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Watch this with your kids: Lady and the Tramp Diamond Edition Blu-Ray

March 8, 2012 By

I was so thrilled to get an opportunity to review the Disney Classic Lady and the Tramp Diamond Edition, now available on Blu-ray! The Combo Pack also includes a DVD and a digital download. I couldn’t wait to pop it in the Blu-ray player and watch it with Kaitlyn!

Synopsis: A classic love story unfolds in the best Disney tradition as a lovely young pedigreed cocker spaniel named Lady, who lives a pampered life, finds herself falling romantically for Tramp, an amorous street-smart pooch without prospects. Although they have fun together on several dates, including a sentimental spaghetti dinner by moonlight at Tony’s restaurant, their relationship is strained not only by Lady’s loyalty to her human family and their newborn baby, but by Tramp’s devil-may-care attitude that eventually gets Lady in trouble and tossed into the dog pound. However, good-hearted Tramp redeems himself by saving the baby from potential harm and thus wins Lady’s love and the affection of her human family.

As I predicted, Kaitlyn LOVED the movie.  The story is set in the early 1900s and therefore has some aspects that seem old-fashioned by today’s standards, like the fact that Jim and Darling don’t know the sex of their unborn baby, and the Siamese cats which are complete stereotypes. But those are issues that adults would notice, kids just know it’s a movie with dogs and cats and lots of fun songs!

Bonus features on the Blu-ray include:

  • Disney Second Screen: Inside Walt’s Story Meetings with Audio commentary
  • Diane Disney Miller: Remembering Dad
  • Three Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
  • Never Recorded Song: “I’m Free as the Breeze”
  • From the original DVD release: Lady’s Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp, Finding Lady: The Art of the Storyboard, Original 1943 Storyboard Version of the Film, PuppyPedia: Going to the Dogs, “The Siamese Cat Song,” Finding a Voice for the Cats, “Bella Notte” Music Video, Trailers, and Excerpts from “Disneyland” TV Shows.

The DVD Bonus features are:

  • Diane Disney Miller: Remembering Dad
  • PuppyPedia: Going to the Dogs
  • Digital Bonus: Diane Disney Miller: Remembering Dad
  • Three Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
  • PuppyPedia: Going to the Dogs

Here’s the video for “Bella Notte”, the song that the Italian waiter sings to Lady and Tramp when they have their date at the italian restaurant and do the famous sharing a single strand of spaghetti scene:

I highly recommend the Lady and the Tramp (Diamond Edition Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging) for collectors of Disney movies, and for parents looking for wholesome movies to watch as a family. It’s available on Amazon.com for the incredibly low price of just $14.99!

BUY IT NOW:

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Another Sick Day and Alice in Wonderland on Blu-Ray

February 1, 2011 By

It started with Kaitlyn and a runny nose last Friday. By Sunday, Ryan had a heavy cough and I had a completely stuffed up nose. I kept Ryan home from school yesterday, and then again today when I heard him still coughing.

I hate being sick. I hate having to constantly blow my nose. I can’t find any hand sanitizer and I don’t have the car to go get some, so I wash my hands about 20 times a day which is making my hands dry.

Waaaahhh, poor me.

I’m up to 36 comments on my 44th birthday post! If you haven’t left a comment there yet, won’t you please do so?  I’d really love to see 44 comments :)

So, there’s the blizzard coming. The news said to expect 40 mile an hour winds and 10 to 18 inches of snow. I had planned to go to the grocery store today to stock up in case we’re snowed in tomorrow, and then Chris’ coworker who drives carpool called in sick, so Chris had to take the car.

I checked the pantry – there’s a couple of big cans of soup, some diced tomatoes, and corn muffin mix. I’m sure I can do *something* with that.  Chris is going to try to get to the store after work, I’m nervous about him driving in the first place but he can’t exactly call in sick because there might be a lot of snow AFTER work, you know?  I’ll just be biting my nails until he pulls in the driveway.

Ryan and I are bundled under blankets, me with my box of tissues (and a steadily growing pile of crumpled up used ones, I should really get a wastebasket) and him trying to be a tough guy but really feeling pretty miserable, while Kaitlyn bops around the house.  I can hear her in her room playing, making up some story for her My Little Ponies or something, she puts a smile on my face.

We’re watching the original Alice In Wonderland, it’s come out on Blu-Ray in a 60th anniversary edition. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment sent it to me for review, and do I recommend you buy it? HECK YES.  The  transfer looks amazing, every color is bright and vivid.  There are two versions you can buy, one is the Blu-Ray + DVD combo pack that I got, it’s $19.99 on Amazon. The other adds a third Digital Copy disc and bumps the price up to $27.99.  I was surprised by how much Ryan enjoyed it!

So that’s what’s going on around here. I don’t feel like getting up and doing anything, so I’m just going to keep writing blog posts.  And if somebody could just send me a new nose to replace this leaking one, that would be great.

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Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Giveaway – 3 Winners!

September 16, 2010 By

Read my review of Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue here. Thanks to the fine folks at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, I have a fantastic giveaway for Table for Five readers! There will be one Grand Prize winner and two runners up.

The Grand Prize includes:

1 copy of Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack
2 pairs of Fairy Wings (assorted colors will be selected at random; photo is an example)
1 Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Picnic Blanket
1 Do-It-Yourself Fairy House (to be assembled, as shown here)
1 Disney Fairies Crayola Neon Color Explosion coloring pack

The Runners Up Receive:

1 copy of Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack
2 pairs of Fairy Wings (assorted colors will be selected at random; photo is an example)
1 Do-It-Yourself Fairy House (to be assembled, as shown here)

WIN IT: To enter, ask your child what they would do if they met a fairy and leave their comment on this post. This entry must be completed before any bonus entries will count. Open to U.S. mailing addresses only, entries must be received by September 24 2010 at 11:59 pm ET.

HOW THE WINNER IS CHOSEN: I use a plugin called “And the Winner Is” that searches through the comments and pulls one at random. If it’s a bonus entry, I verify that the commenter also left the required main entry. If they did, I close the comments and notify the winner by email.

Bonus Entries: Once you’ve posted your main entry, earn additional entries for each of the following that you do or have done. These are all worth ONE ENTRY, please leave a separate comment for each -

  • Link to Table for Five on your blog. Add me to your blogroll or grab a button from the sidebar!
  • Subscribe to the Table for Five feed in a reader or by email. Links are in the header.
  • Stumble the giveaway or add it to any other social bookmarking site. Bookmark this post links are at the end of the post.
  • Follow @Table for Five on Twitter
  • Tweet about the giveaway, you can do this ONCE PER DAY and leave a new comment for each tweet: Enter to win 1 of 3 Tinker Bell & the Great Fairy Rescue Blu-ray/DVD prize packs from @Table4Five! Enter by 9/24/10 11:59 pm EST
  • Friend me on Facebook. Include a message in the friend request that you’re entering my giveaway so I’ll be sure to accept!
  • Like Table for Five on Facebook.  My page needs more fans!

For FIVE Bonus Entries: Blog about this giveaway including a link to this post and the ending date of 9/24.  Leave five separate, numbered comments – example: #1 I blogged about this giveaway here (URL), #2 I blogged about this giveaway here (URL), etc.
Thanks for entering and good luck everybody!

disclosure: I received Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Two Disc Blu-ray/DVD combo from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment for the purposes of review.

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