Cauldron Conundrum Continued...

To catch up on what this is about, check this out...

Theoretical Re-issue

Long time, no post, folks.

The Walt Disney Signature Collection, Detailed

It seems like we have a good idea of what the Walt Disney Signature Collection is really going to be like...

'Beauty and the Beast' is the Next Signature Collection Release

The follow-up to Disney's Diamond Edition collection line, the Walt Disney Signature Collection, is getting its second title this autumn... A curious title.

Not So Fast... It's Not Worth THAT Much

If you go around places like eBay, etsy, and other online shops, you'll see some ridiculous prices for Disney VHS tapes...

A Look at a Rarity: An In-Store Trailer Reel, c. Fall 1992

See that treasure above? I got my hands on it today...

Repost: 'Sleeping Beauty''s Lost Re-release

The following was posted in October 2013 on my other blog, Kyle's Animated World...

This is an interesting bit of Disney history that seems to be overlooked... One that concerns a re-release of one of their classic animated films...

A Case of Re-titled Films

In Walt Disney Animation Studios' long history, only a few films of theirs were re-titled in the United States...

We'll look at two.

'Zootopia'... On VHS!

Sometimes I like to have a little fun, and since I'm majoring in graphic design, I decided to create a little something using the custom cover I made for Zootopia not too long ago...

The film is incredible by the way, one of Walt Disney Animation Studios' absolute best in my eye! See it as soon as you can!

A Theory Regarding the 1988 Classics Logo...

To anyone new here or anyone new to Disney VHS collecting, let me explain the Walt Disney Classics logo Disney used on their "Classics" titles from 1988 to 1994...

A Slight Difference

Fellow Disney VHS collector MrServoRetro recently uploaded the opening to the French-Canadian version of the 1988 Cinderella VHS...

As we all know, the North American copies open with a trailer for Oliver & Company, the original Sorcerer Mickey Classics logo with the gradient background, and then the film starts with the 1985 Walt Disney Pictures castle logo in place of a Buena Vista or RKO title card.

It's obvious that this print of the feature film was ripped from from the film's 1987 theatrical re-release prints, as mid-to-late 80s/early 90s re-releases of Disney classics plastered the then-new WDP logo over the RKO/Buena Vista cards.

Now, on the American VHS, the WDP castle logo has its familiar music... On the French-Canadian edition, however...


Isn't that something? I wonder if that's how Americans saw the film in theaters in 1987... Either way, I like it better, because you at least get the full original opening fanfare even if the RKO/Buena Vista card isn't there...

Of course, in 1995, the Masterpiece Edition LaserDisc would restore the RKO card with the music intact. The VHS, for some weird reason, uses the 1950s Buena Vista logo instead. The DVD, released in 2005, got it wrong by using a short version of the WDP logo with the original music. The 2012 Blu-ray finally got it right, using the RKO and the original music.

The 'Robin Hood' Promo/Sales Tape!

An individual who goes by eyeh8nbc on YouTube has uploaded the contents of something I, and many of you all, have been looking for, for years...

The Case of 'The Jungle Book' Demo Tape and Other Things...

Two years ago, my Disney VHS collector friend Aubrey got a copy of the demo VHS of The Jungle Book. The one that was made to promote the film's Classics release, the video debut of the 1967 classic...

Today's Rarity: 'Rescuers Down Under' Intermission

As many Disney fans know, when moviegoers saw The Rescuers Down Under in theaters during the holiday season of 1990, the sequel to the studio's 1977 classic came with quite the bonus...

Why The Classics?

What is it us Disney videocassette collectors love so much about this line?

Disney VHS Openings: Italian Edition

A compilation of ALL the Italian Disney VHS openings/closings I can find on YouTube...

Le avventure di Bianca e Bernie / The Rescuers

1991 VHS Closing

Cenerentola / Cinderella

1992 VHS

Il Libro della Giungla / The Jungle Book 1993 VHS

La Bella e la Bestia / Beauty and the Beast

1993 VHS

{to be updated}

'Robin Hood' on Television

Last December, the very release that launched the Classics line had turned 30. The very film that started the line was Robin Hood...

Updated Custom Disney VHS Covers Post

Last year, I began designing covers for Disney animated films. Covers that would make them fit alongside the Walt Disney Classics series that Walt Disney Home Video launched in 1984, the very line that brought many of the animated classics to home media for the first time...

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.

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…