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Bill

After swearing up and down to Dr. Know that I WOULDN'T rush off like a lemming and pick up these DVDs...because I always thought the "nature" coming attractions on the Wonderful World of Disney were like finding out you were having Brussel sprouts for dinner....I bought them.

BUT...you may be glad I did...because, as anyone who purchased them can bear out...deep in the recesses of the packaging...where most children fear to go...there is an insert announcing some "coming soon" DVDs which will be part of the same Roy Disney presents collections. One is "Destino" (yes..you'll only watch it once....so what?!)...the second is "Oswald" (who saw THAT coming?!)...and the third...and of most general interest, I think....is the long awaited Secrets of the Happiest Place on Earth Disneyland DVD that we've all been waiting for...for over a year. I guess Roy is the new Leonard.
 
Dr. Know

Dr. Know

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Did you get 'em signed by Roy on Tuesday?

Destino... cool. I finally saw it in the huge Disney exhibition currently at the Grand Palais. It was projected on a large screen in a gallery filled with Dali's original concept drawings. It would be nice to have on dvd.

So have you watched any of the True Life Adventures yet? Does Walt introduce them? How do they look?
 
mmmfan

mmmfan

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Thank you for finding this. Can't wait to see the Disneyland DVD. Hope they actually release it this time.
 
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jeffcot

Not sure how firm your tongue was planted in your cheek but. .

The True-Lifes are very important works of filmmaking. The were significant on many different levels and laid the groundwork for pretty much all the nature docs and telelvison programs that followed. They won a bunch of Oscars.

Roy Disney's participation in the DVDs is more than just token. As a young man, he worked directly on a number of the True-Life films.

They are also fairly renown for their music as well.

Regards

Jeff
 
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Jestyr

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Jeff...are you saying this having not watched them since they were rerun on the Wonderful World of Disney in 1969? Or are you saying this having watched them last night on your DVD player?

No one disputes their contribution to the genre. But really..in this day and age...do we need animals to have those wacky human characteristics...stories stitched out of unrelated footage...a narrator that tells us what the animals are thinking? It's like animal reality television.

As for Roy Jr. (or "Walt's Idiot Nephew" as he was referred to around the studio at that time), I've met him and spoken with him. He's very nice...and I think he's a good man. But...he's not Walt. He's not Roy. He's the Prince Edward of the Disney family. What I object to is that he is marketed like "The New Walt". It just speaks to how we're content with shoddy substitution in this culture. Because accepting the loss would upset our collective apple cart.

So Jim Henson died...so what? We'll just stick someone else hand up Kermit's bum.

Doesn't work that way. Yes...Roy got his start on the True Life Adventure series...but in many ways, he's still a token....a token Disney. If his name were Bob Schmo...no one would line up to get his signature on a set of DVDs.
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Wow. That is so incredibly offensive I woudn't know where to start schooling you about it. I'll just say you're a complete idiot and leave it at that.
 
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FRAN?OIS

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Jeff...are you saying this having not watched them since they were rerun on the Wonderful World of Disney in 1969? Or are you saying this having watched them last night on your DVD player?

No one disputes their contribution to the genre. But really..in this day and age...do we need animals to have those wacky human characteristics...stories stitched out of unrelated footage...a narrator that tells us what the animals are thinking? It's like animal reality television.

As for Roy Jr. (or "Walt's Idiot Nephew" as he was referred to around the studio at that time), I've met him and spoken with him. He's very nice...and I think he's a good man. But...he's not Walt. He's not Roy. He's the Prince Edward of the Disney family. What I object to is that he is marketed like "The New Walt". It just speaks to how we're content with shoddy substitution in this culture. Because accepting the loss would upset our collective apple cart.

So Jim Henson died...so what? We'll just stick someone else hand up Kermit's bum.

Doesn't work that way. Yes...Roy got his start on the True Life Adventure series...but in many ways, he's still a token....a token Disney. If his name were Bob Schmo...no one would line up to get his signature on a set of DVDs.
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Wow. That is so incredibly offensive I woudn't know where to start schooling you about it. I'll just say you're a complete idiot and leave it at that.
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Jestyr,

Bill is well known here for being offensive and enjoying too! To dismiss him as a "complete idiot" (Not Walt's idiot nephew! LOL!) would be wrong because I do suspect that Bill IS a real Disney fan! He just like to shock and does it with gusto most of the time, I admit...

He loves to get carried away by his own humour... and I don't think he even agrees with himself on those statements of his!

That Jim Henson comment is too much though!

Just my two cents!

I guess we should read Bill's posts and... move on!
 
X-S Tech

X-S Tech

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What was offensive about Bills post?!! It was his opinion and offensive is hardly the word I would choose. I can see not agreeing with it, but incredibly offensive?
 
Dr. Know

Dr. Know

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Bill is not a complete idiot. Opinionated and brutal at times, but he is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful person I've ever known in my life.
 
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jeffcot

Wow. . .

Took me a while to get back to the thread, and whoa. . .

I watched the True-Lifes as a kid and revisited them again on Vault Disney in the late 1990s. I enjoy them--simple as that.

And I take Roy Disney for what he is. In this case he had a direct link to the TLAs so I didn't think his connection to the DVDs was all that inapproriate.

Regards

Jeff
 
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FRAN?OIS

Member
Bill,

I'm always amazed (too) at how condescending (Yeah! condescending!) you can be with other posters here and how you obviously get a kick out of ignoring precisely their own sensitivity!

AND you sure love to drop names, don't you?!

Is that to give yourself some... "credibility"?
(Hmmm... this not a question, btw!)

Needless to say; we, the nerds here are IMPRESSED!

(Give us a kick if you please! Give us a kick if you would! Ooooh.... that was good! ;D)
 
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FRAN?OIS

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Bill is not a complete idiot. Opinionated and brutal at times, but he is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful person I've ever known in my life.
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Don't tell us! Must be Mr Eisner writing here under another name!! ;D

Oh! Have I told you about the time I met him?
Very nice man! Very nice! ;)
 
X-S Tech

X-S Tech

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I believe Brian Henson did perform Kermit a few times just after Jim's death but since Muppet Christmas Carol (at least) the "official" voice of Kermit has been Steve Whitmire (Rizzo, Wembley Fraggle, Bean Bunny). The voice itself doesn't bother me so much as the personality. Kermit just isn't Kermit anymore. Where before he was the leader of the group, barely able to keep "the show" going, he's crossed the line into nervous and boring. What's strange is that until this year the same head writer (Jerry Juhl) that had been writing the Muppet show, was still writing the bulk of the material for the Muppets, so you'd expect the characters would still be true to form. I guess it goes to show how much the performer really makes the character. I find some fairly simple Kermit lines absolutely ruined by all the little "oohs" and "gosh's" that Steve gives him. They are all things that Jim's Kermit said, but for some reason they are not in the right place. It's like Jim was Kermit, and Steve's doing an impression of Kermit I guess. Just my never to be humble opinion ;)
 
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FRAN?OIS

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Bill,

No, I don't know Mr Eisner! It was a joke... just dropping a name as a parody...

As I said.... let's move on! :)
 
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FRAN?OIS

Member
Oooh, Bill!

Why can't you behave?
Oh, why can't you behave?
After all the things you told me
And the promises that you gave,
Oh, why can't you behave?
Why can't you be good?
And do just as you should?

(I'm sure dear Cole will excuse my borowing!)
 
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FRAN?OIS

Member
Just one last thing...

... if you're so "unhappy" with your True Life Adventures dvds, send them on to me; I don't have the budget to get them right now and they'd make a loverly Xmas present!

Merci in advance! :-*
 
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