It's based on the Walt Disney Treasures line of DVDs, at least where cartoon shorts are concerned. It's called "The Walt Disney Cartoon Legacy Collection". Just as the Treasures was released on DVD only, this set will be on Blu-Ray only. It's all about Disney's classic cartoon shorts. Some shorts serieses are shorter than others, so I decided to merge two shorts lines together in one volume of DVD. Here's the complete list of DVDs in the series (five in all):
Mickey Mouse
Donald Duck
Goofy and Pluto
Silly Symphonies and Rare Rarities
The Roaring '20s
So as you can see, the only two volumes that would be their own standalone sets are the first two volumes, on Mickey and Donald. All the rest have at least two serieses merged into one volume (Goofy and Pluto shorts are all on the third volume, Silly Symphonies and those one-shot cartoons on the fourth, and Laugh-O-Grams, Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on the fifth). This set is called "The Walt Disney Cartoon Legacy Collection". Anyway, this thread is for the first volume in the series, which, as stated above, will be all about Mickey Mouse.
Each disc will contain 40 cartoons each. Yeah, I know that's a bit extreme for a disc, but remember, this is a Blu-Ray-only release. Here's the first disc:
Steamboat Willie (1928)
Plane Crazy (1928)
The Barn Dance (1928)
The Opry House (1929)
When the Cat's Away (1929)
The Plowboy (1929)
The Karnival Kid (1929)
Mickey's Follies (1929)
Mickey's Choo-Choo (1929)
The Jazz Fool (1929)
Just Mickey (1930)
The Barnyard Concert (1930)
Wild Waves (1930)
The Fire Fighters (1930)
The Shindig (1930)
The Chain Gang (1930)
The Gorilla Mystery (1930)
The Picnic (1930)
The Birthday Party (1931)
Traffic Troubles (1931)
The Castaway (1931)
Blue Rhythm (1931)
Fishin' Around (1931)
The Barnyard Broadcast (1931)
The Beach Party (1931)
Mickey Cuts Up (1931)
Mickey's Orphans (1931)
The Duck Hunt (1932)
Barnyard Olympics (1932) From the Vault:
The Gallopin' Gaucho (1928) (Mickey smoking and drinking)
The Barnyard Battle (1929) (entire short concept)
The Haunted House (1929) (Mickey shouting, "Mammy!" a la Al Jolson, plus two skeletons doing a Yiddish dance)
The Cactus Kid (1930) (Pete in particular acting stereotypically Mexican and scenes of gunplay)
Pioneer Days (1930) (scenes of Indians)
The Moose Hunt (1931) (scenes of gunplay and Mickey thinking he shot Pluto, which he never really did)
The Delivery Boy (1931) (scene of a turtle doing a Yiddish dance and scenes of dynamite)
Mickey Steps Out (1931) (closing scene with everyone becoming blackface from soot from a stove)
The Grocery Boy (1932) (scene of Mickey blackface from a stove's soot)
The Mad Dog (1932) (scenes of various ethnic stereotypes and gunplay)
And those are the cartoons on the first disc. In the meantime, why don't we discuss what bonuses to have. One thing I want is to have some of the cartoons have audio commentaries, from the usual mix of commentators, including Leonard Maltin, historians J.B. Kaufman and Jerry Beck, animators Eric Goldberg and Mark Kausler, legendary Disney songwriter Richard Sherman, Disney comics experts David Gerstein, and, for the first time, the new voice of Mickey Mouse, Bret Iwan. So what cartoons should have audio commentary?
Here are some of the bonuses that would be included on this set that had been previously appeared on the Mickey sets of the Treasures:
Frank and Ollie... and Mickey: A fascinating interview between Maltin and two of the most legendary Disney artists of all time, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Even though they joined the Disney team towards the end of Mickey's days in black and white, they have a lot to say about what the character meant to them, both before and during their days with Disney.
Mickey Mania: Collecting Mickey Merchandise: Maltin visits Bernie Shine, collector extraordinaire. They discuss what makes Mickey so appealing, then Shine takes us on a tour of his vast amassing of Mickey memorabilia from all over the globe, most of it dating back to the 1920s and 30s.
"Minnie's Yoo Hoo" sing-along: A short that was created by Disney exclusively for the Mickey Mouse Club, an actual club popping up across the nation. It features a sing-along to "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" with Mickey Mouse, complete with a second verse.
Pencil tests for various cartoons
Parade of the Award Nominees: A short made for the 1932 Academy Awards.
There's more, but I have to go. What do you think so far?
