Disney DVD News, August 2004

Timon and Pumbaa runaway successes
In the mid-1990s series The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa, the duo traveled all across the world. This spring, The Lion King 1½ proven to be a hilarious retelling of the original 1994 telling of The Lion King. 

Now the meerkat and warthog have proven so popular that Yahoo! Movies, UK and Ireland edition reports that they will star in another video release, Around the World with Timon and Pumbaa. While no release date is mentioned, it's been revealed that the duo visit Tropical islands, the Amazon jungle, and even more reason to love them, two stops in Canada.

Gargoyles burst from their slumber, on to a 2-disc set
Fans of the dark 1990s cartoon Gargoyles were greeted with great news recently. At the opening ceremonies of The Gathering of the Gargoyles, an annual convention for the show in Montreal, Quebec, it was announced the series was finally coming to DVD.

TV Shows on DVD reports season 1 will be released December 7 for $29.99. Hinging on the success of this release, likely to follow the other seasons of the series is the spin-off Goliath Chronicles. This is actually the first Disney animated series to release more than a few episodes on DVD.

Bambi And The Great Prince
Watch out for Bambi And The Great Prince, a "midquel" to the 1942 classic animated feature. This feature takes place before the end of the original; after Bambi's mother's death, The Great Prince of the forest (Bambi's dad) starts to look for another mate. Bambi must come to terms with both his mother's death, and father's eventual abandonment of him, making him an orphan.

Famed Disney animator Andreas Deja (Scar, Hercules) has decided he would rather work on traditionally animated direct-to-video releases than at Disney's CG-feature division. Thus, he's joined the feature's production team.

The project as a whole is being no doubt criticised in the animation industry. Even Andreas involvement is a hot topic in itself; some find new hope, others wonder why he wants to ever be involved with the movie.

Clay Aiken to sing for cut sequence of Aladdin
When coming to Broadway, Beauty and the Beast added another tune to its parent movie's discography. This ditty became so popular, that a recent Special Edition DVD of the movie added in a new sequence for the song. On a different note, the song "Proud of Your Boy" was originally created for the feature of Aladdin, but it never made it into the final cut. Now, a music video of American