WALT DISNEY - POOH'S GRAND ADVENTURE - RARE Australian VHS Issue Limited Release • EUR 6,04 (2024)

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Are Walt Disney VHS movies valuable? ›

Even though VHS players are mostly a thing of the past, several VHS tapes of classic Disney movies are valued at thousands of dollars. Thanks to how prestigious the House of Mouse continues to be, rare Disney VHS tapes often fetch impossibly high prices.

The film was released on VHS in the United States on August 5, 1997. It was later issued on VHS in the United Kingdom on October 13, 1997. The 1997 VHS release has the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection logo, despite being a direct-to-video film.

In 1961, The Walt Disney Company licensed certain film and other rights of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories from the estate of A. A. Milne and the licensing agent Stephen Slesinger, Inc., and adapted the Pooh stories, using the unhyphenated name "Winnie the Pooh", into a series of features that would eventually become one ...

You could also get some money from your old tapes of Disney movies if they are Black Diamond editions, which were the original series of VHS tapes released between 1984 and 1994. Look for a black diamond with the phrase “The Classics” on the spine of the VHS clamshell case.

Another way your VHS tape could be considered valuable is if it were a rare or discontinued print -- meaning, the cover art was changed while it was on the shelves. This is most notable with "The Little Mermaid." The cover artwork that was first released was later banned, making that version very rare.

That's because the 1926 storybook, titled Winnie-the-Pooh, which introduced the titular character, passed into the public domain at the start of 2022, voiding its copyright, and thus Disney's media exclusivity over the character.

Can Disney retain any forms of protection for Winnie the Pooh? While Disney may no longer have copyright protection for Winnie the Pooh, there are still opportunities for legal recourse that Disney can take. Disney still maintains the rights to the Winnie the Pooh characters created after 1926, including Tigger.

The 18th of January is the International Winnie the Pooh Day. The well-renowned work about the honey-loving teddy bear Winnie the Pooh by A.A Milne is protected by copyright in Europe and was protected by copyright in the US until midnight on New Year's Eve 2021-2022.

However, The Walt Disney Company still retained the exclusive rights to the depictions of these characters from their own franchise, so Waterfield had to scrap the original script and rewrote it to avoid any legal trouble.

What is the Winnie the Pooh lawsuit with Disney? ›

In 1991, the Slesingers sued Disney in state court alleging breach of contract and fraud. They claimed that over the years the Burbank-based entertainment giant had cheated them out of hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from Pooh. That lawsuit was followed by the copyright case that was thrown out Thursday.

Pawn shops, antique stores, used book shops, or comic stores Call up some local shops and see if they accept VHS tapes. If they do, load up your car and drive 'em over! Pawn shops and the like typically pay on the spot, so this is a great way to get your money fast.

Collectors who come across sealed VHS tapes usually send them to be graded by companies like CGC Home Video™ to protect their condition. Grading also affords some VHS tapes a premium price at auction. In fact, many sealed and graded VHS tapes have demanded five or six figures in recent auctions!

Are they valuable at all? All Disney DVDs have some value to them and they will continue to have value until DVDs become entirely obsolete. With the release of the Disney+ streaming platform, Disney DVDs are certainly not in as much demand so the prices could fall considerably over time.