Rocket man VHS
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Buena Vista Home Video clamshell pressing of "RocketMan," the 1997 Disney live-action comedy directed by Stuart Gillard. Harland Williams plays Fred Z. Randall, an accident-prone NASA programmer who bumbles his way onto the first manned Mars mission. This is the VHS home release, Buena Vista label, the format Disney was pushing hard through Blockbuster and grocery-store rental racks in the back half of the nineties.
1997 was a crowded year for Disney's live-action output. "Flubber" and "101 Dalmatians" were still warm in the pipeline. "RocketMan" released quietly in October of that year, positioned as family-friendly slapstick with a space hook riding the cultural tail of Mars Pathfinder, which had touched down on the Martian surface that July and put Mars all over the news cycle. The film leaned into that moment without being about it. Bill Conti scored it, which gives the whole thing a big-adventure weight the premise doesn't always earn. Williams was coming off a decent run of character work through the mid-nineties, and this was one of the few times he got to carry a Disney feature top-to-bottom. The rental run for this title stretched through 1998, and Buena Vista moved a lot of units through the rental chain before the sell-through price dropped. Most of those copies got beat up. Rental-grade condition on this format means worn spine labels, cracked cases, and tape that's been rewound a thousand times by the machine at the counter.
One of the last gasps of Disney's mid-nineties slapstick subsidiary strategy.
This copy shows the standard clamshell housing with the Buena Vista Home Video logo on the spine. The tape itself should be rewound and clean. Condition reads solid for a rental-era pressing, though wear on VHS of this age lives in the first sixty seconds of playback and in the ribbon tension. Pop it into a deck and check the first scene before you commit to display or playback use. The real thing to look at on this one is the spine label, where the Buena Vista branding and the title treatment give you the clearest read on pressing generation and whether it's the rental issue or the later sell-through.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm pressing variant (rental clamshell vs. sell-through) by checking the Buena Vista label text and spine catalog number.
One of the last gasps of Disney's mid-nineties slapstick subsidiary strategy.
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INSPECTED IN STORE / 707 E FREMONT, LAS VEGAS
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