phrekyos

I got my drum set from Amazon earlier today... it's pretty much like the video shows, except the thing inside the drum. It's got two little hook-and-loop flaps that hold it closed. It opens at the top like an accordion and has cardboard between each disc. The discs are flush with the cardboard, so it's kind of hard to get them out.

Personally I would have rather they just put them in regular blue plastic cases (do they make an 8-disc case?) but I'm not super picky about packaging so it's okay.

Artman

Looks like Nemo and Little Mermaid will get similar theatrical/Blu releases the next few years.

"Disney has seen the 3D light following the success of its re-release of The Lion King in the extra dimension, announcing today limited theatrical releases for four more of its animated films: Beauty and the Beast (January 13, 2012), Pixar’s Finding Nemo (September 14, 2012) and Monsters, Inc. (January 18, 2013), and The Little Mermaid (September 13, 2013)."

clckworang

^ I was just coming here to post that as well. If nothing else, that should bode well as far as getting Finding Nemo finally on Blu-ray.

phrekyos

There is a teaser on the disc for Lion King 2 (maybe the others as well, I didn't check) for Finding Nemo on Blu-ray. No date is given or anything. It just says "coming soon, for the first time, on Blu-ray" or something like that.

Travis McClain

What's wrong with regular cases inside something cutesy? They could easily still make a cardboard drum that houses regular Blu-ray packages for the individual movies. Hell, Blu-ray packages are smaller than DVD cases; it'd be pretty simple to do this and much more practical for owners.

So we get a misunderstood monster movie and an underwater movie each year, eh? Why hasn't Disney done a misunderstood underwater monster movie? Regardless, this will thrill my wife. The only one of the four I really cared for was Finding Nemo, which I suspect will be spectacular in 3D.

phrekyos

Yeah, that would have been a good compromise I guess. They'd have to make the drum bigger, though.

darkhawk

Lady and the Tramp Diamond Edition is coming to BD Spring 2012. Glad it's coming, But was hoping for Aladdin.

Also coming is The Lion King 1 1/2 and 2 to BD in individual releases.

The Monkees

I know what's up with that?? Aladdin and Little Mermaid are getting pushed away to make way for Lady & the Tramp and Cinderella? That angers me.

bluetoast

Lady and the Tramp is a favorite so I am very pumped for this. I missed out on the DVD, had two versions of the VHS as a kid. Plus it was a Cinemascope film, so I'm looking forward to seeing that on BD.

Aladdin is also another favorite, hoping to see that sooner than later, but I am excited for this.

Mabuse

Lady and the Tramp is a fascinating film because it was photographed in Cinemascope and flat 1.33 for theaters that had not yet converted to showing widescreen films. I've always hoped Disney would dig out a print of the flat version and release it on video too, I'd just like to see it for the sake of comparison.

AmityBoatTours

Ill post pictures of it latter after i get home from work tonight, but what i did was take the 4 BD discs from the drum set and placed them in the BB metalbox case, then sold the included DVDs and Digital copy of the first film in the Drumbox packaging to a co worker, who offered me 40 bucks total for them when i said i was going to post online to try and sell them off.

what i did to make the metalbox be able to accomidate the 4th disc was get some of those rubber disc hubs like fox used in the planet of the apes box set from a friend i have who works for a company that makes various media packaging.

And it worked great the case is thick enough and there is even a spot where there is a disc outline allready there.
I did the same thing with my B&B set as well now to accomidate my 3D BD disc allthough with that set i am keeping the DVD since that has the work in progress in full 16x9 and not just as picture in picture.


Update, I will see about posting them tommorow just got home from work and its almost 1am, late screening at work tonight so i am going off to bed.

AmityBoatTours

Fixed, Flat is not 1.33, Flat is 1.85
1.33 is Academy aspect ratio, as is 1.37, 1.41

AmityBoatTours

The preview on the Lion king and Beauty and the Beast 3D sets should also would seem to indicate 2012 is when Nemo will hit bluray as well.


The Irony behind the B&B 3D theatrical release though is this thing was ready and set be shown in theatres in 3D last year for a limited 2 week release Valentines day weekend, but good ol Disney exec Rich Ross said his "GUT" just told him it was pointless waisting a theatrical release on a 20 year old animated film allready out on video, and that audiences would rather see new and exciting original content from Disney such as his baby "Disney's Prom", instead of a 20 year old hand drawn movie.
But things began to change once El Cap booked what was supposed to be an exclusive month long theatrical engagement of Lion King 3D,prior to the 3D bluray release(like they do with every disney animated classic just prior to its dvd/BD release) and advanced ticket sales went through the roof, suddenly he changed course and decided to go for the 2 week limited nationwide theatrical engagement for Lion King 3D. This caused EL cap to have to scale back its month long engagement to a 2 week engagement opening on sept 15th instead of sept 2nd like it was suppose to, but the booker for the El cap was able to convince his bosses at disney into letting them do a 2 week limited engagement of B&B 3D for what was suppose to have been the first 2 weeks of the Lion Kings month long engagement.
and wouldnt you know it the movie played at 85 to 100 percent house capacity every single showing for the entire two weeks, then Lion King goes on and and opens nationwide and is number 1 for 2 weeks, held over for atleast a week and a half and is getting close to 100 million dollars.

some one please explain again why disney replaced Dick Cook (who championed the 3D conversions of B&B and the Lion King in the first place)with Rich Ross the man who also thought of the genius idea to take dump winnie the pooh in the death slot against harry potters opening weekend, is still in charge of Production at and Distribution at Disney. he needs to be kicked back down to the Disney channel where he belongs.

