Opening to The Lion King [1995 VHS] 

I was born in 1991...I remember these previews so well. The nostalgia...I'm actually in tears 😭

I'm crying 😭 this is literally my childhood right here

The Lion King VHS is the reason I know the words to Colors of the Wind.

Damn, I miss my childhood. This takes me right back to 1999 when I was 3 years old and would sit in front of the TV all day watching The Lion King back to back without a single care or worry in the world. The first opening was my favorite because it would always give me that magical Disney feeling.

This opening always felt different from the other Disney VHS openings. This movie always felt different from other Disney movies. It was a good kind of different in both cases.

I know it isn't at all historically accurate, but man, if that preview for "Pocahontas" didn't get me intrigued and excited for the movie! It was gorgeously drawn and animated, and that song really sweeps you up.

I love the old Disney blue screen it’s so simple…the new one with the park and castle is so sensory overwhelming!

My childhood has come back from the dead

I remember watching this on my brothers TV while they were at school and I was too little to go, they taught me how to work a VCR so I can watch a movie whenever I wanted. Good times...good times...

Thank you so much. It’s 5am and my roommate and I started talking about the intro to Lion King and it’s crazy how much we remembered about this!!! What a trip down memory lane!

I still have all of my Disney VHS tapes simply because the openings are so nostalgic!!

I read someone's comment on here saying that the opening of this VHS felt different from the others. I felt that too and, after watching it a couple times, I realized what it was that made it feel that way: the "Pocahontas" trailer. Putting a full song (the best song in "Pocahontas," in my opinion) into the trailer, the choice of scenes they chose to incorporate and the way they wove it all together spoke of something grand and magnificent. It was a fitting and worthy trailer given the overall tone of "The Lion King," which is why I think they chose to include the entire song for it. But I do distinctly remember thinking as a child that the feel of this opening was far different from all the rest.

The Aristocats is a #1 film filled with excitement, romance, and music you'll be dancing to all night long.

The Disney World commercial was probably the only thing I remember from this VHS 😭

I was born in 1992 and I remember watching this before the movie started, now I’m going to go watch the Lion King 2019 on June 18. This is crazy.

This brought back memories omg I appreciate this

I think I'm even more nostalgic about these commercials than I am about the actual movie.

Stuff like this makes me want to shed a tear.

These are the only trailers I don’t mind watching! 😭❤️

I was born in 1995. Having grown up with VHS all my life, these particular previews sure bring back some wonderful memories, especially the Pocahontas trailer with the song Colors Of The Wind (I’ll never forget the first time I saw that trailer). At times, I still imagine my 5-year-old self from 20 years ago watching The Lion King on VHS in its entirety.

Ah yes, these were the days before digital movie streaming services, DVD's and Blu-Ray's were a thing. I miss the good old fashioned VHS tape (which you had to have the actual copy of, no downloading) that you inserted into your VCR in order to watch the movies you wanted to watch. I threw out my VCR years ago because it was broken, but I would love to own one again just to relive these memories of watching home videos the old fashioned way.

R.I.P. Frank Wells 10:40

You mean to tell me they stuck the ENTIRE VERSION of Colors of the Wind into ONE preview?

Thank you so much for posting this!! I watched The Lion King VHS so much that the tape got stuck in the VCR and ruined around 20 years ago. Seeing this for the first time in years brought back so many memories. :')

Just wanna say, thank you for uploading this. At 28yrs old, its nice to travel back in time to me sitting in front of my grandparents tv.

"And now, our feature presentation." Oh how that brings me back to my childhood

Cinderella had her heart to guide her, she had her friends to help her, and she had a Fairy Godmother to make her dreams come true.

On June 23rd, 1995 Walt Disney Pictures brings an American legend to life.

I was born in 1989 man i really loved watching these previews as a kid and I used to watch the lion king all the time man what memories I had as a kid

0:24 I just noticed that the piano music in the background is playing A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes!!!🎶

This brings back memories...

Wow this takes me back. I remember watching this movie on VHS when I was little. Born in 1994

Man those kids with the suitcase made me wanna go to Disney World sooo bad as a kid. But alas my family was too poor.

