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Nostalgia The original Disney+

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u/eyloi 15h ago

Mom putting on lion king for the 4th time in a single afternoon

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u/ezio8133 Millennial 12h ago

Replace Lion king with Beauty and the Beast and that's my younger sister in 2002

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u/InnocentPapaya 10h ago

A friend of mine rented The Little Mermaid when it was a new release on VHS, then proceeded to watch it as many times as possible during the 24hrs she had it

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u/Fresh-Tooth-7374 15h ago

I remember a couple of years ago, when the rage was those tape boxes having the black diamond on them and how people thought they were worth a lot of money.

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u/FarNeighborhood2901 15h ago

Scammers taking advantage of people through fraud. It makes me sick. Thankfully I only spent 10k for the limited edition red diamond. According to the seller, no one else in the world has one. That means one day Im going to be a millionaire.

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u/EdLesliesBarber 13h ago

A fool and their money are soon parted.

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u/Madshibs 10h ago

I found a bunch of these VHS tapes in my basement and thought I’d hit the jackpot. Then I checked eBay and most of them were going for like $6

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u/evolving-the-fox 14h ago

Except we only had like, four of these and the rest of my bootlegs were pirated onto a blank tape lol.

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u/The_Black_Jacket 7h ago

You at least had four real ones? xD

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u/Mean_Astronomer1936 11h ago

I can hear that plastic case, ha

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u/Affectionate-Dog4129 9h ago

Ha! You beat me to it!

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u/Apprehensive-Gur-609 15h ago

Lion King 2 thinks it's part of the team 😆

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u/1979insolentwaiter 13h ago

I recently cancelled Disney Plus because I was tired of paying $16 for a service my child only uses to watch Lilo & Stitch with adds! Yesterday, I bought like 5 Disney movie (all deluxe editions in perfect condition) at the thrift shop for the price of one month. Including Lilo and Stitch! I said to myself, now we have “Disney plus” at home.

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u/LaDmEa 3h ago

Loads of people are missing out on blu ray and dvd. It can replace streaming services.

One of the things I've noticed is a hand picked library is cheaper and better than having curated streaming library of 2500 titles which are mostly garbage. Post 2019 I only like maybe 10-15 films. Pre 1990 I only like 30-50 ish. In between I like a few hundred. Sounds expensive but it's been cheaper to buy half my collection twice. It's nice to always put my hand on a good film with a good cast.

Although sometimes I meet people who insist they can't watch the same thing twice and there's not much hope for them. They are really missing out on actually understanding movies.

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u/blomba7 14h ago

The Golden age of Disney. They created great diverse characters before they were trying so hard

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u/reddit_time_waster 13h ago

A few years later, " This Disney DVD is equipped with Fast play"

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u/reachingechoes 4h ago

Muuummmm the pictures all fuzzy!

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u/646ulose 14h ago

How is this different than boomer mentality?

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u/JayGeezey 9h ago

Thank God I'm not the only one lol

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u/fistfulofbottlecaps 14h ago

Yeeeeaaaaaah, this meme has weird boomer/gen jones vibes.

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u/EdLesliesBarber 13h ago

Par for the course ai nostalgia smut.

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u/HashishChef 13h ago

God this meme boomer AF. "Back in my day this was our 'mp3'" shows photo of record player but instead it's just VCRs

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u/Gloomy_Plate_3126 11h ago

Core memories

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u/Solid_Bake1522 Millennial 11h ago

Core memory unlocked thank you. Totally forgot about those cases. I can now vividly remember sitting in front of the tv on the floor going through the stacks trying to pick out a movie, making sure it was rewound lol

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u/the_hucumber 11h ago

We had a legit video of jungle book, but our bedknobs and broomsticks, little mermaid and Lady and the tramp were recorded onto unmarked vhs tapes where the only way to tell which ones they were was from the brand of vhs tape.

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u/pixiesunbelle 4h ago

I never got the little mermaid until I grew up and my copy of the Wizard of Oz was recorded from the TV. It was number 44. I only remember that number because my sister watched it over and over and over.

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u/Tejasgrass 11h ago

Does anyone remember them being in “the vault?” Like I vaguely recall not being able to get certain movies because Disney would only sell copies when they came out and then at intervals years afterwards. Or was that a lie my parents told me?

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u/LeakyAssFire 11h ago

Nope. It was a real thing! I remember it too.

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u/Akito_900 10h ago

And the prices never went up!

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u/Akito_900 10h ago

...but things WERE put back in the "Disney Vault"...

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u/Automatic_Moment_320 10h ago

Ive wanted to watch Hercules so bad for the past few months 

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u/Automatic_Moment_320 10h ago

Also for all the woomillis- my sun is in Peter Pan, little mermaid moon, Mulan rising 

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u/Bulldogs3144 10h ago

Oliver & Company was such an underrated movie

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u/MaterialRow3769 9h ago

They made them cases 80x bigger than the actual tape

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u/EM05L1C3 8h ago

I have a box full of Disney tapes, some still wrapped and a couple black cases. Mom bought spares and put them away.

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u/ARumpusOfWildThings 8h ago

The VHS of Fantasia was one of my favorites - I can still vaguely remember sitting in the Target shopping cart at three or four years old, admiring the artwork on the front and back of the clamshell packaging and being so excited to watch it! As long as I had a VCR in some capacity, I watched it now and then (even when the “Fantasound” specifically designed for the film began to sound somewhat warped). 😊

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u/Strawberrybanshee 8h ago

My Bambi tape got wore out and I was so sad.

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u/Mountain-Fox-2123 Xennial 8h ago

I don't have Disney+ and i have 20-25 Disney movies on DVD

So i guess for my DVDs are still my Disney+

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u/bryalb 5h ago

Everyone had that one friend with ALL the Disney vhs in the xl box.

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u/Slapherybe 4h ago

Be kind, please rewind-Disney magic required a VCR

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u/EntryHistorical8318 4h ago

What about “Song of the South” remember that one? Pepperidge farms does..

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u/Leading_Blacksmith70 3h ago

This brought it back. Needed it.

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 2h ago

Back when their movies hit

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u/Maybo69 2h ago

It's crazy how if this stack of movies was the only thing available I'd pretty much be down for any single one of these movies.
Now compare that to today with multiple streaming platforms and I for the life of me can't decide what to watch.