Alice in Wonderland 60th Anniversary Release UK

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Originally Posted by NHassell18

I bet they release this in a few months time with the slipcover (like what apparently they did with Dumbo), and when they do, I shall pick it up then. Without the inclusion of a slipcover, there is no race to buy it. I'll still be able to get the exact version everyone has now, in a year or so time, or the next Disney BOGOF.

This whole thing about Dumbo being released later with a slipcover is news to me... it definitely got a slipcover release when it first came out... how does anyone know whether their being able to get hold of one with a slip a few weeks/months later was down to Disney re-issuing them? Also, at least with Dumbo, the promo pics on the websites showed it with a slip whereas Alice has always been without one for it's UK release...

Originally Posted by THunter

Indeed.

I didn't realise the spines between the Snow White, Pinocchio and Sleeping Beauty slipcovers differed much from the rest of Disney classic spines. I know they became numbered after the original few were released, but they took the small picture which used to be on the bottom of the spine and now it's at the top above the number. It just didn't need to be messed with, now it doesn't match any other Disney spines. Urgh.

These are what I believe are Disney UK's Spine designs for their Animated Classics/DTVs, with descriptions of the layouts from top to bottom of spine:

Design #1: Snow White, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty (originals without Classics Number)
Disney BD logo, title, product code, little picture, BBFC logo.

Design #3: Dumbo, Princess and the Frog, Fantasia 2000*, Snow White (re-issue with Classics number)*, Pinocchio (re-issue with Classics number)*
Little Picture, Classics number, title, product code, BBFC logos, Disney BD logo

Design #4: Beauty and the Beast
Little Picture, Classics number, Disney BD logo, product code, title, BBFC logos, Disney DVD logo.

Design #5: Bambi, Alice and Wonderland
Little Picture, Classics number, Disney BD logo, product code, title (including, unlike previous ones, "Diamond Edition"), BBFC logos

Design #6: Fantasia, Bambi 2*
Disney BD logo, Classics number (if applicable - it isn't in Bambi 2's case), title, product code, little picture, BBFC logos

Design #7: Bolt
Little picture, Disney BD logo, title, BBFC logos, product code. (I don't know if this was also re-issued with Classics number, if it was it's probably a Design #2

Design #8: Dinosaur*
Generic BD logo, title, product code, little picture, BBFC logos, Walt Disney logo

*= no slipcover produced. Alice'll be one of these too, but who knows which design it'll be in. You'd think they'd have run out of ways to make it look inconsistent, but they've found a new way with practically each subsequent release in the last few months!

At the end of the day, because of these wildly inconsistent designs and the fact that now slipcovers aren't even available for all, I think the most consistent one can make the standard UK Disney releases is to just put them on the shelf without the slipcovers. At least then they'd all (bar Sleeping Beauty) have that one mark of consistency, ugly as it is: the classics number, all lined up!