Well first of all I think Disney is doing a fine job with the ghibli films. I do wish they would go back and do a special edditon of Mononoke the one they released here was only one disk. I do wish we got all of the bonus featurs for Howl, from the japanese standard edition all we are missing is the documentary of premiers in Venice and US. We did get the Hello, Mr lassetter from the special edition disc 4 though. So I think Disney is doing what they think is best the market for Ghibli fims over here probably isn't as big and 4 disc special editions probably wouldn't sell aswell. Although I would buy it if it were released here. Maybe a 3 disc version would be better I don't imagine alot of people would care to have the 2nd disc where it is just the movie in 6 different laguages all DD2.0.

That being said it probably wouldn't be hard to put the fox dub on the new totoro transfer. In fact I have been meaning to do it when I get the cash to buy the fox version off of ebay. I have never seen the fox dub and am interested in seeing it but I don't like Fullscreen thats why I have yet to buy it.

What do you think disney is botching with these releases? Yea I wish we could have more bonus features, but the dubs are some of the best english dubs for anime plus the japanese audio with ghibli's official subtitles are on them. And remember Miyazaki gets the final say on all of this so if he were displeased with disney he would make them do it again to get it right acording to the deal he has with disney he has that power.

As for the topic of this thread. I hope baby hum starts it up again soon. If he needs any of the english behind the mic featuretts or any of the features on the US releases I have them all except for pom poko and yamadas which I will hopefully buy on payday. I would also like to see a preservation of The little norse prince valiant. An english dub was made of it and brodcast on TBS in the 80's I know some people have a tape of it it would be nice to take the audio from it and the Recently released Pal transfer and then we could have both japanese and english audio with good dvd video.

I have also been meaning to do a preservation of my Warriors of the Wind VHS. I was thinking about using the audio from it and edition the dvd Nausicaa into it. So I could have the worst dub and edit job in history on widescreen dvd. This I wouldn't be able to do anytime soon though because I lack the experience. I could probably do all of the cutting but then I would have to add the tilte screen and remove some japanese characters from the dvd transfer And I don't know how to do that stuff yet.

Hope this starts off again soon.