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[HUELEN10]

I am ever so pissed right now. I am in the middle of doing chores, so I thought I'd play some animation in the background to lighten the mood and lighten the load. I decided to watch Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom and Melody. Ever since my teens, these have been some of my favorite Disney shorts, and I watched them along with all the other treat musical Disney shorts once a year, even throughout college in our animation club. Anyways, the way I used to watch it was renting Fantasia 2000 on DVD, back when things could be easily rented whenever you wanted, no matter if it was semi-obscure, or licenses be damned. Sadly I never got to own my own copy, but that was remedied with the (now quite expensive) BD dual oak of Fantasia: Walt Version and Fantasia: Roy Version. Now the great thing about this release was even though it had new features, it also had all the old Fantasia 2000 DVD features, this time in BD Live instead of a Seperate disc. I was, okay, if it works it works.

I plopped the disc in, and it didn't. I then searched and found out that Disney pulled all BD Live support. I now have yet another consideration when buying even PHYSICAL digital goods.

What are my options now besides piracy? Library doesn't have it any more, and the Fantasia 2000 and Disney treasures DVD that has it on there is 50-120 USD.

I am thinking of writing Disney Enterprises an email explains my case, seeing if they might be willing to at least give me a disc copy of Fantasia 2000 on DVD (they'll replace anything damaged at a small cost, even out of print shit), even a reprint, but we will see.

All I wanted to do was watch my cartoons.

Anyone else been fucked over by digital purchasing bullshit? It really stinks when it was a physical purchase to boot.

 

[GuyKazama]

I think they are on Youtube

https://youtu.be/8iVf0pPHvjc

 

[HUELEN10]

I think you've missed the point, that and no one seems to have done a proper dump of the shorts to begin with.

 

[blame space]

at least you can watch it now!

 

[HUELEN10]

at least you can watch it now!

It's still a candied onion of a situation, but at least there is candy...

You're right.

Hey GAF, why not watch it too? It's an awesome short.

 

[Rest]

What are my options now besides piracy? Library doesn't have it any more

Have you tried Link+ or some other network lending system at the library? I'm sure you can easily find a copy that way.

 

[HUELEN10]

So I called them, and should a receive a callback sometime next week. Can't promise me anything, but I am HOPING I get a disc copy of Fantasia 2000 on DVD!

 

[duckroll]

This actually does suck. I sympathize. As someone who really values film preservation, it's very frustrating when documentary features and shorts tend to get forgotten in catalogs, and when such things are retained across mediums, it's always great news. Disney should have put the features onto the discs instead of just using online features to offer them.

 

[HUELEN10]

Completely agree. I fear that it's inevitable that one day we will get to a point where we say...


Remember when you could OWN shit, and not be at the provider's mercy?

 

[The Spoony Hou]

I have absolutely no experience with this BD Live crap, but I remember hearing it was bs and to avoid you had to turn your player offline. Unfortunately I can't test for myself.

 

[Choppasmith]

I had no idea the DVD of Fantasia 2000 had special features that weren't carried over to Blu-ray. I'm thankful I kept my copy (mostly because the packaging was so nice)

Best of luck, OP!

Edit: Think I'll check it out and rip the DVD for my Kodi setup.

 

[Matticers]

You can just buy the DVD of Fantasia/Fantasia 2000 for ten bucks brand new. Or they have discs of just Fantasia 2000 for $5 shipped on ebay. I'd do that and sell the blu-ray copy. Unless that's not the DVD that it's on or something?

But maybe Disney will send you a DVD to help fix the situation. It doesn't seem like the DVD is out of print (the blu-ray version is) so that should help your chances.

 

[Jailer of Hope]

Hopefully the next time it comes out of the vault they'll put that stuff on the disc. I'm not sure what kind of discrepancies there are these days between physical and what is offered through Disney Movies Anywhere. At least, I don't think on disc stuff is pulled from a server. There have been examples of Disney excluding some features of recent releases, like with Sleeping Beauty, though.

 

[bengraven]

Damn thrift store had a copy of F2000 on DVD the other day...