Will the Disney Vault be discontinued by The Walt Disney Company's home media division for good?

Answer 1

Yes. It's going to be as of May 1, 2017 (the day after Disney puts the Diamond Edition version of Pinocchio back to the Vault). The following movies being escaped from the Disney Vault worldwide include:

• "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
• "Pinocchio" (1940)
• "Fantasia" (1940)
• "Dumbo" (1941)
• "Bambi" (1942)
• "Cinderella" (1950)
• "Alice in Wonderland" (1951)
• "Peter Pan" (1953)
• "Lady and the Tramp" (1955)
• "Sleeping Beauty" (1959)
• "101 Dalmatians" (1961)
• "The Jungle Book" (1967)
• "The Little Mermaid" (1989)
• "Beauty and the Beast" (1991)
• "Aladdin" (1992)
• "The Lion King" (1994)

These are no longer going to be available for a limited-time only at all in any parts of the world, but rather, they last as long as they want; probably because Disney would not have their policy of releasing any limited-time only releases of its 16 titles in any parts of the world anymore, as of May 2017. Each of these are being escaped from the Disney Vault worldwide to join the other 39 titles, and all of which have their new release versions being in the works by Walt Disney Pictures and Walt Disney Animation Studios, with the following changes being given: "Illegal content being edited out in some movies" (including variations of sexual content already edited out in "The Little Mermaid" and "The Lion King", content for racism being edited out in "Song of the South", content for comic gunplay being edited out in Martins & Coys segment of "Make Mine Music", altering two spoken lines as 100% clean in "Aladdin" using the same voice actors, silhouetted topless woman in "The Rescuers", among others, all of which are being edited out and/or altered by some people working as key animators), "Editing characters in some movies" (which are probably being used by some people working as character editors, examples include: Penny in "The Rescuers", who has to show her whole mouth of teeth instead of having some of her teeth missing; Jenny in "Oliver & Company", whose hair color is going to be just brown, no red tint; Cody in "The Rescuers Down Under", whose color of his eyes is going to be blue instead of green; among others, so that their looks and personalities will be inspired by their new live-action models; those characters are voiced by actors in some movies from the past using archive footage), "Adding sound effects to scenes of each movie" and "Altering sound effects from scenes of each movie" (which are probably being used by some people working as sound effects editors), "Digitally restoring each movie with a better picture quality that would become 100% brightly colorful, and with a better picture quality" (which are probably being used by some Disney people working as key animators). Each movie's new release version has to have opening and closing credit sequences from original releases of each movie, which are being identified as digitally restored and which haven't been shown since the original releases of each movie in theatres across America (and which are without any additional personnel or companies being credited at all), and has to show the completely-updated CGI "Disney Castle" logo from 2006 (again with the words "Walt" and "PICTURES" being re-added to Disney), which appears before the opening credits and after the closing credits to each one (with exceptions being made for 1999's "Tarzan" and "Fantasia 2000", which each keeps a variation of the 1990 blue Disney Castle logo intact, and some movies from the '80s and '90s each have to show both that logo and the 2007 Walt Disney Animation Studios Logo except for 1985's "The Black Cauldron", 1990's "The Rescuers Down Under", 1994's "The Lion King", 1996's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", and 1999's "Tarzan" and "Fantasia 2000", which only show the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures Logo in its 2nd update each before the opening credits and after the closing credits. 41 of the 43 motion pictures from the Disney canon and 2 that are originally from the "Touchstone Pictures" label are being reissued directly to DVD & Blu-ray Disc and HD Digital Video by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, so that they would be part of their first-generation, non-Disney Vault line called "Walt Disney Special Editions" between 2017 and 2021, with 37 single-film releases and 3 double-film releases being scheduled (approx. 8 each year for 5 years). A collector's edition of the "Walt & El Grupo" collection (which includes the first one of the 2 discs being Saludos Amigos & The Three Caballeros, and the second one being Walt & El Grupo) is also being released in 2018.

It is definitely going to happen in 2015 and 2016, because Disney has plans to escape all titles straight from the Disney Vault. Also, news will be reported and sources will be given very soon.

Disney Blu-Ray Disc Released In 2018 U.S.:

Saludos Amigos & The Three Caballeros (Bonus Walt & El Grupo)

Make Mine Music & Melody Time (Bonus Victory Through Air Power)

The Black Cauldron