My Lion King Forum

I was doing garage sales and I got a lot of stuff for my Disney collection ((and a few non Disney like a Space Jam cup and two Lego movie cups.) But I found Lion King on VHS for 50 cents!

Yep, I got mine for free when I used to volunteer at a charity shop. It's not a hard thing to find, TLK was popular when it came out and people bought it on VHS.

I still have the VHS from the original release.

^ Same!

Got vhs also still and working, just not sure of the players anymore heh. Also tape is very well spent as many times watched it as a kid back then.

I remember when my family moved house several years ago and we had a garage sale where we sold the VHS copy of The Lion King we had. Even though it was before I really fell for the movie, I was still quite disappointed to see it go, even though we didn't even have a VHS player to watch it with! When we got the Diamond Edition, I was very happy indeed!

While I understand the sentimental value behind a VHS version, strictly speaking, it is also the worse in terms of watching experience. I will give the VHS one thing going for it: The box needs to be big to hold the VHS, which means that there is plenty of room for very nice looking artwork on the spine. I always enjoy great media that comes in very nice boxes, which is why I am not the biggest fan of digital media. Sure, digital is convenient, but there is no pretty box to look at as well.

I really prefer watching TLK and SP on VHS as opposed to DVD. the trailers before the film, and that overall VHS quality, really strongly amplify the nostalgia factor!! I love it