Disney's Ditching the "Vault" and Bringing All the Classics to Their New Streaming Service

Disney+ just gets keeps getting bigger and better.

Although none of us really want another streaming service to throw our limited cash at, Disney is planning to release their mammoth catalogue via Disney+, their new streaming service, and it'll include the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Star Wars series as well as all the animated classics of your childhood.

Disney has already started to throttle Netflix's hold on their content with the initial announcement from Disney CEO, Bob Iger, that they'll be pulling their animated classics as well as Marvel films and the Star Wars series.

Prior to this announcement, Netflix had already been partnered with Marvel Television, a division of Disney, and had worked on four Netflix-Marvel series (Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher). All of these shows, including the crossover The Defenders, have since been cancelled.

In Australia, while the removal of Disney classics from Netflix has already begun, Stan has savagely managed to fill in the gap and pick up the huge back catalogue you've been missing. Of course, that will likely change if or when Disney+ decides to drop in Australia. Its US release date is slated for "late 2019".

But, perhaps, the most interesting part of this announcement is the news that Disney's vault might now be a thing of the past.

The ominous sounding "Disney Vault" is the policy that the company has been abiding by for decades in order to limit supply and increase demand of Disney movies. For example, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first released in 1937, was taken out of the vault for a VHS (that's videotapes for you young'uns) release in 1994, then re-released again on DVD and VHS in 2001 before being popped back into the vault until 2009.

But now, Iger says that Disney+ will scrap the need for having movies that "traditionally have been kept in a 'vault' and brought out basically every few years." The service will also aim to have new films up within a year of their theatrical release.

There's still no word on whether the service will be released in Australia, or when, but for the love of Bambi, we hope it's soon.