Bambi (1942) (The Signature Collection)

[worldchmps]

Why is this out so soon? I feel l just bought this on Blu ray! It only came out a few years ago, right? Betting maybe one or two new extras and digital HD and that's it!

[pikachufan1336]

Originally Posted by worldchmps

Why is this out so soon? I feel l just bought this on Blu ray! It only came out a few years ago, right? Betting maybe one or two new extras and digital HD and that's it!

The Diamond Edition came out in 2011, six years ago. If you think this is too soon. Sleeping Beauty was released on Diamond five years after it's 2009 release.

[worldchmps]

Originally Posted by pikachufan1336

The Diamond Edition came out in 2011, six years ago. If you think this is too soon. Sleeping Beauty was released on Diamond five years after it's 2009 release.

5-6 years is nothing. Especially since their movies sta out at least a year before being put back in the vault.

[ULtimateDisneyFan]

Originally Posted by goeagles5039

Never saw Bambi II. Worth it?

its a cute movie that's between him growing up after his mom dies

[Hardback247]

Originally Posted by pikachufan1336

The Diamond Edition came out in 2011, six years ago. If you think this is too soon. Sleeping Beauty was released on Diamond five years after it's 2009 release.

Actually, the Platinum Edition Blu-Ray came out in 2008.

[Hardback247]

I called Disney Customer Support about the missing RKO logo, but they gave me no answer.

[Nailwraps]

99% that it's going to be the same transfer with the recent Disney logo, but it would be cool if Disney did find the original RKO titles.

[starkrogersthor91]

Originally Posted by jeremyparker84

I'm guessing this will be the Best Buy exclusive art. If the first 3 Signatures are any indication, the blu wide release art matches the DVD only art. That means the Bambi wide release art could be.....

I'm inclined to think you're right.

The blu art looks too good and too similar to the BB slips to be the standard artwork. Also note the rounded and shaded edges, which usually suggest the lenticular card.

If it's the standard cover, it's beautiful, but annoys me that it doesn't match the others. I'm tired of Disney changing designs half way through a collection so they don't match. They did it one too many times with the diamond line. Really annoyed me that the last 3 releases were only available in those "circle" designs that were previously only exclusive to the Digital HD option versions.

[jeremyparker84]

Originally Posted by davlee1991

I'm inclined to think you're right.

The blu art looks too good and too similar to the BB slips to be the standard artwork. Also note the rounded and shaded edges, which usually suggest the lenticular card.

If it's the standard cover, it's beautiful, but annoys me that it doesn't match the others. I'm tired of Disney changing designs half way through a collection so they don't match. They did it one too many times with the diamond line. Really annoyed me that the last 3 releases were only available in those "circle" designs that were previously only exclusive to the Digital HD option versions.

Yep! It makes me wonder who is in charge of the design decisions over there.
They've already missed a step in this line, not having a lenticular for BATB (and Snow White's vertical title on the wide release, but that's nitpicking haha).

[gates70]

Originally Posted by Hardback247

I called Disney Customer Support about the missing RKO logo, but they gave me no answer.

Some people have too much time on their hands.

[Disneyfan100]

I like how this one comes with background art unlike Snow White and Pinocchio with just the plain white background.

[Disneyfan100]

Originally Posted by davlee1991

I'm inclined to think you're right.

The blu art looks too good and too similar to the BB slips to be the standard artwork. Also note the rounded and shaded edges, which usually suggest the lenticular card.

If it's the standard cover, it's beautiful, but annoys me that it doesn't match the others. I'm tired of Disney changing designs half way through a collection so they don't match. They did it one too many times with the diamond line. Really annoyed me that the last 3 releases were only available in those "circle" designs that were previously only exclusive to the Digital HD option versions.

I just started collecting last year this Christmas. I don't have any of the Diamond Editions so that would be cool for me to get. I dont really care for them not matching because to me, the artwork for Snow White and Pinocchio looked too plain with a white background. Beauty and the Beast had okay artwork but I wish they would have put the other characters like Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs. Potts.

[Monkeker]

On the Disney Movie Club they replaced the pictures of the covers for both movies with pictures of the lithographs.

