The Lost Art of DVD Menus

[@catholiccontriversy]

Not only are menus lost, so are bonus features. Remember when they would have deleted scenes, production footage, cast interviews, and sometimes point and click games?

[@hanahayashi6374]

Even the fun lil bloopers!

[@catholiccontriversy]

@@hanahayashi6374 I think I watched "technical goofs" on Shrek more than I watched the movie.

[@psychotophatcat]

You have to pay for the "collector's edition" or "deluxe set" to get these anymore. My assumption is that with the shift to almost completely digital filmmaking, they just delete footage they don't use nowadays, instead of saving it to make the home video purchase more tempting because the film was already wasted anyway.

[@damnitphan]

I also remember the Madagascar movie had a feature where the animator taught you how to draw the characters too!

[@splendidsimp]

oh my god the only dvd menu that i really remember from my childhood is the scooby doo in scotland movie because of the point and click game where you can play as velma and try and find her glasses (there was most definitely more to it than that but thats the only thing I can remember)

[@jamilfrost6217]

I miss DVD menus. They are so much better than those stock bland Blu ray menus.

[@liberaider]

Yea

[@psychotophatcat]

Early Blu Ray menus were really cool, highly animated and stylized. The last one I bought, an indie film, has an awesome menu too. Is that not normal anymore? :(

[@Thatcher-Davis]

Same tbh

[@Pinkywinkykinky]

I loved them too, just freaked out when they replayed so I was an annoying kid telling the people around me to hurry and hit play, like I had this thing with things repeating probably due to my ocd somewhere in the mix i slept while my mom vacuumed as a baby but woke up when a menu repeated my mom told me

[@I_am_a_chicken64]

Lovie live has a real nice bluray menu

[@jax_firestorm9689]

I was like “gurl why is this person explaining a DVD menu” and then I remembered that some people have maybe never seen one. Terrifying.

[@OrdinaryDoommarine]

yeah, and sad. i own an entire box of my childhood dvds, man do i love them

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

Incorrect. Gen Alphas aren't people.

[@koolkat-hq5xc]

That isnt true tho right 😀 I literally still use dvds rn

[@jax_firestorm9689]

@@koolkat-hq5xc ???? I said some people???

[@Alcoholic_Nerd]

Im honestly surprised this person has....

[@princesspixel3151]

Disney used to have AMAZING DVD games in my childhood, from going on a Virtual Safari with Timon and Pumbaa, taking a tour around Genie’s lamp (with or without Iago), to watching the ENTIRE Lion King 1 1/2 movie to find all 20 hidden mickeys! No wonder there were second discs for those awesome games!

[@ThisAnimeFOXGirlLovesToDraw]

Omigosh! The virtual safari was my favorite as a kid. And the quality was insane for a DVD game. Tbh, it did scare me at times, especially since it's dark the whole time and there's no way to get a good ending. lol

[@averymcdaniel2139]

I was going to mention that! Best game of all time along with the Aladdin magic carpet ride ❤

[@Antifearn]

I used to love touring the Genie’s house on the Aladdin dvd, just to go to the bathroom and play with the fountains

[@princesspixel3151]

@@ThisAnimeFOXGirlLovesToDraw At least there’s no bad endings either. 😆

[@Drac24]

one i love and one that is very nostalgic to me is the car finder game in the cars blu ray, its really cool

[@cambeckett]

i was OBSESSED with the animation errors and behind the scenes on DVDs, epically the ones from Shrek and Madagascar. they were equally terrifying and entertaining and i still look them up online every once in a while to watch again :)

[@Dreamartist47]

I loved watching those animation error videos as a kid and pre teen😆

[@StranaHyena]

Ahh i remember watching the rendering error reels on shrek a bit too much as a kid

[@sfigataa.69]

i remember consistently waking up at like 3 in the morning to the princess and the frog behind the scenes playing, it got to the point where hearing it actually made me feel sick.. but i never thought to watch anything else other than the princess and the fucking frog 💀 it was either that or.. fifi the flower 😟..

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

The 20th anniversary Shrek blu-ray release still has that. EDIT: I was wrong. It has most of the other features, though.

[@christopher9727]

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[@egg5256]

It’s so funny to me that everyone had at least one sleepover dvd menu moment where you can’t sleep cuz of the song and you can’t figure out the tv and you don’t want to wake anyone up so you just sit there slowly going insane.

[@LilyTreeArt]

I had this exact moment with Shrek!!! LMFAO I didn't understand how to turn it off (this was when DVD's were brand new ) and had to deal with Donkey jumping around screaming " PICK ME, PICK ME, OOHH PICK ME!!" LMAO it was torment 🤣🤣🤣

[@2balls1nut]

Me with the guardians of the galaxy DVD in 2014

[@aortaplatinum]

I had the opposite experience actually, during a big sleepover for my friend's birthday party, there were like 9 or 10 kids and we were all upstairs watching Hotel for Dogs. I fell asleep at one point and woke up to something really strange, it was darkly lit and mysterious, I asked "what are we watching?" And got back "the third one." "There's a third Hotel for Dogs?" "No dude Jurassic Park 3". I had slept through the second half of Hotel for Dogs and the first two Jurassic Park movies- loud violent horror action movies- and somehow only woke up around 4AM during the middle of the worst Jurassic Park movie.

[@whowroteholdencaulfield]

Happened to me with Gnomeo and Juliet when I was about 8. I finally figured out how to turn it off and then like an hour later, I woke up to find that someone had turned it back on! I was so mad and slowly going insane lol

[@viscountrainbows2857]

Oh gad I would go to the bathroom and my mom had fallen asleep and the menu would be playing ad infinitum. Luckily our rooms were far enough apart but, I always found that amusing because I know we all have woken up to DVD menu purgatory. The best one though was definitely Harold And Kumar; "Hey why haven't they picked an option yet?" like lmao okay that was cute

[@lylyfluf2573]

I used to LOVE the blooper parts in dvd’s. Especially in the animated films as I’ve always felt like they made them feel more real🥰

[@ghouls_are_people_too7088]

I loved the bloopers for The Incredibles.

[@CCClarinet12]

THE TOY STORY 2 BLOOPERS 😂

[@Xander-m1w]

@@CCClarinet12 It’s sad that kids today will most likely not see that blooper. :(

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie; Monsters, Inc.; A Bug's Life; That one deleted TS2 blooper with the Prospector flirting with Barbies

[@elizabethramirezthezenshii9691]

My favorites had to be A Series Of Unfortunate Events and School Of Rock.

