Media from 2012.
Carryovers
Current statistics of most released media as of January 1 this year:
Movies | |||||||||||
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All of the following films were available for digital streaming: | |||||||||||
The Wizard of Oz |
Dumbo |
Alice in Wonderland |
Mary Poppins | ||||||||
The Aristocats |
Pocahontas |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Hercules | ||||||||
Mulan |
A Bug's Life |
The Incredibles |
Cars | ||||||||
Ratatouille |
Ice Age |
Ice Age: The Meltdown |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | ||||||||
Horton Hears a Who! |
WALL-E |
Up |
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | ||||||||
The Princess and the Frog |
Toy Story |
Toy Story 2 |
Toy Story 3 | ||||||||
How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
The Cat in the Hat |
Despicable Me |
Bambi | ||||||||
Tangled |
Rio |
Shrek |
The Fox and the Hound | ||||||||
Beauty and the Beast |
The Lion King |
Cars 2 |
The Smurfs | ||||||||
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | ||||||||
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | ||||||||
As for the following films shown below: | |||||||||||
Spirited Away |
Available on DVD since April 15, 2003. | ||||||||||
Aladdin |
No longer sold in retail stores as of January 31, 2008, but still available in most online stores. | ||||||||||
Temporarily out of print. | |||||||||||
Robin Hood |
Available on DVD since November 28, 2006. | ||||||||||
Open Season |
Available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc since January 30, 2007. | ||||||||||
The Jungle Book |
No longer sold in retail stores as of January 31, 2010, but still available in most online stores. | ||||||||||
Surf's Up |
Available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc since October 9, 2007. | ||||||||||
Sleeping Beauty |
No longer sold in retail stores as of January 31, 2010, but still available in most online stores. | ||||||||||
Pinocchio |
No longer sold in retail stores as of April 30, 2011, but still available in most online stores.
Re-printed as a Blu-ray/DVD combo on September 28, 2010. | ||||||||||
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
No longer sold in retail stores as of April 30, 2011, but still available in most online stores. | ||||||||||
Ponyo |
Available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD since March 2, 2010. | ||||||||||
Shrek Forever After |
Available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD since December 7, 2010. | ||||||||||
My Neighbors, the Yamadas |
Available on Blu-ray Disc in Japan as of December 22, 2010, but still only available on DVD in North America. | ||||||||||
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind |
Available on Blu-ray Disc since March 8, 2011. | ||||||||||
Robots |
Available on Blu-ray Disc since March 22, 2011. | ||||||||||
Shrek 2 |
Available on Blu-ray Disc since August 30, 2011. | ||||||||||
Shrek the Third |
Re-printed on Blu-ray Disc on August 30, 2011. | ||||||||||
Howl's Moving Castle |
Available on Blu-ray Disc in Japan as of November 16, 2011; still only available on DVD in North America. | ||||||||||
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) | ||||||||||
TV Shows | |||||||||||
Arthur |
The show was currently airing on PBS Kids, under the PBS Kids GO! programming block.
All episodes used the Cookie Jar Entertainment logo. | ||||||||||
Full House |
Currently airing on ABC Family.
The complete series was also available on DVD since November 6, 2007. | ||||||||||
Thomas & Friends |
Older episodes from Seasons 1–7 were currently airing on PBS Kids Sprout, restored in high definition and using the same narration from Seasons 2–4 of Shining Time Station.
Almost all episodes from Seasons 1–9 were also available on DVD since October 14, 2008. | ||||||||||
My Little Pony |
All 65 episodes were available on DVD since April 11, 2006, but went out of print due to Shout! Factory now owning distribution rights. | ||||||||||
Never released on DVD in North America. There was once a DVD in the UK, but it is out of print. | |||||||||||
Pokémon |
All episodes from the first two seasons were currently available on DVD as of May 20, 2008, while Seasons 3–5 were out of print at the moment. | ||||||||||
Sonic the Hedgehog |
Available on DVD since March 27, 2007. Volume sets were also being released. | ||||||||||
Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 |
Available on DVD since June 26, 2007. | ||||||||||
Super Mario World |
Available on DVD since November 13, 2007. | ||||||||||
Sonic Underground |
All 40 episodes were available on DVD since June 17, 2008. | ||||||||||
Sonic X |
Currently aired on The CW4Kids as of January 3, 2009. | ||||||||||
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Horton Hears a Who! |
Available on DVD since November 21, 2006, on Blu-ray Disc since October 6, 2009, and on Amazon Video on Demand. | ||||||||||
My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish Adventure |
Available on DVD since October 13, 2009.
