Disney's The Lion King and Alice in Wonderland come home on Blu-ray in 2011

In keeping with plans to re-release two of its 14 classics each year, trailers on the Blu-ray edition of James & the Giant Peach reveal The Lion King (Diamond Edition) and Alice in Wonderland (Special 60th Anniversary Edition) will arrive in high definition next year. No real word on specs yet, but we'd expect to see the same care taken in remastering and restoring the audio and video to its highest quality that's been seen on previous releases. HighDefDiscNews has plenty of screengrabs and the two trailers (embedded after the break) so now with plenty of advance warning you can get the kids ready (or have them, if necessary) in preparation for 2011's obligatory combo pack purchase.

Update: The videos are gone, forced down by Disney's legal hounds no doubt, but trust us -- they were real and they were spectacular.

[Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo Posted Jul 28th 2010 4:04PM]

oh hell yes!

Although I bet the lion king will still have that annoying 'new' song they put in for the special dvd release :/

[erh Posted Jul 28th 2010 5:57PM]

@Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo

Sweet! Lion King has been on my short list since Disney announced they were backing the Blu-Ray format years ago.

As for the new song, it was optional on the DVD and Disney would be idiots not to make it optional on the Blu-Ray.

[Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi Posted Jul 28th 2010 8:28PM]

@erh Better be optional....I knee the entire movie word for word until they added that

[youngvash Posted Jul 28th 2010 4:10PM]

awwwww shit son..ahem.
this will be awesome. cant be anything but..

[Jeff Kibuule Posted Jul 28th 2010 4:34PM]

Gone.

[bjbjohnson Posted Jul 28th 2010 4:35PM]

"This video has been removed by the user"

Thank you Disney for your Hitlerish crusade to pull YouTube videos that may actually be helping to promote your product.

[misterquin Posted Jul 28th 2010 4:39PM]

Lion King is the Disney Blu Ray I was most looking forward to. That movie is basically my god damn chilhood.

[RichardLawler Posted Jul 28th 2010 8:10PM]

@misterquin yup.

[Sherifftruman Posted Jul 28th 2010 6:08PM]

Love the Lion King. We have it on Laserdisc. It was one of the first AC-3 (early form of Dolby Digital for you youngins ;) ) titles we bought.

[reallynotnick Posted Jul 28th 2010 8:30PM]

The funny thing is that both of those pictures are less than 480p and yet I can tell a big difference, kind of says the DVD transfer was pretty poor, unless this is a zoomed in portion of a larger picture.

[RichardLawler Posted Jul 28th 2010 8:41PM]

@reallynotnick it's resized, check out the site at the read link for the original. http://thehdcrowd.com/screenshots/disney2011/alice6.png

[Firehazel Posted Jul 29th 2010 11:47AM]

It's the Disney Vault scam all over again...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2010 7:15PM]

I mean its ridiculous it is a little color correction and then you must pay 40-70 Dollers or Euros fors this!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2010 7:15PM]

I mean its ridiculous it is a little color correction and then you must pay 40-70 Dollers or Euros for this!