just got the new DVD on Sunday -- it's a pretty good purchase, if a teeny bit dissapointing in some areas.
it's clear that it was probably pretty underfunded, with a lot more enthusiasm than money. the camera crew places their lenses in some pretty cool places (including a straight-down shot from the treehouse). the same old narration from the 1991 "A Day At The Magic Kingdom", a somewhat classier production, is used but the video makes up for these cost-cutting proceedures by including some beautiful footage of, among other things, Main Street and Fronteirland.
the big misstep is to not use ANY source music except for Haunted Mansion and Peter Pan. this was well within their ability to use and widely available just about everywhere.
'missing' attractions are Philharmagic (some footage at the start of Peter Pan shows the construction walls still up), Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, Mickey and Minnie's houses (but covered in the bonus material), Alien, Carousel and Buzz Lightyear.
some of these choices are kind of odd. in all likelihood the video had a maximum run time of 30 minutes and they had to sacrifice some coverage of the Fantasyland dark rides and stick to the really iconographic stuff like Dumbo. it's refreshing to see slighted attractions like the Treehouse and the TTA recieving so much attention; the producers really apprechiate the smaller things that make up the spirit of the Magic Kingdom. just look at the exciting (honestly) montage of Frontierland's facades!
being a heavy-duty Mansion fan, I was somewhat irked that they used very little new footage (they actually possibly shot some but it turned out too dark). instead they used the stock footage from the 1969 Osmonds special (which is looking pretty bad these days) and squashed it to fill the 1.85:1 frame.
(a quick explaination here: the Osmonds stuff was shot in 1.33:1, or the shape of a standard television screen. the DVD is in 1.85:1 widescreen, but rather than crop off the top and bottom of the picture and not sacrifice the original geomentry of the image, they digitally squished it down, so everything is badly out of proportion.)
the characters featured in the film are great performers: watch how creepily exacting Minnie waves at Mickey near the start. wow.
the extras are great: try putting on the "trivia track" (in which "carousel" is misspelled, by the way) and the "Disney Details" branching option at the same time.
it's a very well done DVD; I know I'm getting the other parks when they arrive. =)