Clearing Something Up...

Coincidentally, this ties into a video I uploaded recently...

Foreign Print Oddity: '101 Dalmatians' in Spanish

101 Dalmatians...

Why No Ichabod and Mr. Toad?

Though Halloween ended days ago, I figured I'd bring this one up anyway...

A Case of... 'Lady and the Tramp' European VHS Tapes

Today, I received a copy of the 1990 French VHS of Lady and the Tramp / La Belle et le Clochard...

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

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

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.

The Classics Logo's Final Appearance

A decade ago, I first thought that the Sorcerer Mickey Classics logo that was introduced in 1988 made its final appearance on the 1994 VHS of The Fox and the Hound. The Fox and the Hound was the final title in the Classics line. The very line that Disney launched as a banner to release their animated classics on home video under...

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...

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...

A Classics Logo on a European Tape!

For a while, I had always thought that Disney didn't opt to use the animated Classics Diamond intro - in any form, be it the 1984 logo or the Sorcerer Mickey logo and its variants - on videotapes distributed outside of North America...

The print diamond logo would only be seen on a select few European tapes here and there, and some Australian releases as well. While the diamond was used on Japanese packaging, I am not sure if Japanese "Classics" Disney VHS tapes opened with the animated intros.

But it was clear, based on the tons of European Disney VHS openings on YouTube, that the 1986 Walt Disney Home Video logo was the go-to intro for videocassettes. The Classics logo was never used, and if it ever did show up, it was tacked onto a preview. On some 1992 UK releases, the Classics logo is tacked onto a Great Mouse Detective preview, but this doesn't contain Sorcerer Mickey at the beginning. Other than that, nowhere else...

However, the Finnish VHS of Lady and the Tramp from around 1990 or 1991 opens with the Classics logo. A fellow collector Matthew H. found this earlier today...

  Walt Disney kotivideo mainos (kaunotar ja kulkuri) 1990-1991 from WaldDupsFIN on Vimeo.
Thanks to Finnish Vimeo user WaldDupsFin, you can watch this opening and some other Finnish VHS openings...

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...

Why The Classics?

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

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.

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...

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…

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…

Jumpy Tapes

Disney VHS tapes from Argentina will be the focus of this piece…

Custom Classics Covers

So recently, I've been making custom Disney VHS covers. Covers of films that never existed, I decided to somewhat add to the alternate histories I've posted and am currently writing. If you saw my last update, you'll know started with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and what a mid-80s era video release of it could've looked like…

Mystery Solved! … and What The Heck Was That?

Hello all, hope you all had a fine Christmas or holiday, and I hope your year is off to a great start! Though this surfaced the day after Christmas, I finally got around to watching it last night and boy was it a real surprise… And head scratcher!