Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Today's Oddity

From the 1991 Italian VHS release of The Rescuers comes this... Thing...


Yes, a weird version of the 1986 Walt Disney Home Video logo, where the text is set against a moving rainbow background... Oh, and "HOME VIDEO" is chopped off, too! It's set to an instrumental take on the 'Mickey Mouse Club March', and we get to see it twice, too!

Like really, this is all kinds of bizarre right here. I'm not sure if this ever showed up anywhere else outside of Italy, though I'd doubt it. Nonetheless, a very cool find.

Monday, November 17, 2014

Another '88 Classics Logo Spotting


Thanks to fellow Disney VHS collector MrServoRetro, we now know of another Disney VHS tape that contains the 1988 Walt Disney Classics logo...

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Classics Confusion


The Classics line is full of questions, more so than any other line reserved for Disney animated features in the company's home video history…

Friday, October 24, 2014

Title Confusion


Recently, Warner Bros. released Edge of Tomorrow on home media. It's a film that you may have missed in the theaters, because the marketing campaign that the studio put together for it wasn't very good. I remember looking at the trailers and saying, "Generic sci-fi action film." The marketing campaign failed to emphasize certain elements, such as the film's dark sense of humor or Emily Blunt's character. Tom Cruise fights aliens…

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Live Action Dipping


A little bit of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment news for ya…

Friday, August 8, 2014

Re-release BV Cards


This recently popped in my head… Why did Disney not opt to make custom Buena Vista cards for re-released Disney animated classics in the 1950s?