other odd BVHE decisions (like moving Aladdin back a year), I don't think we'll ever have an officially defined answer, but most of our posts offer speculation anyway, I guess.

[Loomis]

Do you think this has something to do with the still ongoing court case?

I think it absolutely does.

If Disney loses this, they are liable to lose a quarter of their total merchandise income (I think Pooh counts for something ridiculous like 10 billion out of 40 billion $). Disney are trying to get as many of these onto the market as possible before the end of the court case.

Perhaps the reason the international market is getting more is that the licence agreement might have covered specific areas. Or something.

Don't ask me. I'm not legally minded

I certainly can't afford to buy them all (although I do), and they aren't really given much of a marketing push here at all. Perhaps they have to release a certain amount of stuff in certain territories to maintain the rights. Whether they sell or not.