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Respectfully, do you really not see the difference between Mary Poppins and the other films you mentioned? Mary Poppins is one of the studio's crowning achievements and most popular titles. It is going to be way out front of The Love Bug or Something Wicked This Way Comes in terms of sales...

In addition to the Donald short which Joe already mentioned above me, The Black Cauldron Blu-ray ports over the deleted scene that was included on its 2010 DVD. It does not contain the art gallery from the DVD, and of course there is nothing new. But the transfer looks great. I would have...

Disney made The Black Cauldron work for their needs. Well, you can debate whether the movie worked or not. Certainly I think it did creatively because I liked it, but it didn't work financially and it is not one of their more popular films. But I mean, Disney has a history of adapting stories...

Because I'm not a member of DMC, my copy was tagged onto a friend's order. DMC sent it to my friend in a timely manner. The package from my friend to me is what took a month because it got off track. So my problem doesn't have anything to do with DMC directly. The post office just had a...

Well, I'm bumping this thread because, almost a month later after I should have had it, the post office finally delivered my copy of The Black Cauldron today. Who knows where it has been since the tracking basically went up in smoke recently. But better late than never, it's here and I watched...

I think Disney believes that The Black Cauldron fits that description. While I am a fan of it, and its presence in the Walt Disney Feature Animation canon secures its place in the lists of film history, it is probably one of their least-selling such titles. So that's why. It is readily...

That I unequivocally agree with, and people who do that are asking for trouble. Even worse than that would be people who just copy the back of the book and don't expect the teacher to notice. I remember once in middle school, we were allowed to choose our own book report subjects, but the...

As is the case with any adaptation, that depends on your relationship to the novel. Just because a movie is different or takes considerable liberties with the source material does not automatically make the film inferior or invalid. If you look at Disney's The Black Cauldron as it is, I think...

Back in 2016, there was this article in Variety about Disney trying to do a live-action adaptation of the books. I was surprised they would return to it, given the reputation of the original. At the tine, I just thought they were drunk on their live-action remake train and that at a minimum it...

I'm not going to continue to go around and around with you on whether you should join DMC or not. Like I said, do whatever makes sense for you to do. I wouldn't read too much into the Donald short personally. It was previously included on both DVD versions of The Black Cauldron from 2000 and...

Because you have said that your objection is letting Disney do an automatic charge in principle, but you'd then bend the principle if they give you a particular movie. Like I said, I'm not here to convince you to join the club. You do you. Your money and your choices on how to spend it or not...

Those two statements seem contradictory. I'm not trying to convince you of anything. What you do or don't do with your own money is your own business. If you would prefer to get exclusives from eBay at prices that are acceptable to you, then by all means you do you. I get them from friends...

If knowingly paying an eBay seller more money than the item is actually worth it/better for you than dealing with Disney, that's your prerogative. I'm certainly not trying to convince you otherwise. But from a cursory glance at eBay, The Black Cauldron is at auction currently around $31 for the...

Except the previously released club exclusives? Or have you bene getting those through other means? (I'm not trying to be argumentative here, just curious.) As I said in my previous post, the club is right for some people and not right for other people, so you certainly don't have to join...

As I understand it, the Featured Title program is a condition of participation the club. They make the requirements and conditions extremely clear. So if you don't want to deal with it, don't join. They'd be reaching into your wallet if they tried to charge you for something without you...

I'm not disputing your claim. You're right that it was not an in-house Disney production. I'm respectfully disagreeing with your assessment that that is the reason it hasn't shown up on Blu-ray as I don't think that has an influence on their thinking. I certainly did not mean to come off...

Back to The Black Cauldron: I put in my old DVD to look at the art gallery that was dropped from the Blu-ray. I don't really remember seeing these, so I'm guessing I last looked at it when I first got the disc. But there is some really cool stuff In there. Concept art, character designs...

Respectfully, I don't think Disney is concerned with whether they produced something or not. They bought the distribution rights. If they didn't want anything to do with the movie, they would not have done that. Plus, they produced The Black Cauldron and it took almost 11 years since its last...

Even if you aren't a DMC member, If you know anyone who is, they could probably order it for you.

In other cases like this, I actually just usually give my old editions to friends who don't need the upgrade.

I know that under normal circumstances, Disney Movie Club discs don't contain extras. That's why I retained my DVD of Holes despite upgrading to the Blu-ray. The DVD contains a couple making-of featurettes and two commentaries, so I wouldn't want to give that up. When news first broke that...

Oh, I thought you had gone back to talking about The Black Cauldron again. It has been a long time since I saw Trick or Treat so I either didn't know or possibly forgot that there is more than one version of that. Thanks for making me more aware. Like you, I would guess it is probably the...

As opposed to what, exactly? I haven't seen the disc yet because mine is still on the way in the mail. However, I would think it is probably the same transfer of the film as is currently available on Disney+ in HD. I don't think they would spend the time to give physical owners something...

Pocahontas suffers by comparison because it was the next Walt Disney Animation Studios film to come out after The Lion King, and there was really nowhere to go but down from that. Pocahontas was also released just months ahead of Toy Story which of course revolutionized animation. But...

The inclusion of those bonus features means that the only things absent from the 25th Anniversary DVD are art galleries and a couple games. The art galleries are very nice, but the likelihood that I would put in the DVD just to look at them is pretty small. So I might give away the DVD. We'll...

I don't understand this comment. Support for physical media is not a competition. As Joe said, WB and Universal are combining operations to reduce cost. You're still going to be able to find new films from both studios on disc for the foreseeable future. This is the case with every single...

You are correct. They added it in 2010 so that Tangled could have the distinction of being #50, which was mentioned in its opening logos. Without Dinosaur being added, Tangled would have been #49 and Winnie the Pooh would have been #50.

The list I posted represents all of the animated feature films which Walt Disney Animation Studios itself is responsible for producing. Disney distributed The Wild for some other animation company. If Disney wants to include different things for marketing purposes, that's their business. But...

I understand the desire for it, but my guess is they probably don't think the market is big enough to do 4K exclusives. As you probably know, their selection of 4K animation is limited to newer films, Pixar titles and their biggest modern classics. The oldest animated film to be released on...

Song of the South is not and never has been considered an Animated Classic In terms of inclusion in the Walt Disney Animation Studios official canon. It is a live-action feature with animated elements. The WDAS official canon includes: 1) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 2) Pinocchio 3)...