New Disney Streaming Service: Disney+

[Farerb]

As for Fantasia - I have the UK release because I really didn't like the US cover, though I wish they'd release a US edition where the emphasis is on Fantasia, I really don't like the "Best of Mickey" as the main title and on the spine, I might get it for the digital code but this is really annoying.

[Ben]

I think these are just a way to use up unused discs from previous releases.

Fantasia and F2K got separate releases here in the UK, and I agree the sleeve for the first one looked nicer. I still lament that we never got the Fantasia World release, or that Disney+ doesn’t have a Fantasia section with all the musical shorts and films from over the years.

[EricJ]

I've been wondering when Fantasia is now going to get its "Signature" Blu release (unless it's now been permanently blacklisted because it used to have racist "associations"), since the previous Blu came out during the time when Disney was trying to sidestep "Disc clutter", and, like Lion King and Pocahontas, put the Fantasia Legacy extras on their new BD-Live "Virtual Vault".

Oh, the 00's-10's, I'd almost forgotten the angry-Blu-fan days of Evil Disney...

[Farerb]

The last time a Signature Collection title was released was Beauty and the Beast in 4K back in March 2020. Supposedly Fantasia and The Jungle Book are supposed to be released as Signature Collection titles, but there was nothing so far. Now with Fantasia being released as a DMC exclusive who knows? Both 101 Dalmatians and The Jungle Book were released as a DMC exclusives and The Jungle Book didn't get another release, but 101 Dalmatians did.

[Daniel]

Added today:

US/Global:
WandaVision – Episode 5
Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks
Disney Upside-Down Magic
Disney - My Music Story: Yoshiki

UK:
Europe from Above

Canada:
Like Mike

Australia:
Wild Lapland

[EricJ]

The last time a Signature Collection title was released was Beauty and the Beast in 4K back in March 2020. Supposedly Fantasia and The Jungle Book are supposed to be released as Signature Collection titles, but there was nothing so far. Now with Fantasia being released as a DMC exclusive who knows?

Good point, they seem to have gone Warner Archive's route of abandoning retail for everything except new titles, although not sure if the Fantasias have been "demoted" off the old priority list as was suspected years ago. If so, it ain't leaving DMC.
DMC's is a three-disc including "Celebrating Mickey" which...what was the unfit-for-D+ flap about that one, again?
https://member.disneymovieclub.go.com/s ... ails/22057

No mention on the listing of Extras, or If. Good thing I kept the old DVD bonus disc, but would asking a good, clean copy of "Toot, Whistle, Plunk & Boom" off the old F2K DVD be asking too much?

[Ben]

...and then at the same time put out a Movie Club Exclusive "Best Of Mickey" set featuring...Fantasia (!) along with F2K (arguably more of a Donald film, if anything) and a reprise of the Celebrating Mickey disc.

I think these are just a way to use up unused discs from previous releases.

[Farerb]

Do you think there are unused discs from a limited release from more than a decade ago?

[Ben]

Yes, especially of F2K and Celebrating Mickey, which did not sell well because people wanted more than just the same old "Best Of Mickey" shorts that we'd got on VHS and LaserDisc, and got spoilt with the Treasures DVDs. The fact that Fantasia didn’t sell particularly well is why we didn’t get Fantasia World.

So, yeah, I believe there are discs still about, or that can more easily repress their glass master in a limited quantity than author a new disc, just as there are when distrubutors include a 2007 Blu-ray in a new 4K pack.

[Daniel]

New profile icons of Wanda, Vision and Joe Gardner have been added. A Valentine's Day Collection has also been added.

[gaastra]

Disney has killed blue sky studios.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behin ... o-blue-sky

[Randall]

This is BIG news, so it's been given its own thread:
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8572

[Daniel]

They updated the cover for "WandaVision". Aw, I liked the original more! Really stood out amongst everything.

[Daniel]

Added today:

US/Global:
WandaVision – Episode 6
Life Below Zero: The Next Generation
Marvel Battleworld: Mystery of the Thanostones
Marvel's Behind the Mask
Inside Pixar: Portraits – Second Batch
You Again *UK/Canada/Australia*
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella *UK*

UK:
Like Mike 2: Streetball (Canada/Australia)
Bluey (Season 2)
PJ Masks (Season 4)
Science of Stupid (Seasons 2-7)

Canada:
Marvel's Agents of Shield – Season 7

Australia:
Africa's Hidden Wonders

[EricJ]

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

I know I should be "grateful" , but it's really rankling my hackles to see D+ putting their same all-out Wanda-Lorian hype promotion behind the fact that they brought back ONE piece of 90's vintage content, and then pretended they were doing us a Socially Progressive favor by it, just especially for Black History Month.

...Oo, do they have any MORE??