[@terencecobain]

I remember my sister accidentally ruined my family's portable DVD player by shoving french fries in it. She said she wanted to watch a french fry movie.

[@ukministerofclowns69]

my sister did that with a plastic screw in a vhs player once

[@glasscier]

LMAOOOOO thats genius

[@TheReZisTLust]

Oof Food Fight 😢

[@dakotashadow1]

R/KidsAreStupid moment

[@paytonspianoarchive]

that's how i broke my wii. i shoved a sticker in the disc slot hoping there would be a "sticker channel" on the Wii menu. i don't think my dad has ever been more disappointed in me.

[@juuliq6]

The DVD menu of the second season of Buffy takes you through a graveyard and a mausoleum while THE most eerie music plays in the background... It left a lasting impression on me to the point where I was scared the TV would accidentally turn on at night and start playing it...

[@lemonpines]

Oh my god, I was so fucking scared of this menu. I would always ask my parents to select the episode and then call for me when the menu was gone

[@SoSkepticalFox]

HECK YEAAAAAH I AGREE

[@rachael5248]

NO WHY WAS IT SO SCARY

[@rachael5248]

i still use my buffy dvds and i dread rewatching season 2 (albeit the best season) for this reason

[@travisbuschette8609]

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is one of my favorite menus. The actors filmed themselves sitting in a car complaining about why the viewer isn't hitting the play button. It goes on for a few minutes and it's glorious.

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

@@travisbuschette8609 Something similar happens with a 2-Disc release of Finding Nemo: On the menu for the Widescreen version (Disc 1), you can hear the disembodied voices of Marlin and Dory talking about what to pick on the menu, with the latter, in classic Dory style, bothering the former. That and Disc 2 also have an option on each menu where if you click on an icon resembling a fish on a TV then the options disappear and it's like an ambient virtual fishtank.... Anyone remember? I think it's the movie's first DVD release judging by the previews

[@windowpeeper]

House of 1000 corpses has that too

[@Tokolope]

When Netflix got big I donated my entire dvd collection thinking that they would only add to their library instead of what we’re dealing with now. Fortunately a lot of thrift stores have amazing movie collections for super cheap if you can find them!

[@CCClarinet12]

I am so glad I still have all of my childhood dvds

[@monhi64]

Well you can’t really blame Netflix for the current streaming situation with how fragmented everything is and how you need 4 streaming services. Was inevitable competition would come up and poach all their content and tv/movie studios would start charging insane rates for streaming rights

[@CCClarinet12]

@@monhi64 my family got Netflix in 2011 and BOY has it changed LOL

[@SuperFlashDriver]

Dude, we never gave away our VHS DVD Blu-Ray collections, there was no way that they would ever be reprinted again nor released on those formats anymore. Even if a big streaming platform takes hold of the same movie, I still find having a collection of these old formats archived is the best way to share entertainment for future generations to come, even though the 20th century has ended nearly 23 years ago.

[@LocalTorchwoodIntern]

@@CCClarinet12 Im also pretty glad I kept a lot of my childhood DVDs, sure I go through and donate/ get rid of the ones I know I wont watch again but you gotta pry my disney DVDs from my cold dead hands lol. I also have the habit of picking up thrift store DVDs for various reasons. I still own my VHS copies of a ton of movies like the Pokemon ones even when I have a DVD version of those same movies I got for the sake of rewatching Jirachi the Wish Maker

[@flaviapederzini]

Dear lord, you unlocked a core memory of mine with the Shrek far far away idol. I think as a kid I made my family watch to that thing more often than the movie itself. And *God* did I love the banter of all the characters and the little animations they had when you selected them. I think Donkey's opening line in particular is permanently burned into my brain

[@azazellon]

"these boots are made for walking" 👀

[@groundnutmeg]

Oh god, same. I made my dad miserable!

[@unfunny420]

Hilariously enough, Donkey's opener is the only one I can't remember fully. With the others, I remember clips and words. but I can't remember Donkey's at all.

[@nocreativity73]

And then going on the website to vote for puss in boots (let's be real, he won) but not being able to remember the name of the website you have to go on so you run back and forth from the computer in the living room to the VCR in your room multiple times. Ah yes, memories

[@cross5464]

i miss the creativity of the 2000s. it felt alive and has a soul not like the current flat design

[@thundersong15]

the current flat design of… society? agreed

[@sunakonakahara222]

My boyfriend and I watched a DVD on his Xbox thst we rented from the library. The movie came out in 2004 and we were literally blown away by the menu and its artwork. It was literally like a time capsule.

[@magicman205]

Eddie Murphy's "The Haunted Mansion" had a legitimately terrifying bonus feature where you'd tour the mansion. The tour was a silent first person POV walkthrough of certain rooms in the mansion and the slow movement of the camera quietly moving through these eerily still empty rooms was already frightening enough, but then your time in each room ends when an overt supernatural event occurs that sorta scares you out of the room. It's all profoundly unsettling and some awesome person uploaded the entire thing on KZbin. I recommend watching it if being alone in large, creepy spaces is your thing.

[@elijah5573]

the "waking up to dvd menu at a sleepover and cant find the remote" was one of the most relatable, nostalgic, and terrifying thing ive heard in years i had a weird fear of these things, especially when the music would loop and you had a few seconds of silence staring at the dated visuals

[@Caitywolfyy]

Legit same! I’ve always had some sort of fear of these as a kid, especially when the music and visuals loop. One time the movie I wanted to watch was glitched, so the menu was also glitched and it just made it worse

[@peppersaltsman6044]

I had a roommate that would sleep like the dead and was practically unwakeable. One time he passed out after a night of drinking with the DVD intro for Wondershowzen playing over and over for HOURS. His door was locked and we banged and banged trying to wake him up. A weird hell to find myself in

[@serbkebab2763]

I don’t understand. Why couldn’t you just unplug the TV or DVD player from the wall socket? Problem solved.

[@peppersaltsman6044]

@@serbkebab2763 because his TV playing the DVD was locked in his room with him, and his room was right next to ours. We could hear the DVD through the walls

[@DaGleese]

@@peppersaltsman6044 If this ever happens again, go find the main circuit breaker in the house, and trip it.

[@AtLeastITried]

I like how you've captured the feel of a DVD menu with looping the same song for 20 minutes.

[@chattingesque372]

I was just thinking that

[@noapparentfunction]

when I lived at home I used to need to bang on the locked door to my brother's room, because he would routinely pass out while watching a DVD and the menu music would loop for an hour at midnight.