Interesting trivia: this was the best-selling VHS tape in this history of home video. Over 32 million tapes sold in the U.S. alone. Finding Nemo eventually sold more, but on DVD.

I mean... i literally started tearing up, how can people think there is no God. Look at such a beautiful masterpiece in all the infinite nature of the universe. So proud to be a 90s kid. 🥰💙

Whenever I see Joseph Gordon Levitt I still refer to him as "that kid from Angels in the Outfield" 😅

I was born in 92 and I remember the Disney World preview on here always made me want to go to Disney World so badly. Luckily I was able to go when I was 8 and it was such a great time. Goofy definitely was huge

That aristocats trailer, wow that memory was buried real deep

I may legitimately have to play this on my tv before every viewing of my Lion King Blu Ray to make it an authentic experience.

I was born in 1995. I grew up watching these on VCR tapes. I watched the lion King my whole life.

I never thought I would actually miss movie advertisements in my VHS tapes.

I know the words to all of these previews and the movie 💙💙💙. I’m 30 and still put Lion King on if I can’t fall asleep

3:02 Yes! I can paint with all the colors of the wind!

Brings back memories

Thank u so much for this.

My Dearest Mother did not care for The Lion King, or Pocahontas, because she was a religious Catholic. But I'm going to be honest: I actually feel her presence in The Lion King and Pocahontas. My Dearest Mother went to the Spirits in 2012, and I hope she knows how much I love her. Because I love her very much. Everytime I listen to The Circle of Life, and Mufasa explaining to Simba about how his time will set on the Kingdom, and Simba's reign will dawn, and when I listen to Colors of the Wind, and You Will Understand, I always feel my Dearest Mother's presence. I love you, Dearest Mother.

*after seeing trailer for Pocahontas* We're gonna be RICH

I still have this VHS, and I saw this on Freeform last week or so, but sadly, this film when it was on Freeform has the 2006 WDP logo instead of the 1990 WDP and the 2003 “Flashlight” logo, that’s an example of what they called logo plastering. I used to have the “Platinum Edition” DVD and has the 2003 “Flashlight” logo plastered over this one, and the “Diamond Edition” has the 2006 logo plastered over this one, same goes with the “Signature Edition” and the digital copy of this movie that I downloaded recently. Logo plastering sucks when I saw this last night on Freeform where the 2006 logo was shown.

I remember this Previews when I was a Little Kid, My God this took me back for my Childhood.

This is amazing thank you for the memories ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I remember watching this tape...like it was yesterday.

I remember watching this my first came out, and being especially excited to see the trailer for the Cinderella VHS, since I had missed owning it the first time around.

1:24 Pocahontas Trailer Taken From The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure 1994 VHS (Disney)

I’m crying in the club right now.

0:24 such a classic Disney preview🙂

Timon: Where's the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection logo, Pumbaa? Pumbaa: Gone. due to Disney not re-releasing Pinocchio, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Fox and the Hound into the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, because of the IMAX re-releases. However, The WDMC logo made it's last appearance on early DVD releases of Pinocchio, some prints of The Fox and the Hound and UK prints of The Rescuers Down Under.

The Lion King is the story of a young cub named Simba, who is destined to become King of the Jungle

The K Lion King was the first VHS movie we had that I gravitated towards when I was a kid. I watched it literally all the time, so I remember seeing these trailers very well. Especially the very first one. I was thinking the other day how I wish I could find this and see what was on there. This took me right back to my childhood. Very nostalgic for me.

I enjoy The Lion King!!! It's a childhood of mine!!! I also enjoy other Disney movies that are as great as The Lion King like the Aristocats, Beauty and the Beast, Fox and the hound, and Lilo and Stitch!!!

Opening To The Lion King 1995 VHS

8:30 That sky background reminds me of 1996 Warner Home Video logo background!

So many memories. ❤

9:50 QUIET!

These Disney movie trailers before lion king comes on are my best childhood!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😊😊😊😊

11:12 NAAAAAAAAAAANTS INGONYAAAAAAAAAAAMA BAGITHI BABAA!

This VHS was my intro to Pocahontas and what a good introduction it was.

Even though you can't see us.. we're always watch.

My childhood in one video!

