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Disney released a subbed VHS version sometime in 1998 (now out-of-print), but its based on the Streamline/JAL English dub. Why did this happen?

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Disney released a subbed VHS version sometime in 1998 (now out-of-print), but its based on the Streamline/JAL English dub. Why did this happen?

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Tokuma gave the Streamline script to Disney thinking that it was an accurate translation, and Disney worked on it. Several things that were not in the original Japanese script migrated to the BV subtitles. All DVDs contain the same English subtitles (more appropriately called dubtitles).