Disney DVDs Dilemma

I was out shopping today looking to update my old original VHS's of my Disney movies to DVDs and was shocked to find that many of them are unavailable.
I asked the salesclerk if the store might have Beauty and the Beast or The Little Mermaid in storage but he told me that most of them had been recalled and that I if was desparate I could special order them.
I'm just shocked that these animated classics are so difficult to find and that only Mulan 2 was on the selves. What's the deal with these DVDs? And why would they be recalled?

They take the movies and bought them in the "Disney Vault." They are supposedly not going to release them again, but you know in 5 or 10 years they will so they can make more money off people. If you really want them, look on eBay.

Little Mermaid has been of print for a few years now but is being rereleased next fall as a special edition. Beauty & the Beast shouldn't be that hard to track down, even though it's now out of print also. I saw it at Best Buy last week.

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i'm an overall animation fan, i've been drawing since i was a kid and i'm in the process of taking up some graphic design courses. i usually purchase those Disney DVDs as soon as they are released. they tend to go out of print after awhile. i only re-buy the ones i really want if they are re-released in Special Editions. i have the original DVD release of "Mulan" but wasn't moved to purchase the "new" Special Edition version.
but on the other hand i own "The Little Mermaid" on DVD and i will most definitely purchase the "new" Special Edition version because it's one of my favorites.

On that note "Lion King" fans better purchase "The Lion King", "The Lion King 1 1/2" and "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride" because ALL are going back in the vaults.

Wow, I never realized one had to be so on top of these! Oy
Speaking of Cinderella, when is the original film going to be released?

I'm assuming it has to do with DVD special features but what are the differences between the Platinum Edition and the Special Edition?

Disney's "Platinum Editions" are like extreme special editions. They release one every October and they really just go to town on the extra features.

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Got to agreet with stick too, their the only sequels i like in the disney relm.

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I may have to actually but these babies then...

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http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003066.html

Sad what became od the Disney artists...

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> wow! Bambi is a Platinum Edition and it's being released in
> March! I guess they did away with the "one every October" release > schedule.

Yeah...as I understand it now, it's two Platinum per year, instead of just one per year.

The restoration work alone is really worth it on a lot of the older ones...I don't remember where, but I remember seeing some side-by-side frame comparisons of Snow White when it came out, and the difference was amazing.

I wish Disney would be a little bit more considerate with some of their live-action releases.. a bunch of the movies I loved when I was a kid have gotten really crappy pan-and-scan treatment (I mean, they made a fantastic 10th anniversary Newsies DVD, how hard would it be to give the Muppet Christmas move or Heavyweights a widescreen transfer!? Shh, you know Heavyweights is a great movie.)

Also, http://www.ultimatedisney.com/ seems to know almost EVERYTHING about the status of every possible Disney property on DVD. They're so thorough it's ridiculous.

1) Your video store should have Mulan in stock. It was just reissued in October. If they don't have it, maybe you should find another video store.

2) Disney is brilliant to do this: It makes the reissue of old films an EVENT, and forces people to run out and BUY. It saves them money, also as they don't have to maintain stock on catalog items. It dates back to the old film days and it's because they realize that every 7 years or so there's a whole new audience born for these classic films.

3) Your viedo store clerk mis-spoke that you could "special order" the out-of-print titles. E-Bay or a collector's type website might have used copies (or new copies from someone smart enough to stockpile) but you won't get a new copy from Disney-- that is the point of the moratorium.