Originally Posted By LVdisneyfan When the Disney Channel first aired, late night the had a program called "Vault Disney", which broadcasted the old, "Wonderful World of Disney" shows, it was later replaced with hours of either, "That's So Raven" or "Jake & Josh". I can't stand it! I would love for Disney to release on DVD box-sets of "Disneyland" or "The Wonderful World Of Colo/Disney", ie. Season 1, 2 etc...I think it would sell.
Originally Posted By mawnck You'd be wrong. The DVD format is dying. They aren't even selling major releases in significant numbers anymore. Check into the Disney Movie Club. Some individual episodes can be found there.
Originally Posted By ecdc Perhaps someday Disney will make these available on Netflix or iTunes. But even then, I can't imagine the interest is significant enough to justify the expense of transferring from the old film sources to digital. And what condition might those sources be in? I know some of these showed on the Disney Channel, so perhaps that work has already been done. I have some fond memories of watching some of these as a kid, too. My mom would record a couple off the Disney Channel. I think to myself, "There has to be a market for this!" then I see what people are watching, and I think..."Maybe not so much."
Originally Posted By LVdisneyfan The "Walt Disney Treasures" collection hosted by Leonard Maltin did very well. The collection was released in waves, and in limited quantities so there is definitely a market. I wouldn't release 100,000 copies, but start with 20-30,000. On Ebay some of them sell for around $100, since they were discontinued.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>The "Walt Disney Treasures" collection hosted by Leonard Maltin did very well.<< Actually, no it didn't. Some volumes did, but they ended up remaindering scads of copies of some of the others - even giving them away on Disney Movie Rewards. You may not recall that it took a letter writing campaign to convince them to keep the series running long enough to finish the Donald Duck cartoons. Later volumes in the series DID have a run of only 30,000 copies. As for the ebay prices, that has nothing to do with consumer demand, and everything to do with people hoarding copies of limited editions to sell on ebay. The fact that nearly all the high-dollar discs are being sold sealed should tell you something about the *actual* demand at the time of release. The series was discontinued in 2009. For a reason. Totally different ballgame now. Transferring, assembling, and marketing DVDs takes a lot of money and effort. They'd still be doing it if it would turn a sufficient profit. They're not, because it won't.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA So it's too late to hope for a DVD copy of The Osmonds, Kurt Russell and EJ Peaker cavorting around Disneyland and going on The Haunted Mansion? *sigh*
Originally Posted By mawnck >>So it's too late to hope for a DVD copy of The Osmonds, Kurt Russell and EJ Peaker cavorting around Disneyland and going on The Haunted Mansion?<< Yeah. And I'd've SO bought it too. Can't believe there was no one at that company smart enough to realize just how bad the fans wanted that one. I'd plotz if they did a new HD transfer of it and put it out on Blu Ray. But I expect to see a Song of the South marathon on the Disney Channel before that happens.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Youtube is certainly good enough. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5V5P3SvYAGpMqHa5htKpG1KqBS9CNjI6">http://www.youtube.com/playlis...BS9CNjI6</a>
Originally Posted By LVdisneyfan I'd like to see the Halloween Special, where Hans Conrad was the voice of the Magic Mirror.
Originally Posted By basil fan LV, search "disney generations" on Amazon to find a few TV episodes that are available on DVD. I wish Sunday Drive was one of them. Get Smart Catchphrases <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/etc/catchphrase.html">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...ase.html</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Yeah. And I'd've SO bought it too. Can't believe there was no one at that company smart enough to realize just how bad the fans wanted that one> That one (Osmonds, EJ Peaker, Kurt Russell) was just SO quintessentially "Wonderful World of Color/Disney." Best combination ever of great looks at the park of that period with grade-A cheese-o-rama. Taped it off Vault Disney years ago, so I'm the proud owner of a rapidly deteriorating VHS copy. So there.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Taped it off Vault Disney years ago, so I'm the proud owner of a rapidly deteriorating VHS copy. So there.<< Me too, except I recorded it on S-VHS. I win the geek war! (Note to self - transfer to DVD ASAP)
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Taped it off Vault Disney years ago, so I'm the proud owner of a rapidly deteriorating VHS copy. So there.<< Me too, except I recorded it on S-VHS. I win the geek war! (Note to self - transfer to DVD ASAP)
Originally Posted By Bellella When I was growing up, in the early 90's, I first saw movies like "The Love Bug", "The Parent Trap", and "Robin Hood" on the Disney channel. Thank heaven I've been able to snatch them up on DVD. I also have the B-AWESOME Disney Treasures DVD featuring "Disneyland Goes to the World's Fair." The present generation's taste for quality entertainment has gone way downhill, and the current management isn't helping a bit. Would it kill them to show some classic Disney fare once in a while? To show unedited classic Mickey and Donald cartoons? How about Walt himself? Can we not see him on public television again? How many kids nowadays know about him? I.E., the current tween culture makes me sick.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>I.E., the current tween culture makes me sick.<< For a project I'm doing, I'm reading reports from a committee on how lazy young people are, how they see trashy movies, how their dancing is disgusting, etc. The report is from 1921. Every generation thinks the new one is a disaster of immorality and vapid shallowness.
Originally Posted By utahjosh <Every generation thinks the new one is a disaster of immorality and vapid shallowness.> And they are usually right.
