August 21, 2006 - Retailers have been told to expect four volumes of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures on December 5th, as the debut wave of a new line called Walt Disney's Legacy Collection. With featured content ranging from just under to well over 300 minutes, each volume will be a two-disc set carrying a $32.99 suggested retail price, much like the annual Walt Disney Treasures. UPDATE: UD has learned the contents of these sets. Read on...

Volume 1: Wonders of the World will hold the Oscar-winning 1958 feature White Wilderness; the Oscar-winning two-reel (roughly 30 minute) shorts Seal Island (1948), Beaver Valley (1950), Nature's Half Acre (1951), and Water Birds (1952); plus Nature's Strangest Creatures (1959) and more.

Volume 2: Lands of Exploration will contain a pair of Best Documentary Oscar winners in The Living Desert (1953) and The Vanishing Prairie (1954), in addition to Prowlers of the Everglades (1953), Islands of the Sea (1960), and the anthology episodes "Behind the True-Life Cameras" (1955), "The Crisler Story" (1957) and "Yellowstone Story" (1957).

Volume 3: Creatures of the Wild boasts feature-length flicks The African Lion (1955) and Jungle Cat (1960), as well as 1952's Olympic Elk, 1953's Bear Country, 1955's Emperor Penguins, and the "Disneyland" installment "Cameras in Africa" (1954) and more.

Finally, Volume 4: Nature's Mysteries will serve up 1956's feature-length Secrets of Life and the lone True-Life Fantasy Perri (1957), as well as Mysteries of the Deep (1959) and the anthology episodes "Searching for Nature's Mysteries" (1956) and "Adventure in Wildwood Heart" (1957).

Each set will include collectible packaging, an exclusive in-package keepsake, and introductions by Roy Disney. Like the Treasures, these will be available in limited quantities. It is not yet clear if this scheduling means the four titles expected to comprise Wave 6 of the Walt Disney Treasures are being delayed or if Buena Vista Home Entertainment is planning one mammoth release date for the first Tuesday of December, which is already supposed to bring the year's top-grossing film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and two virtual board game DVDs, and may now prove especially costly for fans of Walt-era fare.

November 21, 2006 - "ichabod" has bumped our closely-watched thread on the long-delayed behind-the-scenes Disneyland DVD Secrets, Stories & Magic of the Happiest Place on Earth with some very exciting news. Disney's newly-launched website for the soon-to-debut Walt Disney Legacy Collection previews the forthcoming wave of True-Life Adventures, but it also reveals three new titles that are bound for release under this new two-disc line. Disneyland: Secrets, Stories & Magic is one of them, with a newly-abbreviated title. The other two: Destino, the Oscar-nominated, long-unfinished collaboration between Walt Disney and artist Salvador Dali which finally came to fruition in 2003 via Roy Disney, and The Adventures of Oswald, which presumably will boast the surviving shorts of the lucky rabbit who was Walt Disney's first animated star and returned to the Disney family last February after more than 75 years away. While no date has been announced for the next three sets nor any contents clarified, the website contains conceptual cover art and the first wave's press release points to a release sometime in the first half of 2007.

Volume 2: Lands of Exploration will contain a pair of Best Documentary Oscar winners in The Living Desert (1953)...

Destino, the Oscar-nominated, long-unfinished collaboration between Walt Disney and artist Salvador Dali which finally came to fruition in 2003 via Roy Disney