Mike86

TheBang

Bunch of 4K titles added for October and November, all modern animation

PhantomStranger

Disney seems to be pumping out the 4K releases fast and furious before Disney+ hits. I imagine they think their discs will take a sales hit after Disney+.

Howiefan

List?

clappj

First post in the thread.

JeffTheAlpaca

Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmations are available for pre-order at Amazon? Wow that is a first.

JeffTheAlpaca

Any news on the 2020 Signature releases?

One site said Jungle Book would come out on Dec 11, 2019 but that does not look like the case.

E Unit

I’m fairly certain Signature releases are now dead, with the rise of Disney+. They’ll still release stuff, but probably on a different banner now.

Shannon Nutt

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

PhantomStranger

Disney will likely drop physical media altogether once they start bumping up the price of Disney+. That three-year window looks about correct.

E Unit

No. That's not going to happen. They'll still have physical in some form.

JeffTheAlpaca

Hope they release the remaining classic movies for the signature line or at least Fantasia and Jungle Book before they stop.

dktide91

What about Oliver & Company and Fun and Fancy Free?

TheBang

What about them? They both have Blu-Ray releases already.

dktide91

Hi, no I know they were previously released on Blu-Ray with the Diamond series or other. I have both of them actually. I was asking whether they would be released with the newer Signature series. Also what about Hunchback, Mulan, Robin Hood, Sword in the Stone as far as the Signature series goes?

E Unit

Probably won't happen now that Disney+ is in this world. No more new physical releases of catalogs, just the new stuff.

TheBang

None of those movies you named is part of the Signature Collection or the Diamond or Platinum Editions before that. The Platinum/Diamond/Signature is a series for only the most prestigious titles in the Disney animated classics line. You can look at the past series to see what titles comprise it. For the less-prestigious titles like the ones you named, they generally only get one release on each physical format, and will probably not be reissued with any more elaborate editions.

I think it's a bit early to make an assumption like that. Disney's doing another big drop of 4K catalog titles in March, and hopefully the DMC-exclusive catalog releases will continue. Time will tell this year.