The Walt Disney Legacy Collection is a Blu-ray collection archiving most of the animated shorts, rare films, live-action works, and television material released and produced by Walt Disney during his lifetime. It serves as a successor to the Walt Disney Treasures DVD sets produced in the 2000s, and is largely similar to that series.
Lineup
For a list of shorts that will be featured on the sets, see here.
For the openings of the DVDs, see here.
Set name | "Released/Broadcast Between" | Short/movie/episode count | Number of discs | Part of wave # |
Mickey Mouse: The Black & White Years | 1928-1935 | 74 shorts | 4 | 1 |
Silly Symphonies | 1929-1939 | 75 shorts | 4 | 1 |
Dumbo | 1941 | The fourth film in the Disney Animated Canon | 2 | 1 |
Song of the South | 1946 | One full-length feature film and one documentary | 2 | 1 |
Dateline: Disneyland | 1954-1990 | 16 anthology episodes and selected miscellaneous shorts and television specials | 3 | 1 |
The Donald Duck Collection | 1936-1946 | 50 shorts | 3 | 2 |
Goofy: The Complete Collection | 1939-2007 | 50 shorts | 3 | 2 |
And Now, Your Host, Walt Disney: The Disneyland Anthology | 1954-1959 | 18 anthology episodes | 4 | 2 |
South of the Border | 1942-1944 (Brazil), 1943-1945 (US) | The sixth and seventh films in the Disney Animated Canon | 3 | 2 |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 1954 | Walt Disney's adaptation of the Jules Verne book of the same name | 2 | 2 |
Mickey Mouse: The Color Collection | 1935-1995 | 45 shorts | 3 | 3 |
Walt Disney on the Homefront | 1941-1945 | 40 shorts, one full-length feature film, and two documentaries | 3 | 3 |
Davy Crockett | 1954-1955 | Five episodes and two movies | 2 | 3 |
Zorro: The Complete Series | 1957-1961 | 78 episodes and four bonus anthology series episodes | 5 | 3 |
Mary Poppins | 1964 | One full-length feature film | 2 | 3 |
The Donald Duck Collection: Volume Two | 1947-1966 | 48 shorts | 3 | 4 |
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Commemorative Edition | 1927-1928 | 20 shorts (more will be added as they are found) | 2 | 4 |
Walt's Adventureland: True-Life Adventures | 1948-1964 | 25+ documentaries/anthology episodes | 4 | 4 |
Alice in Wonderland | 1951 | The thirteenth film in the Disney Animated Canon | 2 | 4 |
Music and Melody | 1946-1948 | The eighth and tenth films in the Disney Animated Canon | 3 | 4 |
Donald Duck on Disneyland | 1954-1960 | anthology series episodes | 5 | |
Walt Disney Rarities | 1938-2004 | 74 shorts | 4 | 5 |
The Florida Project: Walt Disney World | 1971-2001 | TBA | 3 | 5 |
Walt Disney's EPCOT | 1966-198? | TBA | 2 | 5 |
The Complete Pluto | 1936-1952 | 50 shorts | 3 | 6 |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: Starring Ludwig Von Drake | 1961-1967 | 17 episodes of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 3 | 6 |
Alice in Cartoonland: The Original Alice Comedies | 1923-1927 | 41 shorts | 3 | 6 |
The Mickey Mouse Club | 1955-1964 | The first week - and assorted subsequent episodes - of the eponymous television show | 3 | 6 |
Marketing
Unlike the Treasures series, the Legacy Collection will be backed up with a larger, yet limited marketing campaign (mostly through D23). The series will be available in only selected retailers, yet will be available earlier for members of D23.
As opposed to having a separate DVD version available, the bulk of the series will be sold on Blu-ray only and will be available in two ways: either a plain SteelBook with the booklet, lithographs, posters, and smaller extra materials intact, or a "collector's edition" box with not only those things, but material that would not fit into the regular version, like replicas of vintage "Disneyana". For DVD owners or people who have missed out on the Treasures series, the series will be reintroduced both in gift packs and individually, the latter now coming inside of an O-sleeve instead of a tin.
Companion booklets
Each Legacy Collection set comes with a highly informative booklet, which serves as a guide to the content on each disc in three ways: for animation sets, the director, production number, release date (if available), sypnosis, and some liner notes for each short are listed; for films, the same factors apply, but also with many more behind-the-scenes notes and photos than the shorts; and for television series, the original broadcast date, sypnosis, notes, and (in many cases) chapters of each episode are listed.
- Mickey Mouse: The Black & White Years
- Silly Symphonies
- Dumbo
- Song of the South
- Dateline: Disneyland
- The Chronological Donald Duck
- The Complete Goofy
- And Now, Your Host, Walt Disney: The Disneyland Anthology
- Davy Crockett
- Mickey Mouse: The Color Collection
- Walt Disney on the Homefront
- Zorro: The Complete Series
- Mary Poppins
Sets currently in development
- Four Fabulous Characters
- Treasure Island
- People & Places
- Walt's Tomorrowland
- Walt's Fantasyland
- Walt's Frontierland
- The Saga of Andy Burnett
- Elfego Baca
- Texas John Slaughter
- The Swamp Fox
- The Hayley Mills Collection
- The Kurt Russell Collection
- Walt Disney Presents: Annette
- The Prince and the Pauper
- The Sword in the Stone
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
- Winnie the Pooh
- The Happiest Millionaire
- The Herbie Collection
- The Aristocats
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- The Mouse Factory