All other Generation 3 specials were out of print for a while due to all distribution rights having been sold to Shout! Factory. | ||||||||||
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood |
Available for streaming on Amazon Video on Demand as of 2011. | ||||||||||
All That |
Currently airing on TeenNick since July 26, 2011.
Episodes from Seasons 4 and 5 were added this year, giving a grand total of 75 available episodes for the series. | ||||||||||
Older seasons were no longer airing on PBS Kids Sprout since August 7, 2011. | |||||||||||
The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat Grinch Night |
Last re-released on DVD on October 18, 2011. | ||||||||||
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas |
Available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD since November 26, 2011. | ||||||||||
Music | |||||||||||
Disney's Greatest Vol. 1 |
Disney's Greatest Vol. 2 |
Disney's Greatest Vol. 3 |
My Favorite Kidsongs Collection | ||||||||
Kidsongs |
As of early 2010, all 24 music video shows were available on DVD, along with 15 episodes of the TV Show -- three from 1994, two from 1995, and 10 from 1997. | ||||||||||
Video Games | |||||||||||
Sonic R Sonic Shuffle |
Some classic Sonic games, including these titles, were currently out of print. | ||||||||||
Diddy Kong Racing Mario Party Mario Party 3 Donkey Kong 64 |
These games were never released for Virtual Console.
Diddy Kong Racing contained characters that were owned by Microsoft since September 24, 2002, while the Mario Party games had control stick-spinning minigames, and Donkey Kong 64 contained the same game-breaking bug from 1999. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island's reason was unknown. | ||||||||||
Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble Kirby's Star Stacker Pokémon Red and Blue Pokémon (Yellow) Super Mario Bros. Deluxe Wario Land 3 Pokémon Gold and Silver Pokémon (Crystal) |
These Game Boy and Game Boy Color games were awaiting releases on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. | ||||||||||
Mario Kart: Super Circuit Wario Land 4 Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Sonic Advance Sonic Advance 2 Sonic Battle Sonic Advance 3 Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land Kirby & the Amazing Mirror Mario Party Advance |
All Game Boy Advance games were discontinued after 2006. However, they were still backwards compatible with the Nintendo DS. | ||||||||||
Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Mario Sunshine Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Mario Party 4 Mario Party 5 Mario Party 6 Mario Party 7 Kirby Air Ride Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Sonic Mega Collection Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut Sonic Heroes Shadow the Hedgehog Sonic Riders |
All Nintendo GameCube games were out of print. However, they were still backwards compatible with the Wii, with a GameCube controller and memory card required. | ||||||||||
Super Mario 64 DS |
Available for the Nintendo DS since November 21, 2004. | ||||||||||
Kirby Canvas Curse |
Available for the Nintendo DS since June 13, 2005. | ||||||||||
Mario Kart DS |
Available for the Nintendo DS since November 14, 2005. | ||||||||||
Sonic Rush |
Available for the Nintendo DS since November 15, 2005. | ||||||||||
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time |
Available for the Nintendo DS since November 28, 2005. | ||||||||||
Super Princess Peach |
Available for the Nintendo DS since February 27, 2006. | ||||||||||
New Super Mario Bros. |
Available for the Nintendo DS since May 15, 2006. | ||||||||||
Yoshi's Island DS |
Available for the Nintendo DS since November 13, 2006. | ||||||||||
Kirby Squeak Squad |
Available for the Nintendo DS since December 4, 2006. | ||||||||||
Sonic and the Secret Rings |
Available for the Wii since February 20, 2007. | ||||||||||
Super Paper Mario |
Available for the Wii since April 9, 2007. | ||||||||||
Mario Party 8 |
Available for the Wii since May 29, 2007. | ||||||||||
Sonic Rush Adventure |
Available for the Nintendo DS since September 18, 2007. | ||||||||||
Super Mario Galaxy |
Available for the Wii since November 12, 2007. | ||||||||||
Mario Party DS |
Available for the Nintendo DS since November 19, 2007. | ||||||||||
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity |
Available for the Wii since January 8, 2008. | ||||||||||
Mario Kart Wii |
Available for the Wii since April 27, 2008. | ||||||||||
Kirby Super Star Ultra |
Available for the Nintendo DS since September 22, 2008. | ||||||||||
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood |
Available for the Nintendo DS since September 30, 2008. | ||||||||||
Sonic Unleashed |
Available for the Wii since November 18, 2008. | ||||||||||
Sonic and the Black Knight |
Available for the Wii since March 3, 2009. | ||||||||||
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story |
Available for the Nintendo DS since September 14, 2009. | ||||||||||
New Super Mario Bros. Wii |
Available for the Wii since November 15, 2009. | ||||||||||
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing |
Available for the Wii since February 23, 2010. | ||||||||||
Sonic Classic Collection |
