Disney 100th Mickey & Minnie 10 Shorts Collection (Volume 1) - January 3, 2023

[Akibiyori]

Originally Posted by Chaz05

Disappointing? The fact that we're even getting this is a miracle.

Well, it IS disappointing. There’s a reason why Disney practically stopped making Mickey shorts in the 1940s (they’re not all that good compared to the flourishing Donald Duck series) and yet there are several of the 40s shorts clogging up this release next to stuff that has already been released and is currently in print on Blu.

[PowellPressburger]

Only 10?!!?

Whoever is making these decisions needs to go.

They could easily start a collectible line of Disney short Blu-Rays

Even the cover art is meh

[Bubbles-11]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Only 10?!!?

Whoever is making these decisions needs to go.

They could easily start a collectible line of Disney short Blu-Rays

Even the cover art is meh

Read "Volume 1", there will likely be more coming out next year

[milojthatch]

Not exactly a sign that it's time to finally retire my Disney Treasures DVDs, but a step in the right direction.

Originally Posted by Akibiyori

Well, it IS disappointing. There’s a reason why Disney practically stopped making Mickey shorts in the 1940s (they’re not all that good compared to the flourishing Donald Duck series) and yet there are several of the 40s shorts clogging up this release next to stuff that has already been released and is currently in print on Blu.

I agree, it is disappointing, yet in a way it isn't. It's kind of like this: A decade ago, this would have been pathetic. However, when one considers the state of Disney, Disney Home Entertainment and the Disney Movie Club today, what passed for "pathetic" a decade ago is now a step below "amazing."

None the less, I'm disappointed in A.) the number of shorts per volume, B.) duplicates from previous Blu-rays and C.) that it isn't in the same release order as the Treasures were. My best guess is that shorts that were "problematic" a few decades ago, but still at least got released with a video from Lenard Maltin telling us how problematic they are, won't even get released this time.

However, I am excited because after the Mickey Mouse Blu-ray four years ago, I didn't expect them releasing anymore classic shorts ion Blu-ray!

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Only 10?!!?

Whoever is making these decisions needs to go.

They could easily start a collectible line of Disney short Blu-Rays

Even the cover art is meh

I agree with you. It does sound like we are getting more volumes, however HOW many more volumes will it take to release all of the classic shorts with 10 per set? I suspect it won't happen, that somewhere after volumes 4-10, the line will die out and we'll still be gripping our worn out Disney Treasures DVDs tightly.

[disneygeek98]

Originally Posted by milojthatch

Not exactly a sign that it's time to finally retire my Disney Treasures DVDs, but a step in the right direction.



I agree, it is disappointing, yet in a way it isn't. It's kind of like this: A decade ago, this would have been pathetic. However, when one considers the state of Disney, Disney Home Entertainment and the Disney Movie Club today, what passed for "pathetic" a decade ago is now a step below "amazing."

None the less, I'm disappointed in A.) the number of shorts per volume, B.) duplicates from previous Blu-rays and C.) that it isn't in the same release order as the Treasures were. My best guess is that shorts that were "problematic" a few decades ago, but still at least got released with a video from Lenard Maltin telling us how problematic they are, won't even get released this time.

However, I am excited because after the Mickey Mouse Blu-ray four years ago, I didn't expect them releasing anymore classic shorts ion Blu-ray!



I agree with you. It does sound like we are getting more volumes, however HOW many more volumes will it take to release all of the classic shorts with 10 per set? I suspect it won't happen, that somewhere after volumes 4-10, the line will die out and we'll still be gripping our worn out Disney Treasures DVDs tightly.

I sadly think that any short that was placed in From the Vault (or in case of the first three waves had their own Leonard Maltin introduction before it) on the Walt Disney Treasures sets would be very unlikely to be released in this line. Nor do I sadly think that we’ll get many more black and white shorts. Disney + has been out over three years now and they still have just TWO Black and White shorts. One of which, Steamboat Willie is of course going to be included in this set.

I have a good feeling that we’ll want to hang on to our Walt Disney Treasures sets forever. I think that the only way that they’ll ever release all of the content from those sets on Blu-ray would be if they ever get another executive like Dick Cook that greatly cares about the history of the company.

As this disc is going to have two shorts not on Disney +, Figaro and Frankie and Bath Day. I hope that further volumes have shorts we haven’t seen HD transfers of. What I’m really hoping is that they release a Donald set that has at least a few shorts from Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Volume Two. That volume had very poor transfers, with the exception of the World War II shorts as they were already restored for Walt Disney Treasures On the Front Lines, and Donald’s Tire Trouble is the only short on the set we’ve seen in HD thus far. I’d love to finally see shorts like Bellboy Donald, The Plastics Inventor, Contrary Condor, Duck Pimples, and Donald’s Double Trouble finally restored! (It’s a shame that the Disney Movie Club Exclusive Blu-rays didn’t include any Bonus Features until 2021, as I bet we would have seen Contrary Condor and Donald’s Double Trouble on the Saludos Amigos/The Three Caballeros and The Parent Trap 2018 Blu-rays as those shorts were included on their DVD releases in the 2000s.)

[milojthatch]

Originally Posted by disneygeek98

I sadly think that any short that was placed in From the Vault (or in case of the first three waves had their own Leonard Maltin introduction before it) on the Walt Disney Treasures sets would be very unlikely to be released in this line. Nor do I sadly think that we’ll get many more black and white shorts. Disney + has been out over three years now and they still have just TWO Black and White shorts. One of which, Steamboat Willie is of course going to be included in this set.

I have a good feeling that we’ll want to hang on to our Walt Disney Treasures sets forever. I think that the only way that they’ll ever release all of the content from those sets on Blu-ray would be if they ever get another executive like Dick Cook that greatly cares about the history of the company.

As this disc is going to have two shorts not on Disney +, Figaro and Frankie and Bath Day. I hope that further volumes have shorts we haven’t seen HD transfers of. What I’m really hoping is that they release a Donald set that has at least a few shorts from Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Volume Two. That volume had very poor transfers, with the exception of the World War II shorts as they were already restored for Walt Disney Treasures On the Front Lines, and Donald’s Tire Trouble is the only short on the set we’ve seen in HD thus far. I’d love to finally see shorts like Bellboy Donald, The Plastics Inventor, Contrary Condor, Duck Pimples, and Donald’s Double Trouble finally restored! (It’s a shame that the Disney Movie Club Exclusive Blu-rays didn’t include any Bonus Features until 2021, as I bet we would have seen Contrary Condor and Donald’s Double Trouble on the Saludos Amigos/The Three Caballeros and The Parent Trap 2018 Blu-rays as those shorts were included on their DVD releases in the 2000s.)

I fully agree minus the possibility in the future that A.) these shorts finally enter the public domain or B.) Disney sells them off. Outside of those possibilities, which I agree themselves are even hard to imagine right now, I also don't see the "From the Vault" shorts getting released ever again.

[disneygeek98]

Originally Posted by milojthatch

I fully agree minus the possibility in the future that A.) these shorts finally enter the public domain or B.) Disney sells them off. Outside of those possibilities, which I agree themselves are even hard to imagine right now, I also do see the "From the Vault" shorts getting released ever again.

Just to confirm do you also not see the From the Vault shorts getting released again or do you think that some of them might? I just wanted to confirm if this as a typo or not.

[milojthatch]

Originally Posted by disneygeek98

Just to confirm do you also not see the From the Vault shorts getting released again or do you think that some of them might? I just wanted to confirm if this as a typo or not.

Dumb typo that I have fixed. I don't see Disney releasing these shorts again.