The only reason we are now seeing these new nationwide re releases is because of El capitans succesfull advanced ticket sales of Lion King 3D and Beauty and the Beast 3D in the weeks, if El cap hadnt booked Lion King 3D there wouldnt have been a nationwide release prior to Lion King 3D hitting bluray 3d

AmityBoatTours

SO here is what my metal packs for Beauty and the beast and Lion King Diamond edition look like now. As i mentioned above, i have a friend who works for a company that handles media packaging and she was kind enough to give me a few of those little rubber hubs like were used on fox's planet of the apes set. so i was able to in essence make these 3 disc metal packs into 4 disc metal packs to acomidate the 3D disc from B&B and so that my lion king metal pack could hold both Lion King and Lion King 3D as well as Lion King 2 and Lion King 1 1/2.

first up Beauty and the beast 3D, as you can see i am also able to have my slip cover on metalpack for B&B, (my slip cover for b&B 3D was ungluded at the seam when i took it from the amazon packaging same as it was when i got dumbo a few weeks back, like others have had issue with so I was able to take and fit the slip around the iron pack and have the seam secured so that it will enable the slip cover to easily and safely slide over the metal pack.







Next Lion King 3D for this one i got that horrible looking trilogy box as i mentioned above I was planning to just place them online and see what i could get for the set minus the Blurays, when a co worker offered me 40 bucks with out hesitation (one of the few non HD co workers i have ) which shocked me i even offered for her to give me less but she said she looked at it that we were each getting 4 discs of the 8 disc set and shes getting the packaging.
And i know you dont ever argue with a woman so i said ok.
So same thing i placed one of those handy dandy rubber hubs on the empty side of the metal pack and viola it now accomidates the entire trilogy and the 3D bluray.

Disc-Flipper

Is there any sort of rebate coupon for those who bought Beauty and the Beast last year and have upgraded to the 3D version?

The Valeyard

For those still wondering - After watching it tonight, it is not the original theatrical release (tho Morning Report is gone).

Peep

Um, could you be more specific?

The Valeyard

Nothing earth-shattering. The Special Edition changes remain (sans "Morning Report").

-Croc & Birds from "I Can't Wait to be King" are the newer ones.

Original:


Special Edition:



-The Frank Wells dedication is moved to the end credits.



-The original Disney logo is gone and replaced by the updated logo (can't find picture of the original).


-Different water falls for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight."



It's like a Special Edition representation of the Original release. Again, nothing that will rock the foundations of the planet. Just some information for those expecting the Theatrical version. I'm more upset that they got rid of clouds after Mufasa appears in the sky. I don't remember if that was a Special Edition change or a more recent one.

TheBang

I was hoping for one, but I did not find any inside the case, nor have I found any evidence of one online.

Deco King

I wonder if The Walt Disney Company will re-release Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 3D next year for it's 75th Anniversary?

Mabuse

It's so sad they won't release the original version of the Lion King. These changes are unneccessary. They've effectivly traced over all the original animators' work. I stand by what I said earlier in this thread: What's been done to the Lion King is second only to Magnificent Ambersons in the pantheon of studios mutilating their own films.

Snow White in 3D would be an abomination on par with colorizing Casablanca or viewing the Mona Lisa with a View Master.

bluetoast

Beauty and the Beast has also been touched up, adding reflections to windows, and probably other things like that. And of course there are arguments all over the place about color correction for a lot of these movies.

Josh Z

C'mon now. I don't agree with Disney making revisionist changes to its films and pretending that nothing is different, but this isn't even remotely as drastic an alteration as Magnificent Ambersons. Ambersons was totally deconstructed and ripped to shreds, then the extra footage was destroyed. Very little of the original film remains.

No content has been removed from The Lion King. Some of the artwork has been "refreshed," for lack of a better word, but the shot of a waterfall is still a shot of a waterfall, and the aligators are still aligators. They just look a little different. And in terms of volume, there are actually very few changes overall.

Again, I don't agree with it. I would rather see the original version. But putting it in perspective, comparing this to what was done to Ambersons is just ridiculous.

Most viewers who watch the new Lion King will have no idea that anything has been changed at all, even people familiar with the film. AmityBoatTours here was aware of the controversy about the changes, yet he swore up and down that what he watched was a restoration of the original version, even though it's now been pretty conclusively proven that he was wrong.

AmityBoatTours

I dont want to heat this all up again but as i said Don Hahn said it was the original version prior to the start of the screening

Bob_Bobbson

Either what was screened for you was not what ended up on the Blu-Ray, or he lied/was misinformed.

I have watched the disc, it is not the original version.