Originally Posted By DAR I'll be picking it up after work today. It's probably been about ten years since I've seen the film. I'm excited about the extras. What else needs the 2 disc treatment? Here's the list of what I think is left: Definites: 101 Dalmatians Hunchback of Notre Dame(?) Maybe Sword in the Stone The Aristocats Not very likely Make Mine Music Melody Time Saludos Amigos Fun and Fancy Free The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad The Three Caballeros
Originally Posted By SFH I'm holding out for the four disc Blu-ray editions. No sense buying the same movies 20 times. ;-) SFH
Originally Posted By DAR Well I want to get them before they go back into the "Vault" never to be seen again.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Has 'Jungle Book' really never been on DVD? I saw a commercial for it, and thought I had travelled back in time.
Originally Posted By basil fan There were a few films that were released in the earliest days of DVD before anybody had a player and before the invention of bonus features. I know Lady & the Tramp and Little Mermaid were included, but not sure about Jungle Book. Gilligan's Island Glitches <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/glitch/giglitch.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/ glitch/giglitch.html</a>
Originally Posted By Jim That's Disney's clever marketing at work. The ads say, "Available for the first time ever on 2-Disc DVD." Before it was only 1 disc. In 50 years, it'll be, "Available for the first time ever with a red cover!"
Originally Posted By Shooba It's the first time the Jungle Book has been on DVD since 1999. It's the first time it's been available in widescreen. It's newly restored.
Originally Posted By DAR <<DAR, how about Pinocchio?>> I forgot about that and that's the biggie for me.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Yeah, Mermaid, Dalmatians, Pinocchio and Jungle Book all came out on DVD around '98/'99 in the single disc Blah Edition. The extras were the trailers and the full color-artwork on the disc, which was a literal statement since the disc had full color artwork on it. I think that ALL the animated features should come out in 2-Disc editions, no matter how popular or not they were.
Originally Posted By goofyjd So I just picked up Jungle Book and it says that the Spring 2008 Platinum edition is 101 Dalmatians which is great but then the Fall 2008 is Sleeping Beauty?!?!?! This came out as a 2 disk special edition in 2003. why is this being released again so soon?? why cant this be Pinocchio?
Originally Posted By Shooba I thought the same thing. The Sleeping Beauty DVD was pretty good too. They should give the 2-disc treatment to a movie that hasn't had it.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Interesting, the difference in releases. This is the 1st release of Jungle Book on DVD in the UK, but we had a limited edition of Pinnocchio a few years ago. I know we are in a different arket, but I wonder why the significant differences. Jungle Book is released here end of Nov/beginning of Dec. Santa Clause will bring a copy to our little ones.
Originally Posted By SFH Once I own a movie on DVD, I refuse to buy another copy of the same film, no matter what extras they add that they should have added in the first place. The one exception is The Lord of the Rings trilogy. If I know they are eventually going to release the movie again in a better DVD, I'll wait. SFH
Originally Posted By u k fan The Jungle Book has been released in the UK on DVD before. It was in 2000. I remember because I worked in Woolies at the time and swiped a poster!!!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Well, us Cauldron girls thought they weren't going to be releasing SLEEPING BEAUTY again until 2009 when she turns 50 years old. We also thought there was going to be some kind of tie-in with the castle walk thru's re-awakening and maybe even a stage show at Disneyland. But some of those management types must be changing their minds again. ORDDU: In any case, it's nice to see The Jungle Book coming out again. We agree with the duckling who said EVERY Disney animated film should be restored and given the '2 disc' treatment. It's only fair, after all. ORGOCH: Don't hold yer breath by hopin' they'll do the same fer BLACK CAULDRON, though!!!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It's nice that they are finally getting around to releasing all of the movies to the masses, even if they aren't all on 2 discs yet. I have to say that I wasn't particularly impressed with the Jungle Book movie itself. It's probably been at least 12 years since I saw it last, and it really just doesn't do much for me. I appreciate all the effort that went into it (maybe watching all the extras will make me like it more), but I just can't say that I really have a burning desire to see it again any time soon.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Oh, thanks UKFAN, I got our 1st DVD player end of 2000 and couldn't find it.