[@amz7290]

We had a disney set that would go back to the menu after the film, would wake up to 'Zip a dee doo dah, Zip a dee day' Nice at first until its starts to send you insane lols

[@chattingesque372]

@@amz7290 never let them enter your subconscious mind, they will compel you to buy even more Disney! 😵

[@amz7290]

@@chattingesque372 don't worry! Disney free house now the kids are grown and they've gone woke lol

[@CuteZi]

DVD menus were the COOLEST! Especially when the DVD had a 2nd disc that came with games and other fun stuff. Or even better, they had a CD ROM you could play on your laptop

[@FTChomp9980]

I never got to experience the CD-Rom unfortunately.

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

​@@FTChomp9980 SAME! I always watch them on my TV and I never had a laptop or computer that had a DVD player in them.

[@kagevista3375]

I remember that :) when I was little I had a 2-disc DVD set of Don Bluth's Anastasia, the first disc containing the movie itself while the second disc basically was this interactive game where you could walk around the Romanov castle and discover things like faberge eggs, balalaikas, and other Russian cultural items, some minigames (such as a minigame where Rasputin was falling apart and you were Bartok and had to catch his body parts, a minigame where you could dress Anastasia in outfits she wore in the movie, etc.), a little fun sing-along thing where you could sing along to multilanguage versions of songs from the movie, and it even had a hidden place where, if you found it, contained the entire Bartok the Magnificent movie, and it even came with its own little menu too. It's like the designers and programmers for this DVD set went all out on the second disc when it came to creativity. I sadly don't have this DVD set anymore, but once I get paid better at my job I might get it again, record a walkthrough of the second disc and post it online for y'all to enjoy

[@theresacherco3503]

Yep, I remember that

[@janelle_beans]

Or a CD Soundtrack!

[@NineQuestionMarks]

My favorite part of DVDs is the behind the scenes stuff. I love seeing how much care and effort was just put into these movies.

[@opabiniasarecool]

My siblings never let me see them, they just wantedto see the movie. As an autistic nerdy kid who was in love with animation, this killed me every time

[@scotcharoo22]

Now that I'm older I finally can fully appreciate those behind the scenes ❤

[@SpaceShip-Orion]

The Encanto DVD menu would have been the PERFECT place to show more of the house's rooms. I wanted to see that shapeshifters room!!!

[@traviscunningham7062]

You mean Camillio?

[@gracekim1998]

@@traviscunningham7062yes

[@mynameisreallycool1]

So true! I hear so many of the fans wondering what the other people's rooms look like. We only see Isabela, Mirabel, and Antonio's rooms.

[@ThemassiveKaitoMomotasimp]

@@mynameisreallycool1TRUE

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

Kids these days don’t know what it’s like to fall asleep watching something and wake up to the menu music that’s been on repeat the past 6 hours blairing

[@FTChomp9980]

Me and my Brother did this all the time when we were kids!

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

@@FTChomp9980 shit was disorienting I feel like the menu audio is way louder than the shows audio 😂

[@miiiwu1999]

I did this with the cgi garfield movie and that music is so annoying lmao

[@GayAndDog]

YES LMFAO

[@sparkle5164]

I have the menu music from pitch perfect and mean girls INGRAVED in my head because of how many times I would put it on before going to bed XD

[@SuspiciousZorua]

Nothing beats the frantic scramble for the remote the second “This DVD is enhanced with Disney Fast Play!” came on during movie night, except maybe seeing “Coming Summer of 2008” years later

[@CCClarinet12]

OMG ALL 2000’S KIDS SHOULD RELATE TO THIS LOLOL

[@janelle_beans]

Omg I bypassed Fast Play so fast, the sound of the voice freaked me out every single time!

[@Akitolvr69]

BRO THAT SCARED ME EVERY SINGLE TIME

[@cantpopdismolly]

My anxious ass had the remote in my hand as soon as the DVD was popped in! So much unnecessary stress avoided 😅

[@JaneXemylixa]

Those days came and went by before I, a non-native speaker, learned the word enhanced. So that's what it was...

[@UJEvans]

The best part of DVD menus is accidentally hitting the wrong arrow and finding a hidden menu option for a secret video or deleted scene

[@CCClarinet12]

Those were epic!

[@babyface3396]

I was going to bring those up! Can't believe she didn't mention them in the vid

[@wynkss]

Wait what…. I didn’t even know those were a thing 😢

[@GALL0WSHUM0R]

Yesss thank you for this! I was surprised when DVD Easter eggs weren't brought up in the video and came to the comments to see if anyone had mentioned it

[@kenyaholloway-reliford8213]

The Care Bears Journey to Joke-a-Lot DVD has these funny little buttons on the sides of the menu that would play a random wacky clip from the movie.

[@emilysavagerussell8296]

Does anyone else remember how awesome the National Treasure DVD was??? The whole menu was a treasure hunt with soooo many hidden clues that led to special features. Best DVD menu ever.

[@TangledHeart828]

I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT. That was *so* COOL!

[@ChrisBeYT]

anyone remembers Windows DvD Maker? It was a software to burn dvds AND you could make your own menus and submenus with your own pics and more depths... i actually loved that.

[@TangledHeart828]

My dad used that at least once for a compilation of videos from one of our trips to Disney world!

[@dami0n.mp3]

yup! i tried using recently 🥲

[@NixityNullt]

God, you have no idea how often i cry at night thinking about how dvd menus are a lost art. Thank you for spreading the word

[@artbk]

For real. I remember when I first used streaming services and realised these menus had their days numbered. I died a little.

[@charliecooper5457]

I cried at night when DVD menus were a thing. I just wanted to watch my video but I was forced to go through a slow menu system with the cheapest DVD remote with low batteries. The pain was real back then.

[@PongoDaMan]

cry?

[@mikuslayyyy]

Matching pfps 💀

[@stephanierowe8335]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that spent hours in these menus! I spent hours going through them and finding every secret easter egg and watching all of the behind the scenes content!

[@phatmartyplays332]

Dreamworks always had good dvd menus the shrek one and over the hedge were 2 of my favorites

[@thanxs_pete]

YES. I wore out my childhood copy of Monsters Inc by spending so much time on the bonus feature disc. I am now full of random trivia nobody asked for

[@RJCMaxification]

remember the paper airplane competition at Pixar... I loved that

[@penguinthepurple]

Some of my favourite DVD menu features: - Charlie & The Chocolate Factory's quicktime games, including one where you dance with the Oompa Loompas - Finding Nemo's hidden fish icons that play secret clips. In one of them Dory looks at the viewer and says "Wow, mammals!" - Lilo & Stitch 2's Find Pleakley minigame, where Jumba mocks you if you take too long to find him.

