Thread: If you own an original haunted mansion 30th anniversary cd gold, can you confirm?

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I just bought one and I looked at the cd and became kinda worrysome. If anyone has this disc, can you confirm if I have an original or a copy? Looking on the underside, it looks like a burnt cd, not like your typical silver cd just gold. If you have burned cds then you know what I'm talking about. On the top side, in the clear spindle area, does it say "kodak cd.r and the numbers are 9169 3311 4091. Is this the real deal? If not, I'm going to be very upset because of how much I paid for a copy and not the original. I looked it up on the wiki and it said the second edition was gold and missing the 13th track. Bummer! :'(

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Originally Posted by nonanon

I just bought one and I looked at the cd and became kinda worrysome. If anyone has this disc, can you confirm if I have an original or a copy? Looking on the underside, it looks like a burnt cd, not like your typical silver cd just gold. If you have burned cds then you know what I'm talking about. On the top side, in the clear spindle area, does it say "kodak cd.r and the numbers are 9169 3311 4091. Is this the real deal? If not, I'm going to be very upset because of how much I paid for a copy and not the original. I looked it up on the wiki and it said the second edition was gold and missing the 13th track. Bummer! :'(

Any help is greatly appreciated!

That would suck if you bought a burned cd.

I'm looking for the cd too. Where did you buy it and for how much?
PM me if necessary.

I own one. Not sure which version, but I purchased it directly from Disneyland 3-4 years ago. Let me know if it's what you are looking for.

I'm no expert, but I'd say that NO factory made CD would say Kodak CD-R on it. I got 2 brand new Disney CDs this year, and neither of them say anything at ll in the center ring. If you paid via PayPal you might want to think of filing a dispute for you money back if the seller won't cooperate, and do it for you.

Actually...

I bought a Haunted Mansion CD and a Pirates CD back in '99 from Disneyland (Can't remember if I got them at the Music Store on Main Street or at the Print-on-demand shop they had back in tomorrowland.)

I discovered when I got home they were both CD-Rs. A logo on the package indicated they were produced by "RedDotNet: A Digital On-Demand Company". This one is a TDK disk.

A little weird. But I know at the time they had little kiosks where you could pick from a selection of park music and have it burned to a custom CD. These might have come from the same system.

I just wanted to make it clear that just because it's a CDR doesn't mean it's an unauthorized reproduction (although it's probably not what you wanted - and likely not what was advertised.)

Actually, looking at the wikipedia article, it looks like only 999 were produced. Back then it was likely cost effective to do them as CDRs vs professional pressings for that kind of quantity so it's possible the originals were CDRs. The wikipedia article shows an image and lists the Label as RedDotNet so that points to CDRs as well.

BTW, mine is silver, only has 12 tracks, and no 30th anniversary logo.

Actually actually actually,

Check out the post about this on Doombuggies. They WERE CDRs.
http://www.doombuggies.com/media_audio2.php
(And I think I bought my disks in 2002. Hangs head in shame).

well, if only 999 were produced at the park, and it is in-fact a CD-R ( a non-professionally authorized disc) Then if kept in good shape, they might be worth something one day!
The discs can still be valuable to Disneyana Collectors.

I would make a copy of the "copy" and then store the Original CD-R someplace safe...who knows, maybe a decade or two from now; it might be worth something!

From my research, I've found what was said about the kiosks is true. BUT, I did manage to find a small goldmine of hm stuff, including the uber rare 13th track. Unfortunately whoever made it wasn't ocd about it and the second part was massively clipped. If you have a good audio editing prog, say amadeus or audition, then it can be fixed. I fixed mine. Hint: the second part it a mirror image reversed of the first part. I simply got rid of the second part, copied the first part then pasted at the end and reversed it before saving as wav. It turned out great. As for where to find it, go to mousebits. I ran lots of searches before I stumbled across it in disneyland forever. Don't forget to seed. There's stuff in there I've never seen or heard of before. Some, I don't know who they knew or what connections they had to get it but it was pretty impressive!

Also try demonoid

I'm at work now so I don't have the ability to search for this right now. I'm willing to share what I have in wav form from the original cds if someone would be willing to help me in my quest. I have 30 and 40 anniversary hm, story and song and extinct attraction haunted mansion sessions cd. I can upload this somewhere not rapidshare. What I'm looking for is someone who has the fourth edition released in 2006 and has a track from the 10th anniversary. From what I've read, it has 11 tracks. I'm only interested in this 10th anniversary track in unedited ripped to wav from cd master. The other one I'm still looking for is the entire cd in unedited wav files for the haunted mansion holiday. The one that danny elfman did the music to. If you would like to pm me with a link, that's fine too. I don't know if the stuff I have is of any interest. I have quite a bit more audio but I didn't make it and some may not be very good quality. I will hook you guys up, are you willing to help me out?