Originally Posted By Rebekah This topic is for discussion of the 9/4/2002 news item <b><a href="http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/56204.htm" target="_blank">NYPost: Disney Makes Big Kids Cry</a></b> The September 4th <I>New York Post</I> talks about fans response to the Disney Channel's complete removal of classic Disney programming leaving the Disney Channel without Walt.
Originally Posted By wilbear64 BOOOOO! I want my Vault Disney, as well as the new shows! Can't they just mix it up?
Originally Posted By GGGF How can they say, "people got tired of the same shows over and over" and they put on *repeats* of the afternoon shows which are already shown repeatedly during the day? Um, hello? And really, even with a satellite feed, how much earlier are the shows going to be? 1 A.M. instead of 3? Ridiculous. The great Disney classics are just as fun for kids today as there back when they first aired. They should move Vault Disney into the afternoon and I suspect what's old will be new again and many folks will watch.
Originally Posted By rasvar What gets me is that you can have a company like Time Warner/AOL pull out a bunch of bad cartoons that a lot of baby boomers want and start a channel called Boomerang and, apparently, have it work. Disney now has Disney family Channel and the Disney Channel. My guess is that in a few years we won't be able to tell them apart. I have always wondered if Disney would get smart enough to bank on the nostalgia of baby boomers [tell me VH-1 and Classic VH-1 aren't that] and just start a Vault Disney Channel. Probably end up with ratings just as good as their other channels but with a demographic that can actually afford some nice products. Of course with the schlock Disney puts on ABC and other places, that would be too obvious.
Originally Posted By rasvar Ohhh, and dig deep into the vault! I wonder what would happen if they just took old Disneyland/Wonderful World of Color/Wonderful World of Disney and just played them in sequence at various times during the week.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I love the Boomerang network. It is such a kick to see how crappy a lot of those old Hanna Barbara cartoons were. Especially the Scooby-Doo clones like Clue Club and Funky Phantom.
Originally Posted By Foolhardy I know a way Disney could make a Vault Disney channel work. It would run all the classic shows/specials/movies plus produce documentaries about classic Disney productions. For example, they could do a show about how they managed to achieve special effects back then or maybe an IN DEPTH look into the animation environment in that time. Then again Disney already owns about 5 channels; could they even afford another one?
Originally Posted By Foolhardy And another thought: If this Vault Disney channel became popular enough mayve they could make those Walt Disney Treasure titles in larger numbers..
Originally Posted By wdtv What confuses me is that TDC pulls the plug on VD even though the semi-new VD DVD's are selling pretty well. Plus, it has been shown that many VD viewers were under 18! And I suspect that these same people collect the DVD's! When Disney releases ZORRO & DISNEYLAND, they'll probably buy those, too! AND THEY'RE UNDER 18!! Aahhh ... The wonderfully dilluted world of current Disney ... Daniel <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/preservethemagic" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ preservethemagic</a> "And they keep on sayin' you'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing; It's not the world that I am changing... " --Garth Brooks
Originally Posted By meowthew >>What confuses me is that TDC pulls the plug on VD even though the semi-new VD DVD's are selling pretty well.<< No they're not.
Originally Posted By Foolhardy >>What confuses me is that TDC pulls the plug on VD even though the semi-new VD DVD's are selling pretty well.<< No they're not. That's 'cause they dn't bother to actually ADVERTISE the things..
Originally Posted By nic_wd well there was a thing about them in the rookie DVD, maybe people will see them.
Originally Posted By zorrofriend You folks have some great ideas and love the messages. I do want to know what you mean by semi new? Remake of the Parent Trap? Old Yeller? I venture to say that a well marketed Vault Disney Channel could make it and do it lucratively as Nick, and others are doing it. Nostalgia sells and no one did classic movies and television like Walt. I venture to say that if I sat down in front of a tv and watched everything that Walt did when he was alive, I'd be dead before I saw it all. Give me back my Zorro and Walt Disney Presents.... www.angelfire.com/home/bookscape/index.htm
