Just got an e-mail from Disney announcing that the following titles are returning to the vault on 30 January 2010. Thought that folks who don't receive their newsletters might want to know.

Classics
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure Special Edition
102 Dalmatians (Live Action)
101 Dalmatians (Live Action)
Jungle Book 2 Special Edition

New to Club Releases
Disneynature: Earth
Race to Witch Mountain
Disney Animation Collection Volume 1 - Mickey and the Beanstalk

Animated Favorites
Cars
Finding Nemo
Aristocats Special Edition

Live-Action Features
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Mary Poppins 45th Anniversary Edition
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Pre-School Favorites
My Friends Tigger and Pooh: Tigger, Pooh and a Musical Too
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Storybook Surprises
Handy Manny: Manny's Green Team

Disney Movie Club Exclusive Titles*
Polly
DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
The Monkey's Uncle

Per Disney Movie Club**
101 Dalmatians Platinum Edition
Sleeping Beauty 50th Anniversary Editon
The Jungle Book Platinum Edition

*To purchase these titles, you must join the Disney Movie Club
**See post #8

Thanks. Need to pick up Mary Poppins it seems.

Wow, DuckTales going back into the vault, I guess a main store run like some of the other exclusives is gone now. Glad I got mine a year or two ago!

i remember months ago ultimate disney reported 101Dalmatians the original and Jungle Book (1967) will go OOP...are you sure of your list?

1) My list came directly from Disney, so yes, I'm sure of it.

2) 101 Dalmatians (animated) and Jungle Book are not on the list I have provided.

Does this mean the Blu-ray releases are going to be pulled from the market as well? This is ridiculous.

Just looking at your signature, you're not really the kind of guy that rushes to stay on top of things, are ya?

The newsletter I received didn't say anything about being format-specific, so I would assume that, yes, the Blu-ray Discs are also going back into the vault. Back in the day when VHS and DVD co-existed, they both went into the vault together so I see no reason that the BD wouldn't. The only odd thing about this is that they just rolled out the Cars gift pack. I didn't expect that version to be on the shelves for long, but I am surprised that they won't simply replenish it with the BD by itself. I suspect the Pixar titles will be in our library before the end of January.

The Disney Movie Club currently indicates the following titles are going back into the Vault:

Sleeping Beauty- 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition DVD
Sleeping Beauty- 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Blu-Ray

101 Dalmations- Platinum Edition
101 Dalmations (Live Action)
102 Dalmations (Live Action)
101 Dalmations II: Patch's London Adventure Special Edition

Jungle Book- 40th Anniversary Platinum Edition
Jungle Book 2- Special Edition

that would be ridiculous to pull one of the three pirates movies.. I still haven't bought any of them. Was waiting for a cool box with all 3 movies together, but it seems that's not going to happen anytime soon.

I believe there was a box of all three scheduled for release a month or two back, but I don't recall hearing that it ever came out. (This was supposed to be a DVD release; I think you can buy all three together on BD in a box already).

Pulling the third one out of print (if it's true that it's just the third one) may be a pretty smart business decision on Disney's part. There are probably others like me, who only own the first one, who will now have to think about finally snagging both parts two and three. (The second one is pretty useless without the third, because part two ends with a cliffhanger. This is probably the type of sales they're trying to generate).

Complicating all this (for me anyway) is that I do not think that the third one is a very good movie at all. So I basically have to decide to sit tight with just the first movie (which stands alone pretty well) or buy (the decent) part two along with (the lousy, to me anyway) part three.

I'd been putting it off since it's release, but I went ahead and picked up the 101 Dalmatians Platinum Edition last night after seeing this.

It was the first movie I'd ever watched in a theater, so it's been on my radar for some time, but this announcement was enough to get me to take the plunge.

I think the original poster misread the email, as I got the same email from the Disney Movie Club, and only the first four titles are the ones that they mean are being retired to the vault, under the "Disappearing Classics" banner:

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure Special Edition
102 Dalmatians (Live Action)
101 Dalmatians (Live Action)
Jungle Book 2 Special Edition

Guess I need to pick up:


101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure Special Edition
102 Dalmatians (Live Action)
101 Dalmatians (Live Action)
Jungle Book 2 Special Edition
Disney Animation Collection Volume 1 - Mickey and the Beanstalk
Cars
Mary Poppins 45th Anniversary Edition
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp

Looks like I need to hurry up and buy Sleeping Beauty BD.

Di$ney's still doing this "Back To The Vault" shtick? Oi.

And ironically none of them are classic. Lock 'em up for a century for all I care.

Also DuckTales is available through the Disney Movie Reward site, not just the Disney Movie Club.

Very interesting, as several of those titles just got new blue ray releases. and amazon in the uk lists a may 1 2010 release date for Finding Nemo on blue ray. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Finding-Nemo...1344137&sr=8-1

Several? I only see Sleeping Beauty that has gotten a "recent" Blu-Ray release and that was like last fall or something. Cars has been on BD for a while now.

Was referring to the titles that were included in the 12 weeks of disney steelbooks that Futureshop and later Best Buy recently had.

Cars will not go into vault pixar films do not go into vault

[cough]Toy Story[/cough]

Didn't Monsters Inc. also go into the vault at some point?

Sure it has:

Update - As WMAangel surmised, I did misunderstand the e-mail Disney sent me. Today brought a different e-mail that only lists seven titles: Sleeping Beauty, both Jungle Books and all four 101 Dalmatians (animated and live action) features. I really do wish I'd kept the original e-mail, though, because all the titles I originally (errantly) reported were listed in a singular banner whose masthead read something to the effect of "Back into the Vault Soon" or whatever it said. I promise, I generally don't misunderstand basic e-mails!