Regarding a Petition for a DVD boxset

Hello! I'm known as Steel and a friend of mine directed me to your site. Firstly, I'd like to commend you on your efforts to get DVDs for a lot of beloved series that sorely deserve them.

Secondly, I was wondering whether, given how your Top Ten Countdown for April 2012 included Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, you would ever make a petition for the series or would be willing to advertise a petition for it. I am a big-time fan and I know several other fans who have all been emailing Walt Disney Home Entertainment on the subject. We're preparing to make a petition on Change.org ourselves (despite someone already making one a few weeks ago) and back it up with several articles, facts, etc. We would then advertise on Youtube, other forums, through friends of friends, etc.

The reason I am directing this to your attention, at the risk of sounding too forward or presuming, is because I noticed you have made all the site's petitions. Is it a principle/policy to only advertise petitions you have made yourself? If not, then we will happily provide you with a link to our petition once we have made it. Or, if you'd prefer to make it, we can provide you with all the information we would like to include in it. And, of course, if you'd rather not get involved at all, then there's no need for you to feel obliged to do so.

Thank you very much in advance for taking the time to read this. I look forward to your reply.

--Steel

Steel,

First, I want to thank you for taking the time to write to us. So far as your question, I'm going to only get into a little of my answer, as I think I've had questions like your enough it's time I explain where petitions fit into our campaign better (Read that here). So please make sure you look for that new post better explaining things. But, for now, I'd hope you could understand that while their a is VERY long list of unreleased titles we all want to see, for us to ever be successful, we have to be smart about how we deal with things, and try to make sure we focus on a smaller number of petitions at once. However, I can tell you that the title you were asking for is a title we plan on creating a petition for as one of the next ones we do. Stay tuned...

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Jason M. Schlierman
Head Admin, Open Vault Disney

Our big idea is that we keep a cap on only 10 OVD petitions being run at any one time. Then, we would only replace a petition for a title with a new one for a different title after the original title either 1.) receives enough signatures on the petition, or 2.) the title is released on DVD.

Now, that said, as we form alliances with other groups, we may co-create (in limited form) some new petitions above the original 10 with these others groups, but this number of “extra” petitions would still be in limited number. The other big question we’ve been asked by a few eager members is, how would we feel if they go off and create their own petitions for titles we don’t have a petition up for. While we can’t force anyone to do anything (not Disney, not you the members), we would ask for those members to be patient and wait for us to create the petitions they are desirous for.

Olivus Prime wrote:Brilliant to know that OVD are thinking about a BLoSC petition - from what I've read on the internet recently, it seems that Disney fans are quite fond of the cartoon and that a boxset (even if it was a limited release) would be pretty successful.

On the topic of the TAB DVD, it's really a product that confuses me, somewhat. It was released 12 years ago... yet in many of the media stores I visit, they have plenty of fresh copies lying on the shelves. Is there still good demand for them, or are they sitting around awaiting a buyer? Will Disney ever consider releasing it on Blu-Ray?