I’ve been living in a student room for a few years so I mostly have books I’ve bought since moving in with me. Most of my collection is in my poor mother’s attic, including some newer purchases like the American Barks and Rosa libraries (they just take too much room!)
I'm actually trying to sell parts of my collection! It's all housed in my old childhood bedroom, and I just don't have the space anymore!
Ouch, that’s never fun!
Actually, being a seller at an online marketplace is pretty exciting, especially since I've started with the things I don't much care about. As far as Disney goes, I've only sold a few jigsaws and a random volume of a Dutch b/w Barks collection. Apparently, what I'm offering isn't very popular. It's tempting to start buying online to fill the gaps in my collection, but it's not the same as going to a comic con or a flea market!
Over Christmas, I did my largest-ever collector's purchase: 18 tins of Walt Disney Treasures, Region 1, the first five waves, for "only" 200 euros! When they arrived, a bunch of them turned out to be still sealed in the original plastic -- I'm tempted to keep them, but knowing I could easily sell some of those tins for 50 bucks, it's also very tempting to sell them on!
I have a bunch of doubles now. Four Dutch DVDs: Mickey in Color 1 & 2, Donald 1, Silly Symphonies 1. One British Goofy. Two Italian steelbooks: Mickey in B/W 2 and Donald 2. Four US tins: Disneyland 1, Mickey in B/W 1, The War Years, and Tomorrowland. Hopefully that should earn back at least half of my purchase!
New books of the week! Finally got my hands on these two Disney Masters. Follow the Fearless Leader is probably my favourite of the series. The Sunken City was unusually difficult to get hold of, none of my regular stores had it. Anyone else having problems with that one?
I also found some old Belgian comics, Mickey Magazine #3, 8, 54, 64, 84, 88 and 98 from 1950-1952. Fun to see an original story, ”Les mystères de la Tour Eiffel”, in the first issue, and some Barks nuggets in the later ones.
I’ve got a bunch of the US Boom Disney trades coming over the next week or so as I’ve been picking them up for about $4 each. I’ve got coming Hero Squad Ultra Heroes 1 & 2, Incredibles: Revenge From Below, Finding Nemo: Reef Rescue, and Uncle Scrooge in DuckTales: Like a Hurricane. Plus the three I really wanted; Mickey Mouse and the World to Come, Mickey Mouse in the Orbiting Nightmare, and Mickey Mouse and Friends: 300 Mickey’s. I’d like to finish up Donald and Scrooge though those Donald Double Duck books are not cheap.
I had cause for celebration yesterday: it was one of those rare days where I completed a collection. I now own all feature-length Disney studios animated movies in a legitimate form. Of course, the bulk of the work was done by my Disney+ account. Then I have two Blu-Rays, The Rescuers (NL) and Pete's Dragon (USA). I have three DVDs: Make Mine Music (UK), So Dear To My Heart (NL), and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (USA). And now I've managed to get my hands on the VHS release of Song of the South (NL).
That last one was difficult to get my hands on. Indivdual cases sell for 30 euros or more on eBay. Luckily, the Netherlands has a thriving second-hand online marketplace (imaginatively called Marktplaats), where people dump entire VHS collections. Song of the South is a pretty rare find among Disney VHSes, it was released in 1997 but didn't seem to have caught on. The case I ended up turned out to be a promotional specimen, but the seller couldn't tell me much about how she got it other than through her parents. I could watch it if I wanted to (I recently stashed away my VHS player in the attic), but it's dubbed in Dutch... However, I am in talks for a subbed VHS, which are even rarer (first one I've seen during all this time, which makes sense).
There's not much to upgrade after this. The extended version of B&B has never been released in HD, nor has SDTMH. SDTMH did get a States-side release eventually, but only as a Disney Movie Club Exclusive, which means it's virtually unattainable. MMM was also released in the Netherlands and in the US, but both have been out of print for fifteen years. That leaves SotS, the only movie (apart from that The Martins and the Coys segment) that's never seen a US home video release, but which you could get without pesky subtitles if you got the British VHS. But since I won't be watching it soon, I'd rather stick with the one that was released in my home country.
You may be wondering why I spent so much energy to obtain that Song of the South release if I'm not going to play it. Spite, mainly. It's in my top three motivations. There's something delightfully perverse (or maybe just edgy) about owning an official, licensed home video of the cursed Song of the South. It's got the official Disney Classics logo from my childhood. I could've had this as a kid! Especially considering the price I paid for it, a handsome 2,50.
Sorry it's not a book, the new thing I report will be, I promise!
I’ve got a bunch of the US Boom Disney trades coming over the next week or so as I’ve been picking them up for about $4 each. I’ve got coming Hero Squad Ultra Heroes 1 & 2, Incredibles: Revenge From Below, Finding Nemo: Reef Rescue, and Uncle Scrooge in DuckTales: Like a Hurricane. Plus the three I really wanted; Mickey Mouse and the World to Come, Mickey Mouse in the Orbiting Nightmare, and Mickey Mouse and Friends: 300 Mickey’s. I’d like to finish up Donald and Scrooge though those Donald Double Duck books are not cheap.
I don't know if you've gotten your hands on DoubleDuck yet, but are you simply looking to read them or is it a need to have a physical copy?
I'd totally get the latter, but if it's the former, every issue up to Mission: Thermic Core is available on Comixology:
Just ordered the hardcover Return of the Gremlins from Dark Horse books. Despite the fact that it came out in 2015 (itself reprinting a series from 2008), it's virtually impossible to find. I could have skimped a bit by buying the three issues elsewhere, but single issues tend to end up in a drawer somewhere -- and neither the paperback collection of 2008 nor the hardcover are on index, something that clearly needs rectifying. I'm looking forward to it!
But seriously, why are these books all so hard to find???
Just ordered the hardcover Return of the Gremlins from Dark Horse books. Despite the fact that it came out in 2015 (itself reprinting a series from 2008), it's virtually impossible to find. I could have skimped a bit by buying the three issues elsewhere, but single issues tend to end up in a drawer somewhere -- and neither the paperback collection of 2008 nor the hardcover are on index, something that clearly needs rectifying. I'm looking forward to it!
But seriously, why are these books all so hard to find???
I only have the 3 single issues, but I've seen the hardcover on eBay now and then. But I've never ever seen the 2008 paperback editon anywhere. I see it's listed some places like on mycomicshop.com, but there without an image. Can anyone here confirm that the 2008 TPB actullay was published? (I have my doubts)