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Post by moviemouth on Sept 8, 2021 1:25:41 GMT
I think these boxes were used for most children's movies now that I think about it. 
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Post by kolchak92 on Sept 8, 2021 1:32:01 GMT
Yeah, I remember my VHS for Batman was also like that.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 8, 2021 1:33:29 GMT
Yeah, I remember my VHS for Batman was also like that. You mean Mask of the Phantasm? I had never seen any of the live-action Batman movies sold that way. I owned all the live-action Batman movies in the 1990s and all of them were in the normal VHS boxes.
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Post by kolchak92 on Sept 8, 2021 1:36:07 GMT
Yeah, I remember my VHS for Batman was also like that. You mean Mask of the Phantasm? I had never seen any of the live-action Batman movies sold that way. I owned all the live-action Batman movies in the 1990s and all of them were in the normal VHS boxes. No, Batman: The Movie (1966).
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 8, 2021 1:36:48 GMT
Yeah, I remember my VHS for Batman was also like that. The boxes were annoying, because they often wouldn't fit into the average VHS storage spaces.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 8, 2021 1:37:35 GMT
You mean Mask of the Phantasm? I had never seen any of the live-action Batman movies sold that way. I owned all the live-action Batman movies in the 1990s and all of them were in the normal VHS boxes. No, Batman: The Movie (1966). Okay, that makes sense.
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Post by claudius on Sept 8, 2021 1:43:46 GMT
Indeed I do. My family home was stuffed with clamshells. In terms of Disney we had most of the Disney theatrical Animations from SNOW WHITE to BAMBI and then CINDERELLA to MULAN. We also had clamshells of non-Disney films like HAPPILY EVER AFTER, TOM AND JERRY THE MOVIE, Marvel, etc.
MGM/UA had clamshells for their Literature films like DAVID COPPERFIELD and A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Warner Brothers also made a lot of clamshells for their films as well.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 8, 2021 1:45:40 GMT
Indeed I do. My family home was stuffed with clamshells. In terms of Disney we had most of the Disney theatrical Animations from SNOW WHITE to BAMBI and then CINDERELLA to MULAN. We also had clamshells of non-Disney films like HAPPILY EVER AFTER, TOM AND JERRY THE MOVIE, Marvel, etc. MGM/UA had clamshells for their Literature films like DAVID COPPERFIELD and A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Warner Brothers also made a lot of clamshells for their films as well. Is that what they were called? Makes sense.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 8, 2021 1:47:08 GMT
Yeah, puffy cases.
I knew someone with an official Disney cardboard standee shelf for every VHS major Disney animated classic title until 2002.
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 8, 2021 2:11:19 GMT
I still have one of those VHS clamshell cases for The Lion King.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 8, 2021 2:15:35 GMT
I still have one of those VHS clamshell cases for The Lion King. I sold all my VHS movies for 1 cent each. That is all the place would pay for them. I made like 50 cents.  I wonder if any of them are worth something now.
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Post by gw on Sept 8, 2021 2:30:49 GMT
I had two lesser known animated movies on VHS. They weren't available on DVD at the time. Twelve Months was in a clamshell case like that and Sea Prince and the Fire Child was in a clear plastic case you squeeze to get it out of and had a paper front and back. Probably a rental from somewhere.
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Post by jcush on Sept 8, 2021 2:34:55 GMT
My family still has a few.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Sept 8, 2021 2:37:45 GMT
Ya, and they were far out. Really.
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Post by Archelaus on Sept 8, 2021 2:57:10 GMT
I still have one of those VHS clamshell cases for The Lion King. I sold all my VHS movies for 1 cent each. That is all the place would pay for them. I made like 50 cents. I wonder if any of them are worth something now. With Disney+ readily available, I don't think they are worth much. There are a collector's item for the fantastic cover art (most of which beats the current Blu-Ray cover art in my opinion) and the nostalgia of watching an analog recording.
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Post by janntosh on Sept 8, 2021 3:45:57 GMT
I remember finding it interesting that Small Soldiers had a box like that when it was PG-13
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Sept 8, 2021 8:22:59 GMT
I have never once seen VHS cases like that. And I owned Disney VHS tapes back in the 90s and 2000s. Guess the design never reached my part of the world.
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Post by sostie on Sept 8, 2021 8:37:16 GMT
As there is no certificate on them, and the films are too old to be pre-cert, I guess these are American. What's so different/uncommon about these cases?
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Post by GiantFan1980 on Sept 8, 2021 8:50:11 GMT
I remember an article a few years ago and they were hyping up those "Black Diamond" Disney VHS clam shell case editions as serious collector items. Turned out to be a bunch of horse shit spun by some hack bloggers who saw somebody selling the tapes for obscene amounts on eBay and they ran articles which took off so everybody thought they were sitting on gold. People still try to get over $100 on eBay but I don't really understand it. I have at least a dozen of the Disney vhs movies laying around somewhere.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 8, 2021 8:59:01 GMT
As there is no certificate on them, and the films are too old to be pre-cert, I guess these are American. What's so different/uncommon about these cases? Typically VHS tapes were in a slide out paper box, but many kid's movies and family films were in white plastic containers that opened like a book. The latter were about an inch taller and an inch wider than the average VHS box. typical (tape slides out of opening in bottom of box)  clamshell box 
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