Disney "Black Diamond" VHS Tapes! The Classics! Everything You NEED to Know!

[@FunnymanTimmy]

I grew up with a few of these tapes. Since I grew up in the '90s, I had VHSs with the Sorcerer Mickey logo from the Cinderella tape. And I can safely say that said logo scared the absolute heck out of me as a kid.

[@thedisneycellar]

Hahaha We love Yensid! It was his anthropomorphic brooms that scared us as kids!

[@FunnymanTimmy]

The funny thing is that I actually don't hate Sorcerer Mickey. I'm completely fine with it if it's like the regular home video logo. It was just that logo. Something about how they unveiled him and the music they used for the whole thing really unnerved me as a kid.

[@thedisneycellar]

Fair enough! And definitely understandable.

[@fernandascandola6939]

I love Disney classics. I have many of them on VHS and DVD and 7 VCR recorders and 2 DVD players to watch them. The only thing I don't like about imported (I'm from Brazil) VHS tapes is how fragile the cases are. Here in Brazil they are (or were?) made of rigid plastic, which is great for keeping the tapes safer and mould-free for a longer time. Wish you success!!!

[@thedisneycellar]

Thank you so much! And to you as well! Always love chatting with someone that loves VHS tapes as much as we do. And yes sadly many of the clam shells we've adopted over the years are broken, or the tapes need to be rehoused altogether. We fortunately have many many duplicates so we can (mostly) avoid using our hero collection as much as possible, to keep them safe.

[@str8talktvspeaksout382]

If you guys recommend 1985 and before then why not show those tapes instead ??

[@thedisneycellar]

We show a few in our first VHS episode, the Complete History of Disney VHS Tapes. But the Classics, because of the craze surrounding Black Diamond VHS sales, and just the demand for them in general, felt like a better initial deep dive. We will be doing a dedicated episode on the first Walt Disney Home Video releases soon though!

[@str8talktvspeaksout382]

@ black Diamond have the false hype surrounding them that’s correct. However in terms of what Disney collectors are spending decent money on it’s the 1980s tapes . Therefore I would disagree that black diamonds are in demand. I may be the largest or the 3rd largest Disney vhs collector in the USA and I can tell you those 1990s tape we have no interest in. Make a video with all 1980s Disney tapes

[@thedisneycellar]

The nostalgia definitely hits hard with the Classics. But agreed! We're on it!