Media from 1999.
Carryovers
Current statistics of most released media as of January 1 this year:
Movies | |||||||||||
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The Rescuers Down Under |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1993; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
Fantasia |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1992; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
Beauty and the Beast |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1993; still available in most Blockbuster stores.
Originally scheduled for a re-release this year, but was delayed to a later date. | ||||||||||
Aladdin |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1994; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1995; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
Dumbo Alice in Wonderland Robin Hood The Sword in the Stone Available on VHS as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection since October 28, 1994. | |||||||||||
The Lion King |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1996; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
No longer on sale; also never aired on television since September 4, 1995. | |||||||||||
Cinderella |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1996; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
Pocahontas |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1997; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1997; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
The Aristocats |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1997; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
Oliver & Company |
No longer on sale as of April 30, 1997; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
Toy Story |
Available on VHS since October 29, 1996. | ||||||||||
Bambi |
No longer on sale as of March 31, 1997; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
No longer on sale as of early 1999; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
My Neighbor Totoro |
Available only in Japan on VHS since June 27, 1997. | ||||||||||
Mary Poppins |
Available on VHS since August 26, 1997 and on DVD since March 31, 1998. | ||||||||||
Sleeping Beauty |
No longer on sale as of January 31, 1998; still available in most Blockbuster stores. | ||||||||||
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind |
Available only in Japan on VHS since September 19, 1997. | ||||||||||
The Black Cauldron |
Available on VHS since August 4, 1998. | ||||||||||
Kiki's Delivery Service |
Available on VHS since September 1, 1998. | ||||||||||
Castle in the Sky |
Available only in Japan on VHS since September 18, 1998.
Was planned for a North American release this year, but was canceled. | ||||||||||
Books | |||||||||||
Horton Hears a Who! (1954) |
The Cat in the Hat (1957) |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1957) |
Green Eggs and Ham (1960) |
The Lorax (1971) | |||||||
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
Pinocchio |
Dumbo |
Bambi | ||||||||
Cinderella |
Alice in Wonderland |
Peter Pan |
Lady and the Tramp | ||||||||
Sleeping Beauty |
101 Dalmatians |
The Jungle Book |
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | ||||||||
The Aristocats |
The Fox and the Hound |
Robin Hood |
The Little Mermaid | ||||||||
Beauty and the Beast |
Aladdin |
The Lion King |
Pocahontas | ||||||||
Toy Story |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Hercules | |||||||||
Mulan |
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride |
A Bug's Life | |||||||||
Only available in Japanese: | |||||||||||
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | |||||||||||
Castle in the Sky | |||||||||||
My Neighbor Totoro | |||||||||||
Kiki's Delivery Service | |||||||||||
Music | |||||||||||
The Wizard of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
The Little Mermaid |
Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ||||||||
The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
Pocahontas |
Toy Story |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame | ||||||||
Classic Disney Vol. 1 |
Classic Disney Vol. 2 |
Classic Disney Vol. 3 |
Classic Disney Vol. 4 | ||||||||
My Neighbor Totoro |
Kiki's Delivery Service |
Hercules | |||||||||
Classic Disney Vol. 5 |
Mulan |
Return to Pride Rock |
A Bug's Life | ||||||||
Kidsongs A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm, Cars, Boats, Trains and Planes and We Wish You a Merry Christmas, I Can Dance! and Meet the Biggles were currently on sale, along with a total of 23 videos to date. | |||||||||||
TV Shows | |||||||||||
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood |
Currently airing on PBS. See below for more details. | ||||||||||
Waiting for Santa, Campfire Sing-Along, Barney Goes to School, Barney in Concert, Rock with Barney, Barney's Magical Musical Adventure, and Barney Live! in New York City were currently on sale. Most of the videos were discontinued this year. | |||||||||||
Barney & Friends |
Seasons 2 and 3 were currently airing on PBS.
Only 28 episodes remained this year, all without the Barney Says segment. | ||||||||||
Shining Time Station |
Currently airing on Fox Family Channel, with Thomas & Friends segments from Seasons 1, 2 and 3 included. | ||||||||||
Thomas & Friends |
Available on VHS from Anchor Bay Entertainment since between 1995 and 1998.
