Good news about Walt Disney Treasures! - Page 2

Russell G · 03-11-2003, 06:37 PM

The True life shorts were originally announced, as well as The Wartime Cartoons and MR. Syn:AKA The Scarecrow for the wave 2 releases. I would think that these would be sure bets for wave 3.

I would presume that they would split up the Donald shorts similarly as to what they did for the Micky shorts, which is to give us a chronological, but not complete set, so as to have a little from all eras. I would also think that if The Wartime set has Donald material, this would not be included in the Donald sets, as previously the Goofy cartoon "How to Ride a Horse" was excluded from the "Complete Goofy" due to its inclusion on a Disneyland episode in the "Behind the Scenes" set.

I'd like to put my vote in for a set of all the educational/commercial cartoons that they did. Man,I got a kick out of these in school! Maybe for a special feature they could run a second audio track that drowned the soundtrack with a loud, clacking projector, and garbled voices, just to make school presentation correct.

I don't think we will ever see Song of the South, unfortunately. I'd love to see a "Disney and Race" set, were we could view and have a study on the use of stereotypes in entertainment. Sounds like a rather educational Treasure to me...

And how about a set featuring those coyote shorts? I can not remember what the shorts were called, but I do remember a VHS of these in the early 80's, never to be released again.

MarkBurton · 03-11-2003, 07:38 PM

coyote?

CraigF · 03-11-2003, 09:49 PM

I'm looking forward to certain possible releases in this series too. Mainly the ones I remember from when I was a kid ('60's).

OT, but vaguely related: this time I'm going to buy the ones I want (which is not all, so far) as soon as they come out, JIC. I have lately seen people buy ALL that a store has (except the "Behind the Scenes" one, and the tins with a tiny dent), dozens at once. With released units of 150k and 125k, they certainly aren't rare, not like people watch them once and toss 'em... The scourge of eBay...I say burn the speculators, and get them into the hands of people who appreciate them.

Rob Gardiner · 03-11-2003, 10:11 PM

One other thing I'm unclear on: on the first page of this thread, folks are talking about the VAULT DISNEY line as if it were a thing of the past. Are there no further releases planned under that banner?

Greg_D_R · 03-12-2003, 03:37 AM

I wonder if the wartime short that depicts Donald Duck having a nightmare of working in a Nazi munitions factory will see the light of day? Even though the satiric intent is obvious, and the history is important, I doubt that modern day sensibilities could handle Huey Dewey and Louie in brownshirts and swastika armbands.

Eric Emma · 03-12-2003, 06:06 AM

Isn't that the point of Walt DIsney Treasures? To release Cartoons uncut that normally wouldn't be appriciated by the main crowd...

David Lambert · 03-12-2003, 07:09 AM

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One other thing I'm unclear on: on the first page of this thread, folks are talking about the VAULT DISNEY line as if it were a thing of the past. Are there no further releases planned under that banner?

It's gone. Releases that WERE going to be under that banner (like 20,000 Leagues) are not going to use that any more. We can only assume Disney killed it. Typical marketing decision.

oscar_merkx · 03-12-2003, 09:34 AM

it is not going to stop me from buying 20000 Leagues whatsoever

Russell G · 03-12-2003, 11:52 AM

I would presume that the all the wartime cartoons would be included in the wartime set, with Leonard Maltin yelling at us to remember the sensibilities of the time (see MMIBAW for numerous examples, as well as TCG).

The Coyote shorts were part of a south western series of cartoons that used to pop up on the World of Disney show, as well as that VHS. The titles completely escapes me. I don't know anything about this series, but it is definitely not Road Runner stuff. I remember that the old Walt Disney line of VHs releases had other animation houses works release under the banner (Lucky Luke being one of them), maybe this is the case. Can any experts out there help me out on this one?

streeter · 03-12-2003, 11:56 AM

I'm going to miss the Vault Disney line. I loved it. The menus were terrific, very creative - I'd even say nostalgic. I like the contents of the Walt Disney Treasures titles, and even the opening with the curtains. But the menus are absolutely horrible IMO. Not an ounce of creativity.

James Reader · 03-12-2003, 12:09 PM

Just because it doesn't say Vault Disney on the box doesn't mean that the Vault Disney menu system will be dropped. I think it's likely this next wave of 'faux' Vault Disney titles (20,000 Leagues, Love Bug etc) will have the same menu system and perhaps later 2 disc sets will too.

After all, most of the design work as been done. It's certainly cheaper for Disney to rerender the existing menus with different graphical elements than to design and render a whole new menu system... for each release!