I guess with the trailer for The Aristocats appearing on the Lion King VHS, I assume that film was originally going to be released onto VHS for its 25th anniversary in 1995, but for some reason was pushed back to April 24, 1996. A similar trailer appears on the Pocahontas VHS.

I think this was the first vhs I owned

NOSTALGIA!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!

I remember hating those kids because they got to go to Disneyland and had such a nice house.

I still have this tape and my VCR still works

The angels in the outfield was that extended on my tape

The tape I used to have contains the angels in the outfield preview, but in a different variant.

9:07 - "You're not a lady. You're nothing but a sister!"

9:49 - "Quiet!"

Just realized that the kid is Joseph Gordon Levitt in Angles in the Outfield

If only the Blu-ray had all this stuff

Wow the memories

NOSTALGIA

Disney+ can't do this.. Thank you And R.I.P Frank Wells. Should of left him in the credits along with the quiet Disney logo and longer ambient sounds. Feels more special.

i got this exact same tape 5/25/19 on ebay along with snow white and the seven dwarfs and melody time.

5:13 take a look at THAT!

I never saw this in theaters, but who saw the movie in 1994?

Petition to bring Mark Elliott and Brian Cummings back to VO Disney+ ads? Maybe bring back WHDV bumpers before playing your selection?

I still have the same VHS, and it’s going to run on Freeform during the “30 Days of Disney” starting this September, and you will not be seeing the 1990 WDP logo, and it will be showing either the 2006 WDP logo, or the 2010 Disney logo where it will be plastering over the old logo. The VHS had the 1990 logo intact before it got plastered. The 2003 “Platinum Edition” DVD did have the 2001 WDP “Orange Flashlight” logo which was the first film to get plastered. I did not see the live action remake yet, but I hope it will be coming out on digital downloads sometime this year.

Danny Glover, Tony Danza, and Christopher Lloyd appear in Angels in the Outfield.

I have this on VHS

i'm saddened that the newer releases of the OG Lion King on blu-ray doesn't use the classic bird chirp sounds when the VHS first came out that time during the opening to the movie

This hits like a ton of nostalgia bricks!

Imagine if they did the same thing with Mulan or Frozen by having one of their songs be their trailer (you know which song you’re thinking).

The Lion King (in September 2008, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore are still back in the Hundred Acre Wood, until they end up in a distant desert, where they meet Timon, Pumbaa and Simba, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore met Nala, when she was an adult and Scar is the only lion to die, when Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore joined the rest of this film and along with "Toy Story" for the Animated Storybook counterparts, "The Tigger Movie" where Simba, Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa came to The Hundred Acre Wood and "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride") Littlefoot's Adventures of The Lion King - debut to Guido, this film will use the restored theatrical cut of "The Lion King" sourced from the Diamond Edition Blu-ray release and Littlefoot and his friends will be featured in the elephant graveyard scene with Simba, Nala, Zazu, and the Hyenas, because both "The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure" and "The Lion King" were released in 1994, both "The Land Before Time" and "The Lion King" have both main characters loosing their mother or father due to being killed by the main villain and the film will use the original 1994 Disney animated film Dragon Tales' Adventures of The Lion King - just like "Tino's Adventures of The Lion King" from May 9th, 2020 and "Littlefoot's Adventures of The Lion King", this film will use the restored theatrical cut of "The Lion King" sourced from the Diamond Edition Blu-ray release and Ord, Cassie, Zak, Wheezie, Emmy, Max and Enquire will be featured in the elephant graveyard scene with Simba, Nala, Zazu, and the Hyenas, also this film is the first Dragon Tales' Adventures movie to use "Zak Takes a Dive" during "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" and "Hakuna Matata" Pooh's Adventures of Toy Story (from December 2008 for the Animated Storybook counterparts) Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa's Adventures of The Tigger Movie (from August 2009, thirteen days after the real film's 10th anniversary DVD re-release where Simba, Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa came to The Hundred Acre Wood) Pooh's Adventures of The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (from December 2009)

4:55 this logo is so fucking scary as a kid

I remember owning this vhs as a kid

5:28 my mama🤦🏾‍♂️

Brings an American Legend to Life....sort of..

This brings back my childhood

This was Uploaded on my Birthday.