All Season 4 episodes released since August 19, 1997. | ||||||||||
My Little Pony Tales Sonic the Hedgehog |
No longer airing on television as of 1998. | ||||||||||
The Kidsongs TV Show |
Currently airing on PBS. Comprised of 70 episodes and 10 out of 24 music video shows. | ||||||||||
Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! |
Older episodes of both shows were currently airing on Game Show Network. | ||||||||||
All That |
Currently airing on Nickelodeon with Seasons 1 through 4 on weekday reruns and Season 5 on weekends. | ||||||||||
Full House |
Currently airing on TBS Superstation and on free-to-air syndication. | ||||||||||
Arthur |
Seasons 1, 2 and 3 were currently airing on PBS. | ||||||||||
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog |
Currently airing on Toon Disney. | ||||||||||
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Horton Hears a Who! |
Available on DVD since November 19, 1997. | ||||||||||
Super Mario Bros. Super Show | Currently airing on most syndicated stations under license from The Program Exchange. | ||||||||||
The Cat in the Hat The Hoober-Bloob Highway Dr. Seuss on the Loose Grinch Night Available on VHS since November 17, 1998. The Lorax, Pontoffel Pock and His Magic Piano and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat were temporarily put on hold. | |||||||||||
Video Games | |||||||||||
Donkey Kong Jr. Mario Bros. Donkey Kong 3 Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros. 3 Kirby's Adventure |
All NES games, including these titles, were discontinued since 1995. | ||||||||||
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Sonic the Hedgehog CD Sonic & Knuckles Sonic Chaos Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble Sonic Drift 2 |
All Sega Game Gear and Genesis games, including these titles, were discontinued since 1997. | ||||||||||
Sonic Jam |
All Sega Saturn games, including these titles, were discontinued since 1998. | ||||||||||
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 Kirby's Dream Land Kirby's Pinball Land Kirby's Dream Land 2 Kirby's Block Ball Kirby's Star Stacker |
All older Game Boy titles, including these ones, were discontinued since 1999. | ||||||||||
Super Mario Kart Super Mario All-Stars Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble Kirby's Dream Course Kirby Super Star Kirby's Dream Land 3 |
All Super NES games, including these titles, were discontinued since 1999. | ||||||||||
Super Mario 64 |
Available for the Nintendo 64 since 1996. | ||||||||||
Mario Kart 64 |
Available for the Nintendo 64 since 1996. | ||||||||||
Diddy Kong Racing |
Available for the Nintendo 64 since late 1997. | ||||||||||
Yoshi's Story |
Available for the Nintendo 64 since March 9, 1998. | ||||||||||
Pokémon Red and Blue |
Available for the Game Boy since September 30, 1998. | ||||||||||
Sonic R |
Available on PC CD-ROM since November 11, 1998, for use on Windows 95 and 98 PCs. |
Paper money
The following was printed during fiscal year 1999:
Denomination | Amount printed | Notes |
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File:$1-D (1996).jpeg $1 |
3,539,200,000 | All as Series 1995 notes. |
$5 |
832,000,000 | All as Series 1995 notes. |
$10 |
614,400,000 | All as Series 1995 notes. |
File:$20-D (1998).png $20 |
4,134,400,000 | All as Series 1996 notes. |
$50 |
694,400,000 | All as Series 1996 notes. |
$100 |
1,542,400,000 | All as Series 1996 notes. |
The following was in circulation by year's end:
Denomination | Estimate total | Notes |
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File:$1-D (1996).jpeg $1 |
About 7.5 billion | Virtually all were Series 1995 notes. |
File:$2-B (1996).jpeg $2 |
About 600 million | Mostly Series 1976 and 1996 notes. |
$5 |
About 1.8 billion | Virtually all were Series 1995 notes. |
$10 |
About 1.62 billion | Virtually all were Series 1995 notes. |
File:$20-D (1998).png $20 |
More than 5.8 billion | Mostly Series 1995 and 1996 notes. |
$50 |
Less than 1.3 billion | Mostly Series 1996 notes. |
$100 |
More than 3.86 billion | Mostly Series 1996 notes. |
Events in 1999
January 5 |
The Rescuers was re-released on VHS, as a Masterpiece Collection title. |
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January 24 | Nintendo announced a Game Boy Color version of Super Mario Bros.. Originally, the game was to contain the same NES graphics from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. |
January 31 | Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World aired for three months on PAX TV, until around early May 1999. |
February 2 |
Mulan was released on VHS. |
Thomas & Friends: Cranky Bugs was released on VHS. This started Season 5 of the series. | |
February 8 |
Mario Party was released in North America. |
February 10 |
Wario Land II was released for use on the Game Boy Color. |
February 13 |
Still in its first season, Pokémon began airing on Kids' WB, with 12 new episodes, one per week until May 1. |
February 15–19 | Five new episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, titled "Mister Rogers Talks About Noisy and Quiet", premiered on PBS. These were episodes #1736–1740. |
March 9 |
101 Dalmatians was re-released on VHS. |
