Walt Disney Platinum Editions Disney Wiki. Walt Disney Platinum Editions are a line of VHS tapes, DVDs, and Blu ray Discs released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment. Watch Full Hoodwinked 2002 there. The series features digitally remastered versions of several of the most popular Disney animated features. History. Overview. Originally, the line consisted of the companys ten best selling VHS titles and would be released in October of each year. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first film released in the series, in 2. Walt Disney Platinum Editions are a line of VHS tapes, DVDs, and Bluray Discs released by Walt. The two following titles, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King were released in IMAX and other giant screen theaters during the holiday season before their respective October DVD release. Due to underwhelming box office results, a planned IMAX release for Aladdin was scrapped and the practice was discontinued. In May 2. 00. 3, Disney announced that it would be adding the next four best selling titles to the collection. Starting in 2. 00. Platinum Edition was released twice a year, one in October and one in February or March. The first eight Platinum Editions, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in October 2. The Little Mermaid in January 2. VHS. The last two releases in the series, Sleeping Beauty in October 2. Pinocchio in March 2. The first Disney cartoon to be produced in the 70 mm format since The Black Cauldron 1985, this blend of traditional animation with computergenerated imagery is a. While The Mysterious Mr. Enter focuses more on critique than comedy, theres still a fair amount of humour to be had here. Look Before You Sleep His re. The Emperors New Groove Bluray 2000 Starring David Spade, John Goodman and Eartha Kitt. The misadventures of an arrogant, egocentric young Emperor named Kuzco. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has released several hundred titles to home video since. Blu ray Disc. In addition to the two discs for the movie and bonus features, the Blu ray releases also include a DVD of the movie for travel purposes and to lure consumers without Blu ray players into helping to boost sales. The original plan for the Platinum Edition was that the films would be re issued for a limited time, once every ten years. Since then, the interim between each re issue of a particular film has been shortened to seven years. As of now, all 1. Platinum Editions line are no longer available in retail stores, and can only be found through specialized sales markets, or websites such as Amazon. Barnes Noble. Bay. Such out of print titles usually demand a significant premium given their considerable value to collectors. Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo, and Fantasia were also originally intended to be part of the Platinum Edition line however, due to a presumed schedule mix up, they were all released as special editions that were not part of the Platinum Editions. Packaging. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was packaged in a double sized keepcase, and to date has been the only Platinum Edition DVD without a slip cover. It was released on VHS in Brazil and on DVD in UK as a Collectors gift set. From Beauty and the Beast to Cinderella, Platinum Editions were packaged in a dual disc DVD case with a slipcase, with a book like velcro flap which, when opened, gave an overview of the DVDs special features. Lady and the Tramp was the first DVD in the series to use a more standard slipcase without a flap. The slipcase for The Little Mermaid then featured embossed character art, and the slipcases for Peter Pan, The Jungle Book and One Hundred and One Dalmatians featured holographic artwork along with the embossment. Only sets sold during the first few months of a Platinum Editions window of availability are sold with a slipcover. Discs in the collection have also made transformation through the years. The first few releases and One Hundred and One Dalmatians were released on standard discs. Cinderella then featured their main characters upon the discs themselves as did The Little Mermaid. The latest change has been the addition of holographic images used on Lady and the Tramp, Peter Pan, and The Jungle Book. Beginning with The Lion King, as an option for customers, select Platinum Edition DVDs were also made available in gift set editions, which included the standard retail DVD as well as supplements such as original animation sketches, a film frame, and a companion book. Some titles featured as Collectors Gift Sets are exclusive to certain countries as well, such as The Jungle Book and One Hundred and One Dalmatians in United Kingdom and Germany only, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Peter Pan in the UK only. The VHS releases of the first four Platinum Editions were packaged in white clamshells, while Bambi and Cinderella had cardboard cases. The Blu ray Platinum Edition of Sleeping Beauty comes with a slipcover similar to those used from 2. Restoration. Each film in the Platinum Edition series is given a thorough restoration, and generally presented in their original aspect ratios, except for a few exceptions. Beauty and the Beast is presented in a matted aspect ratio of 1. The Lion King and Aladdin are presented in the full 1. The Little Mermaid created in 1. Atlantis: Milo`S Return Theater Cartoon ' title='Atlantis: Milo`S Return Theater Cartoon ' />One Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Jungle Book were both produced in 1. Lady and the Tramp, produced in Cinema. Scope, was also presented in an alternate pan and scan version included in the same collection. Sleeping Beauty, originally presented in 2. Most of the films in the collection are digitally restored from their original negatives, undergoing digital clean up processes to remove dust, dirt, and scratches. Snow White and Bambi have featurettes detailing the restoration process included on the set as bonus features. Three of the Platinum Edition releases Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King were produced using Disneys Computer Animation Production System CAPS, and were instead sourced straight from the digital masters used to create the film. Each of these three films also featured retouched and re cleaned up animation, alterations done to prepare the films for IMAX release. Each films soundtrack is also remixed into Dolby Digital 5. Earlier films in the series such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were originally released with monoaural soundtracks, and the new mixes created for Platinum Edition releases featured a combination of uses of original sound elements used in the original mix and rechanneling techniques. Later films in the series including two, Aladdin and The Lion King, which were originally produced in 5. Disney Enhanced Home Theater Mixes. For the most part, the original mixes are also included. Special features. DVDs in this series typically contain a significant amount of bonus material, primarily housed on the second disc of the set so as to allow for a high bitrate transfer of the feature. Many of the titles feature making of documentaries that run from as little as a half hour to an hour in length. The three exceptions are The Lion King, Aladdin, and Peter Pan. The Lion King and Aladdin both utilize a navigation system of multiple featurettes that can be played individually or together, while Peter Pan simply re uses a brief 1. Other typical features include audio commentaries not available on Bambi, Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, or One Hundred and One Dalmatians, art and image galleries, deleted scenes, early storyboard reels, and bonus Disney short subjects. Contemporary publicity material available on each set may include trailers, music videos, radio programs, newsreel footage, and episodes of the Disney anthology television series, although the exact features included vary from set to set. Features aimed at more general family audiences and children are also included, such as set top games and music video renditions of Disney songs by contemporary pop artists andor Disney Channel stars. Music videos. List of Walt Disney Platinum Editions. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1. October 9, 2. 00. DVD November 2. 7, 2. VHSJanuary 2. 00. Collectors Gift Set UK only. Beauty and the Beast 1. October 8, 2. 00. DVD and VHS. The Lion King 1. October 7, 2. 00. DVD and VHS. Collectors Gift Set. Trilogy box set with The Lion King II Simbas Pride and The Lion King 1. October 5, 2. 00. DVD and VHS. Collectors Gift Set. Trilogy box set with The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Theives. March 1, 2. 00. 5 DVD and VHS. First Platinum film released in Spring instead of Fall Autumn. Cinderella 1. 95. October 4, 2. 00. DVD and VHS. Collectors Gift Set.