[@xviolaa]

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory's menu was LIT

[@moederkoekjes3380]

I loved Ice Age where you do a slide maze inside of a glacier

[@wovenecho]

Over the Hedge had a couple of cool games that I played a lot: one of them was like skeeball that you played by pressing a button at the right time to get the right amount of throwing power for the "ball" (it was an acorn). In the other game, you played as Hammy the squirrel and tried to navigate a maze of traps set up by the exterminator while avoiding detection. You would select the path to take and there were different animations that would play for each one. I remember some of the traps being really scary. I used to play that game over and over.

[@sully2932]

I forgot about the DS game, I liked it quite a bit when I was young. There were a bunch of different missions you had to complete and each of the characters had special abilities, like Hammy could sprint and Verne could hide in his shell. Could be a pretty difficult game at times, I never actually completed it fully 😂 but maybe that’s cause I was eight

[@joellim6988]

Yes

[@gjkdshgkjshjkgdfg]

that game TRAUMATISED me but i love it

[@Skye-ve6tc]

I had a whole DVD game growing up, like no movie, just the game. It was a nickelodeon themed bingo game in a box set with bingo cards and chips, complete with custom voice lines for each of the characters and announcing them. I spent many hours occupied by that growing up

[@nicknetwork118]

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[@averilsworld]

oh i had a similar thing but it was with disney characters instead! it was so much fun :D

[@cyberpeanut4375]

one thing that has always stuck in my head about the shrek 2 special features (aside from far far away idol, i loved that so much) was the "technical goofs" section. it's a reel of animation errors that the animators thought was funny i guess but it terrified me as a child. i legit had nightmares about it, my dad banned dvds in my house for a while because of how often i'd go into his room at night out of sheer terror. but something about the weird errors as well as the creepy as hell music they paired with it was so scary. i remember the madagascar and incredibles dvds also had similar animation error reels with weird music that terrified me as a child, i wonder if it's like a whole subgenre of special feature? idk, i had to mention it tho. great video! ^-^

[@shayleevillanueva9797]

I CAME TO THE COMMENT SECTION JUST TO FIND SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. Technical goofs scared the shit out of me when I was a kid😭😭

[@cyberpeanut4375]

@@shayleevillanueva9797 lol at least i wasn't the only one then!

[@madelinemorales]

I WAS TERRIFIED OF THAT TOO LAMAOAO

[@poptartravioli5874]

Over the Hedge had the best games. There was one where you played as hammy and had to get past the security lasers in someone's backyard and there was another one that was kinda just ski ball. I also remember having either a polly pocket or a totally spies movie that had a game similar to the elf one showed in the video, except the characters were in a raft race in a river.

[@mentally-ill-mary]

yes!!!!

[@rickitycrikit]

i would scroll through the food packaging art from over the hedge for hours

[@janelle_beans]

The security lasers game! I was glued to that one!

[@ouzelle]

The special features of the early Harry Potter DVDs were just INSANE like there were entire rpg plotlines in there, not to mention all the narrated, interactive tours of places Universal Studios hadn't put in the park yet

[@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075]

yeah i mentioned the prisoner of azkaban one myself, the chase with sir cadagan was similar to the elf race she mentioned but with different routes to take which was fun, i only ever owned the extended version of that movie sadly

[@Pesthauch666]

Apparently there's also a dedicated Video-DVD with just a game but without any movie on the disc: Harry Potter Interactive DVD Game: Hogwarts Challenge

[@growlie2676]

I just wish they had audio commentary.

[@Jdiablo7]

just got to the comments section to find this one..exploring the Hogwarts and catching the golden snitch took my interest way more that the film intself :D

[@gracekim1998]

I remember that head thing on the night bus freaking me out😅

[@dear_katura]

There was a personality quiz in the bonus features of some Tinkerbell movie that I used to have and I remember going through the test multiple times with different answers just to make sure they weren't giving me the same result every time. That's where my trust issues were born.

[@pixelmagicbeat8131]

I literally did tht... I don't remember if it was tinkerbell or not

[@drewmaster2002]

i loved watching the special features of movies like Shrek, The Incredibles and Over The Hedge. those peeks into the behind the scenes process are what inspired me to want to be an artist working in animation.

[@ireallydidntwanttomakeanac575]

God, I loved the Madagascar DVD. Everything from the boxes shaking with dialogue, the penguin game, the hidden animation featurette to the guess where Alex hid a snowglobe in his teeth game, it was just fun. Blu-Rays seem to have taken over the extra features that DVDs had.

[@Lars_808]

This!!! There was a multiplayer trivia game too. My cousins and I would always play the trivia mini game at our grandparents house.

[@YumeDream39]

That dvd menu was probably one of the best ones. I remember my 7 year old brain trying to figure out the code to unlock the penguins game. What other dvd has done something that creative? Not to mention all the other games and hidden features it had.

[@Justanotherpersonontheinternet]

Me and my sister used to have portable dvd players when we were younger (basically, the og iPad kids) so this is also super nostalgic for me because of this. We had some serious taste, watching Barbie movies while eating dinner, or on an airplane.

[@CCClarinet12]

Same! My brother and I had portable DVD players and I found mine last week and I watched a movie on it for the first time in years lol

[@libyanhomie1186]

portable DVD players were literally revolutionary. Watching movies on the go must've been a dream. Although when the iPhone 4 came out with the iTunes store update (iOS 6), it kinda made portable DVDs useless.

[@cocacolaxable]

I miss these soo much, experiencing Far Far Away Idol on dvd was genuinely such a fun childhood memory

[@axelfiedel3793]

I remember having my Stuart Little DVD I spent a lot of time going through the menus of the film so yeah I relate to this.

[@hannah57]

Far far away idol was the best. Loved interacting with the characters like that

[@everenrae9005]

the mine cart game on the snow white DVD will forever live in my heart. IT WAS SO FUN!!

[@chattingesque372]

It's good to know that I'm not the only one who endured some terrible, looping, seemingly endless nightmares by falling asleep to these DVD menus!

[@frauleinfunf]

Finally, someone else who was so obsessed with Matilda they spent hours with the special features on the DVD. I still remember being amazed that the floating chalk had a magnet in it.

