Glad to have discovered this forum. I'm 25 and have been a fan forever. I saw the movie the first or second week it came out in the summer of 1994. Pretty much taped every special on it (though have lost all of it since due to taping over, bad quality, etc...) I was going to let the hype suck me in lol.
Oddly, it's kinda weird I do like the movie. I had lost my Grandfather earlier in the year (it was even tougher considering I'm mildly autistic) but the Mufasa death scene didn't affect me as much as I'd thought (it did with my sister though. She can't watch the movie anymore.)
I have all 3 movies on DVD (and the original on VHS. DOWN WITH GOOFY CROCS!

) I can wait for the fall of next year (must upgrade from 1080i to 1080p by then with my HDTV.)