Manta Lab x Disney

[IRON MAN]

Posting here for visibility. Feel free to discuss.

Hi guys, this is John and I hope everyone is doing well. Today, I am very excited and happy to make an announcement that from July, we have become a Consumer Product Licensee for The Walt Disney Company Hong Kong.

More updates and news related to this news will be posted but the biggest reason why we obtained the license was to create Marvel Steelbooks.

More info and details will be shared soon.

Thank you very much.
John

 

[apsmith21]

imagine premiums of the original star wars trilogy
yes please

 

[thrust]

Great news for me at least

 

[GenPion]

#1 request: premium editions on every Star Wars film.

 

[JGCramp]

#1 request: premium editions on every Star Wars film.

I can’t argue with that.

I just hope they don’t delay the Tarantino films even more so they can release more of the same Marvel stuff. It’s bad enough that QT was pushed back for a dud like Matrix Resurrections.

 

[Kersey]

Great if this includes Star Wars and 20th Century Fox. Otherwise, this is great for me who doesn't collect Marvel. As people go bankrupt collecting Marvel, it'll be easier for me to snag their other releases.

 

[Miffed]

Interestingly this has been removed from their Facebook account now.
Premature announcement? Wrong info? Or just someone hit the delete key by accident

 

[Stygian]

Interestingly this has been removed from their Facebook account now.
Premature announcement? Wrong info? Or just someone hit the delete key by accident

Maybe all the groaning about Marvel steelbooks made them change their mind in a hurry.

 

[IRON MAN]

They took the post down to make it clearer, that's all. A new post will be made soon.

 

[yeslek]

Great news indeed!! Now I just hope John will first concentrate on titles which don't have a zillion releases already, like Iron Man 2 and 3!

And for some of the more recent Marvel and Disney movies that lacked 3D (Ralph Breaks the Internet....).

Am not looking to double dip but have some blatant gaps or upgrades needed in my collection, so this is great news

 

[TheJoker]

I really want a Black Hole steelbook.

If The Rocketeer and Tron can get one...

Pretty sure I concepted a Black Hole steelbook too so they could give me a shout for ready to go idea.

EDIT: Found it.

 

[davhyl]

wonder if this will delay any other releases in the pipeline, or if this will run alongside. They've already got tonnes announced that I want

 

[msc1228]

I want WEA steels of Soul and Onward.

 

[KarlieFloss]

I want WEA of every title on IMDb.

 

[jaws finatic]

This news is EPIC. Most especially because Disney owns the Planet of the Apes franchise. Oh how I hope they release the first 5 films in all the glory Manta affords.

 

[5t33lb0y]

First release should be STAR WARS pre/sequel trilogy!
Avatar sh*t can wait. Period. Until 8K 3D is released, which is NEVER. >.<

 

[IRON MAN]

I just hope they don’t delay the Tarantino films even more so they can release more of the same Marvel stuff.

That's not how any of this works.

Working on these projects doesn't mean giving up on anything announced to date, unless the said project ends up being too much of a pain to get final approval on, such as a few titles that were scrapped over the years.

When they release title Y before title X, despite X being announced prior to announcing Y, it's simply because the work on Y has been completed while the work (read studio and talent approvals) on X has not.

So rather than twiddling their thumbs waiting, they work on something else in the meantime.

As a business, I'm sure they'll expand the team to have enough people working on the various projects that are in the pipeline, be it as a Home Video Licensee (Warner) or a Consumer Product Licensee (Warner and Disney), and working on the latter will surely open up more opportunities with other studios.

Think of it as a stepping stone for things to come.

 

[beachbum]

Mandalorian would be nice. still waiting to see if this means actual physical media like discs since one else in China has this.

 

[spider-bat]

The thing that excites me the most is that Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights are Disney, so a premium for those is now technically possible…

 

[snooloui]

I don't see the problem with the Marvel stuff. Kids and overgrown man babies need Steelbooks too.

 

[Lenny Nero]

I don't get all the guesses and wishes. I surely agree with most of them, but the announcement clearly said - they want to do Marvel stuff. They're going to do Marvel stuff.
I don't know what kind of license they have, but it surely isn't for the whole catalog. It either lists specific titles, or groups of titles, from which they can either pick, or have to do particular ones, to be allowed to release some other ones. That's how it works.

You're not going to see any Fox titles, as that's probably a different agreement, a whole different lineup of films, even within one studio, plus Disney dissolved Fox's Home Media department, people left, were fired, or transferred to other departments. So they're not working on any new releases.
You're not going to see Star Wars stuff, as that's surely a whole other separate agreement.
You're not going to see Star Wars and Marvel TV series, as they don't exist on disc, and Disney isn't releasing them any time soon.
You're not going to see former Touchstone films, as that's likely another separate agreement.
You're not going to see Pixar steels, as that would also be a whole separate package and agreement.
You might see preexisting Disney animation movies, or something like Tomorrowland and Freaky Friday...