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APK · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: our aladdin petition

Alright, remember our Aladdin Series DVD petition from way back when?

The last I heard, Disney was very interested in making the DVDs BUT they are also interested in doing a 2-episodes-per-DVD thing which would be uber expensive for the consumers. At first I thought they were just being greedy but the real reason why is because the Aladdin series was over 80 eps and they aren't divided into any particular "seasons" like season 1 or season 2 so making box sets would be difficult.

I also remember that they asked people to vote on "which episodes they would rather have released first" which still sucks for the fans because we'd rather watch the series in order and not have to pay for each DVD.

Soooo my question is, what's new? Has anyone heard anything new about the DVDs? If you guys are up for it, we should really consider writing another petition that says the fans still want the series on DVD but we are willing to have them seperate them into "seasons."

What do you think of these suggestions?

1. Considering there are 80+ eps, how about just dividing them 20 epsidoes per season?

2. Lump all the "related" episodes together like they used to do with the Princess Collection. (ie, Genie-centered episodes, Aladdin and Jasmine's love centered episodes, The animal centered episodes) This would be harder and less practical than the first.

I don't get why Disney is making it more difficult than it has to be. No, Aladdin doesn't have official "seasons" but couldn't they always just divide the episodes and call them seasons on the DVD? Or forget about the whole "seasons" label and just have it say "episodes 1-10" on the DVD the way the "Select scenes" section says, "scenes 1-5?"

Calluna · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject:

I'd forgotten that we'd ever even gotten a response to any of those petitions. Laughing

Well, if they're actually going to write us back, then I'm not opposed to writing them again, at least to see if they're giving us the same excuses. Laughing

They're not still doing the two-episode DVDs anymore, are they? I haven't seen a new one of those come out in awhile. Anyway, I thought that's what the OAVs like Disney Princess: Follow Your Dreams were meant to replace? (Although they might go back to that now that Lasseter's making them stop making OAVs...)

I'm not seeing how a lack of seasons would be that big of a problem; Gargoyles had a similar situation, and they came out with "season 1, part 1", etc. (Although they never did come out with the entire run of Gargoyles on DVD so maybe that's not the best example. Laughing

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So they actually asked which episodes we'd most like to see? There were actually a lot of threads about favorite episodes in the past two years; if we do end up including that in whatever we write then those would be a good place to look for suggestions. Wink

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject:

They can do 21 episodes on 3 sets and then 23 on a 4th set. It's not that hard Laughing

. The MOST they'd have to worry about is making sure stuff like Some Enchanted Genie comes before The Book of Khartoum, or something like that. Character development might seem all over the place, but I'll live. If they at least gave us more of a base to work with, I'm sure we can figure out the rest on which order these go in if they don't want to. I'd hope they'd have that information hanging around, but I wouldn't be surprised if they lost it Laughing

APK · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject:

Who was the starter of the petition,here? S'he wouldprobably know what was up because I haven't heard any new news. So if you guys definitely want to do it we'd have to really put effort into it to show Disney we're serious.

1. First, we'd have to find the starter of the petition who I'm almost certain is a member of this board.

2. We'd have to write a letter explaining the whole thing

a. When the petition started
b. When Disney responded to us (this would be hard to figure out) and
the name of the one who sent us the email
c. That the fans are still interested
d. That they responded to us when we had but a mere 200 signatures
and that now we have around 400
e. an explanation that a 2-episode-per-DVD thing would be totally
pointless and would not make much money (this is where they
should react the strongest) Laughing

f. Our "just pretend we have seasons and call it a day" suggestion
g. it would probably be best to send this all in an email. I think they'd
still take it seriously because they took us seriously when we
emailed them the petition and we didn't even spell "Disney"
correctly Laughing

in our defense it was an honest typo

What do you think? I'm really tired of waiting! I want those DVDs before I graduate college, maybe? Laughing

Calluna · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject:

From how you were talking I thought you started it, APK. Laughing

Is this the one you're thinking of?
http://www.aladdincentral.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1495
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Amadou · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:41 am Post subject:

I think it was most defenitely persian, too.

Maybe there's not much profit for me, maybe I won't ever even get those eps on DVD, but I'm all with you, guys! I'm ready to sign whatever it is, if it helps. (I think it's already good that Disney starts to talk about it.)
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Calluna · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:21 am Post subject:

If it was Persian then that's too bad, because the last time she posted was in May. Confused

Need to start looking where she posted about getting a response...
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APK · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject:

Nope, I didn't start it. Laughing

I think it was persian, too.

Here's the link

http://www.petitiononline.com/Aladdin/petition.html

Well, I'm afraid we on't be able to start another letter unless we can dig up some old threads. Sad

Who has a shovel? Very Happy

Jafaria · Vizier's Handmaiden Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 419

I was supposedly a necromancer when I was new here, but I can't guarantee I'm actually GOOD at locating specific old threads rather than bringing back ones I'm interested in with reckless disregard of the date.

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:06 am Post subject:

Wait, what are we looking for again? Laughing

Calluna · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:11 am Post subject:

Calluna · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject:

I've been thinking about this more and here's my vague recollection: sometime after that petition circulated, someone else emailed Disney DVD at the address on their website to ask about the series and that's what got the response. I don't remember exactly what they said or who it was who wrote in or how to go about looking for it, but that's what I remember.
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APK · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject:

Amadou · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject:

Her email address is shown here, but is it still valid?...
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AladdinsGenie · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject:

We could PM her....