Recycled Extras: a full Audio Commentary with John Lasseter, Leonard Maltin and Andreas Deja, "Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty", "Eyvind Earle: The Man And His Art", and "The Sound of Beauty: Restoring a Classic".

Missing in Action: the invaluable "Cine-Explore" Mode originally paired with the commentary, the pre-show Grand Canyon short, a handful of short Featurettes including a tour of the Disneyland attraction, a few Storyboards and Art Galleries, "The Peter Tchaikovsky Story", Deleted Songs, an Alternate Opening and more. Some of the lesser vintage supplements (a Music Video, Games & Activities, etc.) aren't missed...but most of this material was fantastic, and the loss of it greatly reduces this release's appeal. Luckily, used copies of the Platinum Edition are still easy to find.

So, what's new? Surprise, surprise, most of the new stuff is nothing more than thematic tie-ins for Maleficent. The best of the bunch is "Art of Evil: Generations Of Disney Villains" (10 minutes), in which animator Andreas Deja and other Disney artists explain how the influence of classic baddies has profoundly shaped their artistic style. Also here is "Disney Animation: Artists in Motion" (5 minutes), a like-minded featurette hosted by artist Brittney Lee as she creates a neat Maleficent sculpture out of paper. Three never-before-seen Deleted Scenes (3 clips, 11 minutes total) are also here, albeit in enhanced storyboard form. Of lesser interest are "Once Upon A Parade" (9 minutes, starring Modern Family's Sarah Hyland) and "Once Upon A Dream" (3 minutes), an animated karaoke-style presentation of the famous song.

Recycled extras: a full Audio Commentary with Roy E. Disney, historian John Canemaker, and Walt Disney himself (via original audio interviews, of course), an abridged version of the exhaustive interactive Hyperion Studios Tour (now just a 30-minute highlight reel), a Snow White Returns featurette, a longer version of "The One That Started It All" (re-titled "Disney's First Feature", and now 33 minutes instead of 16), a pair of Deleted Scenes and Story Meetings, a Voice Talent featurette (6 minutes), and "Bringing Snow White to Life" (11 minutes).

New to this release: mostly a handful of good to not-so-good Featurettes about the film's production and legacy. The most prominent is "In Walt's Words" (4 minutes), a short collection of audio interview clips about the film paired with vintage photographs. "Disney Animation: Designing Disney's First Princess" (5 minutes) speaks with artists Mark Henn, Lorelay Bove, Michael Giaimo, and Bill Schwab as they break down the film's unique visuals, while the like-minded "Iconography" offers a broader examination of the film's lasting popularity. "The Fairest Facts of Them All: 7 Things You May Not Know About Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (5 minutes) is a brief and somewhat interesting trivia session with actress Sofia Carson, while the much less interesting "Snow White In Seventy Seconds" is an obnoxious rap recap of the film (yes, really). Finally, "The Prince Meets Snow White" is a new alternate sequence featuring a deleted meeting between the two characters, with new vocal dubs and original sketches.

Missing in action: A good chunk of the previously mentioned interactive "Hyperion Studios" Tour, which included a handful of Storyboard-to-Screen Comparisons, Camera Tests and other pre-production material, "Disney Through the Decades", a Scrapbook of memorabilia, vintage RKO Promotional Items, Trailers and Radio Commercials, and much more, some of which dated back to the 2001 Special Edition DVD. Some of the lesser vintage extras (Music Videos, Games & Activities, etc.) aren't missed...but most of this material was fantastic, and the loss of it greatly reduces this release's appeal. Luckily, used copies of the Diamond Edition are a little easier to find now.