[@CCClarinet12]

Omg same!!!!

[@heatherfoster7823]

Matilda and Harriet the Spy have a special place in my memory

[@Cutiepie0111]

Bruh i remember telling my brother to yell at me so I could have the powers Matilda had 💀

[@namagem0]

Shrek 1 had a technical goof reel that had some straight up cursed footage. Also distinctly remember when I found out about hidden things in DVD menus and found the full footage of the video tape in the Ring. That was absolutely scarring but also so cool!

[@sarahubbell1479]

The Shrek 1 technical goof reel is what got me interested in glitches in general

[@starkissed_real]

YOU FOUND THE HECCIN RING FOOTAGE?? HOW-

[@Hannah_The_Heretic]

Im surprised you didnt talk about secret dvd features, you know the ones you could only get to by making a seeming random series of menu navigations until the highlighted box was over something outside of the listed menu selections. that stuff was wild to discover as a kid.

[@princesspixel3151]

I used to call them “Easter Eggs” ever since discovering them in Veggietales DVD menus

[@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075]

heard about those but never found any, have no idea if any of the dvd's i still own have them as i don't know how to unlock them

[@magdalena_dewinter]

the barbie ones,,,

[@cwooddirector]

I remember the 2-Disc version of The Incredibles had a few of these and it was pretty neat.

[@Hannah_The_Heretic]

@@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075 generally dvds for things with large (or cult) followings or something that the stereotypical geek might be interested in, o know there was some in The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and possibly even Sam Raimi's spider man trilogy. Happy hunting, hope that can steer you into the right direction.

[@TravistheDragon]

I remember being obsessed with DVD menus (still am btw). My favorite would be Disc 2 of Monsters Inc. I always loved going to the door vault just to enjoy the view of the background while also enjoying some deleted scenes and the Pixar Air Show, while also enjoying the other content in the monster area. What I enjoy most about DVDs is that they have characters that interact with you as if they’re actually talking to you through the TV. I miss those times and I wish we could have those stylized DVDs again.

[@ThePorygonBoi]

My prized possession is a The Lion King Platinum Edition 2-disc DVD that my dad got me for my 6th birthday. Not only were the games on the first disc fun at the time but disc 2 elevated the experience to a whole new level. Hearing about how much heart went into making The Lion King gave me new appreciation for the filmmaking process, the music videos were nice to watch, I learned about the Broadway stage show through those featurettes, the animal fact featurettes tickled my zoology nerd button, Timon and Pumbaa’s Virtual Safari was lots of fun (seriously, no wonder they put one in the DVDs for both sequels), and best of all the menus on disc 2 were just so atmospheric. On the last weekend of every month I watch The Lion King, then watch the entirety of disc 2 of the Platinum Edition DVD, and I *never* get bored of it.

[@zoejanack2637]

The Sorcerer’s Stone DVD was amazing. A POV tour of Hogwarts, a game where you had to get through the puzzles to get to the stone, including a potions game, it was so much fun and very immersive for little kid me

[@loriisgorey]

I think Chamber of Secrets also had the special features with a game. I don’t know about any of the others because I wasn’t really interested in the movies after the first two.

[@Septixcake]

I also remember having the fourth DVD of Harry Potter and there was a Game about the Triwizard Tournament but i can't really remember what you had to do.

[@konzy.]

i remember one of the harry potter dvd's had a mini game where you're driving to escape the spiders in the woods and have to choose your direction

[@IgikoPop]

The Bernie bots beans part was my favorite XD

[@wayfaringspacepoet]

​​@@loriisgorey Prisoner of Azkaban had a game where you travel through different paintings as Sir Cadogan to get him back to the Portrait Hole in Gryffindor Tower

[@princess96n]

This gave me such nostalgia! I remember playing the virtual safari game on the Lion King 1 1/2 DVD over and over. Such good times.

[@trash.frogg.]

Yessss this is the one I remember!!!!!!!

[@Romanticoutlaw]

same!!

[@francescogirardello9250]

Your videos always fill me with nostalgia, even for things I've never experienced myself. Most importantly I think you are doing a great archiving job for every little thing that made the childhood of many kids born in the early 2000's special. Your channel will be a way for gen Alpha and beyond for understanding better our generation through the little things.

[@kathym1995]

Brings me back to the days of going on school trips in a charter bus when I was in middle school. Everyone brought DVDs to watch on the on board tv. You felt like the cool kid if your movie was played

[@cocodojo]

It used to be that DVDs tried to cram as much extra content on the disc as possible to supplement the movie, and sometimes they even tucked away tiny things that when you accidentally find it, its like "omg, I never knew it was there!", such as when you're just moving all over the familiar menu screen and accidentally finding a tiny interactive icon you never noticed before leading to something like the bloopers or "making of" content. Sadly nowadays, you just get the bland trailers, then a straight forward menu, no frills, no thrills, no hidden content to find... what you see is exactly what you get.

[@junebug9320]

i had a Barbie DVD with a secret game that could only be accessed when you put the disk into a computer and it felt like magic to me. I spent so much time arranging my own dollhouse on my dad's work computer even though I had access to a copy of the sims due to the sheer novelty of playing a video game on a media platform mainly designed for watching a film

[@envyq00]

YESSS FINALLY SOMEONE COVERS THIS TOPIC. I've always complained about how 2000s DVD menus are really a lost art nowadays. Especially the Disney special edition discs! In any case, looking back at them now, there's at least a good amount of graphic design and behind the scenes content to appreciate about them. I really hope more people become motivated to preserve some of this stuff on the internet at some point.

[@vintagecrowspirit]

I believe they will! I've come across KZbin uploads of DVD menus, special features, and openings with trailers in the past so there are definitely people that still appreciate them. Heck, people even upload openings and closings of VHS movies on here which is amazing!

[@glennross85]

How are Video Game menus any different? Artistically speaking?

[@Localgen]

🐒🐒

[@DexMASTER94]

Back then in 2002 i was at my cousins house and her parents had already a DVD player. It looked like a magic seeing interactive menu of Ice Age. It really impressed me back then. It was great time with menus like these.

[@CatholicTraditional]

That same year my family bought a Sony DVD/VHS combo for about $200. It lasted almost 20 yrs before the 📀 laser dying. Since such things are no longer sold, we bought a used one from that time period for $200+shipping, and it works excellent! Important to have physical media.

