Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-81943.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Brave's Merida to Become Disney's 11th Princess</b></a> <p>Disney has announced it will crown Merida as it's 11th official Disney princess joining...</p> <ol> <li>Snow White</li> <li>Cinderella</li> <li>Aurora ("Sleeping Beauty")</li> <li>Ariel ("The Little Mermaid")</li> <li>Belle ("Beauty and the Beast")</li> <li>Jasmine ("Aladdin")</li> <li>Pocahontas</li> <li>Mulan</li> <li>Tiana ("The Princess and the Frog")</li> <li>Rapunzel ("Tangled)."</li> </ol> <p><span>The ceremony - a royal coronation - will be held on May 11th at the Magic Kingdom and will be open to the public.</span></p>
Originally Posted By mawnck GYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! WHAT ABOUT PRINCESS EILONWY???????? DISNEY, YOU ***SUCK***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted By skinnerbox Disney hasn't been able to run away fast enough from this film. They still pretend as though another studio created it. IMHO, that's been a huge mistake. I would love to see Eilonwy become an official Disney princess, but I know it will never happen. Too bad. She's got what young girls need right now, in the assertiveness department. In fact, if you scratch the surface of Rapunzel and Merida, you'll find Eilonwy as the foundation. Since the more assertive persona will likely be the future direction for the Disney princesses, Burbank should resurrect Eilonwy and the film.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Disney hasn't been able to run away fast enough from this film." The Black Cauldron? Can't say I blame them.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Even I been runnin' away from it an' I was IN the dang thing! Just try sharin' screen time with two looney sisters, like mine, an' yer gonna' know what real pain's like!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: The truth of the matter IS, a certain nasty old biddie ruined The Black Cauldron for the rest of us! Just one look at her ugly mug was enough to scare the whole audience away!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Thank you for standing up in support of Princess Eilonwy, mawnck, duckling. We have told her about you and she wants you to know how much she appreciates you. It is a shame she isn't recognized in an official way by the very company that created her animated form. The Black Cauldron does have a cult following, though, and Eilonwy takes comfort in knowing she still has a lot of fans out there despite the Disney company's gross neglect of her.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Mulan was offered a position in the leadership of the Chinese empire, which I think it pretty close to being a princess. Of course, she turned it down and came home, so that really means nothing. Depending how define it, Pocahontas isn't really a princess either; her dad was the tribe's chief, but there didn't appear to be any sort of special treatment because they were 'royalty' On a related note, people always said that Giselle from Enchanted wouldn't become a Disney Princess because Amy Adams didn't want her likeness to be used, but if you pay attention in the film, she's not a princess. She's just a girl living in the woods who is friends with woodland creatures. She is all set to marry a prince (which would make her a princess), but is transported to our world. By the end of the movie, the prince marries someone else, making Giselle nothing more than commoner with an interesting backstory.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: There seems to be a lot of confusion where Giselle/Amy Adams is concerned. Amy did not want any merchandise with her likeness to be sold after a certain point--meaning dolls or figurines. But this had nothing to do with Disney's ability to have the Giselle character represented in the parks. In the same way that Mary Poppins and Bert can also be represented in the parks, no roaylties have to be paid to Julie Andrews or Dick Van Dyke unless merchandise is created that looks like them. The main reason Giselle isn't represented in the parks--according to a cast member friend of ours--is because her puffy white dress is too vulnerable to being ruined by dirty little hands and other threatening elements. It would be a nightmare to keep it clean. ORWEN: That's when I suggested they let her wear either her pink dress from the beginning of the movie--or her blue dress from when she goes to live with Robert Phillips. But nobody ever listens to me or my suggestions...
Originally Posted By doombuggy "Mulan is *not* a flippin' Princess!!! She's a hero!" glad to see I'm not the only one this bugs. "Mulan was offered a position in the leadership of the Chinese empire, which I think it pretty close to being a princess." Either born into it or married into can some one be a royal. Mulan did neither of these so she is not a princess by any stretch of the imagination. She was simply given a job in court but had to power. As for what really happened "She fought for twelve years and gained high merit, but she refused any reward and retired to her hometown instead."
Originally Posted By Dabob2 That seems a strange reason. a). isn't that what washing machines/dry cleaning are for, and b). when Mary Poppins appears in the parks, isn't she normally in her puffy white "Jolly Holiday" dress?
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "There seems to be a lot of confusion where Giselle/Amy Adams is concerned. Amy did not want any merchandise with her likeness to be sold after a certain point--meaning dolls or figurines. But this had nothing to do with Disney's ability to have the Giselle character represented in the parks. In the same way that Mary Poppins and Bert can also be represented in the parks, no roaylties have to be paid to Julie Andrews or Dick Van Dyke unless merchandise is created that looks like them. The main reason Giselle isn't represented in the parks--according to a cast member friend of ours--is because her puffy white dress is too vulnerable to being ruined by dirty little hands and other threatening elements. It would be a nightmare to keep it clean. ORWEN: That's when I suggested they let her wear either her pink dress from the beginning of the movie--or her blue dress from when she goes to live with Robert Phillips. But nobody ever listens to me or my suggestions..." I guarantee 90% of people would not know who she was if she was in the parks.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Maybe it's because the white dress is ridiculous looking. It's freakin huge.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Well, it's easy to believe that Giselle's puffy, white wedding dress WOULD be more expensive and difficult to maintain than Mary Poppins' white Jolly Holiday dress--because there IS so much more material to work with. But, still, Giselle could be out and about in the parks if she was simply dressed in her less formal attire and THAT is the point that Disney just ignores. ORWEN: I think if they had let Giselle do meetings and greetings in the park consistently since Enchanted first came out, guests wouldn't be so likely to forget who she is. If guests have forgotten her, it's Disney entertainment's fault for not doing more to promote her in the parks. I suspect this same thing happens to a lot of other characters that get dropped from the meet and greets when they aren't allowed to be out and about in the parks. After time, they're just forgotten. But when they're out on a regular basis they're more likely to be remembered.