[TheSegaMan]

The cover does honestly look like the Best Buy exclusive one. I hope it isn't though, because it's a really cute and beautiful cover even if it makes the artwork inconsistent AGAIN.

On another note, I do find it a little weird that this is the fall release. I was totally expecting something like Fantasia to be the title for this fall, as Bambi seems more like a title you would release very early in the year.

[pikachufan1336]

Originally Posted by TheSegaMan

On another note, I do find it a little weird that this is the fall release. I was totally expecting something like Fantasia to be the title for this fall, as Bambi seems more like a title you would release very early in the year.

Originally Posted by hariseldon

I think you are making a huge assumption. Bambi seems at this point to be a June release than an Oct/Nov release. It would be beyond unusual for Disney to put a preorder out 6months ahead of release. Amazon for what it's worth even has set their release date as June 6 though I think that is at best an estimate

Well they usually do Fantasia at the 0 year (1990,2000,2010, etc) or around that time anyway. So we might have to wait until then. But then again, considering the film has been available on Netflix for a while, there's a good chance we'll see it soon. I know Disney is big on "tradition" with it's line up release dates, but we all know they have broken those "traditions" several times.

[Show spoiler]When home video was new, Roy Disney demanded that Snow White and Fantasia never be available on home video because they were "too special to the family". Look what didn't happen

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I honestly don't know why they are releasing Bambi so early, my best guess is that they want to release it around the spring/summer time since that tie in of "Spring is here; help the Forrest; (etc) has always been a staple in it's marketing (but with that said I don't see why they can't just wait until next year.)

Though for the record this might be our "fall" release, and were just getting it super early. If Disney is releasing 3 a year, I suspect Lion King will follow.

But no one knows its complete speculation.

[goofystitch]

There's a couple of reasons Disney could be releasing Bambi in June instead of next fall. The ricochet effect of excluding Pinocchio from the Diamond Edition lineup would have kicked it to next fall, but it's not the high selling first quarter title Disney counts on every year. Rather than further delay other titles, they may have opted to do a bonus Signature Collection release this year.

However my theory is that Disney is doing like they did in Europe and rushing to discontinue the "Vault," meaning make these movies available again and keep them available. They recently decreased the rate at which they vault these classics, failing to discontinue any Diamond Edition titles in 2015 and only one in 2016 (Sleeping Beauty). In January, they suddenly vaulted 3 titles (Cinderella, The Little Mermaid and The Jungle Book) and one more in February (101 Dalmatians). If that's the case, then increasing the number of releases per year makes sense and we could even see them release 1 title per quarter until all are available.

The home video game has changed so drastically since the VHS days and I'm sure Disney has crunched numbers on how many times these titles were illegally downloaded compared to the number of consumers who would otherwise make a purchase or rental had they been given the chance. I would not be surprised if the Walt Disney Signature Collection titles remain available long term. Your average family doesn't understand the vault and hates the concept. And with Disney's push to get everyone to adopt Disney Movies Anywhere, which makes it so you never need to purchase these films again to get the new bonus content, I'm pretty sure this is their end game.

Plus, with Disney entering its second year breaking box office records, their portfolio is beginning to rely much less on rereleasing these classic films that so many already own. I do believe we're witnessing the end of an era.

[shinobipopcorn]

I know they don't do it anymore, but I'd go see certain titles if they reissued them to theaters. Problem is the theaters wouldn't like losing business from wasting screens on something everyone probably has on their tablets or BD shelf.

[HD Goofnut]

Any word on if this release will have lossless audio?

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

I bet they'd make money on those if they kept the release runs short and rotated.

I know a huge number of older folks (grandparents) and young kids would go just to see those on the Big Screen again. A real print of Wizard of Oz on big screen, Mary Poppins, etc.

I got to see Bambi (I'm told) in one of those long, long ago theatrical re-releases. though I remember very little and what I do is very hard to tease out memories and things you think you remember.

Last wide release was summer 1988.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Any word on if this release will have lossless audio?

Figure it will be the same exact master as the last Blu-Ray release. Upside: Digital Copy.