This is how the Thief was actually released on DVD, back in 2001 - on boxes of Froot Loops in Canada only. Also released the same way were Air Bud 2 and a Babar film.
(Sad, isn't it - how Disney treated this film ...)
It wasn't properly released on DVD in the US until a couple years later - the US disc is also the Miramax cut and is fullscreen.
I never looked at this release of the movie, but I've now read that the Froot Loops disc had a 5.1 sound mix on it, and I assume that the recent rerelease has one too.
This could be VERY helpful.
A major annoyance with doing this edit is that when I cut to the nicer-quality audio from the Princess version, I have to accept the music and sound effects that go along with it, and add music to my edit to match.
If I can separate out just the center track of a 5.1 mix, I might be able to just get Zigzag's lines etc in isolation, which would be marvelous.
So I'm Netflixing it right away (my most recent Netflix have been Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Aladdin and The Thief, so I guess you can tell where my head's at) ...
If it's just a 2.0 on the rerelease I'll be sad.