Toy Soldiers (1991) Widescreen?

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Toy Soldiers (1991) Widescreen?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103112/

Anyone know if a widescreen preservation of Toy Soldiers has been done. The only DVD is full screen. Apparently some laserdiscs were widescreen.

Like this one: http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/07214/84816/Toy-Soldiers-(1991) 

 

It would have to be changed to animorphic widescreen, but anything would be better than fullscreen. I'm surprised a DVD was never made since Sean Astin is so popular after LOTR.

 

thanks ...

MrBrown's avatar
RE: Toy Soldiers (1991) Widescreen?

The PAL UK DVD is stated do be anamorphic widescreen. Also the Dutch and the Australian Discs stated do be 1.85:1 anamorph ...

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applecakes' avatar
RE: Toy Soldiers (1991) Widescreen?

Ohhh that could be good. My Oppo DVD player is region FREE

 

this Austrailian site says widescreen. 

 

http://www.devoteddvd.com.au/shop/product_info.php?products_id=58667

Last edited on January 18, 2011 at 9:58 PM by applecakes
skyjedi2005's avatar
RE: Toy Soldiers (1991) Widescreen?

That happens in the USA a lot.  When a film is a complete turkey the studio just dumps an unremastered pan and scan transfer to disc.

Or if you are lucky you get non anamorphic letterbox like the box office bomb the Rocketeer.

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dark_jedi's avatar
RE: Toy Soldiers (1991) Widescreen?

This is on my list of PAL DVD's to convert to NTSC, movie only though, I don't want or need the different languages and subtitles, is this movie any good? I have not seen it yet.

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applecakes' avatar
RE: Toy Soldiers (1991) Widescreen?

I've seen it a million times on VHS and TV in the 1990's. LOVE IT then. I haven't seen it since. I've ordered an AU version. Hopefully it is 16x9 as the specs say and it is a dual layer disc. I'd hate for it to be crammed on a single layer.

 

 

MrBrown's avatar
RE: Toy Soldiers (1991) Widescreen?

The AU and the GB Disc are stated to be on DVD 5 the Dutch Disc is stated to be DVD 9... The NL Version has less subtitles than UK and AU (both the same) but the NL Disc is stated to contain some trailers.

But the ofdb.de might be wrong on this differences. I don't think the NL Version is avaible anywhere... Never saw it in Venlo in one of the stores...

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digitalfreaknyc's avatar
RE: Toy Soldiers (1991) Widescreen?

There are 1080i 16x9 versions floating around.

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