Available for the Nintendo DS since March 2, 2010. | ||||||||||
Super Mario Galaxy 2 |
Available for the Wii since May 23, 2010. | ||||||||||
Donkey Kong Mario Bros. Donkey Kong 3 Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros. 3 |
These NES games were currently available for purchase via the Wii Shop Channel and were awaiting re-releases on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. | ||||||||||
Super Mario World Super Mario Kart Kirby's Dream Course Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Kirby Super Star Kirby's Dream Land 3 |
These Super NES games were currently available for purchase via the Wii Shop Channel. | ||||||||||
Super Mario 64 Mario Kart 64 Paper Mario Yoshi's Story Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Super Smash Bros. Mario Party 2 |
These Nintendo 64 games were currently available for purchase via the Wii Shop Channel. | ||||||||||
Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Sonic Chaos (Master System) Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Sonic & Knuckles Sonic 3D Blast |
These Sega Genesis games were currently available for purchase via the Wii Shop Channel. | ||||||||||
Kirby's Epic Yarn |
Available for the Wii since October 17, 2010. | ||||||||||
Sonic Free Riders |
Available for the Xbox 360 since November 4, 2010. | ||||||||||
Super Mario All-Stars |
Available for the Wii since December 12, 2010. | ||||||||||
colspan=3 | Kirby Mass Attack |
Available for the Nintendo DS since September 19, 2011. | |||||||||
Kirby's Return to Dream Land |
Available for the Wii since October 24, 2011. | ||||||||||
Sonic Generations |
Available for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo 3DS since November 1, 2011. | ||||||||||
Super Mario 3D Land |
Available for the Nintendo 3DS since November 13, 2011. | ||||||||||
Mario Kart 7 |
Available for the Nintendo 3DS since December 4, 2011. | ||||||||||
[[Super Mario Land] Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Kirby's Dream Land Kirby's Adventure 3D |
These games were currently available for purchase via the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. | ||||||||||
Sonic CD Classic |
Available on the App Store since December 2011. |
Paper money
The following was printed during fiscal year 2012:
Denomination | Amount printed | Notes |
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$1 |
2,022,400,000 | All as Series 2009 notes. |
$2 |
134,400,000 | All as Series 2009 notes. |
$5 |
729,600,000 | All as Series 2009 notes. |
File:$10-I (2012).jpeg $10 |
652,800,000 | All as Series 2009 notes. |
$20 |
1,568,000,000 | All as Series 2009 notes. |
$50 |
246,400,000 | All as Series 2009 notes. |
$100 |
3,027,200,000 | 1,926,400,000 as Series 2006A notes; 1,100,800,000 as unreleased Series 2009A notes. |
The following was in circulation by year's end:
Denomination | Estimate total | Notes |
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$1 |
About 10.3 billion | Everything printed since August 2008 was still in circulation, just more than half of them as Series 2009 notes. |
$2 |
About 1 billion | They were usually Series 2003 notes if from Minneapolis, Series 1995 notes if from Atlanta, and Series 2003A if from anywhere else. |
$5 |
About 2.44 billion | Everything printed since June 2008 was still in circulation, more than half of them as Series 2006 notes. |
File:$10-I (2012).jpeg $10 |
About 1.77 billion | Everything printed since June 2008 was still in circulation, more than half of them as Series 2009 notes. |
$20 |
About 7.45 billion | Everything printed since May 2007 was still in circulation, more than half of them as Series 2009 notes. |
File:$50-L (2008).jpeg $50 |
About 1.45 billion | Everything printed since September 2005 was still in circulation. This included all of the Series 2004A and 2006 notes ever printed. |
File:$100-F (2008).jpeg $100 |
More than 8.6 billion | Everything printed since March or April 2005 was still in circulation. This included all of the Series 2003A and 2006 notes ever printed. |
Events in 2012
February 7 |
Lady and the Tramp was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD as a Diamond Edition. The Cat in the Hat was also released on Blu-ray Disc. |
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February 14 |
The Lorax and Pontoffel Pock and His Magic Piano were released on Blu-ray Disc. It was also possible to purchase the specials digitally on Amazon Video. |
February 16 | Super Mario Bros. was released on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. |
February 17 | The English dub of The Secret World of Arrietty was released in U.S. theaters. |
February 28 |
Shout! Factory released the very first My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic DVD, titled "The Friendship Express". |
March 2 |
The Lorax premiered in theaters. Attached to this film was a teaser trailer for Despicable Me 2. |
March 6 |
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and The Lion King 1½ were released on Blu-ray Disc. |
March 11 |
Mario Party 9 was released for the Wii. |
March 13 |
All available episodes of The Amanda Show were released on DVD. |
March 15 | Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble was released on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. |
