Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection: Difference between revisions

The '''Masterpiece Collection''' replaced the "[[Walt Disney Classics|Classics]]" brand in 1994, and lasted until 1999. It released some films that never made it to the Classics line (''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937), ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' (1977), ''Oliver and Company'' (1988), ''The Aristocats'' (1970) and ''The Black Cauldron'' (1985), among others), reissued many of the Disney movies that were previously released as Walt Disney Classics videos, and covered video releases of the 1994-1998 animated Disney features (except for ''Aladdin'' (1992), ''The Fox and the Hound'' (1981), ''Fantasia'', ''Pinocchio'' (both 1940), ''The Great Mouse Detective'' (1986) and ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1991)). They were known as the "Classics Collection" brand in Australia, which ran from 1999 to 2001 and released similar films (''Sleeping Beauty'' (1959), ''Pocahontas'' (1995) and ''The Rescuers'' (1977), among others) including one that was never released in the Masterpiece Collection, ''The Great Mouse Detective'', although releases were planned for ''The Fox and the Hound'' and ''Beauty and the Beast'', but they were scrapped. Unlike the Masterpiece Collection, the "Classics Collection" brand also had a DVD line as well, which included ''The Fox and the Hound'', even though it wasn't part of the VHS line.

'''Visuals:''' On a black background, the familiar "WALT DiSNEY" script logo begins to sketch itself on screen in {{color|gold|pinkish-gold}}, with the text arced a bit. As the screen zooms out, "MASTERPIECE" and "COLLECTION" zoom out, with "MASTERPIECE" going left and "COLLECTION" going right. They then settle under the "WALT DiSNEY" text, spaced a bit against each other. Then, Tinkerbell (from Disney’s ''Peter Pan'') appears from behind the word "MASTERPIECE", hovers in front for a bit as she waves her magic wand, and then a bright flash appears, and when it clears, the finished logo appears: the text is now in a {{color|darkviolet|purple}} arc (slightly shaped like the ''Sesame Street'' sign) with a black, white and {{color|gold}} border, with "WALT DiSNEY" on top and "MASTERPIECE COLLECTION" on the bottom, with a small gray oval with the silver Disney castle logo between "MASTERPIECE" and "COLLECTION". Tinkerbell flies off to the left of the screen, leaving a trail of pixie dust to slowly dissolve. The logo "shines".

'''Trivia:''' The animation of Tinker Bell would later be reused for the [[Disney's FastPlay]] logo.

'''Audio:''' A more powerful, dramatic and slightly faster-paced reorchestration of the 1988 Walt Disney Classics jingle with synths mixed in, accompanied by synthesized whooshes as the words fly into place.

* Sometimes, an announcer (Beau Weaver) will say, "And now, our feature presentation." This can be spotted on ''The Aristocats'' and ''Oliver & Company''. The voiceover for the former is heard after the finished logo is formed, while the latter has the voiceover starting just after Tinkerbell appears.

* Strangely, the original 1995 VHS release of ''The Lion King'' doesn't use this logo despite having the Masterpiece Collection print logo and being advertised as part of the line, though it does appear on the film's LaserDisc release. The logo also doesn't appear on the 1998 VHS releases of ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''Mulan'', which used special wraparound segments during the previews, along with the 1999 VHS release of ''101 Dalmatians''.