Joe Schmoe

I guess Disney is choosing to ignore Return to Neverland (released to theaters in 2002)? I don't think I saw it as part of the "50 Animated Motion Pictures" video.

Travis McClain

It did have a theatrical run--taking in $109 million at the box office, not too shabby for a February release. It's not on the formal list (shown here on Wikipedia), though. My guess is that, since it was originally conceived as a direct-to-video release, it's a second-class citizen in the Disney canon.

EDIT
I scrolled down and see that Return to Never Land is on a separate list of animated titles released by DisneyToon Studios. It seems to be their DTV department, as other titles they've produced include Bambi II, Jungle Book II and the three Tinker Bell movies. So it isn't having a theatrical release that makes the difference; it's that it wasn't made by Disney proper.

AmityBoatTours

Return to Neverland was a cheapquel, same as Jungle book II (also released theatrically) the cheapquels were all made by walt disney television animation not the feature animation dept.
same goes for all the pooh theatrical movies that disney released back in the 90s and the 00's

AmityBoatTours

thats what i mentioned above thanks for backing it up. (although return to neverland actually only made 46 million back in 2002, still impressive for a cheapquel)
Ducktales the movie was actually the first of these animated features that disney feature animation didnt have any involvement with, following through with a goofy movie and the ones you mentioned as well.

Travis McClain

Per Box Office Mojo, the domestic take was $48,430,258 and the worldwide (i.e., domestic + foreign) was $109,862,682. So we were both pretty much right, though according to The Price Is Right rules, I was more right than you were.

AmityBoatTours

My Best Buy accidentally had the display and everything set up early (suppose to be this sunday)
So i picked one up, they also have a sign up that said maximum 2 per person.
when i went to the counter it rung up but the sales girl after ringing it up (nothing on the computer tried to prevent the presale though) and she noticed what it said on the back about 9/4-10/4 and then she said it wasnt suppose to be on display till sunday, but she called a manager on the radio who went ahead and authorized her to go ahead and sell it to me since they had the end cap up and it wasnt an actual movie, i did notice though when i went to leave a few minutes the manager and a stock person was taking the end cap down and the metalpacks off the shelf.





After we didnt get one for Bambi, i thought for sure Bestbuy was done with these. Its very nice, simple and elegant and very classy.

Its a shame that Bambi will sort of be the odd man out in the Diamond Collection and not have a steelbookish case.

Josh Z

Futureshop in Canada will have a metal case edition of Bambi on October 11th. (No shipping to the USA, unfortunately.)

Pictures here:

http://www.hidefninja.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11594

AmityBoatTours

yeah i had heard about it, it just sucks that something wasnt worked out to where BB would carry the cases for the Diamond edition titles atleast.

John Galt

Amity, what's the deal with steelbook? Were there details posted earlier in the thread that I missed? What was the price on that case?

AmityBoatTours

Its actually a metal pack, pretty good quality still though.
its 7.50 down for the deposit on the movie or trilogy set.
I dont believe it was posted on here, and i only found out about them myself the other day when i got mine, thanks to the stock person having accidentally set the end cap up on tuesday instead of this sunday.
The official release date for the pre order is sunday the 4th.
If i were you I would be at your local bestbuy at open sunday morning before the hoarders strike, as there are only 20 each store.
now my bestbuy had signs up that said limit 2 per person, before the manager took the endcap down as i was leaving.
but not sure if thats just my bestbuy or if others will have limits set on them as well.
I got my one copy i am happy.

TheBang

Not sure where else to put this info. For those that like steelbook/ironpack/titaniumcase/whatever, Best Buy has several for upcoming releases with pre-order:

Lion King
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....&type=category

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....&type=category

Cars 2 (not yet active)
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....&type=category

mh4268

Is that POTC case in stores yet? I want to get it to match the other 3 POTC steelbooks.

TheBang

I didn't see the POTC case as of last Tuesday. But it's a new week, and I think things like these pre-order steelbooks might go up on Sunday, not Tuesday, so it could be up now.

AmityBoatTours

Local bestbuy said the sticker on the box said display begining Sunday Sept 18th

The Monkees

Was the box set delayed? Someone in the DVDTalk section said it was delayed until January but can't find any info.

mh4268

Thanks, I didn't see it when I got the Lion King and didn't want to run out there for no reason.

Gizmo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Ipn...=youtu.be&hd=1

Yeah....I'll pass. That looks ridiculous.

JimRochester

When I can get just the first movie, without 3D or any special packaging I'll grab it

BuckNaked2k

The metal pack is available online with free shipping to home in case anyone couldn't find them in stores:

Lion King

AmityBoatTours

I havent heard anything like that and amazon pre order is still up.
i doubt they have canceled it.

this doesnt have anything to do with your post but i just wanted to mention:


30 million dollar opening weekend for the 2 week limited engagement of Lion King 3D, I bet Disney is second guessing not having a wide release domesticly for Beauty and the Beast 3D this year, first B&B 3D sells out a majority of the show times durring its 2 week Exclusive limited engagement at El Capitan, then Lion King 3D opens wide in first place and bringing in 30 million dollars. going into the weekend it was projected to be number 1 but with only 15 million, A huge win for the weekend for disney doubling that projected gross.
B&B 3D could have easily had a 20 million dollar opening weekend

ctyankee

Yep. Di$ney can try to make that into the 'circle of life' when they shove that drum up their a$$

Solid Snake

Is there even a big audience for that set?

E Unit

I didn't think so either, but considering it was #1 this past weekend, i'm guessing there is somewhere. Which is sad.

Solid Snake

really? Damn.

NiCK Crush

I want the sequels, I just don't want that boxset. I hope they get released individually eventually.