Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection

The Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection (Walt Disney Coleccion Maestra in Spanish and Collection Chefs-d'œuvre de Walt Disney in French-Canadian) was a line of VHS tapes and Laserdiscs released by Walt Disney Home Video from 1994 to 1999. Similar to the Walt Disney Classics line that preceded it, it consisted mainly of Disney Animated Features, along with a few live-action/animation hybrid films. Spanish versions were also released.

Of note, the series featured the first home video releases of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Aristocats, Oliver & Company, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Melody Time, The Black Cauldron, Mulan, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

The series was followed by the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection in 2000.

The opening starts off with Walt Disney beginning to sketch itself on screen in pinkish-gold with the text a little bit arced. as we zoom out Materpiece Collection zooms out with Masterpiece going left and Collection going right. Then, they settle under the Walt Disney text spaced against each other. Tinkerbell from Peter Pan comes out behind the word Masterpiece, hovers in front as she waves her magic wand, and then a bright flash appears. When the logo clears the finished logo appears. the text is now in a purpleish-pink ark shaped like the Sesame Street sign with Walt Disney on top and Masterpiece Collection on the bottom with a small gray oval and a silver Disney castle between Masterpiece and Collection. Tinkerbell flies off the top left of the screen, just to make sure she left a trail of pixie dust to disolve a little slowly. The logo shines and sparkles a bit.

The music is the same as the Walt Disney Classics logo, except it is more orchestrated with bells and more instruments, than the previous logo.

Trivia

 * The video tapes of Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, Old Yeller, and early copies of the 60th Anniversary edition of Pinocchio contain the opening logo for the video line at the start, despite that those videos were not part of the line. Pinocchio was most likely planned to be released in the Masterpiece Collection for fall 1999. A tape master was prepared, but was quickly aborted when the series ended, however early copies of the 60th Anniversay edition still contained the early master with the Masterpiece Collection opening logo.
 * In the 1994 trailer for the video line, Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Fox and the Hound are shown among the many clips shown, but a Masterpiece Collection VHS was never released for those films. It is possible that they were going to release a video for each of them, but were cancelled.