...on October 6, 2009!!!  That’s right, after a long TEN years, Snow White Two-Disc Blue-ray/DVD Combo is being released from Disney’s Vault. If you want just the DVD, it will be available on November 24, 2009.

Get yours before it goes back to the vault at the web’s best online shopping site. You can pre-order yours now at Amazon!

Wondering what the heck the Disney Vault is, anyway? Well, it’s not an actual vault; it’s a “process” that Disney started to control their market and to allow their movies to be new and fresh for new generations of kids. Frustrating for Disney and film fans alike, but genius – some may say – marketing strategy.

This re-releasing of films actually began with the 1937 reissue of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1944. Reissues used to be every 7 years (same time gap as their theatrical reissues), but, since the transition to DVD technology, the moratorium period was increased to 10 years.

Once they are ready to re-release a movie, TV commercials galore will advertise it and will make sure to let you know that it will be available “for a limited time only”, after which it will go back “into the vault” and won’t be available again for many years.

While this may be a great marketing strategy for Disney, the side effect for consumers is that it opens up the market to counterfeit DVDs, and it raises the price of the real ones that are floating around at places like Ebay because they become “collectibles.”