[@angeL_ocracy]

I remember I had an exclusive Spongeob DVD called “Absorbing Favorites”, it had a total of 9 episode including the lost episode. I recall 5 y/o me being absolutely terrified of the walk sequence of when Patchy initially found it 😭 I also have faint memory of my dad laughing at the dirty joke made in that one episode of when SpongeBob was giving Gary a bath. The menu screen from what I can gather was of SpongeBob at Goo Lagoon sitting at a tiki bar with that one blue fish. I think whenever you selected a word, SpongeBob would spill something on him accidentally? Idk, my memory is def very clouded at this point, but it’s the best DVD menu I remember.

[@marzkell]

The walk cycle haunts me to this day

[@drdewott9154]

Honestly the whole thing with DVD menus really does feel like something that probably should come back. Like it just compliments the content it comes with so well and makes it all feel like a complete package, getting you immersed into the movie before it has even started. Honestly it would be neat to have something like this for some movies on streaming platforms. We know some have already done choose your own adventure style content so implementing DVD style menus wouldnt be too far fetched, even just as an option!

[@maccamachine]

Awesome video idea! I really miss this stuff they put so much extra thought into some that they didn’t need to do at all! One of my favorite things as a kid when getting a dvd was seeing what type of menu it had

[@InkTheSquidGremlin]

This video made me realize I'm not the only one that has a DVD menu cemented into my brain. when I was 10, I was obsessed with the movie Frankenweenie, and it still is my favorite movie now. When I was younger, I pretty much revolved my whole personality around that movie. I would carry around a plush of the character Victor with me everywhere, I would look everywhere on the internet for anything relating to Frakenweenie, and I even drew my own fanart of the characters. When the movie came out on DVD and Blu Ray, I had just gotten out of the hospital after having a bad reaction to medication I was on for my autoimmune disease. I was so excited to pick up the movie from target that day, that the moment I got home I put it in my (very old) little disney princess tv and DVD player. since then through the rest of my elementary school and some of my middle school years, I would watch Frankenweenie before bed on my old princess tv. I didn't mind watching it on a tv with slowly aging sound and graphics, I was just happy to be able to watch my favorite movie, even if I couldn't watch it in the best quality. Then one day, I came home from school and saw a completely new tv and blu ray player in my room. And on that new tv was the main menu for Framkenweenie. I was so excited and seeing that I could now experience my favorite movie at such a high quality made me so happy. to this day, I so vividly remeber the Frankenweenie DVD menu, the animation of Sparky laying down next to his tombstone, the somber yet happy music, the lightning sounds, and the bats that would occasionally fly by the screen. Frankenweenie as a whole will forever be an important part of my life, as it was the movie that made me want to be an animator. Framkenweenie is the film that holds such a special place in my heart and my memeores.

[@sophiahurtado619]

Making a literal video about DVD Menus is giving me so much nostalgia. Especially that Monster House Menu. Keep up the great work, your videos are always fun to watch!

[@AugustMurka]

Your channel is my comfort channel, I LOVE watching and rewatching your videos over and over and over, they are so comfy I just cant stop! Gives some sort of nostalgia to times I never experienced

[@xotbirdox]

The HSM2 DVD was just unparalleled. I'm sorry, but it was. Bonus song, music video, bloopers, clips of the cast learning the choreography, sing-alongs, karaoke, like they didn't have to go so hard on the bonus features but they did and little me was absolutely thrilled 😭😭💀💀💀

[@KenzoGT]

i remember after like 10 years of complete abandonment, one day i decided to look for my portable DVD player. I found it and actually watched a movie. Brought back a lot of fun memories... i'm not crying, the 2000s got into my eyes.

[@FTChomp9980]

I remember getting so many DVDs back then and played around the DVD Menus! Honestly as a kid I played around it a lot I loved the bonus features,DVD minigames,watching Behind the Scenes,and the shorts! There for the CARS DVD Movie I watched Mater and the GhostLight still one of my favorite PIXAR Shorts to this day and watched how the movie was made. Another one of my favorite DVD Menus is The Cat and the Hat one!

[@samchernoff350]

These videos do an amazing job at helping me feel nostalgic for things that I forgot existed

[@whimai412]

Dude for real, especially the last few videos recently.

[@Dylan-Frost]

Over Christmas break my aunt rented a cabin in the mountains, and my cousin and I found an entire stash of DVDs in a closet. Needless to say we both had a very productive afternoon.

[@theMoonblackRose]

I remember that in one of my Dora the Explorer DVDs there was an entire episode of Backyardigans in the bonus features, I loved watching it. I also recall that there was Mickey Mouse DVD with a game where you had to find different items, back in the day I would replay it over and over until eventually I memorized it. And in one of the releases of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory there were 2 separate DVDs, one for the movie and the other for games, one for every one of the five kids. DVDs really were a whole concept on their own, they were perfect

[@YummyWiceCakes]

which episode of the backyardigans was it?

[@theMoonblackRose]

@@YummyWiceCakes It was the episode where they wanted to make the perfect tea, so they travelled around various places to find the perfect tea leaves, tea set and hot water!

[@Kogami]

I fondly remember Barbie movies having some of the best DVD menus lol. I nearly forgot they existed until you posted this video. Now it's gonna be a thing I will severely miss now :(

[@TooningIn2008]

People like you could make a video about cabbages and I’d still watch it because no matter the topic, i always remain entertained and invested throughout the entire video

[@wes4736]

Personally, a story about Amazon deleting downloaded shows off people's devices after getting rid of a title scared me back into physical media, and i TOTALLY rediscovered my love for DVDs and their menus (still kept the VCR but this is finally a DVD centric video for once lol)

[@167logan]

It's true. I downloaded a whole mini series that they decided to not carry anymore. WTF I paid for that.

[@samtime2711]

You're kidding me because if that is true , then they are breaking a very basic rule of an market place that is once you buy something, you're able to re-download it at any time forever.

[@wes4736]

@@samtime2711 - yeah man. Turns out when you buy digital media, you're not actually buying the right to a copy of the media in question, the same way you buy for physical media. Instead, you technically buy the access to the actual IP. Which is why Amazon feels legally justified in deleting downloaded copies of titles they remove. I know, it's total bogus.

[@samtime2711]

@Wes Well then, that makes me happy for never buying songs or movies online . At least in past all, most online stores for video games honor this understanding with delisted video games. Even Sony is at least trying to keep the ps3 online running near 20 years later

[@wes4736]

@@samtime2711 - STOP. 😳 don't remind me how long ago 2005 really was. . .

