General Disney Princess Discussion

It was a Joke have you seen her boyfriend?

I know it's a joke. Don't quit your day job.

Allright

edited 23rd Sep '12 4:31:58 PM by HeroShepherd

Fridge Logic: If Tarzan had never met Jane, would he have become furry for an ape eventually?

Karola: Is it Ariel? I remember hearing about how they were thinking of creating a separate franchise for the Princesses around the time that Black Cauldron was in production (Hence, Elionwy's initial inclusion), since The Black Cauldron was a total flop, they shifted it back slightly unti Little Mermaid was near completion and created the franchise then and there. Making it the first "Princess" movie under that particular brand title.

Am I right?

edited 23rd Sep '12 7:08:44 PM by PippingFool

Hey now, humor is relative, what's lame for some can be hilarious for others.

You're on the right track, but since the brand was not actually launched until 2000 or so, the first bona fide Disney Princess movie—the first movie made with the overt intent to expand the brand—was The Princess And The Frog.

Weird, huh?

Sorry. I tend to get sarcastic when people make "hur hur perverted Disney" jokes, especially when they're ones I've heard several times before.

edited 23rd Sep '12 7:53:45 PM by Karalora

You know, on the night of the 20th, before I published my second book, I watched The Little Mermaid so put myself in a good frame of mind. :)

For some reason. I now want to write a fanfic that falls more to the cynical end of the scale about the princesses not included in the lineup and their plight. Set in a sort of Epic Mickey inspired world that is divided up into the Remembered World and the Forgotten Lands officially ruled by Mickey and Oswald respectively.

Eh, it will go into my "get around to this" bucket along with my OF work and Leaf Green Nuzlocke.

I like Eilonwy.

... In the books that is. The movie sucked. *sigh*.

"I am not speaking to you."

People keep suggesting that Disney should give the series another whirl and make them more of a live-action miniseries.

I... actually wouldn't mind that. As the books are pretty damn good reads, the movie was a half-baked mess with a few good ideas and characters here and there.

I've been knocking around the idea of a Disney Princess themed tabletop RPG. I've seen a few attempts at assigning the Princesses Dungeons And Dragons character classes and sending them on standard adventures, but I was thinking more along the lines of something Disney themselves could actually produce and market to little girls. AFAIK there have not been many serious attempts to produce tabletop games specifically aimed at grade-school children, and particularly not girls.

The system would obviously have to be very simple and ideally based more on imagination than hard numbers—maybe three basic stats of Body, Mind, and Heart (a la Tri-Stat) with the Aspect system from FATE grafted on. The selling point would be easy: "Play as your favorite Princess or make up your own!" Adventures could run the gamut from finding clothes for the ball to defeating a coalition of wicked witches...and what if the witches have sent their minions to steal all the fabric in the kingdom?

Edited by PatchworkSpace on Jul 5th 2020 at 3:45:47 PM

Sounds like fun!

I don't know why, but the concept of the Disney Princesses has always intrigued me for some reason. Perhaps because I was largely deprived of it as a child. The Little Mermaid was forbidden by my mom, so the others pretty much fell by the wayside as well. I liked Cinderella, but that was about it.

I'm just gonna throw this out here Mort that if you didn't like Merida, you're probably not going to like Ariel.

What.

She thought Ariel was a Karma Houdini and a bad role model.

So, this might be a good place to ask this. Am I the only one who never understood the comparison between Merida and Mulan? Besides the fact that they're both action girls, they don't really have that much in common. Hell, their method of becoming action girls is vastly different: Mulan had to train in the army to protect her injured father, Merida just had a love of arrows and swordplay.

The lack of action girls in the lineup probably had something to do with it, plus the fact that a big deal was made out of Merida being an Action Girl. Going beyond that, one could argue that they both feel confined by their environment and don't fit its Proper Lady mold, and that parental figures both play an important role in their stories.

Oh, and their names both start with M.

She's right. Ariel makes a bunch of shit choices and still gets everything she wants.

I still kind of want to see it just to say that I have. Idiocy aside, Ariel does appear somewhat likeable from what I've seen of her.

I didn't say you shouldn't see the movie. It's a lovely movie. Just not one to live by.

Re: Tabletops games for kiddies: I've seen a few. Helps that whenever we go to the mall, I tend to haunt Game Daze. (Is that a national chain? I know they have multiple stores, but I don't know how big they are!) They run the gamut from "Jr." versions of extant games to actual simplified roleplaying-type games for the little'uns.

There have been a couple video game, non-Kingdom Hearts settings where the girls crossover, I think.

In a manner of speaking, I did that second part with Lily in my second book. I like to think she'd make a good addition to the team/lineup. :) If it weren't for those legal franchise barriers. :P