I grew up in that era, seeing rereleases of them growing up in the very late 70s and into the early 80s. My first movie memories are seeing Song of the South in what was probably its last rerelease, and Robin Hood at the local drive-in that closed down soon after. Even as a kid, I always thought...
I think Down Under is absolutely one of the instances of a sequel being better than the original. I don't recall The Rescuers faring too well on blu, but that seemed to be the case for the majority of that era of xeroxed "sketchy" art-styled films, which did not fare well with their transfer...
I've got some of the 12" story and record combos and some of the soundtracks, but I mostly grew up with the 7" story and record/cassettes. Anyone know how long they went with those? I was a kid in the 80s and it was early enough that they still even had Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby in print with...
I don’t have a Laserdisc player, but I did manage to find a reasonably priced copy years ago, which I gave to a friend who had a good sized collection. He ended up getting rid of all of them, save that and, I think, his Tex Avery set.
Would I get a copy if they ever released it? Sure. The animation is gorgeous. But they just got rid of the references to SotS in Splash Mountain, which spells out to me that Disney isn't expecting any rehabilitation for the title at this point. If there's an official release before the death of...
I remember being a kid when Eisner was doing the really awkward bits for Magical World of Disney because he was supposed to be leading like Walt. Only problem was, he was a businessman. Not a showman and not particularly charismatic like ol' Uncle Walt.