[@rachelhansen2417]

My sisters and I thought the song “humuhumunukunukuapua’a” from the CD was hilarious. We replayed it waaaay too often. My husband was surprised I could accurately pronounce the name of the fish, and it is definitely due to this song .

[@gracekim1998]

That song was on my HSM2 singing game and i remember being confused by the song’s existence as at that point I wasn’t aware it was from a deleted scene/ extended version of the movie yet

[@ormhaxan]

If you watched season 2 of Lost on disc, they made you feel like a part of the in-universe mystery by hiding bonus material under button combinations and hidden menus. I'll never forget the excitement of discovery.

[@lemonpines]

Yessss and the menus would even change if you waited long enough

[@ArtemisNYC]

I remember watching like, all six hours of the special features on each of the Pirates of the Caribbean DVDs. Curled up with my bunny slippers and some popcorn, watching behind the scenes footage about the costumes and fight choreography, and playing the Liar's Dice game. Amazing.

[@luciend00]

I remember these incredibly detailed features, even as a kid was entertained watching all that

[@Giaphaige]

The Kung fu panda DVD special features taught me how to use chopsticks as a kid lol. We were a family of 8 so the portable DVD player my grandfather gifted us was literally a life saver on road trips

[@parkermarie4391]

YES same omg

[@umi.mp3767]

SAME!!!! And how noodles are made, and the different Kugn Fu styles!

[@jakkurinjactenderjakala4129]

I totally remember that Kung Fu Panda minigame where you had to dodge fire pillars or something like that. It was like the final minigame and it's the one I remember as my bro replayed it pretty often

[@the_mariocrafter]

Lol

[@gemstone108]

By far the best DVD menu was The Incredibles. There was something so ominous yet cool about it and I remember it being packed with special features. Idk about anyone else but I was a baby animation nerd who actually liked listening to the commentary tracks even as a kid. They were interesting and could be pretty funny at times! I wish there was a way to preserve the audio of those…

[@ecamville2928]

And the easter eggs in that menu! There were so many hidden gems that you could only find by letting the music loop til a new little thing popped up far off to the side of the rest of the navigation options, and you had to grab it in time before it disappeared again!

[@gemstone108]

@@ecamville2928 I didn’t know the puppet short existed until someone put it online years later!

[@lillytumminello1850]

And the list of the supers

[@flyingdoggo316]

@@lillytumminello1850 I love that bonus feature so much. I remember as I kid I would watch it in the morning

[@bluelips501]

I was so hoping someone would mention “the incredibles”! gahh all this nostalgia is making me sad ):

[@emilynelson9174]

Anyone remember the menu screen for Freaky Friday 2004? That if you selected the fortune cookie at the bottom, their outfits changed? That didn't need to be added in there- but it was. Bc dvds were just so cool!

[@ashpotatoes94]

Lion King 1, 2 and 1/2 has an extensive virtual safari ride game that I played religiously. Each very different and honestly replayable due to the pick your own adventure nature of it. The amount of work and though put into it for just a dvd bonus game is wild.

[@ludwigvan6536]

I love when dvd menus are super over the top and cheesy. Like the menu for 007 die another day has “play movie” as START MISSION, and something like “language select” as LANGUAGE DECODING. It’s not immersive like they probably wanted it to be but I cherish the effort lol.

[@nslouka90]

DVDs also had really cool extras that were criminally underrated like angles and different takes that allowed you to alternate different angles in a shot if they added it, or switch from storyboard drawing in animation.

[@NotCreativeToby]

I remember sitting through the Shrek bloopers on repeat when I was a kid I thought that was the funniest shit ever. Another dvd screen story I had was there was one night when my mom and stepdad went on a date night and I watched Little Women and woke up to a loud 10-15 second audio loop and that terrified 11 year old me lmao

[@victoriap9116]

The lack of special features has been breaking my heart for YEARS

[@glitterfulspace]

thank you so much for making this! dvd menus were such a massive part of my life, all the kids films ones you mentioned brought back so many memories. i remember the first film i watched on my portable dvd player was madagasgar on the way to the zoo, i still remember the game where you have to find the alex snowglobe😂 i loved knowing how films were made and watching all of that sort of behind the scenes or extra content, so much so i spent more time watching the extra behidn the scenes than the films themselves, especially with the harry potter films. watching this and remembering iconic games like far far away diol make me just want to put my dvd player on and relive my childhood

[@RolyWestYT]

I love the menus for all the Simpsons Seasons DVDs. Had all fun selection menus with special animations of characters, audio commentary on every episode, deleted scenes and so many more fun extras. It’s sad they stopped releasing them after season 20!

[@SimonCallahan]

A couple of cool ones I remember. On the DVD of the original Shrek, they had a special feature where you could dub your own voice into certain scenes. They gave you the script on the bottom, but you can bet that my siblings and I made super dirty versions of these scenes. This one was only available if you put your disc into a computer, though. Another interesting one was for the first three Pokemon movies. Sadly, they're very hard to find now (I got the first one by chance while browsing a thrift store), but they were full of cool special features, including a commentary track (super exciting because they often teased what was coming up for Pokemon in the future), music videos, and even a scholarly essay about the impact of Pokemon on popular culture (this was another one only available by putting the disc into a computer). As for "grown up" movies, the James Bond movies usually didn't disappoint when it came to DVD menus. I remember putting in Live And Let Die (one of the first movies I owned on DVD) and hearing Jane Seymour's character Solitaire tell me to "Pick one" when presented with all the DVD options. If feels like if you want a special disc now, you have to go with a box set where they go all out. The recent releases of the Ghostbusters trilogy and Back To The Future are packed with content, but they are fully intended for collectors. They usually come in special boxes (the Ghostbusters box looks like a ghost trap and has a green light inside, and the Back To The Future box has a light up Flux Capacitor), and the special features included are genuinely exclusive to that edition (Ghostbusters 1 and 2 have work print and TV versions of the movies consisting of alternate takes, new scenes, and re-edits).

[@Billibab]

Naw the way putting a DVD in your computer unlocked the COOOLEST SHIT??!!

[@BlueFishPieIsAwesome]

By far one of my favorite movies as a kid was Home on the Range. I know it's not well liked, but I'll always have a special fondness for it and a big part of that was the DVD menus. The backgrounds and music made my 4 -year-old self feel super immersed in that wild west environment.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

the cattle rustling pied piper song goes way harder than it has any right to. Once I heard that song, I was sold, nothing else about the movie needed to be good. Granted, I do think it was genuinely charming aside from that. I also had the gba home on the range game and remember loving it, though I'm not sure it'd hold up today

[@ddm6812]

@@Romanticoutlaw Honestly! I only have fond memories of this movie.

