Balto (1995) (Walmart Exclusive)

[Adcatalano]

Originally Posted by WCD199317

Do you have check the menu of the blu-ray of the sequel of American Tail please for the languages? American Tail has been one of my favorites movies and i have a blu-ray with french audio track of the blu-ray of the sequel for my collection.

haven't popped it in but the case for american tail only says english while balto listed multiple languages. i'm guessing not

[rdodolak]

Here is some Balto goodness...

[Leonidas King]

Looks pretty good to me. Although it looks great on Netflix too.

[gZinna]

I can't find this on the Walmart website

[singhcr]

Thanks for the tech review and for the screenshots! This will be my first viewing of this movie. I might have seen it growing up but if I did I don't remember it.

[Adcatalano]

Originally Posted by gZinna

I can't find this on the Walmart website

If you use brickseek it'll take you to the item page, but it says something like this is no longer available or something like that. Seems like a placeholder.. Just needs to be updated

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by singhcr

Thanks for the tech review and for the screenshots! This will be my first viewing of this movie. I might have seen it growing up but if I did I don't remember it.

It's a great, overlooked movie (it got released shortly after Toy Story and got creamed at the box office), and I'm very happy to have a "hard copy" of the movie in proper widescreen for the first time since laserdisc.

[Monterey Jack]

BTW, for those who haven't seen it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehzdhKKcgow

NC is actually very kind to the movie.

[shinobipopcorn]

Originally Posted by singhcr

Thanks for the tech review and for the screenshots! This will be my first viewing of this movie. I might have seen it growing up but if I did I don't remember it.

If I remember right it starts off live action (grandma telling kid about a Balto statue and the significance of it) so that may have turned some kids off from it. It's a good movie otherwise, got a lot of play on TV.

[ParkerAL]

Weird that the Nostalgia Critic reviewed this so recently and it just happens to come out on Blu-ray... not that I'm suggesting any conspiracies here!

I imagine Walmart will put this on its online store eventually, right? It's odd these would show up on shelves without any fanfare at all. Maybe they got the stock early?

[sxerunner]

!

One of my childhood favorites! Looks like I'm swinging by Wal-Mart for the first time in a while (might grab Major Payne and Fievel Goes West while at it).

[Balto_Adventure]

I can't find it on the Walmart website. The closest Walmart to me is about an hour away with traffic. I called them and they don't have it.

[filmbuffTX]

I was able to pick up both Balto and Fievel Goes West today. My store had 4 of each title on a multi sided end cap.

Now bring on the Problem Child double feature!

[gobad2003]

Forget Balto, I want Rock-a-Doodle on blu-ray already What the hell is taking so long to get that title on blu already.

[Zodokai]

So psyched for this! I can't believe it took so long to get Balto on blu. Going to have to head to Walmart soon to pick up both Balto and Fievel Goes West.

[neoz]

I saw them today as well. I need these to go along with Major Payne lol.



I'm sorry but I'm going to say it, all we need now is Rock a Doddle lol.

[McCrutchy]

Fun fact: For whatever reason, Universal wanted to use BD-50 discs for this and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, even though the film encodes themselves (without extras as they are) would only take up a BD-25. So, they've added huge .DAT files to each disc, measuring 9 GB and 7 GB respectively. I tried to open one with a special editor, and the program took up over 90% of my PC's RAM doing so. It worked, but it spat out a bunch of 0s.

I don't know what these files are, and they don't appear to be videos, but this reminds me of what Universal did to the Blu-ray of We're Back: A Dinosaur Story and a Jeff Dunham Blu-ray, two more discs which were also released on the same date. It's kind of weird that they do this, and I'm not complaining, because I love me some dual-layered Blu-rays, but I cannot claim to understand the point. Perhaps it's simply some kind of authoring error.

Also, I had no idea that the overseas DVD editions of Balto have a 28-minute Making of featurette that was not on the US DVD, and is not available on the Blu-ray, either.

[Jodi]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Fun fact: For whatever reason, Universal wanted to use BD-50 discs for this and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, even though the film encodes themselves (without extras as they are) would only take up a BD-25. So, they've added huge .DAT files to each disc, measuring 9 GB and 7 GB respectively. I tried to open one with a special editor, and the program took up over 90% of my PC's RAM doing so. It worked, but it spat out a bunch of 0s.

I don't know what these files are, and they don't appear to be videos, but this reminds me of what Universal did to the Blu-ray of We're Back: A Dinosaur Story and a Jeff Dunham Blu-ray, two more discs which were also released on the same date. It's kind of weird that they do this, and I'm not complaining, because I love me some dual-layered Blu-rays, but I cannot claim to understand the point. Perhaps it's simply some kind of authoring error.

Also, I had no idea that the overseas DVD editions of Balto have a 28-minute Making of featurette that was not on the US DVD, and is not available on the Blu-ray, either.

The 28-minute featurette would have been a cool extra State-side. Bummer.

[LeeFanatic007]

Rock-a-Doodle would be awesome, I haven't watched that since VHS days. The DVD is OOP and expensive.

[Monterey Jack]

Gonna call my local Walmart tomorrow and see if they have copies of this and Fievel Goes West before I invest time walking down there to grab copies of each.