Just announced:

Destino, Dr Syn, Donald 4:
http://animated-views.com/2008/disney-t ... viii-2008/

Omg, this just made my day!!

I'm actually surprised we found out so quick, but with its new release date - November 11 - it makes sense. Much better date, IMO.

Well, I'm very happy we're getting Donald V4! I was thinking we might have had to wait two years, but happy it's coming right after V3.

Destino, yay! I've heard so much good on this, can't wait! The bonus features also sound exiting, so that's going to be highlight as well.

Dr. Syn, blah... Think I've seen some of this before, don't know what specifically, but I didn't like it.

What, what, what!!??

I can understand your "blah"-ing at Dr Syn, but give it another chance! I remember being well scared of it as a kid, but then saw it again many years later and being quite thrilled!

It's very edgy stuff...certainly so for a Disney TV show...no wonder the film version was such a hit internationally.

It's a classic!

Never seen Dr. Syn, but I read a kids' adaptation of it (a Wonderful World of Disney paperback) years ago, and look forward to finally seeing it. Donald is great, though kind of old hat by now. I have Mathmagicland on tape, so even that wouldn't thrill me (though it would certainly please me!). Destino is great, too, though having a 2-disc set for a short is quite--- remarkable... even with added documentary material.

I guess I'll finally be able to see Destino now. Hopefully this wave has better packaging.

By better packaging, do you mean the paper that's qlued on the back or something else? Because aside from that, the only flaws in the recent Treasures are the lack of the wrap around band, and the tins being a little cheaper... Pretty sure nothing will change, though.

With Dr. Syn, yeah, I've just been reading on other forums that a lot of people are happy with this announcement... I'm still thinking if I have seen it or not... At the end of the film - [hide]does the main character die or something?[/hide] That's the only thing coming to mind.

I don't think so Dan...I remember him riding off into the night with a terrifying scream, though it's <I>only</I> the theatrical cut that I've ever seen here in jolly old' England.

The packaging - the same for the last three/four waves - is likely to be the same again this year.


CONFIRMATION:
<I>Donald In Mathmagic Land</I> has now been confirmed for the Donald set!

Oooh, that's great news! Now I don't have to re-join the club to get it seperately on DVD. Yay!

Hmm, no, don't recall that, Ben... I *think* my mom has Dr. Syn on VHS, so I'll do a little searching.

I used to like it as a kid never even REALIZING that that was "Prisoner"-era Patrick McGoohan as the Scarecrow.
That he is, can only be added coolness.



(Ahem...a terrifying laugh, believe it was?
And that, after helping our Good Heroic characters escape England to the colonies, although that's also going by theatrical-cut memory.



Yep--Never fails:
I spent a month trading with fans on animation and Disney-park groups trying to get a Disney Club Exclusive copy of Mathmagic (okay, two, one for a math-teacher relative for Xmas), and bing...Twelve years nothing, and NOW they license it!

(Or maybe it was that sterling work we all did, helping the Disney Movie Club out with their club-exclusive "test marketing" of "lesser-known titles". Maybe now we'll see "Treasure of Matecumbe", while they're at it.)

Laugh/scream...kinda one and the same, don'cha think? Whatever it was, it scared the pants of me as a nine year old!

Mathmagic Land was <I>always</I> going to be included in these sets. I have it on VHS but never even bothered trying to get an old LaserDisc as it was a dead-cert to be included when they finally reached the right date with the Donald sets.

I'd love to see some of the other exclusives come out as reasonably priced discs. Even given the wrong "Wonderful World Of Disney" badge on them, if that's what they need to get the ball rolling on bringing out a series of more obscure live-actioners (for $9.99 a piece?) then do it, I say!

Off-topic, but my own Disney Rewards prize arrived--- The Complete First Season of Zorro! Very cool.

They finally released Zorro? I hadn't heard. Cool beans. I used to stay up late to watch that on Vault Disney (why, why, why couldn't they have retained that? Dumbing down the rest of the channel wouldn't have been as bad if they had only kept the late-night-classics alive. That's a large part of why I don't even bother with that channel anymore, although I'll admit High School Musical was much better than I thought it would be).

On topic, I sadly have yet to obtain any of the treasures. I've already missed the ones I really wanted (Davy Crockett, The Reluctant Dragon, Complete Goofy, On The Front Lines, Rarities), but I'll try not to miss out on Destino and Dr. Syn sounds good too. I also have that WWOD paperback, but never got around to reading it.

"Good call, baby doll!"

You probably wouldn't have--
Disney was still getting their toes into the waters of DVD, and were only "experimenting" with TV boxsets to look like One of the Gang...

Never got beyond Season 1, and then only as a test-marketed Disney Movie Club Exclusive--
(Although, in Randall's case, you can still save up your DVD boxtops for Disney Movie Rewards.)

I used to stay up late to watch that on Vault Disney (why, why, why couldn't they have retained that? Dumbing down the rest of the channel wouldn't have been as bad if they had only kept the late-night-classics alive. That's a large part of why I don't even bother with that channel anymore, although I'll admit High School Musical was much better than I thought it would be).

Ironically, we refer to it as "Cartoon Network Syndrome", although Disney Channel technically invented it:
Those vintage on-topic shows whom cable networks would destroy (in favor of heave-ho'ing them for that lucrative original-programming deal), they first release on DVD boxset...Then, when fans complain, "Well, why should we bother, you've already got the disks!"

You could tell when they were down to pretty much the same seven Disneyland episodes over and over.
Although I wouldn't mind seeing the 70's WDW specials get their own Treasures tin, with the Danny Kaye EPCOT opening, or the "70's Mickey Mouse Club goes to WDW to plug River Country"

(And being a parks fan, I always used to turn on Vault Disney just for that Disneyland-dark-ride opening...Amazing what you'll do for a "fix" between trips.)



Davy Crockett did return as as a regular edition of the two theatrical movies, so they do make occasional reappearances--
Front Lines, Tomorrowland and Chronological Donald v1 also turned up for rental on Netflix...Which they usually don't, being Limited Editions, but the "Front Lines" wave had that extra surplus pressing from popular demand, they could afford to throw a few copies to the onlines.

You probably wouldn't have:
Disney was still getting their toes into the waters of DVD, and were only "experimenting" with TV boxsets to look like One of the Gang...

Never got beyond Season 1, and then only as a test-marketed Disney Movie Club Exclusive--
(Although, in Randall's case, you can still save up your DVD boxtops for Disney Movie Rewards.)



Ironically, we refer to it as "Cartoon Network Syndrome", although Disney Channel technically invented it:
Those vintage on-topic shows whom cable networks would destroy (in favor of heave-ho'ing them for that lucrative original-programming deal), they first release on premium DVD boxset...Then, when fans complain, "Well, why should we bother, you've already got the disks!"

You could tell when they were down to pretty much the same seven Disneyland episodes over and over.
Although I wouldn't mind seeing the 70's WDW specials get their own Treasures tin, with the Danny Kaye EPCOT opening, or the "70's Mickey Mouse Club goes to WDW to plug River Country"

(And being a parks fan, I always used to turn on Vault Disney just for that Disneyland-dark-ride opening...Amazing what you'll do for a "fix" between trips.)



Davy Crockett did return as as a regular edition of the two theatrical movies, so they do make occasional reappearances--
Front Lines, Tomorrowland and Chronological Donald v1 also turned up for rental on Netflix...Which they usually don't, being Limited Editions, but the "Front Lines" wave had that extra surplus pressing from popular demand, they could afford to throw a few copies to the onlines.

Reminds me I must claim that Zorro set for myself...part of the reason I joined Movie Rewards!