Talk:Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

I think I'm gonna need some help...

Now, I don't like to complain, but when it comes to Disney and home media, they have an outrageous library of titles - I mean, take a look at DisneyVHSMuseum's VHS/Beta collection. Lately, I've been doing much of the work on this page myself, and I can't do it alone. And much of the information I find on the web is either outdated or inaccurate. Perhaps if someone could help contribute this page now and then.

--MrServoRetro (talk), April 9, 2022, 05:52 PM (EST)

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and three other WTP featurettes

Only the first three WTP featurettes were released on video as stand-alone releases in the Wonderland Sale promotion, headlined by the Classics video release of "Alice in Wonderland" on May 28, 1986. "Blustery Day" got a stand-alone video release on May 19, 1987 in the Goofy Price promotion, headlined by the second Disney's Sing-Along Songs episode, "Heigh-Ho."

The Walt Disney Mini-Classics series was launched on May 31, 1988, and then all four WTP featurettes debuted in the line on September 28, 1989, coinciding with the video release of "Bambi" in the Walt Disney Black Diamond (aka "The Classics") series. 2601:4C4:4000:A8C0:F99F:6F51:15DE:3D6 22:01, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

The Walt Disney Company's history with K-Mart Corporation

Between 1988 and 1992, Handleman Company, a now-defunct rack-jobbing and music company based in Troy, Michigan, serviced K-Mart Corporation with home video products distributed by Buena Vista Home Video. Since 1992, Buena Vista Home Video products have displayed in special Disney sections separate from the sections serviced by Handleman Company, whereas Handleman continued to operate the rest of K-Mart's video business. K-Mart eventually started selling licensed Disney merchandise. 69.85.235.49 19:18, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Walt Disney Records - Read-Alongs

In 1965, Walt Disney Records (then known as Disneyland Records) introduced their own line of book-and-audio read-along albums. The initial read-along albums released at this time included Sleeping Beauty, Mary Poppins, Three Little Pigs, Peter Pan, 101 Dalmatians, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Lady and the Tramp, followed in 1966 by Bambi, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Mother Goose Rhymes, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and The Seven Dwarfs and Their Diamond Mine. Around 1971, Disneyland Records changed its name to Disneyland/Vista Records. In mid-1986, at the time Walt Disney Productions changed its name to The Walt Disney Company, the company's product subsidiaries, including Walt Disney Telecommunications & Non-Theatrical Company and Disneyland/Vista Records, adopted the UPC (Universal Product Code). In 1987, the label changed its name again to Disneyland/Vista Records & Tapes, began releasing their albums on audio CD, and discontinued releasing their read-alongs on vinyl record. In early 1988, Walt Disney Telecommunications & Non-Theatrical Company was reincorporated as Buena Vista Home Video. In the fall of 1988, Disneyland/Vista Records & Tapes changed its name yet again to Walt Disney Records. The Oliver & Company OST was originally the last album that Walt Disney Records released on vinyl record. They continued to release their albums on audio cassette, however. But for some reason, they didn't update the "list of other read-along titles" covers and back covers of their read-alongs until around mid-1990, e.g. the Oliver & Company read-along was originally released around late 1988 and The Little Mermaid read-along was originally released around early 1990 but the "list of other read-along titles" cover and back cover of both read-alongs' original releases still mention Disneyland/Vista Records & Tapes. Around mid-1989, Walt Disney Records and Buena Vista Home Video, alongside their subsidiaries, adopted the ISBN (International Standard Book Number).

Around the mid-2010s, Walt Disney Records began releasing some of their albums on vinyl record again, as part of a then-new line called the Walt Disney Records Vinyl Vault Collection. The VVC re-releases of the older pre-1971 albums retained the original artwork, but the back of the cover would be modified to include the Walt Disney Records and Walt Disney Records Vinyl Vault Collection logos.

Seemingly, the read-along line may have been discontinued by now. The last read-along in the line was Luca and it was released circa mid-to-late 2021.

69.85.235.229 16:42, 24 March 2023 (UTC)