Fascinating. I haven’t seen the Thunderbean 35mm release, and will look for it. But my memory of 1990 is more in line with this laserdisc presentation than the bluray visually. I fully acknowledge that may not be the most accurate color grading if a 35mm print suggests otherwise.
Interesting to hear, even though it might be a little tough to remember how it looked after more about 32 years. A lot of hard work went into the 1990 release, and if it wasn’t made, who knows if we had to live with that 1982 Kostal recording till this day. The thing that made me wonder is that the LD colors are seems to be darkened, and sometimes details are lost as a result (for instance, missing clouds during the toccata and fugue segment). In addition, Fantasia was a technicolor feature, and technicolor is known for its highly bright and saturated colors. But in any other aspect I have no doubts the LD is way more accurate than any other release, at least to the 1946 version.
Yeah I was talking about the video, audio wise the LD is absulutely way better than the blu ray. Video wise, the Blu Ray was retouched to not look filmy, which caused it to loose some details, so in many aspects the Blu Ray is really messed up. But color wise if you compare it to the recent Thunderbean 35mm release it looks surprisingly close to it, most of the time. This is why I asked. I know the laserdisc is better, especially because the audio in it is a recreation of the original Fantasound.