Why The Disney Vault Needs To Go Away. Josh Spiegel writes about how the Disney Vault makes no sense in the digital streaming age. Today, for the first time, you can buy a Signature Collection Blu ray of Walt Disneys first full length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Depending on the depth of your home media collection as well as how good your long term memory is, you may be forgiven for looking at the calendar, seeing that its February 2, and wondering if youre living your own special version of Groundhog Day. Isnt Snow White already on Blu ray Well, yes. At least, it was. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was first released on Blu ray in 2. Disneys Diamond Edition collection of Blu ray and Blu ray 3. On the release of a new Bluray for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Josh Spiegel writes about how the Disney Vault needs to be killed. 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The Signature Collection is Disneys latest attempt to make many of its major films available on home media for short spurts of time, before theyre placed back in what is best known in modern culture as the Disney Vault. There may well be vaults in the Walt Disney Company buildings, much like the ones Scrooge Mc. Duck uses to swim around his vast oceans of cash. In this scenario, then, Bob Iger is the Scottish duck. But, in fact, the Disney Vaulta familiar enough phrase throughout the lives of most people born in the 1. The Vault Full Movie Part 1' title='The Vault Full Movie Part 1' />Instead, its a marketing term concocted to stoke interest among the public so that the company could re release its films, either in theaters or on VHSDVDBlu ray, every seven years. And with the release of Snow White on another Blu ray, its a good time for us all to face an important truth. The Disney Vault is the absolute worst. IL_y-urM9zU/hqdefault.jpg' alt='The Vault Full Movie Part 1' title='The Vault Full Movie Part 1' />The Disney Vault is why, depending on your home media preferences, you may soon own two different versions of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu ray, let alone the old DVD edition. Its worth noting Snow White isnt the first Disney animated film to get a second Blu ray release in 2. Diamond Edition, Sleeping Beauty was given its second Blu ray release after being part of the Platinum Edition. Even as we progress down the high definition road from the days of 7. Watch Zombies: The Beginning Online Facebook more. K and beyond, theres not a discernible visual difference between the Blu ray versions of either Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Sleeping Beauty. The Signature Collection Blu ray makes Snow White looks lush and glorious, but no less or more so than the Platinum Edition Blu ray. And theres not much better news regarding special features either. The Sleeping Beauty Diamond Edition added five new special features, including a series of never before seen deleted scenes, totaling 4. However, the 1 disc Blu ray the overall release is two discs one Blu ray and one DVD excised 1. Platinum Edition Blu ray. Eighteen. Not eighteen minutes worth of bonus features. Eighteen bonus features. The situation with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs dueling Blu ray supplements is similar. On one hand, there are seven new features, including an alternate version of the first time Snow White meets her prince as well as comments on the production from Walt Disney himself. Also, one of the new features is just a super sized version of a previous Blu ray feature. But some of these new features are, shall we say, insubstantial, such as the 7. You. Tube ready video touting seven of the fairest facts about the film, which are covered in more depth elsewhere. Like the Sleeping Beauty Blu rays, there are fewer of the older special features here, though theres not quite as many absent. One of the biggest sections of the Platinum Blu ray for Snow White is called Hyperion Studios, and features an extremely exhaustive look at the film from stem to stern, detailing the animation, the layout, the sound design, the story meetings, and more. Some parts of these are all present on the new Blu ray, in a condensed half hour feature that jumps from topic to topic with more speed and less context. The older Blu ray included Silly Symphony shorts included to clarify early examples of Disneys animation ambition. This one has none of those. Like the Diamond Edition version of Sleeping Beauty, the Signature Collection release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 2 disc set one Blu ray and one DVD, which means theres less room for the massive amount of special features that were once present. So we get two versions of the same movie only completists need the new Blu ray. Anyone else will buy it only because they dont already have the Blu ray, which Disney hopes is the case, hence the vault. Why does Disney do this Why release multiple versions of the same film on the same format with few updates and too many reductions Why do so for a short period of time before removing these films from the marketTo make sure that a whole new gaggle of toddlers and elementary school aged kids get a chance to see Disney movies for the first time. Consider this comment from Marcelle Abraham, Executive Director of Public Relations for Buena Vista Home Entertainment The Little Mermaid is a great example of thisIt came out on video in the Spring of 1. Now theres a whole new generation of young people who havent seen it. You may note that Abrahams explanation seems a bit dated, and therein lies the rub Abraham said this in the fall of 1. The Little Mermaid. Nearly twenty years have passed, and modern society has cycled through different popular home media formats since then, from VHS to DVD to Blu ray and digital purchases. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, for instance, has been available to purchase since mid January on i. Tunes and other digital platforms this is now standard practice for Disney movies released on Blu ray, that theyre available digitally two weeks before they are physically. Theatrical re releases are sadly rare, especially after Disneys attempt to revive a handful of modern animated classics with 3. D post conversions underperformed at the box office to the extent that a new re release of, coincidentally, The Little Mermaid was halted. When the Disney Vault concept began in the 1. Disney Studios were being contracted by the U. S. government to make World War II propaganda in favor of the fighting effort against the Nazis, and they had a minimal cashflow. Thus, they would re release a beloved classic like Snow White.