I first joined the Disney Movie Club in 2016, getting 5 Blu-rays for $1 and having to buy 3 more at full price. While I have been able to get a lot of other movies for $5.99 down to $1, Disney movie prices don’t usually go on very good sales (Black Friday being one of the few exceptions), but DMC lets you pay on average $7-9 per Blu-ray instead of the usual $18-25 at stores. And Disney has great movies with new ones coming out all the time including from Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel.
This week I cancelled my fourth membership and a couple of days later enrolled again, picking five more movies plus getting my first full price commitment for only $12 and my second for $20. That left me with one more commitment and the next day I pre-ordered Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker for $25 (doesn’t come out until March 31, plus it is temporarily marked down $5 for being new, and you can’t ever get Star Wars movies through an enrollment, only as a full price commitment). So that is 8 movies for $58 plus tax, less than $8 each on average.
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I would have done a new enrollment earlier but I have most of the Disney movies I want from earlier enrollments. Plus I was lucky to get some refer a friend bonuses that would let me get 2 movies for $6. I got 8 bonuses for 16 movies and at that price I didn’t have to be as picky, but still picked up a lot of good movies. That was like two more enrollments. Lately those bonuses dried up possibly with less visitors to my blog or DMC tightening the rules so that if someone uses a referral link but then enters the promo code, I wouldn’t get a bonus (which is okay, always use the promo code).
So last year Sleeping Beauty was finally released from the vault and I really wanted that one. I’ve never even seen it. Also Toy Story 4 came out last year and I really liked it plus I already have the first three, so I knew I would buy it one day. But other than that I didn’t feel like I needed much. I had Iron Man and Iron Man 3. I didn’t like the second one as much (still gave it a B+), but I went ahead and completed the trilogy. Also my friend Kim had given me a DVD copy of The Emperor’s New Groove, but it is a good movie, so one I wanted it on blu-ray. Still need two more to make an enrollment though. Recently I got Disney+ streaming service and have been able to go back and watch some of the old Disney classics that I had never seen. Some weren’t worth buying (Sword in the Stone, Melody Time), but some were (Treasure Planet, Aristocats). So I picked up Treasure Planet even though it doesn’t come with a digital copy. The version of Aristocats that comes with a digital copy isn’t available for enrollment so it was my first full price selection (and a good deal at the minimum allowed “full price” of $19.99). That left me with one more. I could blind buy Disney’s animated movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire (which I haven’t watched yet on Disney+) or I could get last year’s live action Aladdin, which I liked though I had already been given a digital copy (and had declined getting a 4K copy of at Walmart on Black Friday for $8). Atlantis was made around the same time as Treasure Planet and neither ranks that high on my list, but Treasure Planet gets a 69 at Rotten Tomatoes and Atlantis only 49, which is generally the difference between a decent movie and a bad one. So I got Aladdin. The only wrinkle to this was picking the first 5 as all but Toy Story 4 since I knew Toy Story 4 would be listed in the bonus selections where you can get a title at $11.95 and have it count as your first full price commitment (always pick a bonus, saves you at least $8).
So that is my enrollment. I will stay a member and see if I can get a referral, plus keep an eye on specials and prices. Disney has a lot of movies coming out this year that might be worth buying, including two Pixar movies. Plus Frozen II just came out on blu-ray but won’t be enrollment eligible for another 6 weeks (at which point Rise of Skywalker would probably be full price, which is why I didn’t wait). If Pixar’s Onward and Soul are worth buying, that is three. Also coming out this year are Artemis Fowl, Raya and the Dragon (animated), and Marvel’s Black Widow, which would be six movies for a new enrollment possibly by December.