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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
why did they take it out for D+, I wonder?
Anecdote: In the early 2000s when the first The Muppets Christmas Carol DVD came out it was full screen only. I wrote Disney expressing my disappointment and received a reply that they'd forward my comments to the relevant department for consideration. About a year later they re-released it in widescreen, and I like to think I made all the difference.
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They didn't take it out for Disney+. It had never been included in any of the HD/4K versions of the film. Because it wasn't in the final theatrical release, the original film stock was thought to have been lost, so they didn't have anything with high enough quality to fit into the Disney+ version. This is why a lower-quality version of the song is included as a Bonus feature on D+, but isn't in the presentation of the film itself.
Sometime in the last couple of years, the original film stock was discovered in the Disney archives, so they begun work to remaster it and bring it up to the quality of the rest of the movie on D+.