i can hear all the potterheads crying now.  lol

Being a Potterhead myself, I already own all of them so I don't really care if they take them away.

What's the point in doing that?  Make people want to buy them more when they re-release them 5 years later?

It's called maximizing greed. They are basically telling everyone "better buy the movies now or they will be gone!" thus generating more sales because everyone scrambles to get a copy before they disappear.

It's the Disney way.

Unfortunately, in this day and age of technology, the vault/out of print crap studios are pushing on the consumers are outdated practices. So you can't get a movie. Download illegally.

I for one did it a few times the past year. And no, I'm no crazy movie pirate. My kids wanted to see one or two Disney movies that were out of print (some of the Winnie the Pooh ones). Well, who knows when they will reprint them but by the time they do...my kids won't be kids anymore! I was ready to fork over some cash for these movies and couldn't find them (well...except GreedBay but I wasn't going to fork over cash on overpriced DVDs).  I too own the Potter movies so I don't care. But WB stands to lose once they are out of print and someone wants them now. They will just do like me and download illegally.

So my hopes of a complete cut of Deathly Hollows in one set will not be realized for now? Mais non!

Wait 5 years

Smart move, I think all studios should do that with their more iconic films. Disney obviously pioneered this and every time they re-release one of their classics it's an event

I don't know how I feel about this but with Disney I think it's stupid. Kids are only kids for so long some of them will miss out. For Example, my daughter Just turn 11 and has never seen the original Winnie the Poo, by the time it's released again it won't mean the same as it would have if she had seen it when she was 5,6,or 7. She's finally had the oppurtunity to see the Lion King. Glad they didn't do this with the Toy Story movies. However, I don't mind them putting Bambi in the vault. In fact they put that movie in forever and never open up again. I never saw it until I was in my 30's could've waited another 30 years. That movie is horrible.

Wise, I will always agree with you on the hate for Nolan/Batman but I have to disagree with you on this one to the same point boxker brought up.

and boxker, agree with you. My kids won't stay kids forever. Waiting 7 years for a movie and they lose interest as they get older. Well, maybe Disney lost an opportunity this summer. They could have re-released some of the OOP Pooh movies with free passes for the new one and they didn't. And yeah, we ended up downloading the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh before going to see this one in the theatre. The same happened about 2-3 years ago when my kids were in the Princess phase and I couldn't find the Beauty and the Beast Christmas DVD anywhere. I got one of Greedbay and got hosed (pirate bootleg with chinese subtitles even though it was supposed to be "new and sealed"). Disney is finally re-releasing this special this fall and my kids are no longer in the Princess phase and couldn't care less. Lost sale.

Elbaz -they are actually doing this to gear up for a massive boxset with all the extras and of course new extras that will be added in. this really doesnt surprise me. They are following Disneys formula in releasing a mega special edition dvd set. (That is my gut feeling about this move anyway)