the.com/disney vault
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era, formalized through the 90s and 2000s as walt disney's actual film library was periodically re-issued then withdrawn, echoing a literal vault under the disney animation building where nitrate prints were once stored.
typical cycle7 to 10 years off shelves
killed bydisney plus launch in 2019
real vaultan actual nitrate film archive existed
resale effectused vhs tapes sold for hundreds
for instance
snow white 1994 — re-released after years off shelves, huge opening sales
the lion king 2003 — platinum edition dvd pulled after limited release window
aladdin vhs — 1990s copies still traded for premium prices online