Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition

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Post by James » October 15th, 2008, 12:39 am

Great review Ben - I have to set aside a block of time to get through your stuff but that's what makes them so great! ;)

Sleeping Beauty was my very favorite Disney animated film before Beauty and the Beast came out. And is looks stunning on Blu-ray! I've only watched about five minutes because I want to savor watching it by making sure their will be no distractions and I can crank up the sound!

I don't know if I've ever mentioned it here before but I loathe the new menus Disney started using on their BDs about a year or so ago! Way too "text-y" and worse, when used in pop-up mode -- one of the huge benefits of BDs that lets you continue watching your movie while perusing the menu -- the video is shrunk to an unwatchable size while the text menu fills up the entire screen!

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Post by Ben » October 15th, 2008, 3:42 pm

Thanks James. :)

Maleficent's flight from the top of her tower to the front of the castle (just before she becomes the dragon) was one of the very first Disney scenes I ever saw on TV, and I loved it.

My favorite of this kind is still probably Snow White, but it's a gorgeous film, and the best choice to start out the Blu-run. I've ordered mine from Amazon! :)

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Post by Once Upon A Dream » October 16th, 2008, 11:52 am

Daniel wrote:Short video from the red carpet premiere at New York:

Ooh,very nice :D thanks for that :D.
I ordered my copy last week,I can't wait to get it :D.
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Post by Daniel » October 16th, 2008, 1:57 pm

Glad you enjoyed it! After all this time, Mary Costa hasn't lost it. She still very beautiful, just like Aurora.

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Post by Daniel » October 22nd, 2008, 3:36 pm

Remember that UK gift set? Seems other places got it too, here are pics. It looks exactly like the UK one, except the text, so enjoy! My goodness, it's so beautiful!! Look how shiny, and look at the book!! What great detail, concept art and pictures from the film! AH!!! Ben...! ;)

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Post by Ben » October 22nd, 2008, 3:38 pm

Wha...!?

We got that here in the UK? I gotta git me one of those! :)

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Post by Daniel » October 22nd, 2008, 3:45 pm

Yeah, don't you remember? ;) Here's the link on Amazon.co.uk. Seems it comes out in a few days, I forgot they come out a little bit later. Still, wow!

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Post by Ben » October 22nd, 2008, 3:53 pm

Nope...totally forgot!

Will pop one of those with the Dalmatians set in my basket next time I'm shopping at AmazonUK. Which should be in the next five minutes! ;)


More seriously, this is what the Platinums should have been all along, worldwide. Totally ridiculous that the US packaging has hopped around so much when you think that even Snow White in the UK came with this approach.

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Post by tyler283455 » October 29th, 2008, 5:52 pm

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Post by Daniel » October 29th, 2008, 6:10 pm

:? :?:

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Post by droosan » October 29th, 2008, 6:58 pm

:shock: :!:

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Post by Ben » October 29th, 2008, 7:04 pm

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Post by Once Upon A Dream » October 30th, 2008, 2:08 pm

AHHH!!! I GOT IT!!! :D.
It's one of the best Platinum Editions! the features are wonderful! "Everything is so wonderful!".
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Post by Ben » October 30th, 2008, 3:04 pm

Yeah, if you haven't seen them on the previous two deluxe editions! ;)

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Post by Once Upon A Dream » November 3rd, 2008, 8:58 am

Many features were in old editions? I"m sure that many features like the deleted scenes,the attrection features and more weren't in the old edition.
Anyway I don't have the 2003 DVD so for me the features are new.
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