Yay! The new ‘Walt Disney Treasures‘ sets are now available for pre-order!
And if the descriptions and/or predictions at UltimateDisney.com are accurate, then it looks like, between these sets and the sets and movies that I already own, I will soon have every single animated short produced by the Walt Disney Studios between the creation of Mickey Mouse in 1928 and the death of Uncle Walt in 1966, with the exception of only a few specific categories:
- over sixty Donald Duck cartoons produced between 1947 and 1966 (The Chronological Donald Volumes 1 and 2, released over the past two years, spanned 1934 to 1946)
- three Chip’n’Dale cartoons that do not co-star Donald Duck or Pluto or any other character that already has an entire set devoted to himself (1951’s Chicken in the Rough, 1952’s Two Chips and a Miss, 1954’s The Lone Chipmunks)
- two Freewayphobia cartoons, both produced in 1965, that, for some reason, were not included in the Complete Goofy set that came out four years ago
It’s hard to believe, but after collecting these sets for the past five years, it looks like the end is finally in sight. Or do I mean, already in sight? At any rate, by the end of this year, virtually all the Mickey and Goofy and Pluto shorts will have been released — and all the Silly Symphonies and other one-offs, too — so all we’re waiting for now is the rest of the Donald shorts, with perhaps the three solo (duo?) Chip’n’Dale shorts as a bonus feature, kind of like how three solo Figaro cartoons are going to be included on the new Pluto set. The thing is, there are so many Donald Duck cartoons, they could easily take up two more sets — which means it could be two more years before my collection is complete.
I am aware, of course, that some of these cartoons have already been released on other discs, but I’d rather have ’em all collected on these wonderfully compact, comprehensive sets.
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