# netflix and disney **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055 "2008-06-15T22:41:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/1 "2008-06-15T22:41:25Z")
So my daughter is getting to that age, and I’d like to get a bunch of classic Disney movies for her to see (especially after the Disney Madness game!). Why does Netflix not have so many of them? Right now I have Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty & the Beast, and Pinochio all in my saved section. Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 I didn’t even bother clicking on for that reason. They have most of the newer stuff, including those Princess movies where they are all together. They have plenty of older lesser seen movies. Why no classic Disney cartoons? Anyone else run into this? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/2 "2008-06-15T22:48:05Z")
Probably for the same reason my videostore has gaps in the Disney library: because kids treat them like shit and destroy them, and Disney makes it impossible to replace them by keeping them unavailable. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/3 "2008-06-16T00:23:09Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Probably for the same reason my videostore has gaps in the Disney library: because kids treat them like shit and destroy them, and Disney makes it impossible to replace them by keeping them unavailable. [/QUOTE] Mostly right. Netflix just isn’t very old and so they have had no chance to purchase the dozens of DVDs they need for movies that have not been released or re-released by Disney since Netflix has been operating. I don’t think the discs get damaged as much as video stores put up with. We have almost never had a bad disc from Netflix and we use to have about 1 in 5 problem with the VHS Tapes from the Video stores we used. This is a typical Disney issue, I recall when my daughter was about 4 and she really wanted Lady and the Tramp for Christmas and it was completely unavailable in DVD and only available in VHS through Ebay or Used. She got Beauty and the Beast collector’s edition & the Direct to Video Christmas instead. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/4 "2008-06-16T00:54:11Z")
Yeah, my boss buys a dozen of each title when they’re “reissued” every, what is it, ten years? Which of course means the terrorists (i.e, Disney) have won. I think we should just bootleg them out the back of the store. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/5 "2008-06-16T01:10:50Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Yeah, my boss buys a dozen of each title when they’re “reissued” every, what is it, ten years? [/QUOTE] They call it a “moratorium” and it’s supposed to be every seven years, but they’ve been quite inconsistent with that schedule. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/6 "2008-06-16T01:57:45Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Yeah, my boss buys a dozen of each title when they’re “reissued” every, what is it, ten years? Which of course means the terrorists (i.e, Disney) have won. I think we should just bootleg them out the back of the store. [/QUOTE] Disney has been extremely rough on parents with their methods and I do resent them. However, I recognize that it is a successful business practise that allows them to release the same movie, over and over again to much fanfare. If they ever break down and release “Song of the South” on DVD, I suspect people will go crazy buying it and some will buy two copies to ensure they have a backup. As far as I know there has never been a VHS or DVD release of the movie and the last re-release to theaters was in 1986. It will get a boat load of free publicity as the NAACP will rightfully protest its release (yet again) but it will sell extremely well as many will suspect it would be another 30+ years until it again got released. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/7 "2008-06-16T02:21:54Z")
I remember a news story about how they were going to release _Song of the South_ (last year? The year before?) but it never happened. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/8 "2008-06-16T02:24:41Z")
[QUOTE=Helena] I remember a news story about how they were going to release _Song of the South_ (last year? The year before?) but it never happened. [/QUOTE] Roy Disney and the board decided against it. They were thinking about 2006 as it would have been the 60th anniversary. Maybe it will be released in 2021 for the 75th. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/9 "2008-06-16T06:06:09Z")
\ You MUST buy or rent a copy of _The Last Unicorn_ for your daughter. We ended up buying it.\ ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/10 "2008-06-16T06:43:43Z")
[QUOTE=Lynn Bodoni] \ You MUST buy or rent a copy of _The Last Unicorn_ for your daughter. We ended up buying it.\ [/QUOTE] Not a Disney film- animated in Japan for Rankin/Bass. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/11 "2008-06-16T12:35:48Z")
[QUOTE=Lynn Bodoni] \ You MUST buy or rent a copy of _The Last Unicorn_ for your daughter. We ended up buying it.\ [/QUOTE] We have that as my niece bought it for my Daughter. The animation is not very good but the movie is still a classic. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/12 "2008-06-16T12:58:11Z")
The “every seven years” is actually a strategy started by Walt, back in the pre-video days. The logic was that every seven\* years, you have a new audience, a whole new flock of kids, who will come see the movies. Hence, the classic movies were re-released every seven or eight years to theatres. That (sadly) doesn’t work anymore, so it’s very difficult to see the classic movies on full-size theatre screens. Alas. But they carried over the philosophy into VHS/DVD releases. - or therabouts ---
**Author:** ![AlmondJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@AlmondJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlmondJoy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/13 "2008-06-16T16:27:00Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Probably for the same reason my videostore has gaps in the Disney library: because kids treat them like shit and destroy them, and Disney makes it impossible to replace them by keeping them unavailable. [/QUOTE] i never thought of that but makes a lot of sense. i feel like half the movies i have ordered from netflix recently have been scratched. so disappointing ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/14 "2008-06-17T01:26:52Z")
[QUOTE=AlmondJoy] i never thought of that but makes a lot of sense. i feel like half the movies i have ordered from netflix recently have been scratched. so disappointing [/QUOTE] I would agree with this as well. Furthermore, it seems the ones that aren’t scratched are dirty. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-and-disney/453055/15 "2008-06-17T02:20:35Z")
I didn’t think about kids scratching up the few they did have. So annoying! Ah well. I refuse to be forced to buy very many Disney movies, but I sure would like to see some of them again myself, as well as share them with my daughter.