I did buy these discs, and I liked them, they have recordings of things that are very hard to get online, like the resorts and many of the rides that are hard to get. Also if any of the discs are defective, the company was nice enough to send me brand new one, no charge. I'm not quite the critic of the video itself, as I just kinda feel all the atmosphere is Disney, and sometimes you have to deal with trees and people and such. However, a very nice video of Wishes is on MouseTimes, if that helps you. If you are interested though in having footage of Disney, this is a nice keepsake as well as a good way to see parts of the world that you may want to visit next trip. I was quite happy with my set, but to each his own I suppose
I would watch the price though as it does fluctuate and you should probably buy it cheap...I bought it really early, and it was monumentally more then 70 when I got it. Hope this helps
Also I quite liked their Illuminations and Fantasmic......Honestly I had seen SO many videos of Wishes, I wasn't to critical of it since I knew I could get those other places. But I think these videos may have been taken without the intent of selling them and then they decided to afterwards. I don't know that personally, just kinda a vibe I got. But with all amateur camera work, it's not perfect, but unless it were made by Disney themselves it's not likely to ever be, especially in dark rides for example. I think that also too, it depends when these videos were shot, maybe the video taker only was there once a year, and that time it was busy so they couldn't get a good spot for Wishes. I'm just probably making excuses though. All I can say is I liked the set, especially just because of all the time it required to film it all, but as I said....to each his own. Have a magical day
But CleveRocks, there are quite a few versions of Wishes online at MouseTimes, and many of those I find to be quite good, as well as Dolbyman's versions
I didn't mean to sound too critical of your critique, as I'm not watching it now, but I take your word for those things being in the Wishes video. And your assessment of it would be correct if they are, I just found that for the sheer amount of video it was a good deal, and many of the shows were shot in better much circumstances then the Wishes one, because if you aren't in the right spots for Wishes, there's a ton that can obscure your view, or cause problems.
Honestly I've never really been good at being a critic, because I always find positives, so maybe my opinion isn't all that noteworthy, just thought I'd try to help maybe. I'm not sure at one point I think there were copies of the videos on Google video....they were nowhere near as good of resolution, but you could see the angles and basic stuff there, I believe, I'll have to check that.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6949287691218125702
There is the link, these vids are less resolution and size then the actual videos on the dis....hope this helps