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scarcity, manufactured: lock the classics away, then sell nostalgia back to you at a markup.

means disney's old marketing practice of pulling animated classics from sale for years at a time to spike demand for the eventual re-release.

from started informally in the 1980s home-video era, formalized through the 90s and 2000s as walt disney's actual film library was periodically re-issued then withdrawn, echoing a literal vault under the disney animation building where nitrate prints were once stored.

for instance

snow white 1994re-released after years off shelves, huge opening sales

the lion king 2003platinum edition dvd pulled after limited release window

aladdin vhs1990s copies still traded for premium prices online

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