Originally posted by: ocpmovie
A fullscreen DVD of the Miramax cut of The Thief and the Cobbler (Arabian Knight).

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 ...)

I think that's grounds for suicide. Thirty years, and your baby winds up glued to the side of a cereal box. I'm amazed he didn't hang himself.

As far as the audio, where'd you read that the cereal box version had 5.1 surround sound? I googled for info, but found absolutely no info to that effect. As far as the re-release, I had a terrible time with that as well, but came up with the following ebay auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-THIEF-AND-THE-COBBLER-Vincent-Price-New-DVD_W0QQitemZ6439407489QQcategoryZ617QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It lists the audio as being "Dolby Digital Surround Sound", which would unfortunately just be a 2.0 stereo audio track. Also, what little info I found about the promo discs indicated that they were really, really shitty cut-rate discs, with absolutely no extras. I seriously doubt that they would include a 5.1 audio track on those discs. If you happened to read somewhere that the promo release had 5.1 surround, I have a hunch that the writer was mistaken, and misinterpreted "Surround Sound" as being 5.1 audio, when in fact it only indicates 2.0 audio.