'Ponyo' Streets March 2nd

'Special Edition' Includes Plush Figure

Disney’s Buena Vista Home Entertainment will release Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film Ponyo on DVD on March 2nd, 2010.  Ponyo will be available in three iterations, a Standard Edition ($29.99), a 2-disc Special Edition that comes with a plush Ponyo figure ($34.99), and a Blu-ray ($39.99) version that will include all the extras from the Special Edition though according to Nausicca.net it will not come with the plush figure. 

Ponyo, which has earned over $15 million in North American theaters, is Miyazaki’s highest grossing film ever in the U.S.  Given the track record of previous Miyazaki DVD releases it is almost a foregone conclusion that Ponyo will be the #1 anime DVD release of 2010 and it should stimulate sales of the Miyazaki backlist as well.