March 20 |
Hop was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. |
March 23 |
Hop was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. |
April 1 |
Season 1 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was released on Netflix. |
April 2 |
The Kirby TV Channel returned for one more run on the Wii in Europe, with the same first 50 episodes of Kirby: Right Back at Ya! streaming on the service. |
April 21 | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's second season finished with 26 episodes. |
April 27 |
The Pirates! Band of Misfits premiered in theaters. |
May 10 | Season 2 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was released on Netflix. |
May 17 | Kirby's Block Ball was released on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. |
May 22 |
Castle in the Sky was released on Blu-ray Disc in North America. |
The first 26 episodes of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show and the first 22 episodes of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog were re-released on DVD. | |
June 14 | Donkey Kong Jr. was released on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. |
June 22 |
Brave premiered in theaters. The film was once set for a late 2011 release, but sometime before Season 2 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic even began development, Brave was pushed back to summer 2012. Attached to Brave were four variants of the teaser trailer for Monsters University. |
June 26 |
Dr. Seuss on the Loose and Grinch Night were released on Blu-ray Disc. |
July 12 | Kirby's Pinball Land was released on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. |
July 13 |
Ice Age: Continental Drift premiered in theaters. Included with this film was a teaser trailer for Epic. |
July 18 |
My Neighbor Totoro was released on Blu-ray Disc in Japan. |
July 26 | Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 was released on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. |
August 7 |
The Lorax (the Universal/Illumination film) was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. The Cat in the Hat and The Hoober-Bloob Highway were also released on Blu-ray Disc, along with Royal Pony Wedding on DVD. |
August 19 |
New Super Mario Bros. 2 was released for the Nintendo 3DS. |
August 21 |
The Aristocats and Pocahontas were released on Blu-ray Disc. |
August 28 |
The Pirates! Band of Misfits was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. |
September 3 |
101 Dalmatians was released on Blu-ray Disc for the first time in the UK. |
September 14 |
Finding Nemo 3D premiered in theaters, while The Little Mermaid was still set to premiere in 3D on September 13, 2013. |
September 16 |
Kirby's Dream Collection: Special Edition was released for the Wii. This game contained six classic titles from 1992–2000, three episodes of Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, one soundtrack album, and more stuff. |
September 17 |
The 29th season of Jeopardy! and the 30th season of Wheel of Fortune began on local syndication. |
September 21 | Apple introduced the iPhone 5, which came with iOS 6 by default. |
September 28 |
Hotel Transylvania premiered in theaters. Attached to this film was a teaser trailer for The Smurfs 2. |
October 2 |
Cinderella was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD as a Diamond Edition. This Blu-ray Disc included a trailer for the next title of the series, Peter Pan. |
October 9 |
The remaining 26 episodes of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show and another 22 episodes of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog were re-released on DVD. The remaining 22 episodes of the latter show never got a re-release and were temporarily out of print. |
October 26 |
With Windows 8 being released for general availability, the worldwide market share for Windows 7 peaked at 61%. |
November 2 |
Wreck-It Ralph premiered in theaters. |
November 6 |
Arthur Christmas was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. |
November 10 | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's third season premiered on the Hub Network. |
November 11 |
Paper Mario: Sticker Star was released for the Nintendo 3DS. |
November 13 |
Brave was released on Blu-ray Disc (2D and 3D) and DVD. |
November 18 |
New Super Mario Bros. U and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed were released for the Wii U. |
November 29 |
Apple introduced iTunes 11. |
December 4 |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Adventures in the Crystal Empire and all episodes of the show's first season were released on DVD. Finding Nemo was also released on Blu-ray Disc (2D and 3D). By this point, all of Pixar's films to date have been available on Blu-ray. |
December 5 |
Kiki's Delivery Service was released on Blu-ray Disc in Japan. |
December 11 |
Ice Age: Continental Drift was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. |
December 19 |
Monsters, Inc. 3D premiered in theaters. |
December 20 | Wario Land II was released on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. |
December 27 | Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels was released on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS. |