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'''Walt Disney Classics''' was a brand name of [[Walt Disney Home Video]], created in 1984 to release features from the [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney Animated Features]] canon on video. The first release from the line was ''Robin Hood'' (1973), and more soon followed, including ''Pinocchio'' (1940), ''Dumbo'' (1941), ''The Sword in the Stone'' (1963), ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1951) and others, to great success. In 1990, following the box office success of ''The Little Mermaid'' (1989), the Classics line released said film on video and began releasing a mix of both older and more recent animated films. In 1994, after the video release of ''The Fox and the Hound'' (1981), the Classics series was discontinued and replaced with the [[Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection]]. Tapes released in the Classics series are often referred to as the "Black Diamond Classics" by VHS collectors, in reference to the black diamond logo on the spine of each release.

Although the Walt Disney Classics series was discontinued in North America in 1994, its international counterparts (which include select live-action/animated hybrid films as well) remain active in their respective countries to this day. The line currently exists in the UK and Europe as '''Disney Classics'''; however, the number of films included in the lineup is different, mainly due to it including ''The Wild'' (2006) despite it not being produced by WDAS, and leaving ''Dinosaur'' (2000) and ''Winnie the Pooh'' (2011) out of the lineup. In France, the lineup features films produced by [[Pixar Animation Studios|Pixar]], [[Disney Television Animation|Walt Disney Television Animation]] and [[DisneyToon Studios]], in addition to the Disney Animated Canon. In Germany, the Classics line features all films in the Disney Canon, while in Spain, ''Piglet's Big Movie'' (2003) is included in the Classics line in that region.