[@mr.papaveraceae3009]

The bonus features, behind the scenes and commentaries were things that really sold it for me for DVDs. I would always buy a 2 disc deluxe set if one was available, just for the bonus features. The menus though were really awesome on their own.

[@laurenbradley6833]

I remember seeing a portable GameCube at a GameStop as a kid and losing my mind. I didn't think a portable dvd player could get any cooler. Also, I loved the mini games some dvds had!

[@ohhhcrud..]

I'm wondering that maybe once the whole generation who grew up with DVDs gets nostalgic for them that it's possible they'll have a resurgence in popularity (similar to LPs).

[@CCClarinet12]

I am so nostalgic for the dvd era! I am also SUPER nostalgic for the cd player/iPod nano era

[@moss_fairy2001]

Honestly they are nice! It's pleasant to own something physical and not just downloaded onto my computer or at the whim of streaming services. And my younger brothers who's 14 also likes them so I'd say they're still alive

[@Sophie_Pea]

i honestly think they will have a bit of a resurgence at some point, similar to how vinyls and record players became a thing again

[@ohhhcrud..]

@@moss_fairy2001 physical media will always be better than downloads or streaming imo

[@midnightcinema7813]

Dvd menu screens are one of my special interests, as well as horror, and in the early 2000s there were a ton of amazing horror dvd menus, but I think the best has to be for House of 1000 corpses. Each screen from the main one to the special features and even scene selection has several minutes of each of the actors in character talking to you and it’s adorable. Btw, you’ve just got a new subscriber, this was awesome

[@a_platypus]

The weirdest bonus feature I can remember was on the Flushed Away DVD that was literally just ~20 minutes of footage of a slug?? It was called slug cam or something, and I sometimes used to try to watch the whole thing as a kid, convinced that there would be some huge exciting secret at the end lol, but I always got too bored before it finished (I honestly thought it was an hour long) I recently put the DVD on again and nope there was nothing at the end, it was genuinely just… a slug

[@diavol2432ru]

Live slug reaction :

[@scotcharoo22]

I loved watching them make the slug out of clay, I could smell the clay through the screen

[@a_platypus]

@@scotcharoo22 oh yeah that one was great! my mum still has the slug she made on her desk haha

[@dowahditty3065]

I never had a console or a PC growing up so I got my entertainment mainly from DVD bonus features and games on them and I LOVED IT! Makes me so happy to see people who recognize the amazing world of DVD Special Features. I remember my mom always getting me Disney and Barbie princess movies and they always had so many fun dress up and decorating games. I think I remember the Wallace and Gromit maze game too! Scooby-Doo 2002 had a claw game in it as well I believe! I know we have almost infinite access to behind the scenes of any movie or show on the internet now, but I totally miss the feeling of authenticity watching it on my own DVD. There's just a different and more special feeling having it on a disc you own rather than a random video recording of it on the internet. This was fun, God bless you! :)

[@NotOnLand]

Matilda was one of the only DVDs I had as a kid, so I watched it a LOT and also played with the special features. I still remember how they did the "psychic chalk writing" scene (magnets and string), and the mode to watch the movie where every so often a small red bow would appear in the corner that would take you to behind the scenes stuff. The first "special features" content I can remember was deleted scenes at the end of the first Harry Potter VHS. For some reason they cut the scene of them learning who Nicholas Flamel was from a chocolate frog card and put it after the credits as a "bonus." I loved the books and that always bugged me.

[@Kaykay-ze9ej]

I still have my portable DVD player and I refuse to toss it out because of how convenient it is, especially since I have young cousins, nieces and nephews that get bored so easily in the car. I used it last year when I was going to Destin with my niece. We watched that one bratz fairy tale movie and the little mermaid: ariel's beginning. When I tell you, those DVD menus really sent me back and made me feel like it was 2008 again. She loved the bonus features that ariel's beginning had, especially the game that it came with. Watching her play the mermaid vanity game where you look at the vanities of ariel and her sisters almost made me shed a tear. I used to love that game so much, and I'm really glad to be able to show her parts of my childhood that she finds enjoyable too! DVD menus are unmatched, nothing else matches up to the feeling of hearing that 30 second song loop, looking at the bonus features exclusive to that DVD, and playing the games

[@SachikoHitsujiyama]

I remember how obsessed I was with Polar Express games on our DVD. It was so cool, that I could like play interactive games with the movie I liked. And it even had an original game, where you needed to deliver presents as Santa. The games were both for memory and reaction, and it was so fun...

[@AngelOfRuko]

I remember having the DVD for Monsters Inc., with built in games off of the menu that you could operate with the remote. So cool

[@avidara7468]

Im having such a hard time at the moment. The simple nostalgia and presentation of your videos has got me bingeing them all. Absolutely beautiful stuff, filling me w the simplest joy. I love finding such fab small creators slaying youtube. Keep the niche alive!! 💜💜

[@PogieJoe]

You nailed it! I try to not let nostalgia overtake me too often, but home entertainment is a lost art I can't help but yearn for

[@marystankiewicz618]

This is just the channel I’ve been wanting- quirky information, with a wholesome tone, and delightful colors and visuals

[@Simbreon]

Was surprised to not see the DVD bonus features from the first Harry Potter movie mentioned. These were so expansive that they were on their own disc - and were really a whole separate game. By far the most immersive and detailed that I've ever seen done, even more so than *bunny slippers.*

[@yoongiyuu3086]

as someone who didn’t have cable or internet growing up, movies were everything😭 i loved looking through all the bonus features and how some menu screens had items you could click on that led to other “secret” special features. finding extra episodes, deleted scenes, music videos, bloopers, and games on dvds was so fascinating to 7 year old me. things like a few minisodes of polly pocket on one of my barbie movies, a game similar to the one from the Elf movie on the surfs up dvd, and the sing along settings on movies like HSM and cheetah girls used to bring me so much joy. it’s so silly to think about now but i miss it💀

[@TsovoaLevone]

The Care Bears Jokealot DVD menu was so cool, there were so many buttons that did random things. And then the Over the Hedge vending machine menu.

[@InfestedLice]

2:41 this is SO nostalgic 🫠 I loved the DVD menu for HSM 2