Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/14/new-disney-promo-video-fails.html
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Or “The Cat from Outer Space”?
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Good news! It’s on THE LIST.
Along with The Cat from Outer Space, Candleshoe, Blackbeard’s Ghost, and Herbie Goes Bananas, thank heavens.
But a total lack of Condorman!!
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Now that’s just criminal. The Condormobile deserves to not fade away into obscurity!
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Or The Boatniks?
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Disney used to milk those old movies, limited release and expensive. But in recent years they’ve opened uo, though nit completely.
I got some of the classics, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and “The Moon Spinners” about a decade ago fir about $15 each. A few years ago I got a Kurt Russell four pack with three Medfield College films (including the Tennis Shies one), and I guess “The Horse in tge Grey Flannel Suit” where he’s incidental.
I got a used four pack but then discovered "Darby O’Gill and “The Gnomemobile” DVDs were missing.
I also got “The Boatniks” and “Robin Crusoe USN” , and “The Snowball Express”, not great but a reminder of when Disney films were what I saw, either at the theatre or on the TV show.
There are others available at decent prices.
But not everything is available. I’d love to get "The Scarecrow of Romney and “The Fighting Prince of Donegal” which I saw as a kid but that was decades ago. And some I never saw, “The Secret of Boyne Castle” and “The Treasure of San Boscoe Reef” though I have no idea how I never saw them.
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I have The Boatniks on DVD. I had a comic book back when it came out, but I don’t think I saw the movie until much later, on tv. The package, however doesn’t include that poster, which I don’t remember.
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Edit: oh, it’s on the list! Great!
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For some reason The Boatniks is one of the movies they would show in elementary school when recess was rained out.
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It’s “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes”.
And it’s some of Kurt Russell’s best work.
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My school would show Tron on the last day of school, in the cafeteria. Most of the kids had zero interest and would talk over it, which annoyed me greatly. I never got the full dialog until many years later, when I realized I wasn’t missing as much as I thought.
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Things missing that actually matter to some in my household
- Sheriff Callie
- Doc McStuffins
- Tinkerbell - 3 listed, 3 missing + shorts
Kinda disappointed in the missing Tink…they’re surprisingly not terrible.
/one for the thumb!
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Yup, can’t wait! 
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What you gave said is true and good, and Boing Boing is the better for it. Thank you.
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Sigh. At least I still have this, jealously guarded since that fateful trip to Baskin Robbins in 1981:
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its promo video.
They dropped the ball here, too.
Living in Tijuana, I get sent to Disney Latino, with no promo video or any sort of language choice (where the corporate page gives language options, but not the promotions page).
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My family will have to wait for that Haley Mills marathon. The list is missing Pollyanna, In Search of the Castaways, Summer Magic, and The Moon-Spinners. At least they have The Parent Trap and That Darn Cat.
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I loved that movie as a kid, thanks for reminding me about it. I’ll be streaming that with my partner for sure. 
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