re: SIAP: Lion King makes $29.3MM this weekend

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I actually believe The Lion King is in the "Disney Vault", so it actually isn't available on Blu Ray/DVD.

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TLK has been in the Disney Vault for 7-8 years. It's a marketing ploy for Disney so that can create a 'false demand' for people--i.e. "Oh, Aladdin's on DVD now, better go buy it before it goes back into the Vault next month because it won't be back for another 7 years" kind of false demand.

I've bought into this marketing ploy and own quite a few Disney DVD's and Blu-rays. I plan on showing them to my future kids someday because the Disney/Pixar movies nowadays are very hit and miss. The last Pixar movie I liked was "Up", and probably the last Disney movie was Enchanted (if that counts as animated but it's also live action). Princess and the Frog was OK; fairly decent, cute movie, but lacking compared to the Disney 2-D films that I grew up with that had great Alan Menken soundtracks .


*Edit* Found the Disney Vault SNL parody

Journey to the Disney Vault