Pokémon: The Mystery of Mount Moon and The Sisters of Cerulean City were released on VHS and DVD. | |
March 23 | The Rescuers returned to store shelves. The VHS now had updated previews. |
April 20 |
A Bug's Life was released on VHS and DVD. It was Pixar's first film to ever get a DVD. |
April 26 |
Super Smash Bros. was released for Nintendo 64. |
April 30 | Toy Story 2 and Fantasia 2000 were announced on the official Disney website. |
May 5 |
Microsoft released Windows 98 Second Edition. This operating system included Internet Explorer 5. But even so, Windows 95 still remained the most popular operating system. |
May 10 |
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe was released for Game Boy Color. |
May 14 |
Pokémon: Poké-Friends and Thunder Shock! were released on VHS and DVD. |
May 25 | The recently announced "Super Mario RPG 2" for Nintendo 64 was retitled "Super Mario Adventure". |
June 2 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was released in bookstores. |
June 18 |
Tarzan premiered in theaters. |
July 13 |
Alice in Wonderland and Robin Hood were re-released on VHS again, ending the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. |
July 20 |
Pokémon: Seaside Pikachu and Psychic Surprise were released on VHS and DVD. |
July 26–30 | Episodes #1741–1745 of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, titled "Go Stop Go", premiered on PBS. |
August 10 |
Thomas & Friends: Races, Rescues and Runaways was released on VHS, increasing the total Season 5 episodes to 12. Also, Barney's Imagination Island and Barney's Alphabet Zoo were re-released on VHS. |
August 23–27 | Episodes #1746–1750 of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, titled "When Things Get Broken", premiered on PBS. These were the last episodes to contain the "P-Pals" logo on original broadcasts, while reruns would have the next PBS Kids logo (see below).
On the final day of this week, Mario Party 2 was unveiled at Space World 1999. |
August 30 |
Sonic Underground premiered on syndication. It ran for 40 episodes. |
August 31 |
The Great Mouse Detective was re-released on VHS. This marked the last time a film was only released on VHS. |
September 3 | Seasons 2 and 3 of Shining Time Station aired on Fox Family Channel for the last time, as so did The Kidsongs TV Show and the remaining 28 episodes of Barney & Friends on PBS. |
September 6 |
A new generation of PBS Kids began on this date. Also, weekday reruns of Pokémon moved exclusively to Kids' WB, with at least 10 old episodes airing per week. |
The 16th season of Jeopardy! and the 17th season of Wheel of Fortune began on local syndication. | |
September 8 |
The paperback version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and the hardcover version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were released in bookstores. |
September 9 |
Sonic Adventure was released for use on the Sega Dreamcast. |
September 17 | After this date, Full House now only aired on TBS Superstation. |
September 21 |
Pokémon: Primeape Problems, Fashion Victims and Fighting Tournament were released on VHS and DVD. |
October 4 |
A fourth season of Arthur premiered on PBS. It ran for 10 episodes. |
October 16 |
The Amanda Show premiered in Nickelodeon. |
October 18 |
Pokémon: Special Pikachu Edition was released in North America. |
October 19 |
The Wizard of Oz was released on DVD with tons of bonus features, most of which originated from the 1993 CAV Laserdisc. |
October 26 |
Pinocchio was released on DVD and VHS as a "60th Anniversary Edition". A trailer for a re-release of The Fox and the Hound was included on the VHS. |
October 29 |
The English dub of Princess Mononoke premiered in theaters. It grossed $2,298,191 within eight weeks. |
November 1 | Mario Party 2 was set for release in North America on January 24, 2000. |
November 9 |
101 Dalmatians, Hercules and Mulan were released on DVD. |
November 11 | Walt Disney Home Video announced two new collections for its entire library of animated films on DVD -- the Gold Collection and the Platinum Collection. Films in the Gold Collection were to be released once a month in 2000 and 2001, while the Platinum titles were to be released every fall starting in 2001. |
November 21 |
Pokémon Gold and Silver were released in Japan. |
November 22 |
Donkey Kong 64 was released for use on Nintendo 64. This game required the Expansion Pak. |
Dumbo and The Sword in the Stone were released on DVD in the UK. Dumbo retained the Buena Vista logo. | |
November 23 |
Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and the Collector's Edition of A Bug's Life were released on DVD. |
Pokémon: The Great Race and Pikachu Party were released on VHS and DVD. | |
November 24 |
Toy Story 2 was released in theaters, as so did its soundtrack in music stores, and books based on the film in bookstores. |
December 7 |
The Little Mermaid and The Jungle Book were released on DVD. |
December 15 |
Windows 2000 was released to manufacturing. It was to be the first NT-based operating system to support FAT32 partitions. |
December 17 |
Mario Party 2 was released in Japan. |
Select theaters began playing Fantasia 2000 two weeks early. |