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Post by Kirby-chan » May 29th, 2007, 6:39 pm

Since the classic 1970 Disney movie "The Aristocats" is comming to Platinum DVD this summer, I heard on WIkipedia that Disney Studios were planning an Aristocats 2, but it was temporarily shelved, does anybody know anything about this?

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Post by Daniel » May 29th, 2007, 7:15 pm

Correction, The Aristocats is coming out on a "Special Edition", next year. ;) It was going to be released this year, but Disney decided to push it back, so they can go in and add more material. Eh, with a new digital transfer, I really don't mind the wait.

As for your question, The Aristocats 2 was in production, but its now permanently shelved, along with all Disney sequels. Their still going to make franchises, which are sequels in a way, so its no real difference.

Edit: here's the cover art for The Aristocats.

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Aristocats DVD details

Post by JustinWilliams » January 3rd, 2008, 9:03 pm

Here's the full specs for the DVD release - Just 1 disk btw folks.

Music & More Disney Song Selections

* The Aristocats
* Scales And Arpeggios
* Thomas O'Malley Cat
* Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat

Bonus Short

* Bath Day - October 11, 1946 - Cartoon Short

Deleted Song

* She Never Felt Alone

Games & Activities

* Disney Virtual Kitten Set-Top
* Disney Virtual Kitten DVD-ROM
* The Aristocats Fun With Language Game - Name that instrument

Backstage Disney

* The Sherman Brothers: The Aristocrats of Disney
* The Aristocats Scrapbook
* The Great Cat Family (Excerpt) – September 19, 1956 TV Show

Technical Features

* Widescreen 1.75:1
* Dolby Digital 5.1

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Post by Daniel » January 3rd, 2008, 9:47 pm

Yeah, I heard about the 1 disc, darn!
JustinWilliams wrote:Deleted Song * She Never Felt Alone
Ooh the ballad, I hope its good! :)

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Post by Ben » January 6th, 2008, 9:07 am

Widescreen 1.75:1

The magic info we needed. Who's betting that the second disc WOULD have included the original 1.37:1 negative formatting?

Once again, we're being stiffed on ratios by the h-def happy Mouse. ;)

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Post by Daniel » January 6th, 2008, 2:12 pm

Yep, was gonna comment on that, but thought at best to leave to you... Such a shame, but not surprising.

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Post by Daniel » January 27th, 2008, 1:35 am

Ooh, a preview of the DVD!

Looks nice, I espicially love the disc art!

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Post by Ben » January 27th, 2008, 3:35 pm

There were some enthusiastic comments on that in the forum too...what's so great about the disc art? Am I missing something? :)

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Post by Daniel » January 27th, 2008, 9:22 pm

Yep, it's not shiny, like say The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh or The Little Mermaid. That's what I like about it anyhow. ;)

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Post by Foxtale » January 27th, 2008, 9:41 pm

Daniel wrote:
As for your question, The Aristocats 2 was in production, but its now permanently shelved, along with all Disney sequels. Their still going to make franchises, which are sequels in a way, so its no real difference.
So sequels without calling them sequels..... *laughs*
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Post by EricJ » January 28th, 2008, 2:43 am

Foxtale wrote:
Daniel wrote:
As for your question, The Aristocats 2 was in production, but its now permanently shelved, along with all Disney sequels. Their still going to make franchises, which are sequels in a way, so its no real difference.
So sequels without calling them sequels..... *laughs*
Y'see, the reason we were getting Aristocats 2 in the first place--AND the Special Edition--was, "Bambi II" had given Toon Studios the idea for a new use for their DTV sequel division (now that they didn't have to extend old copyrights anymore):
Namely, sequelize old forgotten non-seller back-titles like Dumbo and Fox & the Hound, which direct-videos parents would snap up at Target at the sound of Pavlov's bell--
Which would, of course, hook immediate character identification for Todd, Copper, Thumper, Flower, O'Malley and the Crows with kids who had never and were never likely to hear about them for most of their entire lives...Just in time for a neato 2-disk "Special Edition" reissue of the original to hit shelves a few weeks later, with "exclusive" preview scenes of each other's cross-marketed disk attached. That was the plan, anyway.

Just that, well, once the idea of re-jumpstarting Aristocats occurred to them, then those old overseas-marketing grudges about "Why do Tokyo & Paris go so goofy over Marie, and we still can't give the original movie away for free over here?? :evil: " kicked in.
Which now made the issue a declaration of of-course-you-realize-this-means-war for them, at whatever cost. :P

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Post by Once Upon A Dream » February 2nd, 2008, 10:44 am

I thought that we're getting the Arsitocats SE becouse of all the Marie stuff.
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Post by EricJ » February 2nd, 2008, 12:18 pm

Once Upon A Dream wrote:I thought that we're getting the Arsitocats SE becouse of all the Marie stuff.
Well, yeah, that too--
It's like soccer, years go by and they still can't figure out why Americans aren't buying it... :P

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Post by Ben » February 5th, 2008, 5:35 pm

Anyone else having "issues" with their AristoCats?

Playing it on my PC, I can't seem to access any of the bonus content!

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Post by Whippet Angel » February 6th, 2008, 12:58 am

Is it working on your regular player??

Mine works fine, but I haven't tried it on my PC yet.

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