Post by JakeLipson on Jul 16, 2004 22:19:16 GMT -5
Ah, salam, I'm new, yada yada yada, I'll get to the intro later, heh. Question first.
Aladdin is my favorite movie of all time, and my original VHS copy from 1993 has been used so much that it broke a couple New Year's Eves ago. I got it fixed earlier this year but then it broke again after one viewing, so I grabbed a new copy, still factory sealed with all of Disney's promotional jazz, off ebay for $12.94 including shipping a few days ago. I still can't wait for the DVD but maintaining the original theatrical cut (bar the Arabian Nights lyric change), even in pan & scan form, is important to me for history's sake, and for so cheap I couldn't resist being able to watch it again before October 5.
Well, it came today, hurrah, and this is no bootleg - it's a real Disney VHS, including all of their typical promotional jazz: Pizza Hut promotional offer card, booklet for other available VHS tapes, $2 off Aladdin music (soundtrack, read along, etc.); a flyer touting the upcoming release of The Fox and the Hound on VHS; and etc. It plays just like my old one did in its glory days.
But there's a slight difference. Every Black Diamond VHS that I've ever seen prior to this one has the image of a page turning at the bottom right hand corner of the cover art with some little blurb behind it, including my older copy of Aladdin. On the older copy of Aladdin that I have, it says "The Original Animated Classic," like the copy pictured here - www.webspawner.com/users/uncleremus/PICT0184.JPG (on the right of the second row of tapes,net to Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King that we can only see part of.)
However, my new replacement VHS is like the one that Amazon shows here - images.amazon.com/images/P/6302787068.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif - in that there's moe cliff behind Jafar instead of the page-flap, and there's no blurb.
I'm sure it's a real copy, but it's strange that Disney would print variations on the cover. They did 5 different covers for A Bug's Life VHS in its first issue pre-Gold Collection, but that was intentional and had a different image. With Aladdin, it's the same picture, essentially, just this small difference. Why, I wonder.
My best guess is that my original copy is a later printing altered to differenciate from Return of Jafar, which came out in May 1994 after a September 1993 bow for Aladdin on VHS. But that doesn't make sense because I'm pretty sure we bought it shortly after it was released.
Does anyone have any clue to the reasoning behind these variations? Are there others? Which version(s) do you own?
Aladdin is my favorite movie of all time, and my original VHS copy from 1993 has been used so much that it broke a couple New Year's Eves ago. I got it fixed earlier this year but then it broke again after one viewing, so I grabbed a new copy, still factory sealed with all of Disney's promotional jazz, off ebay for $12.94 including shipping a few days ago. I still can't wait for the DVD but maintaining the original theatrical cut (bar the Arabian Nights lyric change), even in pan & scan form, is important to me for history's sake, and for so cheap I couldn't resist being able to watch it again before October 5.
Well, it came today, hurrah, and this is no bootleg - it's a real Disney VHS, including all of their typical promotional jazz: Pizza Hut promotional offer card, booklet for other available VHS tapes, $2 off Aladdin music (soundtrack, read along, etc.); a flyer touting the upcoming release of The Fox and the Hound on VHS; and etc. It plays just like my old one did in its glory days.
But there's a slight difference. Every Black Diamond VHS that I've ever seen prior to this one has the image of a page turning at the bottom right hand corner of the cover art with some little blurb behind it, including my older copy of Aladdin. On the older copy of Aladdin that I have, it says "The Original Animated Classic," like the copy pictured here - www.webspawner.com/users/uncleremus/PICT0184.JPG (on the right of the second row of tapes,net to Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King that we can only see part of.)
However, my new replacement VHS is like the one that Amazon shows here - images.amazon.com/images/P/6302787068.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif - in that there's moe cliff behind Jafar instead of the page-flap, and there's no blurb.
I'm sure it's a real copy, but it's strange that Disney would print variations on the cover. They did 5 different covers for A Bug's Life VHS in its first issue pre-Gold Collection, but that was intentional and had a different image. With Aladdin, it's the same picture, essentially, just this small difference. Why, I wonder.
My best guess is that my original copy is a later printing altered to differenciate from Return of Jafar, which came out in May 1994 after a September 1993 bow for Aladdin on VHS. But that doesn't make sense because I'm pretty sure we bought it shortly after it was released.
Does anyone have any clue to the reasoning behind these variations? Are there others? Which version(s) do you own?