The other day I mentioned that I joined the Disney Movie Club* out of a desire to get some of the classics like Bambi and such. I want to get a lot of the movies I used to watch when I was little. I am confident that Elijah will love them.

As far as classics, we already have Robin Hood and Bambi and Elijah loves both of them. I got Robin Hood as soon as it came out because it is my all-time favorite Disney and I had to have it. We got Bambi as his Mommy-is-very-sorry-you-had-to-get-a-tooth-out gift this week. I wanted to buy it before but Steve was concerned it would scare Elijah and another time, E insisted I “put it back” while at the store that he wanted Ice Age instead (that wasn’t bad either, both Ice Age movies for $25, but that’s not Disney, lol). He’d also insisted I put back Robin Hood when I bought that, but once I put it on he was in love with it. I don’t know why he does that… Anyway, once I’d found out Bambi had gone back into that stupid vault, I started looking for it, and not finding it at several places until I finally found it that day at Blockbuster… it was unavailable from the club along with several others I want to get.

But when I am finished with my requirements in the club, we end up with 8 DVDs for less than $10 each, including shipping. Not bad. In fact, I’ve already fulfilled my requirements and I’ll probably cancel after they actually arrive… then wait for them to beg me back. :P Of course, going through their whole list, it looks like I’m already getting everything I want, that I can get from them. We’re getting Peter Pan, Dumbo, Cinderella, Aladdin, Toy Story 1, Toy Story 2, Alice in Wonderland, and The Fox and The Hound.

Aladdin’s kind of my cut-off. I wasn’t sure about that, it will probably scare Elijah, but if nothing else, Sarah will like it. And, yeah, Toy Story isn’t all that classic, but it’s one of the better newer ones I’d actually go for (like the Incredibles, which we already have). I also like Monsters Inc., but that scares the crap out of E, so we’ll hold off on that one. Oh, and Cars, we already have that one, too. (Strangely enough, E loves the toys and the concepts but still refuses to watch the movie.) Now that I think about it, I think I like the classics and the Pixar ones, heh, though I’ve still never seen Finding Nemo all the way through.

So I’m still needing to get The Jungle Book (which just came out again the other day and is on amazon.com for only $15 so I’ll be ordering that in about five minutes), The Lady and the Tramp, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and, I guess 101 Dalmatians.

Am I missing anything? Haha.

A lot of that might sound like “girlie” movies, but I think there’s still something for everyone in them. For instance, I know E will love the mice in Cinderella, and the dwarves in Snow White. Sleeping Beauty might be the only one with nothing for him, unless he’s not scared of the dragon (who knows? I mean, he’s scared of Monsters Inc, but not the Incredibles or Shrek, etc.), but it’s also not a priority. There’s also stuff like Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid, but I’m not too concerned about them right now, though I know Sarah would love to have The Little Mermaid… hmmm…

Yes, we watch too much TV in this family, lol. I am working on that… Fridays are free-for-all though, if we’re not doing anything during the day, so he’s watching Robin Hood right now… if you can call banging your blocks with a toy hammer watching a movie anyway… But I’d rather him watch these movies than those commercial-ridden Nickelodeon and Noggin shows, you know?

Another movie I recall seeing a lot when I was little was All Dogs Go to Heaven. My cousin loved that movie and she wanted to rent that and Dirty Dancing every time she got to rent movies, why my aunt didn’t just buy it, who knows? So we’d watch that nearly every time I’d spend the night over there. Of course, that one just might make me cry…

What are the animated Disney classics you remember from your childhood?

As you know, my all-time favorite was Robin Hood then I think runner up was Lady and the Tramp and probably the Jungle Book…

* I’m being penalized by Google for ads, I think, and an analyzer is flagging this post because of the Disney Movie Club link. That site is easy to find though, disneymovieclub.com. This is NOT a sponsored post, I get no money from this post, it is a real topic I wanted to write about.